As much as I disagree with Fantroy and as much as I think that he's a snake, I agree with him on this LGC, but not because it's racist.  He should re-frame his argument to include the vast majority of Dallas citizens who are not millionaires.

In 2004, a bunch of super-rich power guys are running the City.  Much the same way it was done back in the '20's, '30's, '40's, '50's!  The way it was done when the Citizens Council ran everything, and that was up until the '80's!

We're way behind the rest of the country in terms of racial equity.

I've said it before, so I'll keep reminding: the southern half of the City of Dallas is responsible for contributing 11% of the City's total tax base.

This is an economic issue, not a race issue.  Hey, I'm white and I live in the southern sector. To say that the interests of the southern sector are represented ONLY by the Black community is a lie.  The old timers refuse to see the demographics changing in front of them.  So, they do what they know how to do and that's yell about racism.

Fantroy's a dying breed, just as are his opponents.  It's not 1947, and we don't have segregated lines.  Our race issues are of a 21st century level.  The old coots (those who supported segregation and believed it was morally wrong for whites and "Negroes" to "co-mingle" or worse) and those who fought the battles for basic civil rights are old. They will all die off soon.

The generation they will leave behind cannot remember the civil rights struggles in this country.  They will not hear the stories from their parents and grandparents, but read about it in the history books.  When that day comes, our race relations will also change to reflect more contemporary issues.

What's hurting Blacks in this country today isn't an LGC menace, it's prison, it's unfair sentencing, it's less access to better education, it's so-called Black flight, it's a lot of things that can't be dealt with the methods of Fantroy's generation. They cannot comprehend modern-day race struggles, so they fall back on the only thing they can see in front of them. That's why Fantroy's screaming so loud, and it's also why Chaney and T-Reese are with him.

I agree with the fight against the LGC because we already have the CDA, we already have the PID, we have the Main Street Partners, we already have a Downtown TIF, we already have a whole host of "programs" and taxing entities levying money and NOT throwing it where it needs to be.

Before we throw the baby out with the bathwater here, we need to figure out what the hell these other private, semi and quasi public/private entities have been doing to revitalize Downtown.  It's all the same people!

If  Decherd and Bagwell and Biegler and all the others behind this LGC couldn't hack it with the CDA, couldn't get anything accomplished with a PID, and are busy NOT spending TIF dollars, then I'm suspicious about why they suddenly need a new vehicle.

They just want us to trade up.  In other words, if these guys have done such a terrible job with the assortment of options that they already have, what makes you think they'll do a better job with a LGC than they or the city have done?