The City of Greensboro has rolled out its latest violence-prevention initiative: the Greensboro Collaborative Action Network – or GSO CAN – a new community-based effort that city officials say is designed to move beyond traditional law enforcement responses and focus on collaboration and prevention.
According to a press release from the city, GSO CAN is being spearheaded jointly by the Greensboro Community Safety Department and the Greensboro Police Department. The network is intended to bring together community organizations, public safety partners, public health professionals, educators, business leaders, members of the faith community and interested residents.
“The issue of community safety and violence prevention is greater than law enforcement alone,” GPD Assistant Chief MJ Harris stated in the announcement. “It requires a citywide commitment across our community.”
Community Safety Director Latisha McNeil echoed that theme, saying, “Creating a positive and lasting change in community safety means a new way of coming together to solve problems.”
GSO CAN is described as a key part of Pillar One – “Co-Production” – of the City of Greensboro Community Safety Plan that was unveiled last June.
That plan marked a major shift by the city toward a public-health and community-engagement model for addressing violence – rather than relying primarily on policing.
The group’s first public meeting is scheduled for 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 8, at the Yvonne J. Johnson Event Center at Barber Park. City leaders say the network will be guided by five core goals: (1) addressing the root causes of violence, (2) fostering equity and resilience, (3) strengthening trust and collaboration, (4) using public safety data to measure progress, and (5) promoting consistent engagement across neighborhoods.
Ivey Ghee, who was recently hired by the Community Safety Department to serve as GSO CAN’s facilitator, framed the effort as a turning point.
“With GSO CAN we are moving from conversation to collaboration, from reaction to prevention, and from fragmented efforts to a unified vision,” Ghee stated. “We believe that a safer Greensboro is possible only when every partner comes to the table with honesty, accountability and a shared desire to build something better.”
The new program comes at a time when the city has a new mayor – one who made the reduction of crime and violence in the community one of the key messages of her campaign. Marikay Abuzuaiter has been active through the years with causes like Mothers Standing Against Gun Violence Initiative and Crimestoppers, and she’s also been a big advocate for the Greensboro Police Department.
In a recent interview, she told the Rhino Times that she’s attempted to help families who’ve been affected by homicides by distributing Crimestoppers leaflets hoping to generate tips about their loved one’s murder.
“After these walks,” she said, “Crimestoppers quite often receives tips concerning unsolved homicides and also about criminal activities in the area.”
So, there are a lot of creative ways the city can fight violence and all of those good ideas should be put into place.
City materials describe GSO CAN as a hub for aligning existing efforts rather than starting from scratch.
Greensboro has launched or supported a whole host of violence-prevention and community-intervention programs in recent years – including hospital-based intervention work, youth outreach initiatives and data-driven prevention strategies housed within the Community Safety Department.
Details on those programs are outlined on the city’s violence-prevention webpage.
Greensboro already has no shortage of task forces, plans and advisory groups focused on public safety. Critics of the city’s past efforts have argued that coordination often sounds good on paper but breaks down in practice once the well-intentioned meetings end.
City officials, however, say this new effort is different because it’s explicitly built around shared accountability and ongoing collaboration rather than consisting of one-off initiatives.
Area residents and organizations interested in taking part in the effort can learn more or register their interest at www.GSOCAN.com.
The full City of Greensboro Community Safety Plan is available through the Community Safety Department’s website.
….and deport criminal illegals, like Trump..
Strange… that wasn’t mentioned by the do-gooders, their naive task forces, advisory groups, jobless “community activists”, and hand wringing busybodies.
Very effective though.
I understand math isn’t your strength but try this on for size…undocumented immigrants commit less crime than natural born citizens (per capita basis) so by having more undocumented immigrants actually lowers crime rates on average.
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Obviously Chris was well educated in New Math.
Alan Chris may be educated in new math but he still can’t spell ILLEGALS.
— or ISRAEL.
He’s just not very intelligent.
More childish insults over a typo. Yawn
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Three erroneous spellings are not a typo.
recent study indicates that 7 out of 5 people have poor math skills !
Not me, 7 out of 5 is 12.
Come on chris, you know they are not allowed to count them as illegal that is what is throwing your numbers off. You can make numbers look anyway you want.
Funny how no one has been able to run a valid study to show immigrants increase crime rates. Hmmmm…..
But again, I remind you that the most co prehe sovereign study on the subject was funded to prove immigrants increased crime rates but the data said the opposite.
Data and facts prove conservatives are wrong on this subject so of course they promote anti-science and anti education policies to their sheep beleive their lies while the wealthy benefit at the expense of the working class.
Happy New Year
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Why don’t you ask Scott if math isn’t my strength? I was the only Rhino reader to spot a math error in the calculation on the percentage increase in proposed property tax bills next year.
You didn’t spot it did you, you egocentric blowhard? Despite being here 24/7. You should get a life.
And your claim that illegal immigrants commit less crime is a joke. But hey! Why don’t you dig up some obscure Left wing study that was designed to produce exactly that outcome, and then present it as
“science”?
You’re so predictable… and such a pathetic loser.
Al did catch that. I did not.
. Thanks for confirming it, Scott.
Insulting my ability in math – and so my intellect – is just another childish smear from the resident asshole.
I’ve always been very good at math, despite what Chris says.
He lies all the time.
LOL, Al catches a simple math error and thinks he has elevated his intelligence while spewing his bigoted ignorance about immigrants. THAT is a good laugh for the new year. If you want to really understand how bad AL is at math, go back an read his ignorance on climate change where he thinks a single day of weather debunks climate science. LMAO
Childish name calling because you can’t defend you bigoted view of immigrants while I can site numerous studies showing immigrants commit less crime than natural born citizens. Got it.
A good one to read (as if you cared about things like truth and facts) is by Stanford’s Ran Abramitzky. https://www.nber.org/papers/w31440
I shared the math that proves you wrong, bet you can’t share the math that supports your bigoted view on the subject that has been spoon fed to you by right wing racist propaganda?
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Oh dear, what an angry bitter man Chris is.
He seems to be holding on to arguments he lost long ago, and spitting venom at those who disagreed with him.
Sad little man.
It’s interesting that all the articles I found while searching this topic mentioned the same Texas study. Not one mentioned another study regarding statistics regarding incarceration rates or arrest records.
I’d be cautious in mentioning this study as proof that illegal immigrants commit fewer crimes than “natural born citizens” based on stats of incarceration and arrest rates, since neither are reliable measure of whether violent crimes were or were not actually committed by a group of people. I think in many cases, especially in the last 15 years, it’s been ill-advised to apprehend, arrest, charge, or convict specific groups of people of crimes in our country. Our justice system isn’t fair and balanced, and many of us know that people are treated differently based on their race, country of origin, immigration status, political status, sex, age, economic status, cultural status, and many other criteria. Courts are much more likely to gently handle the cases of “illegal immigrants” than of citizens, which was demonstrated by the BLM protest v Jan. 6 protest arrests and trials following 2020.
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Raving lunatic.
Delusions of grandeur persist in the anti-science nutters even when facts, data and studies prove their wilful ignorance. But hey, he can do 4th grade math calculations! LMAO.
The Texas study was the most robust in terms of tracking immigrant status. More interestingly it was actually funded to prove immigrants were causing a spike in crime. So yeah, unless you have a study that says different, the Texas study is ideal to share.
The standford study I shared is also compelling given the depth of the historical data included.
I showed mine. Show yours or give up the lie that immigrants increase crime. Bet you can’t. Funny how conservatives become critics of studies but never seem to be able to present their own to back the lies and propaganda they spew to create fear and hate of immigrants and people of color in general. At best they show one of stories of awful crimes as if natural born citizens dont do the same……and yes more often.
Happy New Year
Chris your source is out of Cambridge mass. Enough said.
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No, I have no delusions of grandeur. In your pettiness and spite you accused me of being deficient in math skills, so I pointed out to you an example of my excellent math skills which took place right here in The Rhino.
You have been proven wrong – and you can’t accept it. That’s because you are a deeply insecure and pathetic little man who has no genuine confidence in himself.
I make mistakes all the time, and am big enough to admit them. I’m perfectly comfortable in my own skin, and confident in who I am.
You are not.
You are a desperately anxious man-child who tries to tamp down his deepest fears about himself by scoring points and “winning” debates in these columns.
Seek psychological help. It will help you with your mental illness.
Good luck.
Al, I just point back to your idiotic argument that a single weather event counters climate science as proof you dont understand even basic math. Hope thst helps.
Happy New Year
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The climate…??? You really need help, buddy.
And my Math SAT score on my SAT was 730 (in 1983 when the combined max was 1600).
What was yours?
PS I had the flu when I took the test!
Nothing like an adult having to point back to his childhood test scores to make the case he isn’t an idiot. (I don’t recall my specific test scores….i think i had a 1250 overall but really don’t recall) I again point to your idiotic take that a record cold day invalidates climate change science. Only a moron confuses weather and climate as being the same thing…
Happy New Year
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Mine was 1440, and I’ll take a photo of it and send it to Scott if you don’t believe me.
So, my SAT scores are superior to yours, aren’t they?
Want to apologize for insulting my intelligence, and my math skills, which are objectively superior to yours?
Or are you incapable of apologizing because you are a sorry little [deleted]?
Hey, you brought up the subject of math skills buddy, and you have lost the contest.
Ain’t life a bitch?
Lmao Al pointing to childhood test scores…..lmao
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LMAO !
In his nastiness and spite CHRIS accuses another commenter of being stupid at math, only to be humiliated as the one whose math is worse than the guy he criticized !!
LOSER.
I justified my comment by pointing to Al arguing 1 day of cold weather invalidated climate change as if you had no understanding of how averages over 10 years are not impacted by a single data point. I stand by my statement.
Thank you for the opportunity to point out Al’s ignorant take on even a basic understanding of the math behind the proof of climate change.
Wanna take a stab yourself?
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LMAO !
Suddenly Chris wants to make this a debate about the climate!
When he loses an argument he employs the regular strategy of the Left : – deflect and digress.
You know they’ve lost the debate when they want to pivot to something else.
Captious Chris is full of shit.
Al, can’t keep up from one day’s comment to the next. I started the string about you being bad at math referencing back to your past comment about how a weather even countered climate change science.
I can type slower if that helps?
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You just keep on insulting our intelligence, buddy (even when it’s been proven that you are the stupid one).
Chris has the mentality and maturity of a Sixth Grader.
Says the guy throwing childish insults. I just give as I receive.
Best wishes
But you started the childish insults, didn’t you?
Our history of trading insults is much longer than this thread.
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YES – and you start it, every time.
u made me cry !
please don’t deport trump – i think he’s legal & several courts are also wondering ?
Another committee. Another DEI hire by city leadership. Another project that sounds good on paper but will make no impact. Another $200,000 down the hole. Way to go Greensboro. Keep spending money while spinning your wheels and keep voting this nonsense back into office. So dumb.
What basis do you have to claim this is a DEI hire? Oh right, “U thunk it so it mus be troo”…..no facts or evidence required to demonize something you don’t agree with politically. Got it.
Nice assumption and we all know about the ass in assumption. I know people who work in various departments throughout the city, but I will not ever burn my sources. I am well informed and do not spout off with nonsense unlike you, dummy. I can also go ahead and tell you that white males need not apply for the Chief of Police spot. The city has already stated behind closed doors that they are hiring a black female chief of police. Thanks for investing money into that national search. taxpayers.
Just come back in a year with an “I told you so” if this new program, which is just a bunch of political speak, actually works. It will not. Just like their cure violence program has no impact and no accountability, yet we keep dumping money into it year after year. This is more of the same. So dumb.
Funny you don’t site a source just some random BS that you KNOW people as justification for making an accusation of DEI hire. I also ASSume you think a DEI hire means they weren’t the most qualified candidate or that the candidate isn’t qualified at all. Got it. Just more BS from Don.
Happy New Year.
It’s “cite”, dumbass, not “site”. I literally just told you that I will not burn my sources. Therefore, I cannot cite my sources, idiot.
The DEI issue is in fact centered on not choosing people based on their qualifications but rather on the color of their skin. The exact opposite of what MLK wanted for people of color. Sure, it’s possible a DEI hire could end up being the best candidate, but it’s not likely because you are overlooking people simply for their demographics. Choosing the best person is not part of that equation.
So when your next Chief of Police is a black female, it doesn’t mean she wasn’t the best candidate. It does mean that most of the applicants, whether they were the best candidate or not, never had a chance. And by doing that, we will never be as good of a nation as we could be because we are not choosing people based on the content of their character but based upon the color of their skin. MLK would be ashamed and so should you, Dummy.
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Funny how you “site a source” ! Where did you put it, exactly?
Moron.
No Chris Don is correct. Scott’s article states very clearly the new DEI hire is Ivey Ghee.
The Community Safety initiative is a hoax.
What is needed is for African American leaders to clean up their own dysfunctional communities and stress the importance of two parent families with strong males raising socialized kids rather than animals with no fathers, no concern for others and no job prospects. It’s a cycle of self inflicted self limiting beliefs.
And please spare us the poverty/racism card. GTCC has many vocational paths that all but guarantee well paying jobs. I’ve been there and can state very few African American males participate.
Failing that we will continue to see a community commit suicide with more shootings and murders. It’s a shame because it doesn’t have to be that way.
Latisha McNeil and friends are just. parasites assisting in the decline of the social fabric.
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Well expressed, Don. Chris believes in discriminating between people on the basis of their race, WHICH IS THE VERY DEFINITION OF RACISM.
“Black Face Good, White Face Bad. Black Face Good, White Face Baad” – to paraphrase Orwell’s Animal Farm. Not that Chris will get the reference; he’s way too ignorant.
He’ll probably claim that I misspelled bad, because he just won’t understand it!
He’s as thick as a brick. And reckons he’s a genius.
You don’t have any sources. You just have good ‘ol I thunk it so it mus be troo with a little somebody who knows somebody told me. LMAO. Classic BS like when the president claimed immigrants were eating people pet cats and dogs.
Happy New Year
Way to repeat your nonsense and totally ignore it DEI issue itself. Good one, dummy
Austin clearly doesnt speak for me so to be clear…..conservstives make the ‘DEI hire’ claim as way of saying a person was hired because of color, not qualification. This is almost always a lie and a bigoted smear.
I dont supoort affirmative action programs that are based on quotas for hiring or college acceptance based on race. I DO support DEI programs that promote equal access to hiring and college access thst make the effort to promote fair hiring selection practices that account and address long held cultural bias long proven to work against people of color in both hiring and college admissions.
Want me to share the links of recent studies of identical resumes getting interview requests at a much hire rate if the name of applicant ‘sounds white’ versus black or foreign immigrant sounding?
Oh right. Conservstives dont beleive racism still has any real impact on communities today
Riiiiiight.
But please Austin tell everyone how you beleive he genetics of people from Africa are a lower evolved group of people versus you just being the typical racist conservstive we have all come to see of the modern Republicans of today?
Happy New Year
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Chris – our Resident A-hole – needs to let go of debates he lost months ago. He still feels the sting of humiliation that I meted out, poor little sod.
He can’t get over his defeats.
Austin, you rarely even bother to do anything more that repeat your own biased unsupported opinion in response to my data, facts, and validated sources. Do you think you win debates online by having the more childish insults? I bet you do.
Happy New Year
Don thanks for speaking about Cure Violence. How much was spent over 5 years and no accountability. It’s the same with skip and the county taxpayers money doled out to his hand picked “non-profits “
Careful fellas Chris is sounding a little stressed here. I think he’s about to pop a blood vessel
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You’re right, Aussie. He sounds absolutely deranged with hatred and anger.
There’s something wrong with him.
More childish drivel from the school yard bullies. Got it.
Chris your source is out of Cambridge mass. Enough said.
And while I’m sure Ivey Ghee is a competent LGBTQIA activist for promoting Greensboro tourism, his/her/he/she’s resume shows ZERO experience in matters of policing or crime reduction. We are left to believe this is another egregious example of promoting African American queer activist no matter what experience the job demands. A quick tour of Ms. Ghee’s social media post would suggest an activist more interested in self promotion than serious civil service.
God help us when Council names our new police chief.
And there you have it. The willful ignorance of ‘they are different than me so they must wrong’. Got it.
No, you don’t understand it at all.
DEI promotions are based on criteria that are unrelated to merit. You refuse to accept this because you are a Leftist who believes that people should be promoted above their ability because of their skin color or sexual preferences.
That’s just sick.
DEI programs work to promote equality of job and promotion access as well open safe environments for all types of people within a workforce. This includes those who you disparage here on a regular basis. In short, DEI is important to counter biggoted hateful racists such as yourself.
Go ahead and explain again how you beleive people from Africa (ie black people) are lessor evolved genetically than whites and Asians? Always good to have you share your racism openly so all can see.
Happy New Year
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Africans absolutely DO have lower intelligence than others. I was reading about the Somali corruption scandal in Minnesota and the journalist mentioned the extraordinarily low IQ of Somalis – about 67. A score below 70 is generally considered mentally [Deleted] in the West.
I checked it out for myself, and it’s true. Somalia has one of the lowest IQ populations in the World.
FACT.
Austin, you are missing yet again the distinction between your accusation of genetic differences being the source of lower IQ versus social economic or environmental sources of groups or cultures that have lower IQs. Certainly, people who grow up in environments that have significant food scarcity, poor healthcare (especially prenatal healthcare) and limited to no access to educational systems will have lower IQs than societies that have those critical things.
What makes your view racist is your position that people of Africa are “less evolved genetically”. Science long ago debunked this racist view. Not to mention the 1000s of examples of people whose future generations thrive after immigrating to more stable countries.
But you be you.
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It’s not “my accusation” – it’s the truth.
And you can’t deal with it because you are a deluded, naive Leftist.
Here we go again Chris. Another of the ILLEGALS you champion for was charged with murder involving the death of an 8 year old girl. He was driving drunk in California when he caused a crash that left her dead, the mother in a wheelchair and the father, a decorated Marine lost a leg and is suffering from a traumatic brain injury. Your ILLEGAL has two previous DUI charges and has been deported twice. You have to be proud of your ILLEGALS
A young man from our Church was severely injured by a white man who drove his truck over the center line and hit him head on near Pleasant Garden. Should we demonize all white men?
I’ll bet the White man was a LEGAL citizen of the USA. But here’s one from your playbook. You want to demonize a White man in this “one off event” as you like to state. There is one major difference, the young man from your Chruch wasn’t killed. But again you be you.
Rebel, just using a single incident to demonize millions of people is just ignorance on your part. Immigrants (including undocumented) generate less crime than natural born citizens. That’s a fact.
Best wishes.
Much like you demonize all conservatives based off of the words of a few people on this site? Got it. (And it’s not cite or sight, Dummy.)
This is doomed to fail. Unfortunately, the employees responsible for this cockamamie, expensive idea are being paid with tax money. If it were their money, it never would happen.
Do you remember when the city hired this fellow name White from Washington, DC as police chief? He said he was going to make Greensboro the safest city in America. Oh well, maybe he tried. I hope this new program works better than White’s program and I certainly wish those involved well with this new initiative.
The one thing he was able to do was prevent his son from getting a DWI
New Group that takes money- no accountability to taxpayers- you want change let the police do their job! Flood high neighborhoods with uniform and plain clothes police- community needs to report crimes MOT hide criminals or defend criminals in their neighborhoods. Will this new council be pro-police or pro violence? Time will tell-
Fred, what common sense you make! And might I add; strengthen the Court and their bail system, expand penalties for any and all crime, and hold the criminal (and the City and County representatives) ACCOUNTABLE!
In a moral and perfect world……….
Talk is cheap and is mostly all that the Greensboro Police Dept. practices to protect the safety of its citizens from crime. There was a Christmas Day house Fire in my neighborhood and what a quick response from the Greensboro Fire Dept.! Four GFD ladder Trucks, a Breathing Air Support Truck, EMS, and two different Fire Captains showed up. Perhaps this professional response is why Greensboro has the highest protection class in the state for fire insurance!
Quit talking and conducting meetings and get out and do your Job GPD! If GPD would respond to crime and practice effective law enforcement perhaps our city could shake its awful reputation for a crime ridden community? Keep up your smoke screen GPD with your perpetual Community Meetings, but you are not fooling anybody?
The way you reduce violence is with strong law enforcement policy. Criminals don’t acknowledge being nice to everyone
GSO CAN. Good luck!
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Am I allowed to say that if we removed all the non-whites, our crime rate would collapse?
It’s all chin music. 18% of those who bothered to vote gave us the Council in Guilford County & City. So whose fault is it?
Nifty slogans will get us there:
Leave the leaves.
Greensboro CAN
“City officials, however, say this new effort is different because it’s explicitly built around shared accountability . . .”
Does the city plan to hold criminals accountable? Not a chance! Which is why this feel-good program will be no more effective than past programs. But it will put money into the pockets of friends and relatives of those on the city council.
As long as criminals are free to roam the streets, they will commit crime, some of it extremely violent. The way to prevent that from happening is to put criminals behind bars, where their criminal opportunities are limited. It works. Try it.
I read an article recently that the best way to deter criminal activity is to increase police presence, hire more police, increase their salaries, additional training for officers and deploy officers as peacekeepers in troubled neighborhoods.
This is just a “feel good” bandaid by the city. How many officers could have been hired with the money spent creating this DEI department. If the City council wants to make effective changes, hire people that can enforce, not just observe and report.
Well said.
Another amazing program from pie-eyed liberals who stretch the limits of naivete. They border on criminally stupid. Dial ,911 for a sociologist to deescalate. Yeah, that’s the ticket.
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Agreed. Even the notion of asking for government assistance in an exigent emergency is absurd. When your home is invaded, you’re being mugged, or assaulted or raped, are we really expected to ask the criminal to wait a moment while we make a phone call? Then maybe we should ask him if he’s like a cigarette while we wait for the cavalry to arrive.
Ridiculous ! The only real and meaningful reaction is one that travels at 1100 feet per second (357 Magnum). Rape/murder/robbing prevented. Scumbag dead. Problem solved.
If you don’t arm yourself you’re just asking to become a victim.
especially in times of starvation & you have food to guard
DEI is discrimination, pure and simple. That’s why governments love it. It is just another version of affirmative action. The only thing that DEI does is allows employment of unqualified people.
And the dirty little secret about Greensboro police is the inability to attract qualified recruits. If a department has established standards for recruits who are able to perform the job functions and there are not enough recruits to fill vacancies, what happens? The standards are reduced so that now there is a substandard police force. That is the position that the Greensboro police department is in. Now a group of pansies is further lowering the standards of police work. Policing is designed to catch bad guys, not to hold hands and pray. What a waste of taxpayer money. But then again, all goes back to DEI.
DEI was a tool designed to fight racism by opening paths for minorities equal access to jobs and promotions. Most programs were highly ineffective but not racist. No standards were reduced for any minority groups or genders. This is a lie often told by the right to demonize the idea of equal access for minorities and women.
Affirmative Action programs that had race-based favoritism over other races were more questionable as racist for sure. The supreme court got the ruling on those programs correct in my opinion.
But don’t let the truth get in the way of your hate and anger fed to you by right wing propaganda.
DEI = Deceiving
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Whatever happened to Yvonne Johnson’s “Cure Violence” initiative? It was heralded as a wonderful initiative that was bound to reduce crime.
Did it just fade away after failure (and after receiving taxpayer money)? That’s the fate of all these pompous projects that serve only to make the participants feel good about themselves, and provide forums for jobless “Community Activists” to grandstand and see themselves on the evening news.
What a bunch of losers.
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Austin, it quickly went away after about a million to a million and a half of taxpayer dollars were wasted. With no accountability or quantified results
‘. . . provide forums AND PAYCHECKS for job/worth less ‘Community Activists’ . . . ‘
Chris, It is clear from your words that you are a supporter of DEI. DEI is an exclusionary practice to advance certain people based on their race, ethnicity, and sex, not on merit. Therefore, the result is the hiring of unqualified people. How? By excluding an entire sector of the population, White men. DEI is so ingrained in government, education, and corporations that it will be very difficult to rid institutions of DEI. Why? Because the institutions just change the DEI name and go underground. The question is why? What is it about DEI that is so important to institutions? Why would institutions want to practice discrimination? And why would institutions want to exclude an entire sector, White men, from consideration? One of the answers is EEOC. EEOC makes filing a discrimination claim so easy. It costs nothing to file a claim with EEOC, the entire process is restricted, and EEOC data is secretive. The cost of an EEOC investigation to a company is huge. If Trump really wants to rid institutions of DEI, get rid of EEOC. And what groups use EEOC the most, the DEI groups. If someone believes discrimination has taken place, consult an attorney.
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Oh, Chris believes in racism – so long as it’s directed at white males. But if it were directed at blacks he’d be apoplectic with outrage and indignation !
You see, in the Leftist’s mind bigoted prejudice is heinous and reprehensible if it’s directed at their favourite folk, but it’s just fine when it’s directed at people that they secretly despise and resent. That’s white men, because they’re jealous of, and incensed by our incredible global and historical success. They just can’t stand it, so they try to find ways to disadvantage us. It’s pure spitefulness in addition to hypocrisy.
That’s how Leftists are.
I agree.
The issue with programs such as these is their “goals” are not measurable. How do we know if it was successful?
DEI is BS. GPD has command staff that they rotate around because they need someone under the to do their job. And guess what most of them were promotional picks based on race and sex. I know for a fact the consultants for hiring a new chief told a group of high stakeholders in Greensboro they are looking for a black female chief. I posted on here months ago it will be Stephanie Mardis or MJ Harris (make). So why waste hundreds of thousands of dollars on consultants, do an inside process and promote the first female chief who also checks another box. Sadly she may be the best candidate. She does a lot in the community and is smart. But the way Greensboro government handles everything leaves people questioning.
Also I’m not for a retread white male chief. Miller sucked (Google his name and Greenville SC). Wayne Scott reinstated the good old boy network. Thompson is a good moral man. But like anyone should he is retiring the first chance he gets. To me it’s an insult if people like Chris thinks the only way things are “equitable” is to give people extra points for their demographics. The old systematic racism BS doesn’t fly anymore.
I don’t disagree that many (and even potentially the majority) of DEI programs are poorly thought out or poorly implemented. But just because they are ineffective doesn’t mean they are racist. They have a noble purpose. They sadly just don’t work most of the time.
If anyone uses race as the basis for promotion or hiring, is using affirmative action, which has been proven to be counterproductive and is easy to label as reverse racism even if that isn’t the intent.
Labeling of DEI as racist is just a way for conservatives to create fear and division. The classic political approach used to consolidate power for centuries. Labeling DEI as ineffective just doesn’t have the same political usefulness.
I have never been in favor of giving people ‘extra points’ as THAT is affirmative action and THAT was rightly shut down by SCOTUS. Framing DEI and Affirmative action as the same thing is just ignorance and propaganda. But at the same time. The good ol boy network is just as wrong and ineffective.
But you be you.
Says the racist who thinks Africans (ie black people) are lessor evolved generically which is the foundation of almost all racist views in world history. Of course you attack any program that supports equality for minorities, genders, religions, and sexual orientations. You have made your bigoted and racist views well understood throughout your comment history. Given your love of misinformation I am not surprised by your misrepresentation of the actual purpose of DEI. It is commonly misrepresented by conservatives in order to feed the hate and division the promote at the highest levels of the party.
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Okay buddy, I challenge you to present ANY quotation of what I have EVER said – verbatim – that proves that I am a “racist”, “hater” “bigot”, or “divider” or any other smear that you attack me with.
Bet you can’t.
Go.
https://www.rhinotimes.com/news/suspect-arrested-after-early-morning-colfax-homicide/
December 4, 2025 at 7:39 AM “The fact is that different races have different average IQ levels, among other things.”
Different cultures may have different IQs due to different environmental and social economic issues but it is a very racist statement to claim races have different IQs.
November 26, 2025 at 8:10 PM “….some people are just less evolved than others.”
To be clear that you consider the phrase ‘evolved’ to mean genetically evolved, you then go on to give the example of blue eyes being a recent evolutionary development….
December 2, 2025 at 7:54 AM “…Why did some races develop advanced societies and civilizations, while others did not? Because they were more intelligent. ”
I gave you numerous actual examples of how different societies developed at different rates but of course you ignore any other explanation than your racist view that it is because “one race was more intelligent than another”.
Yup. You are a racist. Just because you think you are right doesn’t make you not a racist.
Just admit you have confused the differences in societal / cultural development with race as if the two are linked in context of cause of effect when the real driver of the differences were environmental versus genetic. Just go read the links I provided. The science is firmly established on this subject.
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EVERY QUOTATION OF MINE IS FACTUALLY CORRECT. Not your spin of what I said, but what I actually said. All true.
So, is truth racist?
There is no spin at all to your words. Just because you believe you are right (even when science has long proven you wrong) doesn’t mean you aren’t a racist.
You don’t even bother to engage on the few points I make that counter your misunderstanding so therefore I assume you willfully wrong and choose to remain a racist.
But you be you.
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Assume what you like buddy, it doesn’t make you right – just another Leftist in a make believe World of his own.
Every quote of mine is factually correct. You just try to spin it into racism because you are a vindictive, nasty little man with a personality problem. Your smears are false.
Leftists cannot accept reality (which is why they dream up their own Pollyanna perceptions of the World).
Conservstives cant accept science, data, or facts. Got it.
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FACT : Average IQ of Somalia’s population = 68
Average IQ of Japan’s population = 106
YOU are the only one here who can’t accept facts.
I believe in the ideals behind DEI that minorities still face significant barriers to equal access to job markets and advance roles in many industries. This is of course thanks to ignorant biased points of view such as Austin promoting idea the Africans (ie black people) are lessor evolved genetically speaking. Not to mention his disgust for people of the LGBTQ. There is nothing exclusionary about DEI as that is false narrative promoted by Conservatives to create fear and division.
DEI seeks only equal treatment in a society that continues to allow open discrimination against minority groups…or as Austin openly calls them, deviants. Do you not agree that all people deserve equal treatment regardless of how God made them in terms of color, gender, disability status or sexual orientation. What is so wrong with teaching school children, employees, co-workers etc… that all people should be treated fairly? If that offends you, it is because you don’t understand or you are like Austin.
Happy New Year
Chris, please provide concrete evidence when minorities have faced “significant barriers to equal access to job markets and advance roles in many industries.” DEI does not seek equal treatment. The E is for equity not equality. Equity and equality are not synonymous. In terms of viewing everyone equally, that applies to a person’s worth as a human being, not equal in ability. Some people have higher IQs, some people are better looking than others, some people live their lives in a manner that they are viewed in higher esteem, some people have a more pleasant personality, and there are others who find life difficult because they refuse to face reality and attempt to improve their lot in life and spend countless years blaming others for their own failures. DEI excludes White men. Period. As far as teaching school children, schools are the place to educate children, not indoctrinate them by forcing discussions of sexuality, and what an uncomfortable discussion that would be. No wonder young adults cannot adequately read and write when they graduate.
Happy New Year to you, too.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/janicegassam/2024/04/17/new-research-reveals-resumes-with-black-names-experience-bias-in-the-hiring-process/
The above is the best example. Can provide more if interested.
You have flipped the definition of equity and equality. The definition of Equity in DEI is “ensuring fair treatment, access, opportunity, and advancement for all people, recognizing that historical inequalities mean different levels of support might be needed for equal outcomes.
Note that support doesn’t mean bonus points. Just means support in getting around existing barriers such as the one listed above in the study.
With regard to teaching, schools are often the first place children are exposed to a wider range of people from differing backgrounds, abilities, tastes, etc… so naturally it is an environment where teachers are going to HAVE to teach children that being different is ok or that because someone is different, it doesn’t mean lessor than… That’s all. DEI isn’t used with school kids in any other way.
If a kid in class start repeating racist tripe like say Austin does here, I would hope a teach would correct that behavior and use it as a teachable moment. If you don’t agree with that….tell me what a teach should due in that situation?
Hope that helps. Happy to discuss further.
Chris, Chris, Chris, equality treats everyone the same. No one considers how many cookies a person did or didn’t receive as a child. If there are two people applying for the same job, they will be judged on the merit of their past contributions and talent. In fairness and equality, each candidate will be viewed under the same lens.
Same situation but through the lens of equity. Each candidate will be viewed based on perceived past discrimination, perceived past barriers, and these perceptions will be used to decide which one gets the job. If one of the candidates fits DEI sensibilities and gets the job, this is not equality and fairness, it is equity. If you are an honest man, Chris, you must see in your heart of hearts that DEI and equity are pure, raw discrimination. If you are fine with DEI, you are fine with excuses for not measuring up.
So you ignore the study showing how racism still impacts minorities in the job market today? Is your thinking that we should just ignore the problem and not work to bring equity to the process that clearly isn’t equal today? Funny you ignored that part of my comment. It says all I need to know about you.
To address your misunderstanding of equity. It isn’t to provide advantage in who gets the job, it is to enable a process that accounts for the bias and works to remove it or account for it to work around it.
Your “study”, which, if you bothered to read it, is actually just a working paper and not a peer reviewed submission. It also specifically eliminated race itself from its own parameters. Hiring companies (supposedly) didn’t know the races of the candidates, which is hard to believe since almost every application in the country specifically asks for that information. So, the study itself has to assume that A) the company even read the names of the applicants, B) that they assigned that name to a black person in their head, C) that the decision not to hire was based upon the name only, and D) that the hiring personnel was white or at least not black. And that is assuming that only one person in the company made the hiring decision. Most companies utilize a panel of people for that process, which would mean they would all have to be white racists for this to work out.
There are quite a few other problems with your “study”. First off is this concerning statement, found on page 8: ” Each fictitious applicant was independently randomly assigned a large set of additional characteristics, including educational and previous employment histories.” Note that it did not say that each pair of applicants (one black and one white) had the same application. They randomized “each applicant”. So instead of them sending out identical resumes, half with “black” names, they randomized a bunch of other stuff too, making the parameter that they are trying to isolate, unknowable. Was the guy not called back because of his name or because his education was different? Don’t know! Did some other background element influence the decision? Don’t know. Great study.
Secondly, the “black” names don’t all even “sound black”, if that’s a thing. Maurice, Leroy, Reginald, Terrance. These are not overtly “black names”. Sure, there are a few more ethnic sounding names, but the whole list is only 19 names long.
The also put a 30-day call back time out window on their applications. Did the person not get a call back because of race or was the hiring agent just taking more than a month to call back? Don’t know!
I can keep going but this non-peer reviewed paper is just a bunch of nonsense that is simply making a leap of faith guess, hidden behind a bunch a pseudo formulas, that the name itself played a part in the decision. All the while they wasted quite a bit of the 108 companies’ time and money for their little project. They filed 84,000 false applications over the course of a couple of years. Someone had to read, file, and process all of those only to find out in the end that it was all a waste of time. Really nice. But hey, it “proves” racism for you so it was worth it. Oh, and they went ahead and outed all the companies without waiting for peer review to validate their data. So dumb.
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Thanks for doing the work and checking out Chris’s “scientific study”! I don’t bother any more, because they’re all designed to come up with a predetermined left wing outcome.
I caught him out years ago when I still read his crap. The data he provided proved THE EXACT OPPOSITE of what he claimed. You know what his response was ? “Ooops”. That was it.
He’s just a wanker with no life.
My pleasure, Austin. I don’t particularly like reading research papers for fun, but I do like pointing out Chris’s idiocy and hypocrisy.
Nothing of substance to say, Chris? I get it. Facts are hard for you to swallow.
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Don, whenever Chris has been irrefutably proven wrong, debunked, and completely refuted, he just disappears, like a little girl who runs away to cry. Puff ! He’s gone.
Suddenly he doesn’t want to debate any more.
In England we call such people “Nancy Boy Little Wankers”. Chris is the poster boy.
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Wow.
What a great example of the character assassination and smears that Chris practises against those who dare to disagree with him.
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“DEI seeks only equal treatment …” – CHRIS.
No, DEI is the embodiment of UNEQUAL treatment based on the colour of skin or sexual proclivity – which is racism and sexism and prejudice and bigotry, which Leftists celebrate – so long as the beneficiaries are their favoured groups.
It’s disgusting.
Just repeating the conservative lie. Got it. The racist Austin calling DEI racism makes sense as he wants to treat different races as more or less intelligent that each other. That adds up. Not shocked.
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No, I treat people of different races identically, until and unless I learn otherwise.
How else would it be possible that my best friend has darker skin than most African-Americans?
[ and Sri Lanka is NOT in Africa as you initially believed. You’re so breathtakingly stupid. ]
Still a racist for believing some races are more or less intelligent that others based on genetics when science has long ago proven you wrong.
You are breathtakingly ignorant by choice as well as breathtakingly bigoted and racist.
Happy New Year
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Some races ARE more intelligent than others.
Somalia’s average IQ is 68. Japan’s is 106. FACT.
Sorry you can’t handle the truth.
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And I am not the nasty bigot here : you are.
Perhaps the over $5,000,000 wasted on Yvonne Johnson’s “Cure the Violence Program” over the past 8 years and produced no tangible results could be better spent on hiring, attracting, and keeping a competent and a effective Greensboro Police Department. And don’t forget it was Greensboro’s Former Mayor, Current Mayor, and previous City Council that voted for, promoted, and encouraged this complete waste of taxpayer’s dollars! The City of Greensboro has lost all accountability and is now known as a Cesspool of violence, aggravated assaults, murders, and deadly and debilitating car crashes!
Give it a rest, boys. This forum is beginning to look like social media.
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But Miller, this guy Chris says he used to be a conservative, and now hold conservatives in contempt, much like the animus of ex-smokers towards smokers. In any debate he quickly resorts to ad hominem name calling, readily labeling us “bigots”, “racists” and “haters”. I think he’s trying to expiate his sins by excoriating those who hold the same beliefs he once held.
He’s really only here to call us names, and heap obloquy on us. It makes him feel better about himself.
But…. if he was once a conservative and is now a liberal, as the lawyers say – “We know that you’re wrong. We just don’t know if you are wrong now, or wrong then”.
So long as he’s employing his false smears and personal character assassination, we have every right to disprove them and call him out for the nasty little asshole he is.
Austin did you see on the news that Mass. has legislation pending that would limit how many miles a person could drive their car in a year. Big brother is coming
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No, but I believe you Rebel.
Mass. is a left wing state, and Scotland is a left wing part of the UK. Just last week I read in The Daily Telegraph of a proposal being made by the Leftist Scottish Nationalist Party to legally limit the number of miles you will be permitted to drive annually.
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* * I’m telling you all, dear readers, the Globalist Left is coming for our cars and they’re going to do it little by little, until driving has become impossibly slow, frustrating, costly, and fraught with criminal penalties.
We’re going to have to fight them tooth and nail if we want to remain free.
Yeah, yo comprendo. Perhaps everyone here could meet in a (big) room and holler and stomp and fling mud at anyone we don’t agree with. It would be lots of fun.
i have a cleaning product that removes ‘obloquy’ & u are both bockety
I hate it when that happens.