In Skip's dog house
Guilford County Commissioner Skip Alston has announced a boycott of the News & Record -- and it appears to be my fault.
I am a tool of the newspaper used to attack the black leadership.
I am black on the outside but white on the inside, he says. In short, I am an Uncle Tom.
I am an Uncle Tom because I've dared write things that are critical of Alston.
Black people apparently are not supposed to do that. You're either for Skip or you're against him. It's in the rules.
And for not realizing that, I am profoundly sorry.
Alston has not always done well by the poor black people who have been tenants at some of the properties he has managed. That is unfortunate in and of itself, but especially unseemly for an elected official and national NAACP official.
Alston also has bucked national NAACP policy in his past support of payday lending, which especially has been used to exploit poor people. I've written about that, too.
He has seemed at various times to place his personal and business interests above the greater good of the black community.
I've pointed that out over the years as well.
But I am not supposed to.
I should have known better. Thou shalt not dispute Skip.
Mea culpa.
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Allen, you can't win for losing. You get it from the rich, white High Point snobs after playing loose with the truth and insinuating they don't want to go to school with black people (even though their school is 40% bLack)and then you get it from the black community for telling the truth.
Life can sure be funny sometimes. Oh well, don't stay home and hide under the bed just yet. I'm sure we could all come up with plenty of other
jokers out there in the community who could use your attentions. Due to the rules of decorum, we won't mention any names.
Posted on October 14, 2006 8:20 AM
Also Allen, caught Jerri Rowe's article on the Jewish School in today's issue about how they wish to reach an endowment of 10 mil. I mean, only you can say for sure, but it seems this could possibly come under the Johnsonian definition of people wanting to "get theirs and the heck with everybody else". Any comment? What do you think?. Time to hammer 'em? Here's another group of people you could piss off.
Just trying to help.
Posted on October 14, 2006 10:34 AM
I'm no fan of yours, Allen, but Skip is an ASS!
Posted on October 14, 2006 12:19 PM
Just like Deena Hayes.
The school she represents has not improved on iota in the past four years of her tenure on the school board. If you critcise that she will state that this my fault even though I live across the other side of town and I havent even lived for half of that time. She is completely free from any of the blame.
At the same time her husband does very well from Guilford County Schools.
What kind of a world do we live in? I see no improvement in Guilford COunty with these type of people in leadership positions setting the tone for the people that they influence.
Posted on October 14, 2006 2:40 PM
I'd wear it as a badge of honor, Allen.
Posted on October 14, 2006 3:55 PM
Allen, welcome to our world. The world of a parent in North High Point. All we want is a good education for our kids. We fight for it and we are racists.
You too have a dose of the medicine that bears no logic. You will never beat it!
Posted on October 14, 2006 11:10 PM