By Dr. G.F. McHale-Scully
Just like Brownsville has failed to realize its potential, City Commissioner Cesar De Leon will never realize his potential scaling the political ladder. He has come tumbling back to earth and he was only on the first rung.
Is De Leon a racist? If you were living in San Antonio or Austin or Houston or Dallas and you called two assistant district attorneys– who are hard-working females just doing their jobs– "fucking niggers", those communities would draw immediate conclusions.
The individual who cast those aspersions would have to leave town and never return. His family – no pun intended – would be blackballed. But Brownsville, the Third World Capital of the United States that still honors slave owners and traitors to the nation, is a city comfortable with name-calling.
"He didn't really mean those words" his defenders utter. And Donald Trump doesn't really mean any of the terrible statements he utters on a daily basis as he does his best to divide this nation by catering to his ignorant white base?
We like the commissioner at The McHale Report and we feel sorry that he was sucker-punched, but he didn't follow the referee's instructions to keep his arms up at all times. He let his guard down and it appears ex-Fire Chief Carlos Elizondo kayoed him by secretly recording the politico's intemperate remarks. At City Hall these are the days of the long knives and much blood-letting.
Why did De Leon find himself stretched out on the canvas listening to a ten-count? He is an elitist, by skin color, by background and by profession, who could not handle the power bestowed upon him by the voters. Like athletes who suddenly become millionaires moving from the college to the professional ranks, De Leon was too young to step inside the ring. He was all offense and no defense. He believed he was invincible, but the young often believe that they are never going to die.
He thought that as a city commissioner and a lawyer, he could be the kingmaker who could manipulate the movers-and-shakers until he became king. Instead, he wears a crown of thorns. But he isn't the only one bleeding. Brownsville is bleeding. Going back to the beginning of the last century when the Jim Crow citizenry sent the black soldiers packing from Fort Brown, Brownsville is once again in the national spotlight for its intolerance.
Should De Leon resign? We asked that question on Facebook and by a surprisingly overwhelming margin our readers responded that he shouldn't. On Juan Montoya's El Rrun Rrun, where most of the readers comment anonymously, the verdict was decidedly that he should.
"He didn't really mean those words" his defenders utter. And Donald Trump doesn't really mean any of the terrible statements he utters on a daily basis as he does his best to divide this nation by catering to his ignorant white base?
We like the commissioner at The McHale Report and we feel sorry that he was sucker-punched, but he didn't follow the referee's instructions to keep his arms up at all times. He let his guard down and it appears ex-Fire Chief Carlos Elizondo kayoed him by secretly recording the politico's intemperate remarks. At City Hall these are the days of the long knives and much blood-letting.
Why did De Leon find himself stretched out on the canvas listening to a ten-count? He is an elitist, by skin color, by background and by profession, who could not handle the power bestowed upon him by the voters. Like athletes who suddenly become millionaires moving from the college to the professional ranks, De Leon was too young to step inside the ring. He was all offense and no defense. He believed he was invincible, but the young often believe that they are never going to die.
He thought that as a city commissioner and a lawyer, he could be the kingmaker who could manipulate the movers-and-shakers until he became king. Instead, he wears a crown of thorns. But he isn't the only one bleeding. Brownsville is bleeding. Going back to the beginning of the last century when the Jim Crow citizenry sent the black soldiers packing from Fort Brown, Brownsville is once again in the national spotlight for its intolerance.
Should De Leon resign? We asked that question on Facebook and by a surprisingly overwhelming margin our readers responded that he shouldn't. On Juan Montoya's El Rrun Rrun, where most of the readers comment anonymously, the verdict was decidedly that he should.