Vincent J. Curtis
19 Feb 21
RE: City plants seeds of regrowth. Hamilton Spectator of today’s date.
In a representative democracy, the representatives are supposed to represent the views and interests of those whom they represent. Otherwise, representation is a farce. This means that if a city councillor represents a Ward full of white supremacists, as we are assured that most of them do, those are the views and interests that are to be represented in the council chambers.
What does white supremacism have to do with parks and recreation, streets and sanitation, public works, planning, or finance? Nothing at all. Which raises the question of why the city council is funding groups to identify and condemn white supremacism in the city? Why should the tax dollars of a city full of white supremacists go to groups whose sole purpose is to morally condemn the sincere beliefs of the majority of taxpayers?
Why was Evelyn Myrie paid as a consultant to reassemble an anti-racism resource center that collapsed mysteriously in February 2019? The city paid Sage Solution $89,000 to run a “hate research” project that generated only 91 responses, and, thankfully rejected a request for another $25,000 from Sage.
Racism has become a racket. All the prominent people and organizations that are experts on racism Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, BLM, Antifa, and even Evelyn Myrie (or EMPower Strategy Group as she sometimes inflates herself to be) make lots of money dispensing advice and running programs. It’s a kind of shakedown – pay us or there’ll be trouble.
It’s not city council’s business to solve
sociological problems. At best, that’s
the problem of the police department.
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