Street Jazz

The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette ran a profile today on Steve Percival, president of the Fayetteville Board of Education, which contains this interesting nugget.

In his “Self Portrait,” he lists as his “pet peeve”:

“My pet peeve about society is that the quiet majority too often acquiesces to the vocal minority.”

Quiet majority - sounds an awful lot like the old Silent Majority which gets trotted out every so often, which often never turns out to be the majority at all, in all-too-many cases.

I wonder if Bobby New is the one telling him who the quiet majority are, and what they really want

rsdrake@nwark.com