If you are a fan of fiction, you will enjoy this tale.
If you are not a fan of fiction, you will appreciate the artful creativity of this tale.
Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear, last Monday afternoon, when City Councilperson Meghan Sahli-Wells revived memories of Jane Austen.
In the midst of a contentious face-to-face attack on Police Chief Scott Bixby for running out of crayons, for failing to hire the number of non-whites that would satisfy her standards, she paused. She smiled.
“I want to thank you for embracing My Brother’s Keeper,” she said. “I want to make sure (your embrace) continues.”
Understand that My Brother’s Keeper is a 100 percent Meghan Sahli-Wells production, promotion.
Realistically, it has no more to do with Culver City than your late Aunt Tillie’s arthritis in the big toe on her left foot when she donned borrowed green sneakers.
When Ms. Sahli-Wells was mayor-for-a-year a couple years ago, she flew off to Washington to join other mayors. Many of them strode about with their heads surrounded by clouds. Ms. Sahli-Wells may have been one of them.
Amidst meticulously orchestrated fanfare by the White House that was not to be confused with legitimacy, Ms. Sahli-Wells, on behalf of City Hall, or herself, unilaterally accepted President Obama’s self-promoting challenge to adopt his slightly sub-flimsy My Brother’s Keeper proposal.
Abstraction and distraction are its key elements.
Keeper’s glossy alleged motivation is honorable – to lift up non-white, especially black, boys and girls, a majority of whom are born into and grow up in single-parent homes.
As the funder for community programs, the City Council never has authorized expenditures for Keeper.
“To say that we are participating is accurate,” said a City Hall higher-up. “However, it is misleading to suggest there is active participation, meaning doing something new or different. We are not.
“Purely form over substance.”
Participation, she said, consists of two departments, police and parks-and-recreation.
“They have acknowledged relabeling a couple of initiatives they already were doing to fit within the challenge of My Brother’s Keeper,” the source said
“You may have heard Meghan thank only those two departments. It was nice of them to help her out by their relabeling.”
Don’t you feel better now?
