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Mono Lisa. It is a certainty of American demography that just as Gibson is not the first black mayor of a large city, he will not be the last. In Cleveland, Carl Stokes became mayor with the help of 19% of the white vote; in Gary, Ind., Richard Hatcher won with 12% of the white voters on his side. Like Gibson, they are the products of poverty, determination and faith in the political process. In the future, there will be more Ken Gibsons, if present trends continue: the rise of black population in central cities and the white flight...
Coming from Richard Hatcher, the black mayor of Gary, Ind., the analysis of urban machine politics was a bit startling. In an address in Washington, Hatcher said: "However well or poorly Mayor Daley may use his authority, the actions of America's last great political machine, in Chicago, demonstrate convincingly that patronage politics at least provides a way to get things done...
...Hatcher's point was an interesting reversal of traditional liberal wisdom. "Unfortunately for America's urban black population," he continued, "their rise to large numbers in the cities comes as the machines and the many jobs they offer have largely dried up. No other ethnic group in America's cities had to rise in the face of good government and civil service...
...promising signs of future racial progress is the way in which growing numbers of blacks unite behind black political candidates. Working at precinct and small-town levels, blacks are seizing levers of local power in city halls, county seats, school boards and sheriffs' offices. Without broad black backing, Richard Hatcher could not have been elected mayor of Gary, Ind., nor could Carl Stokes have been twice chosen mayor of Cleveland...
...Martin Luther King said: "I don't think that anything can be more tragic in the civil rights movement than the attitude that the black man can solve his problems by himself." Indeed, Cleveland's Mayor Carl Stokes and Gary's Mayor Richard Hatcher could not have been elected without considerable white support. White cooperation is vital at every level of development, if only because no amount of incantation can change the basic ratio of blacks to whites in the U.S. population...