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Daisy Lynum is a Racist. There, I Said It |
Posted by Terry Howard @ 6/29/2006 
A few months later, Lynum clashed with Mayor Buddy Dyer when he tried to appoint another commissioner to her seat with the Florida League of Cities, an association of elected officials. She called the Mayor's Office and demanded to talk to the "racist [expletive]."
"I sure hope that he doesn't think that because I'm a black female, that I'm going to kiss his ass," she said at the time.
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But to Lynum, most issues that affect her district are shaded by race. She says most of the white people she works with, including those at City Hall, are racist, even if they don't always act on it.
Taking these items along with her more recent comments that the OPD has a culture of racism that is specifically taught during training, it is very apparent to me that Lynum makes snap judgements about people's attitudes and mindsets, without specific evidence. That is what you call prejudice. The fact that she specifically mentions "most of the white people she works with" (the author's quote, not hers directly) would signify that she makes this decision of how this large swath of individuals think and believe based upon their skin color. THAT is racial prejudice, the pre-requisite quality of someone being a flat out racist. Which I firmly believe by evidence of actions and statements that Daisy Lynum is a racist.
You see, I would so much rather write an article about the nice things that happen here in Orlando, because there is so much to tell, but when I see a public leader so full of racism take important social issues and pervert them into self serving political gains or at best (or maybe worst) a way to get her son out of a $12 traffic ticket (that he rightly earned, black, white blue or whatever) I have to say something. I think if we are ever to move past color as a means of judging a person, then we need to move past color being a shield to calling a racist a racist, otherwise you are just condoning one form of racism over another. She is no different than a closet clansman, spreading her hate and lies so far that they touch others and corrupt them as well. Look at this recent Sentinel letter to the editor as evidence:
I am pleased that Orlando Commissioner Daisy Lynum has taken the police to task for racial profiling. I am a wife and mother and African-American, and I have been pulled over three times in the past few months by white police officers.
Each stop was over some minor incident, and I always had the feeling the officers were bothering me because I'm African-American. I sensed they wanted to intimidate me. When I see a police car in my neighborhood, I never think the officers are in the neighborhood to protect me. I think they are looking for a victim -- someone they can harass or intimidate. We all look like criminals to them.
I don't like white officers, and I don't trust them, so they all look like criminals to me, too. They treat African-Americans badly. They are arrogant and abusive, and they protect each other in their wrongdoing.
One of the officers who stopped me asked why I didn't pull over right away. There was no space to pull over safely. And my husband has told me that when a police officer wants to pull me over, I should stop in a safe public place where there are people and lights to protect myself.
Commissioner Lynum owes an apology to no one.
Rosa Bailey
Orlando
Yes Rosa, she certainly does, to you, and anyone who feels they shouldn't be pulled over for "minor incidents" that you yourself admit your guilt of because you are black. You see Rosa, we all get pulled over, even us "white boys". And when you start thinking in generalities and making calls of intention and moral direction of entire groups of people based only on their color or occupation, then you too Rosa have become a full blown racist yourself. You got pulled over because you broke the law, EVERYONE DOES!
3 Comments:
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At 10:03 AM,
Dawn said...
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Here here! I get pulled over too. Does one group of people believe that they are the only ones being stopped for minor infractions? If my tail light is out ... because I'm white I get a "pass"?? No.
We're never going to get past racism as long as we have people (regardless of color) screaming racist remarks whenever they don't like a certain chain of events. There was a time when many things were racailly motivated, but you have to honestly appraise the situation and objectively ask yourself, did this happen because of my skin color or because *I* did something (or didn't do something -- like stop at a stop sign) that caused this to happen.
We live in a very paranoid society. "What are YOU looking at" seems to prevail everywhere you go. People all worked up over nothing. My momma always said.. "A person with nothing to hide, hides nothing". I'm not afraid of being pulled over or to have policeman roam my streets, because I've done nothing to warrant being worried about. But I could sit around and get paranoid that someone might target a single mother of two in a profile and become paranoid... and nervous... and jittery... and then write letters to folks and tell them I'm being punished because I'm a single mom.
I try to believe the good about everybody, until they prove me wrong. I try to turn the other cheek even when someone wrongs me. I try to do my best everyday and hurt nobody in the process. These are simple things, but clearly there are some who haven't thought to do it. -
At 12:59 PM,
Terry said...
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Yeah, it's sad, but so many people seem to think that feeling this way means you are ignoring the problems. I fullt recognize there are problems, but assuming them and recognizing them are two different things, and one is important, while the other is damaging. By the way, I thought Metroblogging could take a break from Lynum, I want my next post to be on a positive note over there.
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At 6:00 PM, said...
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Yes, "White Boy" is offensive! Just put the shoe on the other foot-white city councilwoman's son pulled over by black police officer; she states publically "I didn't want my son shot by some black-boy cop." What would have been the response? Forced resignation, on camera apologies, state-sponsored "sensivity training", raked over the coals. But in this case, NOTHING! And by the way, we're MEN, not boys.