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Approval Of D.C. Mayor Divided Along Racial Lines

Written by News One on November 28, 2009 5:40 pm

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From the Washington Times:

Recent polls show a sharp contrast between black and white voters’ approval of D.C. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty’s job performance, with the majority of blacks disapproving, suggesting that racial tensions remain beneath the District’s liberal veneer.

Local political observers say that Mr. Fenty’s style and approach to governance, and his priorities on cultural issues, play less well with black residents, who traditionally see city government as helping them and view Mr. Fenty as a failure on those grounds.

“I think black people look at government as the entity that intervenes on behalf of those who have frequently been disadvantaged,” said Howard University associate professor Greg Carr, who chairs the school’s Afro-American Studies department. “To them, [Mr. Fenty] represents the elites, those who already have power.”

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/lakerdude19/ lakerdude19

    This man is obviously a member of the KKK if all whites support him, and word on the street is he approves of cops, who are all terrible racist people. This man is the biggest racist in the country and he is just trying to kill off all the black people in a mass genocide.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/jazzwatch/ jazzwatch

    You can educate us, give us jobs, preach right,. but on the other side you got people with degree(like me), but can’t STILL get a job in their chosen fields,give us jobs where Black men had ALWAYS been underpaid woemn,too, even if he learned other tasks in those places. and would often be layed off or fired, and those who continued to do right are the ones who most likely get screwed by those in their communoities(ie police, churches, stores, local buisinesses), yet the goverment STILL let in those foreigners. paid for thier college education, give then places to live, jobs, not pay taxes; they will ALWAYS be recism and unfairness against Blacks, even if things seems to be even for us, it’s not!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Da_J_Rok/ Da_J_Rok

    I thought DC was a majority black

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/eiland1/ eiland1

    Yo jazzwatch, you say you have a degree and you can’t even write a legible comment, now we know how Fenty got elected!! Dayum!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/eiland1/ eiland1

    D.C. is more than 75% black, if they let someone in office who no one approves of, who do you blame. Get him the hell out and stop whinning!!

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/bigwillylandis/ bigwillylandis

    ok. dc has been known to have an incredibly high crime rate. this guy had been turning that around. dc has been known to have sucky schools this guy turned it around. the citizens are not happy about that. but mayor marion does coke and you reelect him to a second term. i declare if you washington didnt have howard i would say dc had the dumbest black population in the country.

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