The politician who avoids the extremes of either the right or the left is an increasingly rare breed, but former Anchorage Assembly member and recent mayoral candidate Bill Evans is that politician. We will discuss the difficulties of walking that middle road and the political peril that lies along that path. We will also talk about his time on the Cleveland Police Force in the 1980s – a police force that was 100% white in a city that was more than 35% Black. He will reveal how he felt about that then and how he feels about it now. In light of yesterday’s guilty verdict for the three murderers in the Ahmad Arbery trial, we might say that progress is being made with regard to racism in America, but one only need look back a week to the not guilty verdict in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial to know that we have a long way to go. Here to comment on that case is Anchorage’s first Chief Equity Officer Clifford Armstrong III.
