Campaign Worker: Goateed Smith

campaign worker: But not just... Early in his race for District 8, a campaign worker warned the corn-rowed, goateed Smith he'd have to "deal with people looking at you like you're Snoop Dogg trying to be a politician." Rather than change, Smith made sure voters in white neighbourhoods also got to know Smith, too, according to Rabble. As Toronto community activist Andray Domise reflected admiringly after-the-electoral-fact in Maclean's: "there Black and there Black... This is the genuine, non-conforming, and natural Black aesthetic with which Smith is comfortable, and which he kept during the campaign." By staying true to himself in a city with a sorry history of racial divide, Smith won 53 per cent of votes in a field of seven candidates, including another Black community worker and a former councillor. Lindell Smith is Halifax first Black city councillor since 2000. Noted Canadian Press: "his supporters were of all races, ages, sexualities and genders." No wonder the national media lined up for interviews. At 26, he is at least 15 years younger than the previous council youngest member. And then, of course, there is Smith age. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.