Black mayors and other elected officials draw from skin-deep expertise in battling the political and cultural demons that plague our cities, writes MediaDervish.
Los Angeles Mayor-elect U.S. Rep. Karen Bass, center, greets supporters at the Wilshire Ebell Theater in Los Angeles on Nov. 17, 2022.
Bass has served six terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, and she chaired the Congressional Black Caucus in 2019 and 2020. In 2008, she became the first African American woman in U.S. history to serve as speaker of a state legislature. “Good, and about time,” Alex Sims-Jones said. “A young Black boy or a young Black girl can look and see that they can aspire to that and that they are represented, that their thoughts and beliefs, but more specifically, they can aspire to something larger,” said Sims-Jones, president of APS & Associates, a Chicago-based public affairs consulting firm.African Americans were first elected to lead major cities in 1967, with Carl Stokes in Cleveland and Richard Hatcher in Gary.
“When someone gets to a powerful place, those same old systems are still beneath them,” Sims-Jones said. “And they have to shift things, one by one, to try to make change.”“It’s my hope that all four of us, at some point soon, can stand on the same platform together,” Turner, told Politico last month.
Mayors are struggling with burgeoning urban ills such as violent crime, homelessness, poverty and vast economic inequities. The nation’s Black mayors are the treasured targets of the GOP and other conservatives, who accuse them of failing their constituents.
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