Monday, February 04, 2008

Mel Brooks

Al Sharpton visited Charlotte, USA Thursday to weigh on in the Mecklenburg County Sheriff's Office debate. Here's the quick rundown. The Sheriff retired to take a job in DC with homeland security. He was a democrat, thus the county party elects a successor via precints. The guy that wasn't supposed to win creates a shit ton of new precints and wins by a landslide. Oh, and he's black, too. I wish that wasn't an issue, but it is according to a lot of black people and more than a few white people in Charlotte. Anyway, the media starts uncovering folks who were allegedly in these precints and voted for the guy that wasn't supposed to win, but those people didn't remember signing anything or joining a precinct. A couple of democrats complained and a democratic state review panel decided Saturday by a vote of 10-2 the election was invalid.

The board of county commissioners will likely appoint the guy that was supposed to win Tuesday night at their regular meeting. He isn't black and that will likely cause even more controversy, but at least most of that controversy will hopefully be in the courtroom where cameras aren't allowed. By the way, Al Sharpton is pretty entertaining and didn't even offend me regardless of the way I feel about the issues he discussed. You could almost consider me an Al Sharpton fan. Some of the other local leaders tried to make me feel bad for being a member of the media and for being white. I smiled when they looked at me.

I wish everyone was the same color, or didn't give a shit what color we all are.

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