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County Commissioner Brenda Howerton wants to foster diversity by replacing a white member of the Durham Planning Commission with an Asian applicant. We ardently disagree...
During her tenure, Huff-Smith has made a few waves. The city government asked the Planning Commission to designate the Rolling Hills and Southside neighborhoods as blighted sections of the city. (A blight designation would make the area eligible for low-income housing tax credits.) Huff-Smith went out to the area and talked to residents and business owners, then voted against the city’s request...
Howerton, who is black, argued that she “is not for anyone else or against anyone else, except that we’ve got to represent Durham County. We need to represent all the people and not just some.”
In other words: Who are “all” the people, and how far are we willing to go to make sure they’re represented?
To an extent, that continues. Black Americans and white Americans still experience different worlds — but so do poor Americans and rich Americans, college professors and high school dropouts, men, women, recent immigrants and those whose lives began and will end within 100 square miles.
This recently was illustrated when the chairwoman of the Durham Committee on the Affairs of Black People suggested a proposed new school was a vehicle for white flight. Black residents of the wealthy Treyburn subdivision disagreed...