"Downtown violence: Clubs need to step up or move on."
He was insistent something had to be done right now. Allen has long been an advocate for reducing the numbers of minority deaths that seem so disproportionately represented in the Greensboro club scene.
But amazingly Allen and the rest of the News & Record Editorial Department did a complete about face, turned tail and ran when they published yesterday's short stack editorial:
"What’s more, crime rates downtown are fairly consistent with those in the rest of the city, notes the nonprofit booster, Downtown Greensboro Inc. Finally, as important a central gathering place as downtown may be, its safety needs must be balanced with neighborhoods elsewhere."
What's wrong Allen, forgot to check your facts first? You know, the facts I spent all last week linking from in the various articles and letters to the editor at the News & Record that point back to posts on my blog that remind your readers that Rocco Scarfone is responsible for more deaths than every other current Greensboro club owner combined.
A fact your newspaper has yet to ever point out in any way, shape or form even though you and I both know it's true. And you have the audacity to say you care about young black men? Bullshit!
You see Allen, just like the rest of those who are involved in making things happen in Greensboro, is too cozy with the politicians, people like Mayor Nancy Vaughan pictured here with none other than Greensboro's own made man gangster Rocco "Rocky" Carmine Scarfone in this photograph snagged from the Triad Business Journal.
Here's Greensboro's Mayor all cozied up beside a known felon helping to promote the felon's newest business but if city employees or Greensboro Police officers were found doing the same they would be fired from their jobs as per City Policy.
Why are our Mayor and City Council members not held to the same moral and ethical standards as rank and file city employees? And why can't we get the truth out of our local news media?
Again, history has proven that for as long as we live in a city where our leaders and men of wealth and influence remain at the beck and call of known gangsters we will never be able to adequately deal with crime on our streets. And the truth will never be told.
