Blogs don't matter: The Star, racism and money decide elections

Because I'm a big fan of the cRap music, Flava Flav and the film classic Action Jackson my inclination is to always bet on Black and vote that way as well.

In much the same way that I believe that remaining Indians (feathers not dots) should be the first people in line to get reparations seeing as how I see a hell of a lot of Black people around after their bout with the genocidal inclincations of the white man but I almost never see a Native brown person of this area . . . And 200 years ago this land was rife with those people. Not to say that Latinos of Mexican decent aren't culpable in the slaughter of the Native Americans as well because they certainly helped in the world's most successful example of genocide on which this country was founded and our way of life was secured.

ANYWAY . . . If you watched the election results closely what you might have seen is that White people voted for Funkhouser and Black people voted for Brooks in Kansas City. Just as I predicted, this is an election that's going to break down along racial lines. The (white) Northland voted for Funkhouser en masse and every Black person in town (non felon) turned out for Brooks as well.

So where do I stand? I know that's a question you haven't been asking yourself but here goes: Alvin Brooks has lit a bunch of candles for this city. Funkhouser has pushed a lot of paper. For the most part, I think both of those activities are mostly useless.

For me it comes down to crime and that's a topic that NO ONE can talk about without ruffling feathers . . . But considering that only 3 or 4 dozen people vote in local elections anyway, maybe it's time to ruffle a few feathers.

Early in the election Brooks made one paltry press conference in order to address crime in KC and then went to sleep in order to let Pat Gray handle his business. While resting your feet on a white guy and letting him do your work for you is a nice way to spend your day gig and it's the complaint I usually hear from most white people about their Black co-workers when nobody is listening . . . It's not exactly inspiring. Still, it worked.

As for Funkhouser . . . His (annoying) followers went all out and bothered everyone they could with his message . . . Mainly that better city services will make you taller and make your teeth brighter. I have to admit that I agree with him for the most part while pointing out that for the 16th most violent city in the USA, that message doesn't exactly speak to some of our more pressing concerns. Henry Klein pointed that out during his mayoral bid and I think Steve Kraske thanked him for his concern before turning his mike off during the last mayoral forum.

So let's talk solutions real quickly . . . My (not so) stupid suggestion: Bring back the Kansas City gun experiment. It's aimed at illegal guns so I don't think it'll offend the NRA crowd too much . . . And if they have a problem with so many 18-34 year old Black males being denied illegal weapons to kill each other more efficiently . . . Then you pretty much know where they are coming from and they can be ignored, seeing as how their organization is a paper tiger anyway.

One last thing . . . As usual the Star and the rest of the local media only report the news according to white people in Kansas City. Believe who you want and definitely don't trust me but according to the Kansas City election board Alvin Brooks beat everybody by a significant margin without doing much campaigning at all.


(Of course you'll find an excuse here to tell me how I'm wrong but these are the only numbers I've seen from a source I trust . . . Everybody else (including me) has an agenda on this one and is clearly in the business of peddling influence. I'll wait for the final numbers, I'll even post them but they don't matter next to the more widely viewed news coverage which you have to admit is almost always biased; very much like this blog.)

So, on this day after the election it's important to know where you stand: In the most violent city in the Midwest second to St. Louis (KC is always second to St. Louis) and in a town where the election was most likely the last thing on the mind of the average citizen.

I'm calling it: The vote the nobody cared about . . .