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[quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Non-DCer here. Seriously, how is this guy still in office? [/quote]

Because he's an elected official, and can't simply be fired.  He either has to resign, which he's not going to do, or be removed from office, which isn't easily accomplished.

Did I really need to explain that?  [/quote]

Non-DCer here. No, you don’t. That said, if a white politician suggested a photo depicting african-Americans picking cotton demonstrates happy, rural life, there’d be a million people on the mall demanding his/her ouster. Just wondering why the rules seem different here ...[/quote]

Not necessarily true. Take this recent example of a less-than-astute public official:

http://www.wbbjtv.com/2018/04/18/investigators-look-racial-slurs-spray-painted-familys-home/http://www.wbbjtv.com/2018/04/18/investigators-look-racial-slurs-spray-painted-familys-home/

After experiencing many acts of discrimination culminating in racial slurs being painted on their house, a family moved out. They town mayor's reaction?

"That’s a pretty building, and it’s right on the corner there in the downtown area, and I was just more concerned with getting the paint off the building than I was anything else," said Mayor Casey Burnett of Friendship.

Mayor Burnett says he was one of the first people to see the graffiti, but he says he doesn’t consider it to be a hate crime.

"It did have a little bit of a racial slur to it, but we’re not a racial community at all," said the mayor...

I haven't been down to the Mall today, but I haven't heard any reports of a million people gathering there. So, I think your analysis is a bit off.

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So what's your point?  That there are stupid, insensitive local officials in small towns and other places?  Of course, there are.  But we don't live in Bumblestuck, TN, but rather the Nation's Capital, one of the largest, most diverse cities in the U.S. where I think we have the right to expect more and better from our officials than in Bumblestuck.  I'd rather that DC aspire to be like Portland rather than Bumblestuck or Bamaville.[/quote]

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