@BlogKCJackson County Executive Katheryn Shields used her speech at this week’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Day event to compare her “time of tribulation” under federal investigation for corruption with Dr. King’s struggles in the civil rights movement. That had to be an uncomfortable five minutes inside a St. Stephen Baptist church filled with leaders of the black community and Democratic party.
The funniest part was her fear that the investigation would undermine her effectiveness as a public servent, considering that performance of county government during her tenure hasn’t exactly inspired confidence.
KC Star: Shields: Vindication at hand (with video)
Right … a federal investigation for corruption is exactly like the civil rights struggle. Civil rights activists faced police dogs, imprisonment, beatings, lynchings and assasination for the color of their skin. Katheryn Shields is being persecuted for alleged misdeeds and unethical behavior. That seems like a reasonable comparison.
Would someone please tell this woman KC mayor just isn’t for her?
I think it was real nice of her to make those statements on the east side where she will not be able to pull one vote once this egoist attitude of hers is talked about by those who were there.
This is the typical double think that she has gotten away with too often in the past.
As a person she couldn’t pass the test to have been King’s valet. As a leader she wouldn’t have passed the test to lead the choir in Kings church.
Sounds like you either have an agenda re: Shields (see previous simpleton Jackson County postings), or you’re just not very careful about sources.
Check the facts. Shields had been making similar comments about fear for months. And she didn’t “compare herself to Dr. King”, she said she understood a little of what he must have gone through in battling misleading charges, and harrassing investigations… having done nothing wrong.
Here’s an idea: read the speech before you blog all over the floor.
I was forwarded a copy of The Shields MLK day speech given at St. Steven’s. Of the roughly ten pages, 80% was spent on her dilemma and despair. She referenced the civil rights movement and tried to mirror it to her own troubles. Not a good fit. She said that she understood the fear that many of the freedom marchers felt, as she too felt the same fear from the FBI. There is no way that one can spin that. The civil rights movement is not some historical case study. We live and breathe it everyday. There is no room for anyone to try to put on the mantle of a civil rights abuse survivor to get themselves out of a sticky situation.
She is a privileged politician trying to come up off of the muddy ground.
Must there be the red herring of a hidden political agenda in this sad case? No one needs to use subterfuge to discredit this politician. She continues to prove quite capable of messing up her own nest.