Barbara Shanklin ouster vote was directly affected by race, councilman claims

She is a moral coward and a racist.

That kind of "us against them" mentality isn't unique to black people. A few cops I know have it too. Maybe more than a few. I don't know if she's being racist or being a self preservationist, because the backlash in the west end for going along with the whites to throw a black person out would probably be severe.

Assuming people like this will always be elected on the Council, the majority just needs to pass a law saying that it only takes a majority to remove someone from the council. Another alternative is to have a majority vote to only kick her out once someone else is elected in a special election during the next election cycle.