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GC athletics disrupts neighborhood

The following is a Counterpoint.

By Margaret Pinnix

I read the Counterpoint written by Otis Hairston on March 18 in the News & Record. Kimmerly Milner, a Greensboro College alumna (March 28), misrepresented the facts in her rebuttal by stating that Hairston accused President Craven Williams and Greensboro College of racism. He made absolutely no mention of racism.

But since you want to inject racism into the conversation, Ms. Milner, I will say you are absolutely right. We are seeing in our community environmental racism.

The predominantly white Greensboro College has come into my community and destroyed the peaceful environment I have grown accustomed to over the past 40 years.

I listen to the yelling by Greensboro College athletes and whistle- and horn-blowing by the coaches, a majority of whom are white.

There is illegal parking on our streets by white students. There is yelling in our community by the Greensboro recreation department’s soccer program, which is predominantly white.
There are bright lights shining in my windows at night by this predominantly white college. White athletes are coming into our private yards to retrieve balls.

All of the above has destroyed the peaceful environment of our community by a private white, predominantly United Methodist college. This is called environmental racism. Every United Methodist should be ashamed of their support of Williams and Greensboro College in their attempt to destroy our community.

Not only does Otis Hairston oppose the project by Greensboro College, but more than 90 percent of this community also opposes this intrusive sports park.

Ms. Milner, look at the plans of your alma mater and ask if you would want this in your front or back yard.

If your answer is yes, please speak to Williams and invite him to begin planning his sports park for your community. Then, this issue will be resolved.

The writer lives in Greensboro.

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Monica [TypeKey Profile Page] said:


Leonard Pitts loves to stir the racial pot - maybe he will write a column whining about this on-going victimization of black folks -

hugh [TypeKey Profile Page] said:

One has to wonder if it were Bennett College instead of Greensboro College proposing the same athletic facility would we have even heard a whisper from the Warnersville community?

Molene Gunch [TypeKey Profile Page] said:

I dug yo rap mama. Tel yo homies to turn them woofers down so's i can reed dis wiffout shakin.

An wile yo at it, tel dem boys to pull dey pants up. An 2 pleeze brang my dawter back, my sextion ate stortion munny is mitey lo.

J Peterman Reality Tour [TypeKey Profile Page] said:

By Margaret Pinnix

"The predominantly white Greensboro College has come into my community and destroyed the peaceful environment I have grown accustomed to over the past 40 years."

Here is a black racist admitting she's one . . . piss on her and her racist ideals . . .

. . . crack, guns, fatherless children, homie invasions, pimp'n, ho's, LAZY, Ebonics, etc. and are fools like Margaret Pinnix what the black folks call these good community values . . .

Margaret Pinnix has raging racist negroitis . . . and should be treated as a hostile witness . . . in the court of humanity

Beachwalker [TypeKey Profile Page] said:

I live in what was a predominantly white neighborhood, until a out of town developer built a housing development joining ours and many blacks have moved in. Now I have to listen to the constant blaring of boom box music, the constant irritation of street basketball games blocking the street, I too have to endure yelling from mainly black children, black kids retriving balls from my private yard, higher crime rate, junk cars litering every other driveway and pitbull dogs running loose. These issues are no different from the ones Margaret Pinnix describe in her LTE. The only difference is when I bring up these issues, I'm call a racist. When she brings them up, she is just a citizen trying to save her neighborhood.
I'll trade you GC Athlietic complex and you can have my neighbors anyday. How about the environmental racism that has happen to my neighborhood? I mean what is good for the goose is good for the gander.
Sounds like what Margaret Pinnix really wants is "segregation", but only in her neighborhood.

Molene Gunch [TypeKey Profile Page] said:

I've found that a great way to erase the smirk from Obamaites is to simply fart. Not those single blap measly ant poots, but the real spine rattlers that cause the earth's axis to change.

If you're pushing and nothing happens, eat some cooked cabbage (in fatback) with some cheap wine. Blows a hole in your drawers every time. Hot Raisin Bran is good, but sometimes too good.

And who needs to be changing pannies when there's so many happy minorities around?

Happy farting...

lovelylady200936 [TypeKey Profile Page] said:

Mrs. Pennix should go back and re-read Mr. Hairston's letter. If he is not calling them racists why use words such as "segregation", blacks and African American community. If not racism, why even mention any of this. He could have stated sensible reasons such as noise and lights as his reason for opposition. And for him to use "sinful" and "raping" was harsh. Again, the question is...would he have chosen to write that article if it were a Black institution or company proposing the project. Why did Mr. Hairston feel the need to mention "This rich institution with great endowments, powerful friends". That has absolutely no bearing. There is a community center where they play sports in the Warnersville community. The college is preserving the history of the school by making it into a museum. They are not tearing down the community or any houses. If there were an empty building-eyesore in my neighborhood, Mrs. Pennix, I would welcome positive development regardless of color. People opposed the building of many great improvements to our City. I guess we will add this to the list. Some people are set in their ways and just can't handle change. I just don't think we would be having this debate if the school was predominately Black.

Eloise [TypeKey Profile Page] said:

Margaret Pinnix hates children playing soccer in a city park. She hates parents that park legally on city streets. She hates college students. She hates lights, bullhorns whistles and childish happiness. Maybe God will have a stroke of genius and get her out of her misery soon.

Eloise [TypeKey Profile Page] said:

Price campus fronts a freeway. Price campus entrance is after the Eugene Street bridge and is down a side road with a parking lot and is isolated. A church is near. Other than Shiloh Park that the community let drag until last month and the wonderful city park across from Doak Street and the Jones school, there are few things to fear. Maybe a tornado or a bolt of lightning can change the picture.

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