The Democracy Guy and the Management Professor
Sandy Piderit and Tim Russo think that race is not a topic of discussion, though Bill Callahan thinks it is. Tim comments:
Cleveland is about to experience yet another election year in which it is very likely that white voters will vote for a white candidate, and black voters will vote for a black candidate. No one ever asks why. No candidate ever discusses what effect racial politics has had on Cleveland’s economy, our ‘quiet crisis’, or how race divides us on so many levels.Mayoral candidates tip toe through the minefield of Cleveland’s racial politics like Pollyannas who hope it doesn’t really exist, but still making damn certain they don’t take that one wrong step. Wouldn’t it be refreshing to actually have a real debate on race in Cleveland for once?
Sandy writes:
Here’s my assertion, to open up our debate on race: those with college degrees in Cuyahoga county experience Cleveland in a different way than those without. To reject the experience of the majority of county residents just because it doesn’t match with my own would be unwise, because it treats people who have not compled college as less worthy than those who had an opportunity to do so. Until we can ensure that racial minorities have the same likelihood of graduating from college, we are not going to heal the racial divide in Cleveland.
Neither one of them have very many comments. Go to anyone of their sites and add your opinion, please!
This post was written by George, source: The Democracy Guy and the Management Professor
