Karen Freeman-Wilson: "don't confuse me with the facts"

Gary mayoral candidate Karen Freeman-Wilson has now firmly established her qualifications as strictly configured as the "tribal chief."  She does not want to be "confused by the facts."  In her column in today's, Wednesday August 9, Post-Tribune newspaper, she acknowledges that all that matters to her and to her tribal followers is personal loyalty and titles.  A true and complete tribal head with no other qualifications.  Accomplishment = zero. 

In reality her lack of any substantive recognizable accomplishments do not count for evaluation for her or her loyal tribe.  The sad thing is that neither she nor her followers recognize the difference.

She first proceeds to attack me for my ignorance, which she does not establish, just states.  What it seems to mean to her is that I did not list her titles and excuses.

What qualifies her for the position of mayor is a long litany of what she refers to as "facts."  Two things she does not realize: One, her facts are just a list of titles and associations.  Not one word about accomplishments because she has none.  In addition, there is not one word about the future vision because again she has none.  Two, she cannot distinguish, because she is tribal, between facts and opinion.  She states as fact that her husband did a great job as sanitation head because he was qualified.  That no else in the country thought he was qualified doesn't matter.  As Karen Freeman-Wilson says "don't confuse me with the facts."  She also cannot indicate what exceptional work he did except to be married to her.  That may be an accomplishment but not in the sanitation business.

When dealing with her legal counseling for thievery at the GUEA she lists a long list of excuses of how "I did not know?", "how could I know?", "why should I have even asked?", etc.  The sum total is that if you can figure out the excuses after the fact you are not responsible for anything.  As a matter of fact that is her standard line: "I am too stupid to know anything, so why blame me."  But somehow she and her followers seem to thing that stupidity and ignorance are a good trademark for being mayor of Gary.

It is her and her followers right to think that deaf, dumb, and blind are good qualifications for the next mayor of Gary.  It is also my right and responsibility to disagree.

Karen Freeman-Wilson and her supporters truly prove by their actions my thesis that the problem of NWI lies in the "tribal" politics with which it is burdened.  Nothing reflects that more than the perspective and personal references by Freeman-Wilson in her column.