In recent years, racial issues have been at the forefront of High Point politics, and, this week, the High Point City Council found itself once again discussing the racial situation in that city.
On Monday, May 17, the High Point Branch of the NAACP announced in a press release its call for the City of High Point to establish a new “Commission on the Status of Black High Point.”
The press release from the local NAACP branch, sent out just hours before the City Council meeting, stated that the establishment of the new commission is meant to “catalyze a discussion and research into the status of the Black community in High Point and to determine what measures will be taken to address the disparities once identified.”
At the meeting, the City Council voted unanimously, 9 to 0, to send the request to a city committee for further study.
In High Point – as in many cities across America – issues related to race have become a hot topic. In early May, the High Point City Council named the city’s first black city manager. That came after the dissatisfaction some in the city had toward the way a previous city manager addressed racial issues.
The city is also supporting a new business incubator largely meant to help minority-owned businesses. In recent years, there here have also been lively City Council discussions – in public and in private – pertaining to minority participation in city contracts, as well as pertaining to the city’s response to gun violence that disproportionately affects black communities in High Point.
High Point NAACP President James Adams stated this week that the NAACP branch has been working on this new initiative for the last 18 months and also that the group felt that the time is right for moving forward with this request.
Adams stated that, especially now, with all of the federal stimulus money that’s coming into the High Point community, there should “be attention paid to the needs of the Black community and plans made to address urban blight, revitalization of depressed communities, workforce initiatives, health and food disparities, as well as other inequities identified in the attached document, that we are dealing with in our community.”
How surprising. When you get right down to it, it’s always about money & power.
Cue the music.
Don’t talk about it, be about it! That’s all that’s ever done… talk!
There is no such thing as gun violence. A gun never killed anyone. The defective person behind it committed an act of violence. Violence disproportionately affects communities who do not cooperate with the Police through their no snitchin’ mindsets and those in that community that refuse to take a stand and put a stop to it.
Bingo!
Let’s just all go full blown racist, so that we can fight racism!!
Race is not the issue, it is the politicians who seek to divide us with hate, and thus conquer the splinters individually.
Is not the NCAA leadership aware of this? They are not stupid. Why do they continue with these divisive tactics? What do they really want? Power (money)?
There is plenty of mud-slinging from the far right, too. Reading newspapers and watching news on the idiot box or the mindnumbing screen hardly does anything for me except to make me mad.
I need to move to Wyoming and get a cabin with no internet or TV. (Many of you would like that).
There is nowhere to hide.
That’s right, Neise. “When all is said and done, more is said than done.”
John, Elaine, and Scott, and whoever the moderator is on this are you #$%^ing serious letting this absolute POS post this? You censor and moderate things every single day, but this is all good? Are you kidding? Your entire publication is racist, supported by racist readers and written by folks behaving in racist ways. This dialogue is the reminder that there is no hope when there is no respect for human. I look forward to pursuing the end of this racist group.
Austin is claiming “blacks are more violent” – this is an absurd and explicitly racist statement not backed at all by fact. Sociological research indicates that people, regardless of race, commit violent crimes at about the rates. Austin goes on to describe slaves as “imported negroes” and that this is somehow a biological term. I’m not sure what biology textbook or lesson every described ethnic backgrounds as “imported negroes” but this is incredibly insulting. While Austin’s personal experience with violence may be “a primal and base urge” evolution of the human brain has created inhibitory pathways that make violence a CHOICE for humans.
Hi Ricky – or should I just call you a P.O.S.? Your crass and crude insult says a lot about you.
“Negro” is indeed the biologically correct term. I suggest you try to educate yourself. You come across as unhinged and angry.
I am dismayed that you deny the reality that in every white country that’s experienced mass immigration from Africa, the crime rate of those Africans has surpassed the indigenous whites by a factor of five or more. Purely anecdotally, but as a matter of truth, every time any member of my family has been the victim of crime, the criminal has been a black male, whether in Europe or the US. Fact.
And whether the truth is insulting or not is of no concern to me. The truth is the truth.
Racism endures because it is predicated on reality.
But you keep on living in your Pollyanna make-believe little PC World… you fatuous P.O.S.
Two can be insulting.
Just give everyone in that area 2 guns and all the Ammo they want guess what next month we will have half the problem within a few months problem solved
We still have the right to keep and bear arms. So get your own. I’m not paying for yours.
I don’t think I can stand yet another transfer payment. Politicians are buying votes with our own money……
Why is this comment still up?
…because it contains nothing untrue. Understand now?
Really tired of hearing about the status of black if you don’t like America you have the free will to leave
“what measures will be taken to address the disparities once identified.”
We could start by mandating that black men marry the mother of their first child and work to support both. But we really ought to start long before that by expecting black kids to show up at school, on time, and learn the same material that the other kids learn, rather than make excuses for them and pretend that they are too stupid and incompetent to learn. As long as we keep telling blacks that they don’t have to behave, learn, and live in a responsible manner, they will continue to fail to behave, learn, and live in a responsible manner. Blacks are capable of doing anything whites do, and for us to suggest that they can’t is truly racist on our part.