What is the world coming to?

I am aghast. The city of Green Bay Wisconsin just did something they have not done in the 142 years of incorporation. They have hired a African American police officer. Oh My Gawds who would have thought something like this could happen. I mean a little redneck town will keep a drug addicted quarterback like Brett Favre on their football team would actually take another step down the liberal highway by hiring black cop? The NORML website

http://www.norml.org/index.cfm?wtm_view=&Group_ID=4573

says that any possession of any amount of any amount of marijuana is good for six month in jail for the first offense. Yet they kept Brett (who has become a traitor by retiring and going to the Vikings) as an admitted addict. Wow they are going liberal. Next thing you know it will be legal to import cheese from Switzerland.

OK you should know by now that I am not a racist and this was a tongue and cheek look at what was considered newsworthy in Green Bay. Maybe I look at things a bit differently but cannot figure out 2 things here:
1 Why did it take 142 years to do this.
and
2-Why was that considered newsworthy?
Maybe the city did not get sued for equal rights. Or maybe it was like when I was in second grade and asked my mother why we had no black students in our school. She replied that was because there were no black people living in our part of Maine. But the population of Green Bay is 7% according to the news.
Congratulations to Soloman Ayers the new officer.

Ottar