There are more and more black families moving into the northern communities and they should have the right to be represented as well.
One of the most obvious pictures of inequity in our district is in the elementary level, and it has to do with technology.
Our strength of schedule is good. But we enjoy the competition. Our goal this season is to win 20 games, and that's still very much within our reach.
We're not excluding anyone as long as they agree diversity is a desirable goal in county government.
Both teams are three lines deep. It's probably going to come down to one team making one mistake and the other team putting the puck in the net.
It would be reprehensible to us if they went back to being an all-white board. We understand that people are going to take issue with us pushing diversity but are those other 25 seats (on the board of commissioners) guaranteed to whites?
This is definitely something whose time was coming. This is absolutely the time for us to be doing this.
I'm ecstatic that they didn't eliminate the position today.
In the second half, our whole goal was to pick up our defensive intensity and score on the break. Pretty much just make our defense our offense. We did exactly what we wanted to do.
For the Ku Klux Klan to now attempt to engage schools is a new and scary development in Michigan. Schools are a breeding ground for racism. This has to be stomped out right away.
The charge that we're making a race issue out of this plays to an audience that the Sheriff's Department hopes will focus on something other than this practice (hooding).