White privilege in a local school board race

[sasha_feather]

The Madison Times:
School board "race" highlights the disconnect between the two Madisons by A. David Dahmer.

I was pretty baffled when the winner of the primary dropped out of the race the day after winning because she suddenly found out that her husband had been accepted to grad school in California (and not in town). That seemed shady to me-- perhaps just flaky, but as this article points out, it's also very privileged behavior and served to shut out the one woman of color running for the school board in a district where there is a huge achievement gap.

That, and telling lies about her, of course. WTF.

Comments

[bibliofile]

Gah. Also, WTF Manski?!

I didn't encounter any of the anti-Mirilli messaging myself, so at least it didn't show up on my own neighborhood's email list.

[maevele]

okay, I know sarah manski's husband from high school and from what I can tell he is still one of those self obsessed progressive douches who makes a lot of noise, and he was responsible for SO much of sarah's PR. I am not even a little surprised that there was this type of dirty bullshit. I wouldn't be surprised if her whole campaign was more about him showing off how well he could run a campaign than an actual bid for school board. He's had Ambitions for a long while. And of course they shit all over a WOC to do it.

I still have him on my fb, and am tempted to lay into him.

[maevele]

have posted this on fb with commentary. I await a response from either of the Manskis

[luinied]

Yeah... I would like to believe that this wasn't calculated electioneering, but it is pretty hard to believe. As someone who has moved across the country to go to grad school, I can say with a lot of certainty that this isn't a decision you make overnight - and sure, I'm slower at decisions than some people, but I also wasn't running for office.

Anyway, even if Mirilli isn't running a write-in campaign, I'm still tempted to write her in myself in protest.