There are no Hispanic members on the Sedgwick County Commission, the Wichita City Council or the Wichita school board, even though Hispanics are the city's largest minority group at just under 10 percent of the population . . . Odd because that's basically the way that Kansas City looks as well despite some pretty clever window dressing. And while the Funkhouser administration is at least aware of "The Black Part of Town" despite some unfortunate phrasing . . . I haven't heard any significant mention of the fate of this city's Latinos from his camp and we'll most likely see just the average, run-of-the-mill appointments of a few La Raza Political Club cronies and probably no significant increase in employment despite KC's Hispanic community supporting the mayor-elect by nearly a 3/4 margin. Really, from the looks of his campaign staff with only two exceptions: It wasn't "diverse" (ugh) in the least bit and really only comprised of two tokens and a ton of white liberals so it's easy to see that the whole "regular folks" pose was really just a code word for white people . . . Which is fine by me and isn't surprising . . . In fact, the only thing that shocked me was that the normally hyper critical local blogosphere bought the cleverly crafted catchphrases hook, line and sinker.
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And Alvin's campaign staff was even more black than Funk's was white - with only a few token whites. But racism is okay when blacks do it! Anything whites do is evil!
ReplyDeleteI guess Tony just haaates the fact that he's even whiter than Mary Sanchez, so he has to post anti-white hatespeech every day to prove he's not really a white man with a good old Italian-American last name!
Tony is correct. Without latinos going to funkhouser he probably wouldn't have been elected.
ReplyDeleteProblem is to get favor with your date, you must hold out opening your legs until he buys the lobster.
Latinos were with funkhouser from the beginning but weren't part of his Brookside cabal so they will get nothing but some token appointments. I agree with Tony.
Wichita's mayor, CARLOS Mayans, was defeated in his first re-election bid by a black man, the first elected (not appointed) black mayor of the city. Wichita's fire chief, Larry GARCIA, recently announced his retirement after 50 YEARS on the job. So maybe Wichita is a little under-represented today, but the picture was a lot more colorful just a month ago.
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