The Older and Blacker You Are

To be clear, that’s not actually a saying. Or, it wasn’t until some new polling was released in the race for DC mayor.

At the center of the race are two DC natives, Kenyan McDuffie, 51, and Janeese Lewis George (JLG), 38.

McDuffie was a postal worker to pay his way through school. He graduated from Howard University, then got his JD, and was a trial attorney for Obama’s civil rights division before entering local DC government in 2012.

JLG was the daughter of a postal worker. She also got her JD and served briefly as a juvenile prosecutor in the district before entering local politics.

And you’d think that might give her some perspective on crime and punishment, but I hate to dash your spirits on that front, Dear Reader.

JLG is yet another self-styled “Democratic-socialist” who believed at one point DC Metro Police should be defunded in favor of a “community approach,” ie, social workers. She’s also in favor of wealth taxes and government-controlled housing.

I know … this … again.