Tomzak Attacks NAACP in MLK Jr. Day Speech

As a journalist, it's hard to classify Mayor Thomas Tomzak's speech on Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered during last night's City Council meeting. 

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Tomzak has always had Despite his lack of eloquence, race and teenage pregnancy merge in Tomzak's mind as an issue to which he feel personally and professionally connected as both a local politician and a physician with the Virginia Department of Health.

Tomzak with the Fredericksburg public school administration.

Last night's speech was perhaps Tomzak's most exhaustive treatise on race and social issues delivered in the year that Fredericksburg Patch has been active. Tomzak adopted a paternalistic tone, repeatedly highlighting the plight of "poor little black girls" in the modern social strata.

According to Tomzak, the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. robbed minorities of a voice for change and self improvement. 

"With his death," said Tomzak, "the momentum to reform behavior that kept poor little girls of all persuasions, especially poor little black girls with children, in the cycle of poverty stopped and has not been restarted."

Tomzak went on to say that all children, regardless of race, had equal opportunities in Fredericksburg.

"When a child leaves a nursery in 2012 in Federicksburg, Virginia, because of Doctor King, it does not matter the ethnicity of the child," said Tomzak. "The child has the same chance as everybody else."

Tomzak said the environment to which children are exposed is what most influences their future. He said "poor little black girls" were "not just victimized by black males" but by "a variable rainbow coalition of bums."

Tomzak then criticized the NAACP for not providing more leadership on social issues.

"There's been no contemporary leadership from the NAACP to modify the behavior that results in child neglect," said Tomzak.

Tomzak also criticized NAACP objections to

"What it accuses us, is of blatant racism," said Tomzak. "I think the NAACP, community leaders and the leadership of the Democratic Party owe the citizens of Fredericksburg a real apology."

The NAACP has not been contacted for this story to verify if they have or have not filed an official objection with the Justice Department over Fredericksburg's preclearance bailout application.

If Tomzak's remarks are accurate it would mark the highest recognition of opposition to the bailout so far acknowledged by city leaders.

Tomzak concluded his speech by calling upon listeners to stop "enabling male irresponsibility that condemns poor little black girls and their children to cycles of poverty."