Thanks for the info; let us know how it went.
Okay, the meeting was sparsely attended, but filled up gradually to about 150. It was essentially racial in tone, with mostly black (about 90%) and a few Hispanic.
The committee was composed of around a dozen and a half members who sat at a dais, city council-style, with speakers coming up to two microphones. One of the committee members is a radical left-wing Marxist “news” reporters for the local rag, Bobby Ray Sanders. Locals know who I’m talking about. The literature handed out was about being non-judge mental, but judgement was the main theme of the evening. I guess they were referring to me.
Other themes were:
- DACA support and HB4 (Texas’ contested anti-sanctuary city law) condemnation
- Police bashing - throughout
- Demands to “gimme!”
- Implied but obvious contempt for the Trump administration
- Complaints that their side of town was a “food desert” - no one wanted to open a major grocery store there. (Robbery was a huge disincentive)
- Suprisingly, several speakers bemoaned the fact that police didn’t give their drug-saturated area enough attention, all the while condemning police.
- Castigation of the committee, city council and mayor for being too isolated from their neighborhoods and fate. (I guess they wanted Snoop Dog on the council)
Many of the speakers were incoherent and quite amusing.
The committee is supposed to make some kind of “recommendation” to the city council after they do their due diligence. I cannot think that what they recommend won’t be freedom-robbing.