The Post Dispatch, StlToday has reported, since Ferguson Councilwoman Ella Jones is clever, worked her way up, built allies and through that process got elected. Moreover, because she is African American we should not file for recall of her election.
What the Post do not elaborate about is how Ella hoodwinked the African American community of Ferguson. During her campaign she was hand picked by a family member of Ferguson mayor James Knowles. She built relationships and accumulated allies with his regime to be a political operator with a black face to give an illusion-false impression of being a voice for the voiceless, African Americans of Ferguson. However, as the world was watching and Ella was elected as councilwoman, people was satisfied that now, Ferguson council had another African American member. But Ella, coupled together with the appointment of being a handpicked puppet, knew, the only thing on her agenda was to sever the regime of people "Ferguson Officials' the Department of Justice "DOJ" criticized about violating the rights of African Americans.
Ella main platform was to bring "new leadership to Ferguson" but how she figured she could bring new leadership being a handpicked puppet of the old regime.
Months after the killing of Mike Brown by a Ferguson police officer, the
U.S. Department of Justice painted a damning picture of Ferguson city law
enforcement as racially biased and revenue-focused against African Americans. Ferguson’s
municipal court judge, city manager, court clerk and police chief resigned in
the course of three days after the DOJ released these findings. During the time of the DOJ investigations into the City of Ferguson,
the races for three open seats on Ferguson City Council was getting unprecedented coverage. The big question may be why. Why — after months of being in the red-hot
glare of the national and international media in the aftermath of the police
shooting of Mike Brown — would Ella decide to run for a seats on the
beleaguered Ferguson City Council, all for a part-time job that pays $250 a
month?
Ferguson is roughly two-thirds black; at the time, one of the six council members was black, which had prompted major criticism after Brown was shot and killed by then-Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson. Ella, a Ferguson resident for decades was not into the street protest movement that came with the killing of Mike Brown. For months, protest groups had demanded new leadership in Ferguson They said they wanted to see the racial makeup of city leaders better represent the community. Protesters and residents of Ferguson felt if elected, black council members like Ella might make life difficult for James Knowles, the mayor who has been pushed to the brink of quitting by African-American criticism of his police force.
Was Ella that change to the City of Ferguson Council that the world was expecting.
Ex-Ferguson Mayor: Brian Fletcher who had also won a seat as one of Ferguson newest Council member went on record several times saying "'We" Want Our City Back' whoever "we" was, he was referring to. But what makes it particularly apparent that Fletcher wasn't referring to African Americans is because he typically referred to them as "them people" and the African American community of Ferguson did not support him.
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Just being a African American face on Ferguson Council don't pass the smell test. STORY COMING SOON>>