Three years or so ago a group of citizens came before Greensboro city council asking the council to endorse the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation process. Council did not simply decline to do so but, in what I thought to be one of the most spiteful and cruel official actions I had ever seen the council take, council voted to oppose the Truth and Reconciliation process. They did not just decline to support it, they affirmatively expressed their official opposition. The motion to oppose the process was made by councilor Robbie Perkins.
Tonight city council was asked to accept a report from the Human Relations Commission on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and to adopt a resolution expressing regret for the events of November 3, 1979. Each council member was given a chance to express his or her opinions. When it was Perkins' turn to express his opinion of the course the council should take on this matter, he began by acknowledging his leading role in opposing the Truth and Reconciliation process three years ago. Then, in the most honest and heroic thing I've ever seen a local elected official do, Perkins articulated why he was in favor of accepting the report of the Human Relations Commission and why reluctant fellow councilors should join him. After the council agreed, 5 to 4, to accept the report, Perkins then shepherded a subsequent resolution of regret for the events of November 3, 1979 through a cautious council. It passed 5 to 4.
I'm proud of you, Robbie.
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I'll be darned.
ReplyDeleteSomeone needs to tell House that people do, in fact, change sometimes.
Good way to pick up votes in a mayoral race.
ReplyDeleteI guess he just decided to "see the light" right before an election and you're all googoo gaga over him now.
ReplyDeleteI know you're not that gullible.
Stop crying and get a job, Rochelle.
ReplyDeleteRobbie Perkins is like the politicians in "olde England" who would lick their finger & put it up in the air to see which way the political winds were blowing at the moment. They would then adjust their leanings to better keep themselves in favor with the power at the top. Nothing that Robbie does would surprise many of us who have observed his twist & turns through the years. It is always what he perceives to benefit Robbie. LOL
ReplyDeleteWant to so something - HEREOIC???
ReplyDeleteOpen the discussion of the Landfill. Admit the city put Public Housing near the dump. Fix it and open it back up before it causes another tax or FEE Increase.
What does it really mean or accomplish, to express a "resolution of regret" over something that happened 30 years ago and that few people other than a few bloggers for for whom it is a "raison d'etre",, ever think about any more? Before slobbering all over Perkins, don't you guys recognize easy political opportunism when you see it?
ReplyDeleteWhat do you call it when people fight so hard against something they consider so insignificant? I call it petty, small-minded spite. You?
ReplyDeleteThe only action due here is for the people who are still here that on that day 30 years ago that participated and represented the CWP and the KLAN to apologize to the people of Guilford Co. The CWP planned the "Death to mthe Klan" march/rally knowing quite well the Klan would most probably respond, and apparently the Klan was game to do just that. Also, who fired the first shot, certainly not Mr Johnson as it's documented that he was hidding under his car, all of the stories I heard was the CWP people fired the first shot. So why should we apologize to them when it should be the other way around. What a joke..........
ReplyDeleteAnonymous, common sense and independent thought is so passe, say something that shows you are more enlightened and compassionate, and we might consider it. You need to get past yourself to reach that higher plane.
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