Facebook forums for various jr high and high schools where Robert Clendenin served as principal including Bessemer High School, Bessemer Jr, Aycock Jr and Page High School are all sounding the news that Bob died at 6:05 PM tonight.
Bob was friends with my parents, attended Bessemer United Methodist Church for many years and a fixture in the Bessemer Community where I grew up and live today. He was my principal at Bessemer Jr and Aycock Jr High Schools as well as an old friend.
I'll never forget riding home from school in his '66 Thunderbird after staying after school or the way Bob swung his paddle.
He will be missed.
Showing posts with label Bessemer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bessemer. Show all posts
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Thursday, November 14, 2013
Welcome Glenwood Residents
As UNCG continues its expansion into Glenwood with a $91 Million Dollar recreation center that even UNCG students say they cannot afford and the City of Greensboro begins their Lee Street-High Point Road streetscaping plan despite being unable to produce any evidence that streetscaping works, one thing is becoming very apparent: the gentrification of Glenwood is here and now and Glenwood's working class will soon be looking to east Greensboro as their only alternative for affordable housing.
I, for one, would just like to say we welcome refugees from Glenwood to east Greensboro.
In east Greensboro our numbers will then be larger than ever before. It's here we will finally take our stand against the elites driving them out of positions of power. It's here in east Greensboro where a younger and more educated leadership will be born-- an angry leadership ready to take back what has long been taken away by a select few.
It's here in east Greensboro where great minds will combine technology with hard work to do the things the mindless elites could never imagine for there was a time when this community we call east Greensboro but once called Bessemer, greater and more prosperous than Greensboro itself. And with the help of our new immigrant friends from Glenwood we will rise up and destroy those who destroyed our communities.
I, for one, would just like to say we welcome refugees from Glenwood to east Greensboro.
In east Greensboro our numbers will then be larger than ever before. It's here we will finally take our stand against the elites driving them out of positions of power. It's here in east Greensboro where a younger and more educated leadership will be born-- an angry leadership ready to take back what has long been taken away by a select few.
It's here in east Greensboro where great minds will combine technology with hard work to do the things the mindless elites could never imagine for there was a time when this community we call east Greensboro but once called Bessemer, greater and more prosperous than Greensboro itself. And with the help of our new immigrant friends from Glenwood we will rise up and destroy those who destroyed our communities.
Saturday, September 14, 2013
What Happened To East Greensboro?
According to the City of Greensboro, I shit you not, exactly as I have been saying for years:
This lead to the eventual destruction of the entire Bessemer community, the largest community in the City of Greensboro, where most of those business owners, black and white, resided. And like the destruction of the Warnersville commercial district during that same era, it was done to increase business in downtown Greensboro by giving residents fewer options. They no longer use bulldozers but it still goes on today through the transfer of taxes away from our neighborhoods to subsidize downtown and beginning on September 25th when the Greensboro Free Press appears on news stands all over Greensboro this city will see its past, present and future laid bare in a way it has never before experienced.
So if anything should happen to me between now and the 25th, you'll know why.
"This lively community began to wind down in the late 1950s and 1960s when, under the guise of "urban renewal," thousands of people and more than 80 businesses (many minority-owned) were displaced. Most of those businesses never reestablished."
This lead to the eventual destruction of the entire Bessemer community, the largest community in the City of Greensboro, where most of those business owners, black and white, resided. And like the destruction of the Warnersville commercial district during that same era, it was done to increase business in downtown Greensboro by giving residents fewer options. They no longer use bulldozers but it still goes on today through the transfer of taxes away from our neighborhoods to subsidize downtown and beginning on September 25th when the Greensboro Free Press appears on news stands all over Greensboro this city will see its past, present and future laid bare in a way it has never before experienced.
So if anything should happen to me between now and the 25th, you'll know why.
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