Just like Andrew Breitbart took a snippet of Shirley Sherrods' speech to the NAACP out of context to illustrate so called "black racism", The Big Mules, aided and abetted by some white democrats, accuse the SDEC of blatant racism because they didn't select the white women who lost the election to replace the black woman who won the election after she was removed from the ballot.
Marshall, who is black, had her law license suspended, and that caused her to be removed as the Democratic Party nominee for a Jefferson County judgeship. That led the Alabama Democratic Executive Committee (ADEC) to replace Marshall with Elisabeth French, who is black, instead of Nicole Gordon Still, who is white and was runnerup to Marshall in the primary election.Like blogger bluebearcat I can't for the life of me understand why some democrats have their undies in a wad because an African-American Democrat is getting an appointment over a white Riley appointee. Then it hit me.... It's about putting Joe Reed in his place.... disguised as a race issue..
Now, some of the SDEC members probably totally discounted race when they voted and others used that as their primary reason for selecting one candidate over another. But I think overall the basic struggle was over who was going to install "their" person in the seat.The Kenya Lavender Marshall/Niki Still saga is the perfect example of the culture of cronyism and control disguised as a race issue by the white power structure.
Reed &company just lucked out that Still is white. It gave them a way to disguise a power struggle as a racial issue.
Living in the belly of the beast, you hear about all kinds of strange alliances that seem to make no sense, but what they do is to preserve certain folks' power and leverage, and that upsets them more than race or most anything else.
Isn't it ironic a letter by James Lassiter of the JeffCo New South Coalition on behalf of Niki Still found it's way on the front page of leaning Left in Alabama?
Isn't it ironic three members of SCLC held a press conference in Kelly Ingram Park to denounce the "blatant racism" against Nike Still, the white female candidate, but didn't say a mumbling word in defense of Kenya Lavender Marshall?
Kendra Lavender Marshall is the real victim IMHO. We wouldn't even be having this discussion if she hadn't been removed from the ballot after she won the election. Only in America can the candidate with the most vote lose.
Isn't it ironic how some are quick to point to the video of the SDEC meeting as proof of blatant black racism, but totally ignore the video of Kendra Lavender Marshall giving her side of the story? She is being convicted without a trail. It's innocent until PROVEN guilty in a court of law, not the court of public opinion. Remember?
To those life-long committed democrats who wish they could leave the Party, but they can't stomach Republicans and there's nowhere else to go. Uh, now you know how black folks feel about the democratic party. The party needs our votes to get elected, but after using us to win the election all bets are off and the Strom Thurmond wing of the democratic party takes over. We find ourselves asking what to do and where to go too.
To those loyal (?) Democrats who say they are not interested in supporting the State party or in helping anyone that supports Joe Reed, you need to either lead, follow, or get the hell out of the way. Joe Reed is not the enemy of democrats. Strike that, Joe Reed is not the enemy of the democratic wing of the democratic party. You know, the wing that stands up for the least of these. The wing that supports access to quality health care for ALL Alabamians. The wing that supports public schools and public school teachers. The wing that supports labor. The wing that supports equal rights, civil rights and human rights.
I'm going to conclude with what Boris Badenov said;
Regardless of who endorsed or supported Nikki Still or who wanted her to remain there, the voters did not want her in the position of judge anymore. That is all that matters. How could the SDEC "re-appoint" a judge to the same positon that she had just been fired from by the voters not 2months earlier? That would be stupid. Oh, and Riley appointing her did not help.
The SDEC is not stupid.
Elisabeth French is the nominee.
It's not about race.
It's about white privilege/power disguised as race.
4 comments:
This is some of the most racist commentary I have ever read. In fact, it is amazing you could deduct Nikki Still, the number 2 who recieved 45%, should not have gotten the nod to continue on as the Judge for Place #17.
Anonymous,
I didn't deduct Nikki Still shouldn't have gotten the not to continue on as the Judge for Place#17, the VOTERS did. How do you think the VOTERS would feel if the the candidate they elected was replaced with the candidate they rejected?
Typo, should read;
I didn't deduct Nikki Still shouldn't have gotten the NOD to continue on as the Judge for place#17. The VOTERS did.
Sounds as though we've come full circle, from a place and time when social privilege and power were reserved to whites, then an acknowledgment and some rectification of that through the civil rights movement. And now those devious whites are cleverly attempting to disguise the power play with race. And this is why the constant vigilance is necessary.
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