Truth and Reconciliation: Listen for yourself
Knowing that many of our readers were likely tucking in Tuesday night and missed the Greensboro City Council's debate on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Scoop has made audio available for you to sample anytime.
We've parsed the nearly two-hour debate into parts so you can pick what you would like to listen. We'll list the files in the order they took place Tuesday night. The files are in .mp3 format and can be saved to your computer or listened to live.
First are the nine statements made by council members initially on the issue:
- Keith Holliday: (18:39, 3.2MB) Holliday voted to oppose the project.- Don Vaughan: (1:12, 212kb) Vaughan voted to oppose the project
- Yvonne Johnson: (7:23, 1.2MB) Johnson voted to support the project.
- Claudette Burroughs-White: (4:54, 862kb) Burroughs-White voted to support the project.
- Dianne Bellamy-Small: (7:10, 1.2MB) Bellamy-Small voted to support the project.
- Tom Phillips: (1:41, 296kb) Phillips voted to oppose the project.
- Florence Gatten: (12:44, 2.18MB) Gatten voted to oppose the project.
- Sandy Carmany: (2:15, 397kb) Carmany voted to oppose the project.
- Robbie Perkins: (2:56, 516kb) Perkins voted to oppose the project.
One of the speakers from the floor was the Rev. Nelson Johnson, who organized the "Death to the Klan" rally that was involved in the 1979 incident. His statement is here.
Finally, Burroughs-White moved that the council adopt a resolution that didn't specifically endorse the project but called upon the city to remember the events of 1979 and encourage participation in the project.
The debate that ensues can be heard here.
We'll have more on the Truth and Reconciliation debate in tomorrow's edition of the paper.
Comments (2)
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The real question isn't who voted for what, but why the resolution was worded as "opposed," as opposed to "don't endorse" or other language.
Posted on April 20, 2005 11:38 PM
Thanks for making the audio available. I listened .
The first 2 parts of Mr. Holiday's remarks were laudable and I think accurate. Expressing, however, his opinion that the unanimous jury erred was both totally inappropriate and impolitic , especially for an elected official. I would be inclined to beleive he was throwing a gratuitous sop to Yvonne Johnson, Cludette White, Dianne Small and the T & R group.
(All this seems to have really angered Allen Johnson.)
The Mayors part III was a groveling embarrassment. Was he suggesting some annual rememberance of the Nov. 1979 incident and implying this had anything remotely in common with Kent State? City employee day off ? Perhaps a statute of a dead Communist Worker's Party member. They are not erecting such things in the former Soviet Union but instead tearing them down.
Your Honor , save it for some hero deserving of such an honor.
Posted on April 25, 2005 8:17 PM