It is no surprise, that Vince Robinson has stepped down as public information for the City of Fort Wayne. Robinson had to go, after a person filed the protective order. What took so long for the City to let Robinson go, was finding a person of color to replace Robinson.
C. Achebe wrote about the erosion of self, when exposed to a culture that does not love a people. Fort Wayne has not been kind to the community of African-Americans. And some African-Americans who have helped negatively define the African-American community find they never escaped their blackness.
But what is more unconscionable is how city officials shifted one African-American male from the police department information positon to fill the public information for the City of Fort Wayne. It is appalling. It is pool of old and new faces that could have filled the position. If the City first choice was so flawed, it could not have done any worse with utilizing an unexperienced person for the position.
The city position are filled with folks who had done worse than Robinson, but Robinson believed that he would always be viable to those seeking a yes man from the African-American community. Robinson has been sent back home.
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