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Black Chicagoans' cuphoria over the 36 percent of the Democratic primary votes that gave Harold Washington victory over his two white opponents--Jane Byrne and Richard M. Daley--had barely subsided before conservative pundits in Chicago and elsewhere began equating the 80 percent ethnic-bloc vote that Blacks gave Washington with anti-democratic or racist behavior. This disingenuous equation of ethnic-bloc voting with anti-democratic behavior holds that ethnic of racial cohesion in electoral politics is intrinsically irrational, sanctioning emotional and atavistic styles of political behavior. Though there is a superficial plausibility to this sort of reasoning it doesn...
Thus Afro-Americans' ethnic-bloc voting for Harold Washington in Chicago is not racist. What is racist, however, is the attitude that Black ethnic-bloc voting is illegitimate...
...toward Afro-American candidates fail to recognize is that their paranoid style political preferences are not fixed habits for all white voters and can be checkmuted when Blacks are galvanized to turnout in larger numbers than whites. These conditions happily obtained in Chicago's April 12th mayoral election, gave Harold Washington a more than 42,000 vote edge over Republican Bernard Epton, out of more than 1,3 million votes cast. Upper middle-class and professional whites in the Lakefront wards kept their own racial feelings in check enough to give Harold Washington some 20 percent of the total white...
...Francisco, which realized that Los Angeles could hardly play host to both the convention and the 1984 Summer Olympics, had to overcome intense eleventh-hour lobbying efforts by Detroit Mayor Coleman Young, Washington Mayor Marion Barry and Chicago's Harold Washington, who argued that the selection of one of their cities would be taken by black Democrats as a significant gesture. When San Francisco won, not everyone took the news well. Snapped a petulant Young: "It is one of the most volatile cities in the country." Complained Chicago Sun-Times Columnist Mike Royko: "Do the Democrats want...
...definitely a burgeoning topic of discussion among lawyers as well as law school teachers." Harold Edgar, a Columbia Law School professor said...