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.

I’d seen him walking along Walnut Street many times that summer. He didn’t know I was there. He could only get a few feet during the busy lunch hours before someone came up and stopped him, with a hug, or a kiss, or a handshake. I don’t think I saw a single black person not come up and in some way embrace him.

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]