Carl Andrews is another one of those politicans that you can file under the column: "Major Dissappointments".
Yes, it is true that he started out as a reformer, but can Carl look any one of us involved in Brooklyn's insurgency politics in the eye, and make that reformer claim? The answer is a resounding NO!.
And yes Carl is a very charming and likeable kinda guy, but he has long stoppped caring about issues of political empowerment (wheter it be Caribbean-American,African-American, Asian or Latino),Aids, education, corruption,crime, immigration, drug-use/abuse, youth,affordable housing, etc.
I don't recall seeing Carl/ Clearence marching to protest what happened to Abner Louima nor Amadou Diallo.
In 1991 Maurice Gumbs went against the core membership of the Harriet Tubman Political Club and endorsed Carl( on the Liberal line) against Una Clarke, which led to the club's demise. Now Gumbs spends many lines in his "Footnotes" newspaper, outling the various ways that Carl has personally benifitted from his "political associations"( especially the ones with Norman, Connor and Fienberg). How ironic!
In 1996 when some of us black activists tried to run a Jamaican-born black man (Desmon Greene) to be the first minority Surrogate Judge of King's County, guess who lined up on the other side (FIENBERG)? But then Carl wasn't alone supporting Fienberg (if I recall/ a la Gatemouth/ lol), Carl managed that campaign.
Others like Towns, Perry, Roger, "Stitch" James, Vann,Robinson, Norman, Marietta Small, Weyman Carey, Mitch Alter,Owens, et al. were (as per usual) paradng their endorsements/ support.
My grandmother always said ;"show me who your friends are, and..................
Carl Andrews is another one of those politicans that you can file under the column: "Major Dissappointments".
Yes, it is true that he started out as a reformer, but can Carl look any one of us involved in Brooklyn's insurgency politics in the eye, and make that reformer claim? The answer is a resounding NO!.
And yes Carl is a very charming and likeable kinda guy, but he has long stoppped caring about issues of political empowerment (wheter it be Caribbean-American,African-American, Asian or Latino),Aids, education, corruption,crime, immigration, drug-use/abuse, youth,affordable housing, etc.
I don't recall seeing Carl/ Clearence marching to protest what happened to Abner Louima nor Amadou Diallo.
In 1991 Maurice Gumbs went against the core membership of the Harriet Tubman Political Club and endorsed Carl( on the Liberal line) against Una Clarke, which led to the club's demise. Now Gumbs spends many lines in his "Footnotes" newspaper, outling the various ways that Carl has personally benifitted from his "political associations"( especially the ones with Norman, Connor and Fienberg). How ironic!
In 1996 when some of us black activists tried to run a Jamaican-born black man (Desmon Greene) to be the first minority Surrogate Judge of King's County, guess who lined up on the other side (FIENBERG)? But then Carl wasn't alone supporting Fienberg (if I recall/ a la Gatemouth/ lol), Carl managed that campaign.
Others like Towns, Perry, Roger, "Stitch" James, Vann,Robinson, Norman, Marietta Small, Weyman Carey, Mitch Alter,Owens, et al. were (as per usual) paradng their endorsements/ support.
My grandmother always said ;"show me who your friends are, and..................