KEEP THE TLAIB-JONES CONGRESSIONAL CONTEST ABOUT ISSUES, NOT RACE. (T)he race to unseat (Rep. Rashida) Tlaib and replace her with Brenda Jones, president of the Detroit City Council, doesn’t seem to be driven by substantive policy questions about the well-being of an underserved district based largely in Detroit. Instead, the race is being driven in part by xenophobic tendencies.  There are some in the Black civic establishment who think the seat vacated by Conyers should be held by a Black person.