I don’t care much for Laura Miller, the mayor of Dallas.  She’s too much of a nanny-state type.  However, every now and then she does something right.

Black civil-rights activists asked Dallas Mayor Laura Miller on Wednesday to apologize for calling Terrell Bolton, the city’s former police chief, an idiot last week. Her response: “No.”

“It’s insulting to the whole African-American community,” Roy Williams said. “It seems as if you’re trying to play the race card in reverse.”

Ms. Miller brushed off that accusation, saying Mr. Bolton’s poor crime-fighting tactics hurt minority communities the worst.

“Everybody in the city knows how I feel about the former chief,” she said.

It really bothered me to see Williams playing the race card with regards to the former chief.  The man was incompetent at best and simply unsuited to the position.  It’s not racist to point this out.  Frankly, the black community only marginalizes itself further by getting so defensive about it.  They’d be far better served to let it go and admit that Bolton wasn’t cut out for the position.