Mallory would be in good company
A historical footnote: If Mark Mallory is elected mayor, he will be the first Cincinnati mayor without prior City Council experience in 75 years. Founding Charterites Murray Seasongood and Russell Wilson were elected mayor in their first terms on City Council in 1926 and 1930.
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at 4:57 PM, October 20, 2005 
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at 5:30 PM, October 20, 2005 
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Post a Comment*But More importantly, why have you not covered the fact that as the Enquirer has constantly linked The black Fist to Senator Mallory or Councilman Smitherman, you have not linked Pepper to the racist group Westwood concern who shocked and disgusted many Cincinnatians during a City Council racist rant this week.
Oh, By the way...Here's the story!Thursday, October 20, 2005
Pepper Won't Denounce Gwen's Racist Rant
Westwood Concern's Klan-like rally
In normal times, a Mayoral candidate wouldn't be expected to denounce the comments of one of their endorsers. We all know these aren't normal times.
David Pepper is a hypocrite. He established a standard for dealing with offensive and/or racist comments made by a candidate's supporters. Now that one of his supporters, Melva Gwen, has lost control and made offensive and racists statements, David won't live up to the standard.
Remember, David, working with his biased supporters in the media (most notably the Cincinnati Enquirer's Greg KKKorte), decided to make statements made by Mark Mallory's supporters and endorsers -- real or imagined -- an issue in the campaign. Pepper said alleged racist and anti-Semitic statements by Black Fist Generals Nikki X and Kabaka Oba should have generated a rebuke from Mallory and rejection of the Black Fist's endorsement. Before David's attack on the Black Fist, David and his supporters spent about a month crying and whining about my accurate comparison of David's dictatorial traits to those of Adolph Hitler on www.davidpepper.org.
Earlier this week, Pepper endorser Melva Gwen, of Westwood Concern and POWR PAC, attended a Council committee meeting and launched into an undeniably racist rant. (Ms. Gwen's comments were so offensive even one of Pepper's most vocal supporters, Peter Deane, felt compelled to denounce them.) Did David stand up and rebuke, denounce, or distance himself from his endorser's words? Nope. David stood up and ran from the room!
I'm working to obtain the video (or at least the audio) and put it up on this blog. (Don't hold your breath waiting for KKKorte or Howard Wilkinson to report on white racism.) Until then, let's take a few portions as provided by Pepper's supporter Peter Deane.
WESTWOOD CONCERN RACIST COUNCIL SPEECH
Um, I think this goes to the heart of the problem of graffiti ... of hate ... of all the things we got in our neighborhoods right now. Pouring more money into more programs in a city awash with social programs is a waste of time and resources. Drugs and drug money is the problem. We need to get out of Never-Never-Land where we have been living in since the sixties aglow and special to escape the fact that life is hard for everyone and there are no guarantees. Perhaps, after four decades, it is impossible to grow up and realistically face what we have lost or are losing to clearly see the hell we are embracing for the greed and political ambitions of the few if you are to shiver under not God but the dictatorial mandates of the replaced deity -- the ACLU.
Our harvest is stepping over bodies in our streets, running across drug deals, prostitutes, houses among us that are legal bombs, streets filled with the mentally ill criminals and unwanted children -- many in various states of undress, unable to string a sentence together, predatory in nature, and freely preyed upon. And this after four decades of woman capable of birth control.
They fleece the public education system that is gutted of the greatness of our history and thus the knowledge of the average person’s sacrifices. They bring to substitute prefixes before American and embrace empty meaningless words like diversity, inclusion, guilt reconciliation, art, -- blah, blah, blah. A tripe song sung primarily to white audiences to create road blocks and divert attention dwelling upon that which nothing can be done is insulting and a waste of time. We don’t need to forgive each other, we simply need to get on with it and grow up. Set standards and focus on what has destroyed our city -- drugs. And hold accountable the thugs who profit by them.
We can do nothing to save those who choose to immerse themselves in crime and the drug culture except to be strong examples for what is right. We can toughen our laws and penalties. We can set standards and respect law and order and human decency. We have a special gang unit and it is the Cincinnati police. Stop using them as scapegoats when complications of years demanded ignored criminal behavior reaches an admirable climax pile more and more on their plate -- support them.
If it becomes necessary, I'll be more than happy to explain to those of you who are slow why Gwen's comments are offensive and racists. Again, David was at City Hall when the comments were made. He was attending the committee Gwen spoke before. When David doesn't like something a Black speaker says at City Hall, he stops them. If the Black person won't stop, Pepper threatens to have them arrested. David could've, and should've stopped Gwen from engaging in the inflammatory and racist rhetoric printed above. But David didn't stop Gwen, and he hasn't denounced her comments.
You might remember David Pepper's spokesperson Anne Sesler saying this....
Anne Sesler, Pepper’s communication director remarked, "Mark Mallory boasts about being someone who will bring the city together, but he’s displayed a shameful lack of leadership over the past week by refusing to stand up to outrageous statements and tactics by a prominent supporter and boycotter. If Mallory is unwilling to rebuke one of his leading advocates for engaging in the worst kind of divisive politics, he’s clearly not a leader who can bring us together and move our City forward.”
YOU MAKE THE CALL!!!
Who is showing a shameful lack of leadership now by refusing to stand up to outrageous statements by one of his prominent supporters? And if Pepper is unwilling to rebuke one of his leading advocates for engaging in the worst kind of inflammatory, divisive, racist rhetoric we've ever seen in Cincinnati, how can anyone believe he is a leader who can bring Cincinnatians together?
People like the poster above are the reason that blogs like this have to stop taking comments. Just stick to the topic and not your own agenda.
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