Everybody’s making false accusations of racism lately.
That might be the only defense for LA City Council president Marqueece Harris-Dawson claiming, falsely, that he was pulled over by cops for being black.
As The California Post has reported, Harris-Dawson was pulled over for a moving violation in a school zone — just like anyone else would be.
He even apparently tried to get out of the ticket.
It seems everyone needs a victim story in politics nowadays — but Harris-Dawson’s is all melodrama.
The Los Angeles Police Protective League even said Harris-Dawson deserves an Oscar for his performance.
If so, he will have to beat out a crowded field of nominees.
Xavier Becerra claims that the University of Southern California and ABC-7 are racist for excluding him and other “candidates of color” from a gubernatorial debate next week.
The organizers of the debate used criteria such as polling data and fundraising success to determine who would qualify.
Becerra, a former state attorney general and Cabinet secretary, is consistently polling in the low single digits. So is former LA mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, and school superintendent Tony Thurmond.
And so is former state controller Betty Yee, even though she did well among delegates at the recent state Democratic Party convention.
One can argue that more candidates should have been included, especially since the race is so close, and it is still so early.
But racism?
We’re talking about a college campus and a media organization,...
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