Preechr
Aug 9th, 2006, 12:27 AM
This probably falls on the radar for a few of you. Living in Atlanta, it's closer for me. Politically, I am divided on the issue: My idealistic side says this is a win for better government... she was ineffectual and a general embarassment for the South... but my cynical side will miss her service as a black eye for the Democrats that so obviously need more loud-mouthed idiots like her as spokeswomen.
Either way, I don't live in the fourth, so I have only a third-person interest.
Sociologically, however, I find this development much more interesting. Despite being endorsed by Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and the NAACP, she was defeated. I can't help but wonder if this isn't a sign that Atlanta is growing up just a bit, shedding it's culture-wave of race-baiting and institutionalized victimhood that Cindy and her family so effectively rode for several decades. Maybe I'm a bound-for-eternal-disappointment-optimist, but I'm always looking for signs that the post MLKjr era is finally beginning to end for the African-American community.
I hope this is one of those signs. I hope this is another baby-step toward real freedom for the segment of our population that has managed to enslave themselves for so long after it was illegal for anyone else to do so.
Either way, I don't live in the fourth, so I have only a third-person interest.
Sociologically, however, I find this development much more interesting. Despite being endorsed by Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and the NAACP, she was defeated. I can't help but wonder if this isn't a sign that Atlanta is growing up just a bit, shedding it's culture-wave of race-baiting and institutionalized victimhood that Cindy and her family so effectively rode for several decades. Maybe I'm a bound-for-eternal-disappointment-optimist, but I'm always looking for signs that the post MLKjr era is finally beginning to end for the African-American community.
I hope this is one of those signs. I hope this is another baby-step toward real freedom for the segment of our population that has managed to enslave themselves for so long after it was illegal for anyone else to do so.