Emancipate the White Man

I'm not sure how Commissioner Brigham came to the conclusion that there are "black bigots" on the commission as he stated last night after the 2009 budget approval. Is Commissioner Beard racist when she defends the Lucy Laney Museum the same way that Brenda Durant defended the Arts Council- by saying it draws money to the town? (Deke Copenhaver joined her in saying that African-American history is the fastest growing segment in tourism.) The Arts Council and Laney Museum, after the compromise Commissioner Hatney suggested, came out even. Is that what Commissioner Brigham considered racist? Was it racist when Commissioner Johnson wanted to save Dowdy and Johnson Parks? I will assume that those parks are used by mostly black people in a mostly black district represented by a black commissioner. Is it racist of him to advocate for his own district?
Augusta either has race problems or it doesn't. If it doesn't, the offense that Mr. Brigham took at yesterday's meeting (his diversity and cooperative color-blind sensitivities were so injured that he refused to go to the legal session with the rest of the commission- I trust with no cut in pay) is groundless, and Administrator Russell was right to eliminate an entire department- the Human Relations Commission which dealt with discrimination.
If Augusta does have race issues, are both races suffering from racism equally or which is suffering more? I assume Mr. Brigham thinks that whites suffer more in the newly-approved budget. Whites are the minority in Augusta, after all. Is Jerry Brigham the last, brave, lonely voice for racial justice for whites in Augusta?
I won't even get into the ridiculous scenario that we have racial injustice favoring whites over blacks. That's just divisive and not good to talk about publicly. It would be pulling the race card.