Guess Who's in Charge Where Race Relations Are Lousy

The Urban Institute, a group that's generally no friend to conservative causes, released a report Thursday on the state of race relations in different cities in the U.S., ranked from one to 100 in descending order of cordiality.

You'll be shocked, shocked to learn that of the 10 worst cities for equity between blacks and whites (my native Philadelphia came in at 90, and frankly from what I recall that's probably too high) a Democrat is in the mayor's office in eight of them. Of the two who weren't Democrats, one was independent and one was New York's Michael Bloomberg, who's (literally) in a class by himself.

For the worst equity between whites and Hispanics, it was even worse for our liberal compatriots, since nine out of 10 mayors are Democrats.

The good news is, Florida's Palm Bay (Democrat mayor) and Lakeland (Republican) were in the top 10 for black-white equity.

Palm Bay and Jacksonville scored in the top 10 for Hispanic-white equity.

So tell me again, which is the party of opportunity for all?