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Black People Love Frank Rizzo (.com)
The Bulletin’s Mike Malowe has a column today on the, uh, 16-year anniversary of Frank Rizzo’s death. In it, he gives a nice personal anecdote about Rizzo and how people liked him and how, during his 1991 mayoral run, he did that whole forgiveness thing or whatever when he went to the black neighborhoods and blah blah blah. Then he writes that Rizzo “polarized” the bad guys and how great that was, tiptoeing all round the racism issue. Then he writes about stalking Rizzo during the ‘91 election.
Then he writes about how happy Ed Rendell was about Rizzo’s death, because he’s a Democrat or something. Rizzo: A Leader Too Late [The Bulletin] |
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Ahhh yes- I remember that day well. I was in a meeting with my editor when one of our reporters- now at a major Delaware daily- burst in the door screaming “He’s dead! He’s dead!”, leaving us to wonder- “Who’s he?”
It was hot as all get out that day- good times, good times….
the second most famous person to die on the throne so i was told