Gibson the protester
One final note on the Labor Day protest: This week's Carolina Peacemaker notes that County Commissioner Paul Gibson joined the march "against intolerable racism."
The paper notes that Gibson was one of the commissioners who voted to fire County Manager Willie Best, who is African American.
The paper quotes Gibson as attributing his presence at the march to an incident involving one of his daughters.
"She was told she couldn't do something becasue she was a girl," the Peacemaker quotes Gibson as saying, adding that she came home "teary-eyed."
"It hurt my heart."