I'm awake at 3:00 AM because of a disturbance at the local liquor house where Reginald Demarcus Wrenn was shot to death a few weeks ago. The Chief of Police and I have worked very hard to bring an end to this problem but how can I expect Chief Wrenn to fix in a few weeks what every chief in the last 40 years tried and failed to fix-- some to their own detriment.
Like myself and most old folk, Roy Carroll wants piece and quite. The difference is, Roy Carroll is all too willing and has made his intentions publicly known that he intends to use the ages old institutions of racism and classism to get his piece and quiet while promoting problems in the rest of Greensboro's neighborhoods. You see: Roy's solutions would only move the problems-- if they exist-- to where the rest of us live.
After all, it wasn't like myself and others didn't try to warn Roy Carroll and the rest of the "movers and shakers" about the dangers of an alcohol fueled downtown economy. We tried and they called us 'naysayers' just as they now call us 'trolls.'
Fact is: there's a lot of old folks like myself here in Greensboro who could almost bring ourselves to sympathize with Roy Carroll except for the fact that Roy Carroll helped build the downtown we have today, is on the board of the Greensboro Performing Arts Center that's being rammed down our throats and has received tens of millions of dollars in taxpayer funding for his privately owned developments, shopping centers and industrial parks which he braggs about online...
You know, frankly, until I see Roy Carroll start giving back to Greensboro's communities for all he's stolen over these many years and work to bring an end to the system of Institutional Racism and Classism he currently contributes to openly, I couldn't really give a shit if Roy Carroll ever sleeps another night in his downtown condo.
And something tells me there's probably a couple hundred thousand people in and around Greensboro who feel exactly the same way.
