Shame on you, councilwoman Hill

In her increasingly desperate attempts to stop Resource Flow Control, which looks more and more like a dead solid certainty, Dallas City Councilwoman Vonciel Hill embarrassingly tried to play the race card during today’s council briefing.

In an argument that was as irrelevant as perhaps any ever presented to the council, she said comparisons between resource recovery facilities in Europe and Japan and one proposed for Southeast Dallas were invalid because there were no blacks living in Europe or Japan.

“Would it surprise you,” she scolded Sanitation Services Director Mary Nix, “if I told you that the majority of people living in Japan are Japanese? Would it surprise you if I told you the majority of people living in France are French?”

Would it surprise you, Hill, if I told you that the majority of people living in the Unitedf States are Americans?

To try and claim there is no diversity in the populations of France and Japan is an insult to her intelligence and a major insult to the people of France and Japan.

Did the City of Dallas locate McCommas Bluff where it did simply because it was the middle of a black neighborhood, as Hill so crassly insinuated today? No, the landfill is located where it is because, as fellow black councilwoman Carolyn Davis so correctly noted during the briefing, no one lives around it.

Hill is the only black council member to adamantly oppose Resource Flow Control and her last second attempt to block it by playing the race card should be repudiated by everyone, especially her council colleagues.

It is obvious to me that she has been promised big bucks by the waste hauling lobby if Resource Flow Control is defeated, an offer which may be superfluous anyway because the city’s redistricting map, also presented to the council today (and which, of course, she also promised to fight) would, if approved, drive her from the council.

With embarrassing stunts like she pulled today, she wouldn’t be missed.