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Date: Saturday, November 9, 2013
Subject: [New post] White Guy Wins Election By Making Voters Think He Is
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Egberto Willies posted: " The result of this election is amusing. Bruce
Austin is the 24 year incumbent board member of the Houston Community
College System. He is a black guy. Dave Wilson is an anti-gay Right Wing
Republican white guy. They ran in a predominantly black district"
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<http://egbertowillies.com/?author=1> White Guy Wins Election By Making
Voters Think He Is Black
(VIDEO)<http://egbertowillies.com/2013/11/09/white-guy-wins-black/> by
Egberto Willies <http://egbertowillies.com/?author=1>
[image: white guy Dave Wilson Bruce
Austin]<http://egbertowillies.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/image16.png>
The result of this election is amusing. Bruce Austin is the 24 year
incumbent board member of the Houston Community College System. He is a
black guy. Dave Wilson is an anti-gay Right Wing Republican white guy. They
ran in a predominantly black district for the board position.
Dave Wilson, the white guy, sent out mailers with smiling pictures of black
families without his picture. On his material he also indicated that he was
endorsed by Ron Wilson, a cousin. The deception is that Ron Wilson is a
very well-known black politician in the district.
Bruce Austin seemed to have been caught off guard and began sending the
counter mailers with a picture of Dave Wilson, the white guy. He also
included his rap sheet.
calling him a "right-wing hate monger" and saying he "advocated bringing
back chain gangs to clean highways." But the campaign clearly caught him
off guard.
[KHOU<http://www.khou.com/news/local/White-guy-wins-after-leading-voters-to-believe-hes-black-231222981.html>
]
Ultimately, Dave Wilson, the white guy, won the election by 26 votes. Mr.
Austin said that he will ask for a recount. He also said he does not think
this is good for democracy. Mr. Wilson shows no remorse for his deceptive
mailers. He said that politicians deceive voters every time they speak.
White Guy Deceiving Black Voters?
There are many assumptions here. Mr. Wilson made the assumption that
because he was running in a black district he had to make the citizens
believe he was black to win the election. Mr. Austin made the assumption
that highlighting that Mr. Wilson is white and stating he was a right-wing
hate monger would get him his win.
The reality is that they were both likely wrong. It is insulting to blacks
to assume that pigmentation plays a decisive role in candidate selection.
The reality is that minorities have a much harder time getting whites to
vote for them than the converse. The recent mayoral race in
Detroit<http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2013/11/mike_duggan_projected_to_win_d.html>proves
this. 82% of Detroit is black, yet they elected a white mayor. He
earned their votes with the policies he is proposing.
One wonders whether the voters wanted to vote out the 24 year incumbent on
a troubled school board. Given the values of the community, it is unlikely
that Wilson would have been their choice. One wonders whether Mr. Austin
simply took his constituents for granted.
"I suspect it's more than just race," says Bob Stein, the Rice University
political scientist and KHOU analyst. "The Houston Community College was
under some criticism for bad performance. And others on the board also had
very serious challenges."
[KHOU<http://www.khou.com/news/local/White-guy-wins-after-leading-voters-to-believe-hes-black-231222981.html>
]
Is the closeness of the election a result of people flocking back to Mr.
Austin after they figured out that the other guy was a Right Winger? Or was
the closeness of the vote based on frustration with an incumbent in a
troubled system? The most important lesson is that one must know who they
are voting for on elections one considers consequential.
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