I have often said in this column that being married to me is Lynn Flint-Shaw’s biggest political liability. Those of you who regularly read this column may feel she has an advantage because I write about local politics. But in this particular case, I am prohibited from writing anything about the case thus I am unable to counter untrue bias media accounts. As a writer, I have made a career out of exposing the corrupt, the inept, and the purveyors of hate and personal destruction in the Black community. For my efforts, I have earned the hatred of a great many dysfunctional Black political players as well as the scorn of a number of big business types who I have exposed for their broken promises to southern Dallas. Because of my experiences I believe one of the biggest problems for southern Dallas development is that too much of our politics are negatively influenced by a small group of people who practice destroying the careers of any Black person who does not go along with their agenda. The end result is that African-Americans who seek to work with the white community without race being a factor or those African-Americans who seek to do the job that is best for the whole city are demonized, set up, and destroyed.

Those of us who are a part of the Black political community know the people who operate in our political theater. We know who the real doers of good work are. We know who the thieves are. We know who the race mongers are. We know who the frauds are. We know who the con artists are. We know who the political charlatans are. And we know those people who make a career trying to destroy the reputation of others. The latter group’s goal is obvious. By running away competent African-Americans from the political process, the haters are guaranteed to reap the benefits of being the only Black people willing to participate in the process.

Those competent Black public servants who are not afraid to buck the destroyers and deal with racism are vilified from both camps. After watching these public displays of destruction, decent good Black folks are frightened away from the process. But I have also been told that whites are afraid to serve as well. Even though we know who the hate mongers and the purveyors of destruction politics are, the paralyzing fear that we maybe next on their list, prevents good people from speaking out in support of other decent people under attack.

The people I have written about in my columns are known commodities in the Black community. My success over the years has not come from any ground breaking research to cover the unknown. Instead, I have chosen to write the truth that the Black community already knows about certain dysfunctional Black political personalities. Citizens, both north and south of the Trinity, are at a historic crossroads as we attempt to include the southern sector in the overall development of the city. We must take on the forces of political destruction or risk losing any chance of getting the kinds of jobs and development we so desperately need in southern Dallas. Translated: white businesses are not going to invest significant dollars in southern Dallas as long as our politics are unduly influenced by people whose only talent is to run off the kind of good people we desperately need to make southern Dallas development work.

In closing, I did talk to Ms. Shaw about DART and she wanted me to share these pieces of information. First, she called for an audit on the day the board was informed of the billion dollar short fall. She did not know anything about the shortfall before she was told at that board meeting. It was only her second meeting as chair. Second, she has not embraced any plan that will take money from Dallas’ rail projects to make up for the billion dollar shortfall. The board has not even considered the idea. And third, DART has not lost nor misappropriated a billion dollars. The agency’s staff missed their forecast on the cost of future projects by the tune of a billion dollars. The mass transit system in Denver has a $3 billion shortfall. They miscalculated the future cost of construction 3 times as badly as DART.

Don’t take my word for what I write. I invite you to investigate for yourself. The purveyors of hate are not hiding. They are bold enough to be open about their politics of destruction because they know that so far the citizens of Dallas have been afraid to take the haters on. At least that is how I see it from South of the Trinity.

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