So now the folks behind the TRC want the taxpayers to subsidize the agenda contained in the report?
Read the article....does THIS sound like something constructive and useful will come from the project?
"The commission's Ad Hoc Committee on Improving Race Relations wants to organize a community dialogue, following a format used by the U.S. Department of Justice, to try to improve race relations, beginning with a half-day forum in which 150 community leaders would gather to discuss issues in various small groups.
Participants would then organize meetings between their own communities or groups and other, similar groups that differ in race, wealth, side of town or some other way.
Then, after six months to a year, the original 150 participants would reconvene and share what they have learned.
The proposal would cost $40,000, mostly to pay a full-time staff person to coordinate meetings and ensure that participating groups met with other groups regularly throughout the period."
"Dialogue"......"community leaders"......and more money down the same rathole that contains the Project Homestead bucks, and God knows how many other projects' resources to satisfy a political/social agenda?
(hat tip: Sam at Piedmont Publius.)
Sad thing is they'll probably get the money.
ReplyDeleteApparently Nelson Johnson has run through the $100K plus he got from the Ford foundation and needs this to fund a job for one of his cronies
ReplyDeleteHeavy sigh.
ReplyDeleteSurely everyone agrees that this topic is more important than the folks living in the same area with same problems as 1979. (sigh....bad joke)
ReplyDeleteI think we should spend a few hundred and put N. Johnson on a lie detector and ask several questions....now that would be cash well spent. Agree?
Unless I'm missing something the only connection the TRC has to this is that their conclusions identified problem areas in Greensboro related to racial issues. The HRC would be getting the money for a staff person. It's easy to see how lynch mobs get started with the kind of loose and sloppy fearmongering this post and all of the previous commenters have contributed. Shame on all of you.
ReplyDeleteI was living here in 1979, did not like the tragedy anymore than many many others that have happened on American soil and elsewhere.
ReplyDeleteI do not believe that Greensboro is judged by 1979 in 2006.
The TRC served a purpose I guess. What purpose do you believe it served?
If anything I believe it stirred more racial unrest...perhaps this was Johnson's goal...I don't know.
I was not a racist then and am not one today.
If you will notice that you are also the author or the first response to this topic...or are you? Please take a moment to choose a name..can be yours or another of your choosing. People know me as meblogin....
Does this make sense?
My earlier point is work on the modern day problems in Greensboro. We do not have to venture back over and over to 1979. There are plenty of sad topics today that should be funded. Do you agree?
"Unless I'm missing something the only connection the TRC has to this is that their conclusions identified problem areas in Greensboro related to racial issues."
ReplyDeleteYou are missing something.
This is all about political/social control of how Greensboro operates today.
Mis-use of race, the charge of racism, combined with the constant and shameless manipulation for financial gain, and the continuation of the cult of victimization are all at play in this story.
Meb is right about the use of "anonymous" instead of a name or some form of identity that you can be identified by when posting here and elsewhere.
You do not have to disclose your actual name, but there's no valid reason to not have an established identity.
What Joe Guarino said so courageously.
ReplyDeleteThe TRC served a purpose I guess. What purpose do you believe it served?
ReplyDeleteMeb, other than this blog what connection does the TRC have to this story? Fred, Nelson Johnson, as far as the news release reveals, has no connection to this story. Joe, the TRC is now disbanded. It does not exist any longer. Bubba, This is all about political-social control of how Greensboro operates today.
Well, what connection does Nelson Johnson or the former TRC have to do with it? If you have any facts, bring them and your best arguement, but this is fantasy.
Fred, What Joe Guarino said so courageously What courage? Typing an uninformed comment on a prejudiced blog post? Courage might be going down to city council and confronting the HRC. Or maybe working constructively to make a better community.
I won't need an identifying name. This blog doesn't seem to be worth serious consideration.
"I won't need an identifying name."
ReplyDeleteNo surprise there.
"This blog doesn't seem to be worth serious consideration."
Your words obviously are not worth serious consideration either.
Why did you post here in the first place?
Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out......