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None of the AA's I know did not vote for Fenty because he was not Black enough; whites focus more on his racial status than blacks.  He lived in a Black neighborhood, sent his kids to an all-AA school from preschool through 3rd grade including during his first year or two as Mayor, attended a Black church; went on romps in the Bahamas with his boys, etc.) They did not vote for him because they knew him.  They had given him a pass when he ran for CM because he had stolen the old lady's money whose estate he was supervising (Bar gave him a slap on wrist because he was young; AA's gave him a break because they assumed he had learned from his mistake; whites don't even mention it.) However, as Mayor he then proceeded to "shake-down" the AA community through "required" contributions and other actions which I will not name here.  The white community was only focused on the "pretty" stuff he was doing in the name of reform.  Gray was drafted to run because of Fenty and his AG's shenanigans.  [b]Rhee was the icing on the cake because she destroyed several schools that served low SES AAs.[/b]  She did not understand the student populations of those schools and removed the supports (which was all they had keeping the students in school and making any type of progess.)  The AA community also knew that there was widespread test cheating that was prevalent under Rhee and posted about it on listserves.  For example, some schools, including Charters, would separate the poor students from the rest of the class and assign them to a different room for testing.  A friend's son who was behind on math was told he did not need to come to school that day; my friend took him and made him request that he sit with his class for testing (her mother was a teacher and had told her it was easy to lose an entire room of tests if you knew it housed the poor performers.) It was clear in the AA community that he really only saw the Mayor's job as a stepping stone to bigger things and did not really care about the residents  or the city, only about his image and what he could gain.  He was successful and has since moved on to CA in the next stage of his self-promotion aka Steve Jobs widow (which some of the AA community knew about 6-9 months before the Post reported) or do you believe it is TRUE love on his part.

[/quote]Actually I think the Hardy fiasco was an important turning point - and what happened there was that a lot of middle-class families (both black and white) who sent their kids to Hardy got pissed off when Rhee removed Hardy's highly successful principal, assigning him to start a new arts-oriented magnet middle school (which never happened and kept him out of any school whatsoever for a year) . I know that it mobilized me to write Gray to ask him to run.  Pissing off the middle class is a bad, bad idea because they won't just grumble like the poor. They will organize and vote.  A generalization I know but one that has truth behind it.[/quote]

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