For real, why is it that a large segment of Black People in Milwaukee dislike Sheriff Clarke and yet seem to have no beef with Gerard Randall, Jr.? We all hear the why against Clarke (he’s a Republican, he’s Conservative, he doesn’t like Black People, his policies are anti-Black People) and people are very vocal that he is a plague on the community (I disagree).
Randall is a professed Republican and political insider with seemingly no allegiance to any particular ideology with the exception of capitalism (I have no problem with that or him). However, I do wonder if Randall may be getting a pass from the community and want to know why that may be? Could it be the allegiance he has with Milwaukee’s Black Elite and Black Insiders (I’ll answer that in my next post)?
Here’s Randall’s bio as it appears on mptv.org.
Gerard Randall, Jr
InterCHANGE panelist Gerard Randall, Jr. is a jobs creation specialist and a well-known Wisconsin Republican.
Randall is a graduate of Marquette University and a former schoolteacher in the Milwaukee Public Schools.
If you listen to Black Talk Radio or read any of the Black Publications, the common narrative is that Republicans are anti-Black People. That’s the rhetoric you here in this town on the streets, on the job, callers of the radio station and columnists. So if that is the case, is he getting a pass and is opposition to him having a public format coming?
Back to Sheriff Clarke for a moment… The Drum was flooded with emails (and comments) blasting 1290 WMCS for allowing Clarke to be on the so-called Black Radio Station. I’ll wait to see if emails and comments are forthcoming now that Randall is a weekly guest as part of a Politics Aside segment on The Morning Magazine.
I doubt anyone will say anything because WE fail to be consistent in our opposition to things WE claim are anti-Black. If YOU believe Republicans (especially Black ones) are against OUR ISSUES, I’d like to hear you blast Randall for being on 1290 WMCS like you did (and will do) Sheriff Clarke.
Again, just a question I ask and am pondering.
“Could it be the allegiance he has with Milwaukee’s Black Elite and Black Insiders”, I think you hit the nail on the head here. that “alliance” is something else from what I am told, more of a clique.
Clarke appears to not like Black people because he attacks the criminal element vocally in the Black “community” and you know how folks feel about their “dirty laundry”. And he doesn’t talk about criminality in whtie folks, or any other folks, community, even though we KNOW it exists. Does anyone remember Teju’s “white on white” crime report? Hmmm….now how long did that last? Not long did it? Seems you can’t be highlighting ALL crime, you gotta concentrate on the criminality of the statistically most impoverished.
Still…….it’s like we (Black folks) can see it and be victims of it, but dare we not talk about it (at least not in front of other folks, that is), dare we not hold ourselves accountable for allowing our wayward, sons, daughters, neices, nephews, cousins, uncles, aunts and the like to wreck havoc on the very neighborhoods we live in, after all we didn’t bring the drugs in here did we? But we did CHOOSE to sell and USE it, didn’t we, okay, I digress……. Dare we form a united front against the criminal element that exists in our neighborhoods…cause Lawd knows the churches, the schools, the gubment, the cops can’t do it all and there are a few in on it, from the rumor mills in many of these drug infested areas..oh, but I digress, again……
Oh yeah, I forgot, we might have given birth to em, those waywards, I’m talkin about and DAMN, what does that say about US? Well might as well close the blinds, shut the curtains and doors, open teen pregnancy and birth control centers, put up billboards with pregnant boys on em, put the blame solely on joblessness and poverty and not on the individual making the decision to hit ME in my damn head, for the five dollars I have and not a decision to rob a BANK where ALL the money is. Heck, why not just pretend it doesn’t exist, huh? Geez. Nuff said.
Giant! Amen my brother Amen!
I had asked all along the campaign season why people disliked Clarke. I got 0-ZERO responses just “trust me don’t vote for him.” Lena Taylor, people who are deputies, no one stepped up and defended their selling out this brother. Hate is a messed up thing!
I am going to defend him. We may not always agree 100% but he is responsible to this community! Like Bill Cosby, people don’t like him putting “our business” out there for public consumption and that is 80% why he is disliked. He calls it like he sees it and he is true to stopping black young men fm getting into his prisons.
10% he put workers on notice that they had to be nice to people! From the people posting bail to those waiting to be serviced in other sheriiff-related issues. How dare he make people work in a timely manner and provide customer service!! The nerve!
He is present in the community, unlike many other reps, Young, Coggs, etc…he is reading books to kids, playing pick up games with teens and telling them what the inside of th correctional facilty is really like and he is honest about that stuff.
The other 10% well what boss do you know gets 100% approval ratings from their workers. He has been trouted out as an ego hound, a fake Democrat and many other things but no one person can claim they know him so they are all full of it to me! Some people don’t like him because he works for Walker. Hate by association!
Another thing against him, he dared bite from the poisin apple. He married a white woman. Lord forbid this town get over the taboo and shock of interacial marriages and stop the damn racism. The man chose and he is happy, let him be! Some sisters want to kill him over this one fact. It is an outdated anger and we need to get our own ish together and let it go.
I am sure he has his share of issues as all humans do, but we are so fast to say Obama is a face our kids can look to and see a black man, well dont be hypocrites and vote white now! If its good for Obama to make you look the other way, then support this black man too!
As far as Randall, he is just a cheap whore for ratings and fame. When he appeared on Belling he was so fake, unintelligent and embarrassing, I think the brother caused the show to get cancelled. He was a waste of a seat and I trust no one I don’t see in the hood. What the hell do they know, their degrees are not worth the paper they are written on!
Anyway good call Giant!
WW
Good reply to you as well WW. I don’t get it except for what i said early about how folks feel his vocal focus is primarily the black community. Race still matters in Milwaukee and the world because prejudice based on race still exists because the stereotypes have become real in a sense. Neway, good post as usual Sis.
Sheriff Clarke comes off as one of those Black folks who hates everything Black. I actually agree with him on a lot of policies. I think the Sheriff could benefit from some good public relations advice. His image in the Black community is worst than his actual status. We dont like him, but we vote for him.
Thanks My Sister!
Disrael I think you have a point. I think his heart is in the right place but a little more balance would help to get people to see that he says it because he cares, crime is serious business to him, and he just wants to help the borthers by speaking truth to them. However as someone once said, we don’t fly the planes in and Sista aluded to that as well. We don’t bring it but we sure do participate. We need to hear him and work with him not against him. From what I got fro Lena Taylor and others there is no such thing as coming to the table just kill anything in your path to get the “D.” When it comes to crime, it can’t be R or D, it’s not political but our babies, our boys who are on the endangered species list, if he is helping them in someway we got to work with him and help him to overcome some of his flaws.
A-WOMAN!!!!
The dislike of Clarke of makes absolutely no sense. I can see why black folks don’t like Gerard, but come on, Clarke? He’s the highest ranking black man in the county and has invested his life into bettering the community, yet there are some that still hate him because of a friggin letter (D vs R)? Milwaukeeans of ALL colors should look to Clarke and tell their kids that with a lot of hard work you too can be an influential leader in Milwaukee. Black Milwaukee (and white for that matter) don’t have many positive role models to look up to, but Clarke is one of them. Who gives a crap if some of his employees don’t like working for him? There will ALWAYS be those haters on staff who refuse to simply do their job and serve the people, they’d rather bitch, moan, and complain. Clarke, from what I see, is VERY engaged in the black community. Why on earth someone would say he “hates black people” is beyond me. I think people misunderstand and think that because he holds everyone accountable (white and black) that that somehow means he doesn’t like black people. Milwaukee needs to wake up and realize that Milwaukee has a true LEADER that isn’t afraid to call it as he sees it. Positive change does not come about without ruffling a few feathers in the process.