OPINION: All too often, we elect the people who yell the loudest or who have hung around the longest, rather than those who — at a minimum — can do a reasonably competent job, writes ericjaye.
We killed Banko Brown, a young person working to turn a once-troubled life around, who, in a moment of hunger, despair, intoxication or restlessness, allegedly stole a bag of candy.The killing of Banko Brown is our crime, and it has been too long in the making.
Our original sin is seeded in the toxic politics we have created — a politics that puts ideological purity, on the left and the right — before fundamental competence. Ex // Top Stories San Francisco gets new Apple Music and Apple Maps features Users in San Francisco have a new way of keeping tabs on their favorite artists
All too often, we elect the people who yell the loudest or who have hung around the longest, rather than those who — at a minimum — can do a reasonably competent job.It isn’t just Banko Brown – it is the thousands of people dying on our streets from drug overdoses, the senior citizen stabbed on her doorstep and the scores of other victims of our politics that put political correctness before competence.
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