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Grondahl: Albany city leaders talk frankly about race
Sheehan, Ellis, others say community s reckoning is painful, ongoing and necessary
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Albany Common Council Member Kelly Kimbrough (Will Waldron/Times Union)Will Waldron/Albany Times UnionShow MoreShow Less
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ALBANY – Mayor Kathy Sheehan’s heartbreaking moment of acknowledging white supremacy occurred when her son, who is adopted and Black, came home from preschool and repeated what a white child told him, “It’s bad to be Black.”
Common Council President Corey Ellis, who is Black, experienced racist policing in 2007 when a white cop followed his Lexus with its Ellis11 license plates for 2 miles along Lark Street and Delaware Avenue before he stopped Ellis for no apparent reason other than, he believes, driving while Black.