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by Andrea Coe

Dallas Mayor Laura Miller is exiting City Hall where she’s reigned with a clenched fist, but exactly where her legacy will fall is a matter of high conjecture. Few mayors have divided an electorate as sharply and eventful as our shoot-from-the-lip mayor, a former journalist who was thrust into office based on promises of tackling real problems from a real-world perspective. She was neither a politician nor business woman with favors to keep, so her ride into City Hall was not nearly as bumpy as her tenure within it.

As Mayor Miller exits, as the political, social and cultural critics have their say, for and against, it's hardly surprising that among a number of high profile African Americans, it takes very little prodding to get them going on whether Miller was good or, well, awful, for black folks in Dallas. In fact, if there was a commonality, it may be how candid they were in expressing some rather deeply held beliefs.
"She was devastating for the African American community," said former Dallas City Council member Diane Ragsdale, who did not serve on the council at the same time as Miller but seems certain if she had, it would have been “an ongoing conflict."

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