Holy Rolling
Archbishop George Stallings is putting race into the race to represent Ward 6.
Cover Story
The last time a black politician told white Washingtonians to "get over it," he at least had the benefit of knowing he had won the election. At an April 1 candidate forum at Eastern Senior High School, the Rev. George Augustus Stallings Jr. tells audience members who have a problem with his candidacy to "get over it"—almost a full month before the April 29 special election for the Ward 6 D.C. Council seat.
What may seem like rhetorical recklessness is part of the plan—Stallings knows exactly what he is doing. As a black man who took on the Roman Catholic Church in 1989 over its racial dynamics and claims to have won, the 49-year-old Anacostia cleric is happy to become a lightning rod on race. Stallings spends most of his time at the Ward 6 forum talking about blacks, whites, and the color of politics in Washington—doing his damnedest to make it the loudest issue in the campaign.
"There is a great racial divide in Washington, D.C.," Stallings proclaims, draped in a purple Nehru suit with a kente stripe, his voice drumming along in an intense preacher's cadence. "We need to learn how to live together as brothers and sisters, or perish together as fools. We have to level the playing field. That's the only way we can achieve this. We cannot have this disparity in Ward 6. We need to come together to talk about race."... Continued 
Issue of Apr. 18 - 24, 1997
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