Dear David 'Brantley' Craft; "Former North Carolina Gov. Charles 'Brantley' Aycock, in his own words"

"...one of the concessions Charles 'Brantley' Aycock allowed African Americans during his reign over Jim Crow North Carolina was “an opportunity for education.”

Just not in the same building as white kids.

On the whole Aycock contributed much more

to the betterment of our state. 

His contributions to education 

far out shadow his racist inclinations. 

I say the name stays.

David Brantley Craft

Greater Greensboro Politics

January 15, 2015, at 7:12am

He used this phrase in his 1903 speech to the North Carolina Society, called “The Negro Problem,” which began with the claim that, under his tenure, the state had “solved the negro problem.”

Aycock was, among other things, an active and admitted oppressor of every single black person living in his state during his tenure

“I am inclined to give to you our solution of this problem,” he said to the room. “It is, first, as far as possible under the Fifteenth Amendment to disfranchise him.”

Billy Graham held segregated crusades in his early years. 

We forgive him for that. 

Charles [Brantley] Aycock brought education to the masses. 

He was a man of his time. 

We can forgive him for his segregationist views."

David Brantley Craft

Guarino; "The Aycock name: Time for a change"

February 15, 2013 at 8:53 AM

There’s quite a bit more:

“Let the negro learn once [and] for all that there is unending separation of the races, that the two peoples may develop side by side to the fullest but that they cannot intermingle; let the white man determine that no man shall by act or thought or speech cross this line, and the race problem will be at an end.”

David Craft 

Chairman of the Board

Craft Insurance

336-369-1721

dbcraft@craftinsurance.com

Aycock was, among other things, an active and admitted oppressor of every single black person living in his state during his tenure — 1901-05, which means, yes, he was a sitting governor when he made these remarks. They came just five years after the Wilmington Race Riot, in which armed white insurgents — from Aycock’s political party — overthrew the city’s duly elected government just a single generation removed from the Civil War.

We came through the civil rights movement 

in a much more peaceful way than most other southern states.

There were plenty of other people that abhorred the system, 

but had to complacently go along because it was so ingrained.

I'm not forgetting or forgiving anything. 

I'm balancing his contributions with his negatives. 

As others have said, 

I think it's instructive to keep a name like that out in public

and acknowledge the good and the bad of the man.

David Brantley Craft

Greater Greensboro Politics

Racial relations in NC took a precipitous decline with the advent of Jim Crow and the abrupt termination of the fusionist experiment in multiracial democracy in 1898. Aycock and his cohort were directly responsible for just about all of it.

We must disfranchise the negro. 

To do so is both desirable and necessary

Desirable because it sets the white man 

free to move along faster than he can go 

when retarded by the slower movement of the negro.

Charles Brantley Aycock

Acceptance speech for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination

April, 1900

The Guilford County School Board’s decision last week to rename Aycock Middle School ...takes a stand against those who would whitewash the man’s legacy.

The same David Brantley Craft, Board Chair, Farmer's Market, Inc,

the Non-Profit which runs Greensboro's Farmers Curb Market 

at 501 Yanceyville Sreet near Aycock Middle School, 

who has donated 'bribes' money 

to a good chunk of present and former City Council members

Aycock was more than just a peripheral player in the white supremacy movement of the 1900s; he was a leader, an integral part of the culture that established the framework for Jim Crow. His influence visited agony among a full third of his state — the black population of NC at the time. He was a villain who managed to get himself elected to office, more fittingly despised than celebrated..."

https://triad-city-beat.com/2016/08/editorial-aycock-words/
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Dear David Brantley Craft; "[C. Brantley] Aycock’s vile legacy", by the Editorial Board of the News & Record

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2015/05/dear-david-brantley-craft-c-brantley.html

Greensboro's David Brantley Craft appears to believe if Jews fought for the South in the Civil War, other Jews should recieve no honor for activism in the Civil Rights Movement

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2015/01/greensboros-david-brantly-craft-appears.html

David "Brantley" Craft on Charles "Brantley" Aycock, North Carolina governor from 1901 to 1905

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2015/01/david-brantley-craft-on-charles.html

David B Craft Is Screwed

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2015/01/david-b-craft-is-screwed.html

An Open Letter To David Craft Of Greensboro's Craft Insurance Center

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2014/05/an-open-letter-to-david-craft-of.html

Greensboro's David Craft Exhibits Cowardice and Treachery

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2013/07/greensboros-david-craft-exhibits.html

Greensboro Farmers Market Violates United States Constitution

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2013/07/greensboro-farmers-market-violates.html

The Law Of Unintended Consequences Abounds In Greensboro Government

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-law-of-unintended-consequences.html