Record number of African Americans run for office in city
on August 3rd, 2005 at 12:15 amfrom: hometownannapolis.com
Nine candidates waited until the final hours to file for the city election yesterday, including the largest number of African Americans to seek office in Annapolis’ nearly 300-year history.
If city election officials certify all 23 prospective candidates at their meeting tomorrow, African-American candidates will run for office in all but one of the city’s eight wards, as well as for mayor.
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Hopefully this trend will continue on the local level as that is where politics is most effective.
The only thing that makes me a tad bit skeptical with this is that they are making race issues a central part of the race. Race issues are important, but so are issues like accountable financial management, and other municipal infrastructure issues. I only bring up these other issues because there are way too many examples in cities throughout the nation where gobs of funding go to race relations/affirmative action programs while fire, police, and school teachers go underpaid. Look to cities like Detroit, Atlanta, Los Angeles for those examples.
