By Bob Walsh
PACOVILLA Corrections blog
August 6, 2014
Jovanka Beckles, 51, is the vice-mayor of the city of Richmond, California and has been so for four years. She is a self-described lesbian black Latina. Therein lies the rub.
There seems to be a fairly hard core of loud-mouthed intolerant assholes who like to show up at city council meetings and spout vitriol at her, largely because she is a lesbian and because she does not claim straight-up black racial identity. She grew up in the Canal Zone and her parents are from the Caribbean and of African heritage.
At least one of the loud-mouthed assholes is a member of the council. That particular member, a jerk named Corky Booze, seems particularly irritated that Beckles does not self-describe as straight-up black.
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