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1/26/2008 7:27:19 PM
 
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Section 5: OPA Board Subject: Board Punts on Slots Msg# 529090
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Now the African-American community has representation on the County Commissioners. I am well aware of that and count Jim Purnell as a friend. I have interviewed him on a few occasions as Commissioner, visit his sister in law in the Berlin Nursing Home and see Jim at Showell school as he is a bus driver along with his duties as County Commissioner. However, my question still stands, mainly because I really don't know the answer, as to whether the black community has really experienced any major advantages relative to their actual quality of life since this law changed the voting system. Just because a black Commissioner was elected does not miraculously change the status of African Americans in Worcester County. |
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For reference, the above message is a reply to a message where: One can 't help but wonder if, when all was said and done, it made any meaningful difference to the black community? You can't be serious? At the time five county commissioners were elected in a system called post-at-large, which used to be common in the Southern states but became archaic because of voting rights litigation. Worcester County had never had an African-American county commissioner. Now the African-American community has representation on the County Commissioners. |
