Greensboro News & Record Circulation 2016

So have you ever wondered how many people actually read the Greensboro News & Record? According to this page #119, lifted from the 2016 Berkshire- Hathaway Annual Report, circulation for 2016 was 39,474 daily and 55.621 Sunday papers.

You might want to think about that before spending your advertising dollars with the News & Fishwrap.

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It appears Andy Stevens comments at the News and Record only appear to Andy Stevens

Pontius Pilate was the first great censor,

and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship.

Ben Lindsey

Saw this, so I went to the article to see what Andy wrote;

http://www.greensboro.com/blogs/gotriad_extra/look-for-tanger-center-in/article_efc5e1ae-7093-5388-a060-61155451435e.html

And found this;

http://www.greensboro.com/blogs/gotriad_extra/look-for-tanger-center-in/article_efc5e1ae-7093-5388-a060-61155451435e.html

 

Andy sent me this, showing 5 comments instead of 4, which my view showed;

Are the most convincing lies mostly true?

If you choose not to know something,

especially if that something is something you should know,

you are morally blameworthy.

Robert P. Lawry

Director of the Center for Professional Ethics

Can truth be a casualty of social instability?

Without censorship,

things can get terribly confused in the public mind.

William Westmoreland

American military commander, Vietnam, 1964 - 1968

US Army Chief of Staff, 1968 - 1972

Does thinking you understand what another says
mean you hear what they mean?

He who wishes to deceive will never fail to find willing dupes.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Prior restraint or prior censorship eliminates certain material from being published or communicated.

In Greensboro, North Carolina, the government and/or the news industry prevents controversial information from being disseminated to the public.

I believe “Freedom of the Press” is the right to be free from prior restraint.

I believe Greensboro doesn't have a free press.

How to purchase politicians without most knowing it; Roy Carroll's propensity to mislead on campaign donation reporting

http://hartzman.blogspot.com/2013/06/how-to-purchase-politicians-without.html

Those who do not accept the fundamental principles of state propaganda,

are simply excluded from the debate.

(or if noticed, dismissed as "emotional," "irresponsible," etc…)

Noam Chomsky

Greensboro Performing Arts Censorship

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2012/03/greensboro-performing-arts-censorship.html

If they can get you asking the wrong questions,

they don't have to worry about answers.

Thomas Pynchon

What the News & Record's Allen Johnson chose not to tell 72,649 [at the time] Sunday circulation recipients before the primary; Skip Alston, Alma Adams, Earl Jones, Yvonne Johnson and the Simkins PAC

http://hartzman.blogspot.com/2014/05/what-news-records-allen-johnson-chose.html

Do some think many know more than they ought to?

A Comparison of Hartzman's Yes Weekly Column on the Civil Rights Museum and the News and Record's

http://hartzman.blogspot.com/2014/03/a-comparison-of-hartzmans-yes-weekly.html

Is an untruth disseminated as true a lie ,

if the truth remains un-found through in-curiosity?

Marty Kotis Propaganda from the Business Journal "Plans for east Guilford retail center could lead to more development"

http://hartzman.blogspot.com/2013/09/marty-kotis-propaganda-from-business.html

That an opinion has been widely held,

is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

Bertrand Russell

Prior Restraint by Guilford County on GPAC video

http://hartzman.blogspot.com/2013/08/prior-restraint-by-guilford-county-on.html

Is there a correlation between behavior

and information consumption?

The Greensboro News & Record slanted, misleading, offensive poll on Downtown Greensboro Incorporated

http://hartzman.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-greensboro-news-record-slanted.html

Should information be evaluated by origin and relative legitimacy?

How to "lift" a news story from a local blogger, by the News and Record's Amanda Lehmert and Jeff Gauger

http://hartzman.blogspot.com/2013/04/how-to-lift-news-story-from-local.html

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts,

foreign ideas, alien philosophies and competitive values.

For a nation afraid to let its people judge truth and falsehood,

…is a nation afraid of its people.

John F Kennedy

Is the GPAC Task Force Using a Push Poll"

http://hartzman.blogspot.com/2012/04/is-gpac-task-force-using-push-poll.html

If Greensboro’s City Council, the Rhino and the Greensboro News & Record can control information dissemination to benefit a select few instead of the many…?

http://hartzman.blogspot.com/2012/03/if-greensboros-city-council-greensboro.html

Is it hard to get entrenched economic and political leadership to understand,

if relative legitimacy depends on not understanding?

When spider webs unite,
they can tie up a lion.

Ethiopian proverb

What if what you’ve been told to think isn’t?

"Prior restraint or prior censorship is censorship
in which certain material may not be published or communicated...

Prior restraint prevents the censored material from being heard or distributed at all...

Prior restraint often takes the form of an order
prohibiting the publication of a specific document or subject.

Sometimes, a party becomes aware of a forthcoming publication on a particular subject
and seeks to prevent it: to halt ongoing publication and prevent its resumption.

...“Freedom of the Press” is defined as the right to be free from prior restraints.

Thus it is often considered to be the most extreme form of censorship.

A prior restraint, by contrast and by definition,
has an immediate and irreversible sanction."

Wikipedia

Don't Steal From My Kids

Misleading Richard M. Barron on why Greensboro's job market sucks in Greensboro's News and Record

"we’re losing the kinds of jobs that support a middle class lifestyle — manufacturing, skilled trades and services...

Because 'free trade' agreements supported by Warren Buffett and friends

sent our best jobs oversees for the benefit of our elite 

who control the political establishment 

They continue to decline as the economy shifts away from one that makes things in vast factories to one that makes advanced goods and provides services.

Supported in part by the News and Record's editorial board

The most educated service providers, professionals, information technology workers and managers, are in the minority while thousands of less-educated workers are trapped in low-wage and often part-time service jobs.

Most of Greensboro's working poor

...“The largest growth in jobs we’ve seen have come from the lowest wage occupations,” ...

“On the other end we have also seen significant growth in high-wage occupations. It’s a lot harder to break into those occupations. You need a lot of education and that education costs a lot of money that those low-wage workers just don’t have. So, too many workers will be locked into low-wage occupations.”

...In the Greensboro-High Point metro, which includes Guilford, Rockingham and Randolph counties, health care occupations grew by 18 percent, adding 5,900 jobs, from early 2007 through July, without a pause for the recession.

High paying health care occupations are government subsidized 

via taxpayer wealth transfer through theft

for the benefit of the parasitic credentialed class

Goods-producing jobs, by comparison, dropped by 21 percent, or 11,200 jobs.

While the even higher profits from the lower waged outsourced jobs remained with those who own the companies who shafted American workers

and made more money than they were making before,

like Warren Buffett who owns the News and Record

Doctors, the best-paid nurses and other personnel are at the top of the health care industry, but thousands of people who might have worked middle-class jobs a generation ago in manufacturing face lower-wage, often part-time work in many health care jobs.

So the highest paid employees in the health care industry 

ran up prices so high, hundreds of local families at the bottom went bankrupt 

by not being able to pay government sponsored, artificially high costs

On a broader level, Greensboro-High Point’s number of employed people..., has recovered since the worst months of the recession, but remains lower by 10,000 jobs, from 370,000 jobs to about 360,000 jobs from July 2007 until this July.

How are 10,000 fewer jobs nine years later a recovery Richard,

if there are more people living here since then?

A different survey of people who say they are working or looking for work was almost the same in July as it was in July 2007, at about 370,000 people.

Population estimates, July 1, 2015; 517,600

Population estimates base, April 1, 2010; 488,406

http://www.census.gov/quickfacts/table/PST045215/37081

By comparison, the Research Triangle city of Raleigh saw total employment grow from 514,400 in July 2007 to 600,000 this July, a rate of 17 percent.

That means Greensboro’s economy is essentially stagnant compared with Raleigh’s education and tech economy...

Contact Richard M. Barron at (336) 373-7371, and follow @BarronBizNR on Twitter.

http://www.greensboro.com/business/local-recovery-follows-trend-of-more-jobs-for-lower-pay/article_a5b02c3c-64c5-57a1-88c1-5ebe1c0ba076.html
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517,600 - 488,406 = 29,124 more people with 10,000 fewer 'looking' for jobs
between 2010 and 2015, 
meaning Richard Barron is a propagandist at best
and is definitely a shitty journalist who doesn't mind lying to his readers
who ignores simple math

https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=guilford+county+nc+population+2007

517,600 - 464,924 = 52,676 more people with 10,000 fewer jobs
between 2007 and 2015

Our population grew by 11%, while actual jobs fell 10,000,
which is terrible, but they won't tell anyone the actual facts
to keep most in line and supporting the status quo

Who does bullshit information like this help?

Our elected officials and their cronies who skim off the rents of the poor

while bribes, kickbacks and 'contributions' flow to the public overseers

of this economic catastrophe

Let's build a Performing Arts Center!

The more distracted and stupid most are, the longer they rule as oligarchy,

and the News and Record and most other local media are in on it

Binge watch some tv and forget about it
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Professor Andrew Brod Steals George Hartzman's Ideas

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2013/02/professor-andrew-brod-steals-george.html

The Greensboro Car: Greensboro's Next Big Thing?

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-greensboro-car-greensboros-next-big.html

A Better Idea For Greensboro Bonds

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2012/08/a-better-idea-for-greensboro-bonds.html

Why not design and build cars on the Piedmont Triad's 1,000 acres around the airport?

http://hartzman.blogspot.com/2014/02/why-not-design-and-build-cars-on.html

Trojan Horse Scam, the Aquatic and Performing Arts Centers?

http://hartzman.blogspot.com/2012/01/trojan-horse-scam-aquatic-and.html

Andrew Brod And Allen Johnson Call Commissioner Conrad A Wacko Conspiracy Theorist

On August 13, 2016, Guilford County Commissioner Justin Conrad posted the above to his Facebook pageThose who click on the link will see it got quite a bit of conversation including some very abstract explanations from N&R Editors Allen Johnson and Doug Clark.



On August 15, 2016 we see the following post by Allen Johnson:

 To which the famed local UNCG Economist and N&R Editor promptly open mouths and insert feet?

Don't worry, Folks, we'll not be pulling this off-line... ever. And we here at EzGreensboro.com hope you'll share it so everyone can see what goes on when they think no one is watching or no one cares.

Andrew Brod gets paid a lot of money to be right in his opinions. Unfortunately, Andrew Brod has a long history of being wrong in his opinions and a vast body of work in which to prove it.

 
Update: Allen Johnson digs himself a deeper hole:

Not too bright, those college boys.

The Greensboro News and Record's 401k Plan Fees; Looks like Warren Buffet doesn't practice what he preaches

Berkshire Hathaway owns BH Media, formerly World Media Enterprises Inc.
1314 Douglas St.
Suite 800
Omaha, NE 68102
Auditor EIN  47-0625816

Number of participants with account balances - 3,271

Net Assets as of 12/31/2013 - $137,137,524
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Wells Fargo Stable Value Fund M

Expense Ratio 0.78%

Blended Yield (after fees) 1.08%

Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway owns about 9.4% Wells Fargo,
which owns Galliard Capital Management.

http://www.galliard.com/tiaa-cref/galliard_SVM-P.pdf
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http://www.brightscope.com/401k-rating/3010666/World-Media-Enterprises-Inc/15679990/World-Media-Enterprises-Inc-401K-Plan/
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JPMorgan SmartRetirement 2050 Select (JTSSX)

The fund is a "fund of funds" that invests in other J.P. Morgan Funds (underlying funds)

Annual Report Expense Ratio (net): 0.19%

http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=JTSSX

JPMorgan Disciplined Equity R6 Expense Ratio - 0.35%
JPMorgan US Equity R6 Expense Ratio - 0.54%
JPMorgan Core Bond R6 Expense Ratio - 0.40%
JPMorgan Growth Advantage R6 Expense Ratio - 0.80%
JPMorgan Intrepid America R5 Expense Ratio - 0.71%

Source; Morningstar

How can the Expense Ratio for the News and Record's employees be 0.19%, if the funds in the fund cost more?

A cost comparison of Target Date Fund Expense Ratios; 

Greensboro, NC and Long Beach CA

Spartan® International Index Fund - Fidelity Advantage Class

Exp Ratio (Net) 0.12% ($1.20 per $1000)
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Oakmark International I (OAKIX)

Annual Report Expense Ratio (net): 0.95%
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Invesco International Growth R5 (AIEVX)

Annual Report Expense Ratio (net): 0.97%
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Wells Fargo Advantage Growth I  SGRNX - 0.75%
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Fidelity® Small Cap Discovery  FSCRX - 1.01%
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Fidelity Spartan® Extnd Mkt Idx Advtg  FSEVX - 0.07%
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Dreyfus Opportunistic Midcap Value I  DVLIX - 0.90%
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Fidelity Spartan® 500 Index Instl  FXSIX - 0.04%
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T. Rowe Price Equity Income  PRFDX - 0.66%
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First Eagle Global I  SGIIX - 0.86%
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Fidelity Spartan® US Bond Idx Advtg  FSITX - 0.10%
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PIMCO Total Return Instl  PTTRX - 0.46%
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Sentinel Government Securities I  SIBWX - 0.68%
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Warren Buffett to heirs: Put my estate in index funds

After all of his Berkshire shares are distributed to charity, take the cash, Buffett says, and just buy index funds:

"My advice to the trustee couldn't be more simple: Put 10% of the cash in short-term government bonds and 90% in a very low-cost S&P 500 index fund. (I suggest Vanguard's.) I believe the trust's long-term results from this policy will be superior to those attained by most investors — whether pension funds, institutions or individuals — who employ high-fee managers.

...Both individuals and institutions will constantly be urged to be active by those who profit from giving advice or effecting transactions. The resulting frictional costs can be huge and, for investors in aggregate, devoid of benefit. So ignore the chatter, keep your costs minimal, and invest in stocks as you would in a farm."

Warren Buffet

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/warren-buffett-to-heirs-put-my-estate-in-index-funds-2014-03-13
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OUTSTANDING INVESTORS vs. CONSULTANTS

http://hartzman.blogspot.com/2015/03/outstanding-investors-vs-consultants.html

As expected, Margaret Moffitt spins Nancy Vaughan's legal bill story for Greensboro's rulers

This is sickening;

Bill details attorneys' work for Vaughan over deposition in city lawsuit
"...The work, which cost city taxpayers about $8,500, included meetings with Carole Albright, an attorney at the firm who specializes in domestic law. ...she doesn’t remember the nature of her conversations with Vaughan during those October meetings.  ...Albright said Friday that her practice isn’t limited to domestic law, and that she doesn’t remember the nature of her conversations with Vaughan during those October meetings
...Vaughan was deposed because Robert said he had private conversations with her that contradict statements by the city. ...Vaughan denied that...
...Albright, like Rossabi, was a member of Vaughan’s personal team. The bill shows charges for six instances when Albright worked on the case between Oct. 6 and Oct. 29.
...Vaughan didn’t respond Friday to the News & Record’s requests to discuss the matter.  She said in October that she would use her own money to pay Rossabi.

Margaret Moffitt doesn't bother telling her readers Greensboro's mayor lied to the public before an election, and when the billing came to light, everybody who had something to lose got together and 'fixed it' for Nancy.

As for what other kinds of law Albright practices, there are none listed;

http://www.lawfirmrbs.com/attorney_profiles_details.cfm?aid=3

The lies keep piling up. Carole doesn't remember a thing after six contacts and Vaughan won't comment. That's what's called a cover up.

"Practiced family law in Greensboro, NC, 1995-1999" and "Returned to practice family law in December 2006" and "Guilford College Paralegal Program, Adjunct Family Law Professor, 2011-present" and "Legal Elite, Family Law, Business North Carolina Magazine, 2015" and "Greensboro Bar Association, Chair: Family Law Section 2011-2012" and "North Carolina Board Certified Specialist in Family Law" and "Family Life Council, Board of Directors (2005-2009), Secretary (2006-2009)" and finally, "Greensboro Day School, Field Hockey Coach (2000-2006, 2010-present), Lacrosse Coach (2002-2004)"

Nancy was "Member Board of Trustees, Greensboro Day School, 2009 – December 2013 (4 years)"

Carole doesn't remember a thing.

News and Record's Doug Clark Shilling for Alma Adams; "Straddling two districts challenges Adams"

http://www.greensboro.com/blogs/clark_off_the_record/straddling-two-districts-challenges-adams/article_7ffea09c-28ca-11e6-bc8d-4351fc713411.html

It's not worth tearing apart.

It's just sad.

Dear businesses looking to relocate or expand in Greensboro, North Carolina

Our elected leadership, of which some appear to have been “purchased” by entrenched special interests through campaign donations, and some City government employees, regularly act to retard potential profitability in order to support “chosen” for-profit businesses who provide “grants” or campaign contributions in exchange for monopolistic government contracts like Mike Barber's First Tee of the Triad and Zack Matheny's DGI.   Legislated benefits like free streets and sweet real estate deals are unavailable to the non-wheel greasing general public, but only to those who have funded the campaigns of the inexpensive stooges who fork over taxpayer owned resources to their masters.  

As we wait for City Council to decide which 'necessary' infrastructure debt is to be voted on in the upcoming election, at least $55 million in debt voted on by Council justified with bullshit math which Margaret Moffett, Susan Ladd, Allen Johnson, Doug Clark and Steven Doyle at the News and Record didn't bother to investigate, directly lined the pockets of Council campaign contributors, which has never been reported and most likely will not be, as it would be counter to Warren Buffett's broader interests for a local paper he owns to point out what Warren does best.

Disappointment may follow expectations of Greensboro’s News and Record, that used to be our paper of record and the Rhino Times, our most 'conservative' weekly, now owned by HB2 supporter Roy Carroll, defending free market capitalism and support for local for-profit small businesses against Greensboro's bought and paid for fascistic government intervention for the upper crust.

The News and Record and the Rhino's 'editorial boards' appear to be indifferent to the entrepreneurial spirit that made America a great country.  John Hammer has his head so far up Roy's ass he can't hear the behind the door insults he justifiably receives for betraying his profession by selling out and shilling propaganda for profit paid for by his reader's tax payments.

Many may be coming to realize that an oligarchy of a majority of Greensboro’s elected leadership, elite business interests, news executives and top city and county employees have set upon the course of transferring wealth out of the hands of taxpayers and small unconnected businesses to a select chosen few, while the overwhelming majority of the population remains unaware, because Margaret Moffett, Susan Ladd, Allen Johnson, Doug Clark and Steven Doyle won't do or are prevented from doing their jobs.

How else could the News and Record not point out local bigs like Roy who funded the legislators who voted for HB2?  They all seem to be on the same team when it comes to shielding local elites from public scrutiny.  That's how public corruption is allowed to happen.

Oligarchy

A form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons

or in a dominant class or clique;

Government by the few.

Dictionary.com

The following is from Roy Carroll's Rhino Times, written by John Hammer, who defended HB2 for Roy, who contributed to a bunch of the legislators who voted for it without being held to account via multiple acts of journalistic cowardice by Margaret Moffett, Susan Ladd, Allen Johnson, Doug Clark and Steven Doyle at the News and Record.  

Some of this needs to be copy and pasted before Roy and John take it off the Rhino site, like they did with the local net worth article, and after John went under, and after the News and Record did the same on multiples of occasions within five years or so;

"...In cities that have passed laws similar to those in Charlotte, men have been apprehended for hanging out in women’s bathrooms and locker rooms.  Their defense was that they identified as women...

Except Pat McCrory couldn't come up with any when asked about it on national TV, 

making North Carolina look bad, costing us jobs and economic growth, 

and John Hammer and Roy Carroll were with Pat on the subject until they went silent

after it become clear Roy Carroll and friends hurt our City and state with their actions

...It’s hard to believe that the fact that men should use the men’s restroom and women should use the women’s restroom is controversial... Who knew that men had a fundamental right to go in the bathrooms and locker rooms designated for women?

...One aspect of the ordinance that the Charlotte City Council seemed to ignore is the fact that men are frequently arrested for drilling holes in the walls of public bathrooms and peeping at women.

...If these men are willing to risk arrest by drilling peepholes and peering through them, do people actually believe they would hesitate to claim they are transgender in order to have access to a woman’s bathroom?

If a man says that he identifies as a woman, who is to say that he doesn’t?  Before Bruce Jenner had surgery and became Caitlyn Jenner, he certainly looked nothing like a woman, but he says he identified as a woman.

He/she didn't have surgery, meaning John Hammer misled the public on the issue

...State Rep. Jon Hardister of Greensboro brought up an aspect of HB 2 that has received little press.  Hardister said, “Charlotte overstepped its authority."

The High Point Market, better known as the furniture market, is ignoring an old adage, “Don’t bite the hand that feeds you.”  The furniture market receives $1.2 million for marketing and $1.2 million for transportation from the state each year.

In the state budget passed last year, state Sen. Trudy Wade, who represents High Point, fought hard for the furniture market and got the allocation raised by $544,000 per year to the present level.

John Hammer threatened the Furniture Market for Roy Carroll

to advance support for HB2 and the legislators Roy funded who voted for it

which the News and Record won't report via cowardice

By joining the onslaught of opposition to HB 2, the furniture market may have put that funding in jeopardy...

http://rhinotimes.com/Content/Default/One-Click-Reading/Article/NC-Restrooms-Same-As-They-Ever-Were/-3/6/1126
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More from John and Roy;

Most of what I’ve read in the mainstream media about the whole bathroom brouhaha has been either wrong or based on faulty information.

...the majority of people agree with HB2, whether they know it or not.

Apparently not, now including Art Pope, John Hood and Pat McCrory etc... 

...The debate has little to do with transgender people using one restroom or shower or the other.  That’s a smokescreen.  The issue is what is set out in the Charlotte ordinance – whether our society wants to have gender-neutral facilities or facilities segregated by biological sex.

Not really

Charlotte’s ordinance required all bathrooms, locker rooms, showers, saunas, everything except maybe OB-GYN examination rooms, to be gender neutral.

Not really

...The reason the opponents of HB2 are trying to make it sound like transgender people are being discriminated against is political.  The people out protesting may believe the issue is about transgender people, but it appears the folks calling the shots want gender-neutral bathrooms.  They want all of us to act like there is no difference between men and women – wake up one day and be a woman and the next day be a man.  There is the problem of biological differences, but they ignore the fact that men and women are physically different.

http://www.rhinotimes.com/Content/Default/Columns/Article/Weekly-Hammer-May-19/-3/7/1214

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Tuesday, April 26, 2016; A few questions for the City of Charlotte concerning HB2

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/04/a-few-questions-for-city-of-charlotte.html
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More from John and Roy, which the News and Record didn't have the guts to call them out on;

"...The law treats all people the same.  

No it doesn't and it's not enforceable

What HB2 establishes is that in North Carolina people are required to use the restroom that corresponds with their biological sex.  The Charlotte ordinance – which Charlotte did not have the authority to pass...

Not really, otherwise the state could have just sued Charlotte,

but they didn't

Since transgender is not defined, this would have allowed men to use the women’s restroom and women to use the men’s restroom.  In effect, all restrooms and locker rooms would be gender neutral.

Not true 

Blatant lie not identified by the News and Record

HB2 allows any business including the High Point furniture market to have gender-neutral restrooms if they so desire.  The decision is left up to the owner of the business.

,,,Vaughan allowed state Rep. John Blust, who is a candidate in the Republican primary for the 13th Congressional District, to speak first and gave him some additional time to explain what the state statute he voted for did.

Blust said that the topic was one that he was almost embarrassed to talk about in public, but that the state had been forced to regulate the behavior of people in bathrooms.  He said, “it seems common sense that everyone use the bathroom based on their anatomy.” Blust said, “Charlotte did not have the statutory authority to do what it did.”

Not really

...Blust was allowed to start again and said, “As the parent of a young daughter, I’m not willing to have her, her classmates, teammates and friends, go into the girls locker room and undress in front of someone with the male anatomy.” 

Which wouldn't happen in real life,

just like it doesn't happen now in real life

...The legislators held public hearings and heard everyone who signed up to speak on the bill before it was passed.

Bullshit, and John Hammer and Roy Carroll know it, 

and so does Margaret Moffett, Susan Ladd, 

Allen Johnson, Doug Clark and Steven Doyle at the News and Record, 

who committed journalistic malpractice by not pointing it out,

meaning they are just as at fault as John, Roy, Art Pope etc... 

for the economic mess our state has found itself to be in

...Chris Hardin, a candidate in the Republican primary for the 6th Congressional District, got shouted down by opponents to HB2 several times.  He said the law was not about discrimination but about common sense.  He said that allowing the Charlotte ordinance to stand would have had a detrimental effect on law enforcement.

http://www.rhinotimes.com/Content/Default/City/Article/Transgender-Talk-Gets-Raucous/-3/18/1141

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And again from John Hammer and Roy Carroll, which wasn't reported by the News and Record;

"Rep. John Blust of Greensboro, a candidate for the 13th Congressional District seat, said nobody in Raleigh was talking about HB2.  He said, “I haven’t said anything about changing or repealing anything.”

Really?

Blust said that he was completely misquoted in the article and what he had actually said was that he hadn’t heard anyone say anything about amending the bill so he couldn’t comment on it.  ...Blust said, “I don’t even like to show a blink of an eye over this.”...

Rep. Jon Hardister from Greensboro, who is quoted extensively in the article, said the quotes were technically accurate but taken out of context.  He said, “I was surprised when I saw the article, not because of my quotes but because of the way they were presented.”

...A constitutional amendment would make the law requiring separate bathrooms for men and women more powerful.

Sen. Trudy Wade of Greensboro said, “We have not discussed changing anything at all.”

Rep. Harry Warren from Salisbury, who, like Blust, is a candidate in the 13th Congressional District race, said, “I’m not in favor of going back at all on HB2.”

Apparently not anymore after these folks turned our state

into a national discrace

State Sen. Andrew Brock, also running for Congress in the 13th District, said, “HB2 is a great bill.”

Hardister said, “I’m not working with anyone to repeal the bill or to amend it, but discussions are taking place and there could be changes.”

Hardister said he thought it was possible the portion of the bill that made it more difficult to sue over discrimination in state court could be amended.

Hardister said that one of his complaints about the coverage of the bill in the N&R is that it made it sound like protections for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community had been repealed, which he said was misleading because “LGBT was not a protected class before HB2.”  He noted that the legislature had not made LGBT a protected class...

Jon Hardister was all in until Art Pope, John Hood and Pat McCrory 

threw him under a bus the other day

What the law does do is make it clear that local jurisdictions can’t create their own protected classes but that the decision on protected classes will be made at the state level."

http://www.rhinotimes.com/Content/Default/City/Article/More-HB2-Misrepresentations/-3/18/1195

DGI proposal crookedness personified by conflicted references and connected cronies

Zack Matheny's proposal for Greensboro's downtown improvement district proposal has become a great example of how corrupted the City's staff and Council have become.  After listing Assistant City Manager David Parrish, who is said to be involved in determining who gets the contract as a reference, Matheny also lists ArtsGreensboro's Tom Philion, whose organization has is and continues to gain from City Council votes, making Tom a 'yes man' along with Parrish for references as Tom serves on DGI's board and takes money from taxpayers with Zack's help and the News and Record's complicity and profitability, as ArtsGreensboro pays the paper, literally, for positive press with the help of Margaret Moffett, who is in Mike Barber's back pocket, and has been for years. 

Zack is City Council and City Council's donor paymaster's pawn and lobbyist.  Now, via a clearly rigged RFP process, as Zack came in with a $999,771 proposal when the limit was $600,000, the game's outcome appears clearly predetermined and rigged for the inside elite crowd.

These folks have no problem pulling fictitious numbers out of their asses, as the local news industry is going to back them up without investigation or question.

Margaret Moffett is complicit, as her salary is partially paid for by ArtsGreensboro who pays the News and Record for propaganda



Here's the latest example of Tom Philion's take from the City of Greensboro budgeted handouts for nonprofits in in exchange for his reference for Zack's continued take from City taxpayers, written by none other than Margaret Moffett;

http://www.greensboro.com/gnr/inside-scoop-city-suggests-for-nonprofits-in-budget-proposal/article_aa1a2256-35ea-52b5-b4c9-18c4d0faa575.html

Previously;

Something is very wrong with Zack Matheny's DGI proposal, which just won approval by the City of Greensboro

http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2016/05/something-is-very-wrong-with-zack.html
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Mayor Vaughan and Zack Matheny are Roy Carroll etc...'s pawns, along with most of council
as declared by multiples of high ranking City of Greensboro employees behind the backs of their crooked/fucked up/corrupt/crony leadership who are sick of being abused with lies told to the public by the News and Record and the Rhino Times 

Zack Matheny had a direct financial interest in applying for a job he voted to fund, and now Tom Philion and David Parrish and the rest of Council are in on getting Zack a new contract with an incorrect and overpriced proposal which violated the RFP rules of engagement, without consequence.

Zack Matheny, Nancy Vaughan and Mike Barber put their own interests of power, income and reelection in front of the best interests of City of Greensboro taxpayers, and the News and Record and the Rhino Times didn't report it, as they are in on the pay to play.

Mike Barber is a known liar who tried to extort the DGI job for Zack Matheny out of Cyndi Hayworth after Zack leaked Hayworth's lack of education credentials, leaving her ineligible for the job after Matheny helped get Jason Cannon fired to get the same job and the News and Record and the Rhino Times didn't report it and endorsed Mike Barber as he personally profits from taxpayer owned properties.
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City Of Greensboro Subsidizes News & Record via ArtsGreensboro


http://greensboroperformingarts.blogspot.com/2014/06/city-of-greensboro-subsidizes-news.html
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Still no word on Mike Barber's golf cart delivered to his home by a City of Greensboro employee, as Margaret Moffett has her head so far up his ass she won't investigate or report anything negative on her patron saint.

Other News & Record Just Makes Up History

Okay, so maybe it's not all that important to most folks but if by chance you're a hard core NASCAR fan or a women's advocate the details just might be important to you. In that other News & Record for today in this day in history they posted the following article:

Note the date: Feb 4, 1973 and the place, the Greensboro Fair Grounds. The Greensboro Fair Grounds were bulldozed in 1958 to make way for the Greensboro Coliseum which stands on the exact same site.

And then there's this from Wikipedia:

"Louise Smith (July 31, 1916 in Barnesville, Georgia – April 15, 2006) was tied for the second woman to race in NASCAR at the top level. She was known as "the first lady of racing."^[1]

She went as a spectator to her first NASCAR race at the Daytona Beach Road Course in 1949. She could not stand watching the races, so she entered her family's shiny new Ford coupe in the race and rolled it. Her hometown Greenville, South Carolina paper featured photos of the wreck, and the town knew about it before she got home.^[2] The race was the first race to feature three female drivers (Ethel Mobley and Sara Christian). The trio also competed later that season at the Langley Speedway.

She raced from 1949 to 1956. She won 38 races in her career in numerous formats: late models, modifieds (28 victories), midgets, and sportsman."

So while it might be possible that Lucky Lou Smith raced in Greensboro prior to 1958 she didn't race in Greensboro in 1973-- nobody did. As a matter of fact: I went to a Bloodrock concert at the Greensboro Coliseum in 1973 with a skinny girl from O Henry Oaks. Lots of young hippies, no race cars. I wasn't all that impressed with the concert.

And if Wikipedia isn't enough to prove the other News & Record liars how about History.com:

"Smith retired in 1956 but remained active in the racing world: She sponsored various drivers, and was involved in the Miss Southern 500 Scholarship Pageant at Darlington Raceway in South Carolina. In 1999, she was inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame in Talladega, Alabama. Smith died in April 2006, at the age of 89."

Not enough?  How about the Henry Ford Museum?

I can find no evidence that Louise Smith ever raced in Greensboro at all but I know without a doubt she did not race here in 1973-- nobody did. As a matter of fact: as NASCAR only used the Greensboro track in 1957 and 1958 and Smith retired from racing in 1956 it's doubtful she ever raced here at all.

Now ask yourself this: If that other News & Record can't be trusted to report something like this with any degree of accuracy, what can they be trusted to report accurately?

So what did happen on this day in history in Greensboro? From the Greensboro Police Department:

"Case #: 1973-4896
Victim: Anderson Brooks
On February 4, 1973 at 1:30 am, Greensboro officers arrived at 814 Cottage Grove Ave. and found Anderson Brooks lying at the bottom of the back steps of the residence. Brooks died due to multiple gunshot wounds."

His killer has yet to be found.

Or how about First Sit-In Participant Finally Gets Cherry Pie:

"In this February 4, 1973 Greensboro Daily News article, Harvey Harris reports on how the four original participants of the 1960 sit-ins at the Greensboro Woolworth's lunch counter — Frank McCain, David Richmond, Jibreel Khazan (formerly Ezell..."

But no, the folks at that other News & Record with 125 years of archives to rely upon had to resort to making shit up. Does that mean they have 125 years of forged archives too?

Update: In looking back, maybe it's about more than NASCAR fans or a women's advocates. Maybe it's about Black History or the family of Anderson Brooks and the long neglected residents of Cottage Grove Ave, an East Greensboro street that has since been removed when The Grove housing project was torn down. (I used to drive a school bus there.) Maybe it's about telling how 4 students from NC A&T University were finally granted their rights as human beings. Maybe it's about how the News & Record would rather make up sheer nonsense than report history that might actually work to empower Greensboro's working classes black and white.

The News & Record Admits Their Failure And Continues Their Lies

Recently Allen Johnson of the Greensboro News & Record posted a blog post entitled We told you so: Why (healthy) skepticism is a good thing in which he admits that everything Greensboro's opposition has claimed for a decade or more has turned out to be true. I snagged screen shots of Mr Johnson's blog post because of the long history of disappearing content at the News Record website.

What won't be read in the News and Record; "Members of Congress Demand Investigation Into Predatory Practices at Warren Buffett’s Clayton Homes"

"He walked them through Clayton-built homes on the lot, then into the sales center, passing a banner and posters promoting one subprime lender: Vanderbilt Mortgage, a Clayton subsidiary. Inside, he handed them a Vanderbilt sales pamphlet.

“Vanderbilt is the only one that finances on the reservation,” he told the women.

His claim, which the women caught on tape, was a lie. And it was illegal.

In minority communities, Clayton’s grip on the lending market verges on monopolistic: Last year, according to federal data, Clayton made 72% of the loans to black people who financed mobile homes.

Greensboro Makes Another Meaningless List?

Well as usual when Greensboro makes another meaningless list the News & Record spins the story with their own story, Greensboro, Winston-Salem rank in '2016 Best Active Lifestyle' list, but exactly what does that mean? Does it mean people lead more fit and active lifestyles in Greensboro and Winston-Salem? From the News & Record:

"However, Winston-Salem was ranked 90 in lowest percentage of people who engage in physical activity."

So apparently this isn't a measure of how healthy people really are.

Interestingly enough the Winston-Salem Journal, which is owned by Berkshire Hathaway just as is the News & Record, saw no need to mention this story today or any other day thus far.

So I decided to go find the actual WalletHub Rankings and see what the News & Record left out.

For example: while it is true that Greensboro was given a score of 75th overall by WalletHub Greensboro's “Budget & Participation” Rank was lower at 87 and our “Sports Facilities & Outdoor Environment” Rank was higher at 64.

But check this out: Laredo, Texas which came in at 100 on the scale had a “Budget & Participation” Rank of 93 and a “Sports Facilities & Outdoor Environment” Rank of 100.

So what do these rankings mean? From WalletHub: 

"Methodology

In order to identify the cities that encourage an active lifestyle, WalletHub’s analysts compared the 100 most populated U.S. cities across two key dimensions, “Budget & Participation” and “Sports Facilities & Outdoor Environment.” The latter was weighted more heavily than the former because the accessibility of public facilities mainly determines how well the population can engage in physical activity.
With regard to our sample, please note that “city” refers to city proper and excludes surrounding metro areas.
Next, we compiled 24 relevant metrics, which are listed below with their corresponding weights. Each metric was given a value between 0 and 100, wherein 100 is the best value for that metric and 0 is the worst. Data for metrics marked with an asterisk (*) were available only at the state level and therefore received only half a weight.
Finally, we calculated the overall score for each city and ranked them using the weighted average across all metrics.

Budget & Participation – Total Points: 30

• Average Monthly Fitness-Club Fee: Double Weight (~7.06 Points)
• Average Bowling Cost: Half Weight (~1.76 Points)
• Average Cost of Playing Squash: Half* Weight (~1.76 Points)
• Average Tennis Court Rent (for one hour during the weekend): Half Weight (~1.76 Points)
• Number of Sporting-Goods Stores per 100,000 Residents: Full Weight (~3.53 Points)
• Number of Sports Clubs per 100,000 Residents: Full Weight (~3.53 Points)
• Percentage of Residents Who Engage in Any Physical Activity: Full Weight (~3.53 Points)
• Number of Little Leagues per 1,000,000 Residents: Full Weight (~3.53 Points)
• Pick-Up Soccer Meetups per 1,000,000 Residents: Full Weight (~3.53 Points)

Sports Facilities & Outdoor Environment – Total Points: 70

• Number of Swimming Pools per 1,000,000 Residents: Full Weight (~4.83 Points)
• Number of Basketball Hoops per 100,000 Residents: Full Weight (~4.83 Points)
• Number of Tennis Courts per 100,000 Residents: Full Weight (~4.83 Points)
• Number of Public Golf Courses per 1,000,000 Residents: Full Weight (~4.83 Points)
• Number of Baseball Diamonds per 100,000 Residents: Full Weight (~4.83 Points)
• Number of Ice-Skating Rinks per 1,000,000 Residents: Full Weight (~4.83 Points)
• Number of Skateboard Parks per 1,000,000 Residents: Full Weight (~4.83 Points)
• Bike Score: Full Weight (~4.83 Points)
• Number of Bike Rental Facilities per 1,000,000 Residents: Half Weight (~2.41 Points)
• Walk Score: Full Weight (~4.83 Points)
• Number of Fitness Centers per 100,000 Residents: Full Weight (~4.83 Points)
• Number of Fitness Trainers & Aerobics Instructors per 100,000 Residents: Full Weight (~4.83 Points)
• Number of Park Playgrounds per 100,000 Residents: Full Weight (~4.83 Points)
• Number of Parkland Acres per 1,000 Residents: Full Weight (~4.83 Points)
• WalletHub “Weather” Ranking: Full Weight (~4.83 Points)"

And yet  Laredo, Texas which came in at 100 on the scale still had a “Budget & Participation” Rank of 93 and a “Sports Facilities & Outdoor Environment” Rank of 100. How can that be? And what about Scottsdale, Arizona which came in #1 on the list with a “Budget & Participation” Rank of only 11 and a “Sports Facilities & Outdoor Environment” Rank of a measly 4. Does that mean these rankings are skewed? Rigged perhaps?

No, what it means is the one thing the News & Record and Greensboro's elected leaders would rather I not tell you. Your health has more to do with your income than the number of parks or fitness centers where you live.

In Laredo there are lots of public spaces and places where you can get lots of exercise and it never gets cold. But per capita income in Laredo is extremely low so people can't afford to stay healthy. And Scottsdale beats out Greensboro on most every WalletHub list that indicates folks in Scottsdale might have more money:

Education:

Most Caring.

Best and Worst Cities for Hispanic Entrepreneurs That's amazing considering that Scottsdale is almost all white and rich.

Amazingly, Scottsdale is smaller than Greensboro. The first time I saw Scottsdale it was smaller than Burlington. Scottsdale was "incorporated in 1951 with a population of 2000, the 2014 population of the city is estimated to be 230,512 according to the U.S. Census Bureau." I remember building cable television systems in Scottsdale before most of the houses were built when most of the city was still desert.

So why did Scottsdale grow over the course of the last 30 plus years while Greensboro died? And why won't the media tell you?

Joe Killian's Yellow Journalism

Yesterday I posted  A Piece Of Her Mind, a letter by forner Greensboro City Councilwoman T Diane Bellamy-Small on the yellow journalism written by Joe Killian of the Greensboro News & Record.

At the time I had not yet read the piece Ms Bellamy-Small was referring to and only posted it because it was recommended by a trusted EzGreensboro.com team member.

It was this morning when reading The Tinfoil Hat Brigade by Under Siege that I realized that I was also subject of the same hit piece as Ms Bellamy-Small. Fec ends his critism of Killian with the following:

"Using front page top of the fold positioning to impugn the local bloggers is more about protecting Killian’s reputation than the mayor’s. Killian is paid to commit yellow journalism, whereas Billy has published an enormous amount of content for over ten years without significant income.  Sure he’s over the top and often wrong, but the First Amendment guarantees that right.  And in a local environment where the media increasingly refrains from reporting important news, Billy’s blog has become required reading.

So, you have our local daily coming down hard on the bloggers for the perceived slight of one person.  Trust me, there a lot of people who have problems with Killian and some of them are elected officials."

 
 
It’s obvious Killian wrote a paid, political hit piece. And its obvious that what myself and others with blogs and social media are doing is scaring the wits out of the status quo and local main stream media. Keep up the good work, all of you. 

And on this part: " ...Billy has published an enormous amount of content for over ten years without significant income." Billy has earned zero income from his political writings. On that I give you my word. If I made any money I'd be sued for every dime of it.


What I find fascinating is that not once in my series, Joe Killian and the Dark Money Trail did I ever accuse Mayor Vaughan of trying to kill or have Devin King killed. The closest I came to accusing anyone of violence, and it isn’t an outright accusal, would be what I said about Kotis and his online argument with King. After all, Kotis’ reactions to online arguments are well known and sometimes violent.

Full Disclosure: I verified to Kotis the address of Jeff Martin's business the day Kotis went to Martin's business to "talk" to Martin. A talk that ended up in a fight. I've done many things of which I am not proud.


But I did accuse Killian and the Greensboro Police of covering up the story and it appears with the publishing of his latest hit piece that I'm right on target.

Killian outright lied. There is in-fact one more suspect whose name I never mentioned but because both GPD and local media failed to do their jobs that suspect will never be proven innocent or guilty. And we'll never know if Devin King was telling the truth or not as it was he who first suggested that someone tried to have him killed.

I never accused anyone, all I ever tried to do was follow leads and get police and media to investigate what was obviously a bungled police investigation from the start.

Ask yourself this: How is it that the insurance investigator "found" the missing bumper cover from Devin King's car 2 weeks after the crash when Greensboro Police had been unable to find the bumper cover all along?

That's the question Joe Killian never sought to answer. The question I e-mailed Cheif Wayne Scott repeatedly throughout the entire time I was writing Joe Killian and the Dark Money Trail.

That's right, I leave trails too. And if Greensboro had real journalists instead of Joe Killian they would be submitting public information requests and following those trails.

A Piece Of Her Mind

A mutual friend forwarded me the following by our former City Councilwoman so I decided to post it in our Letters to the Editor section:

"Hold my mule....
by T. Dianne Bellamy-Small


We only have one daily local newspaper in Greensboro. A wise man told me a long time ago that as long as they have ink and paper they can print whatever they want. It is not news that this paper is obviously quite biased. It picks and chooses the issues, beliefs,and the individuals that it will lift up or try to tear down. A few of our local weekly papers try to stick to more journalism if they can afford it. Then some are opinion and profit rags. 

What was printed on the front page of today's paper is not funny or even intelligent. When I was a cub reporter many years ago, I was taught that my job as a journalist was to get the facts, do the research,verify the information and then report the story. I had the honor of working with journalists who believes in integrity, diligence and responsibility. 

What is being reported in the newspaper today is more about being mean-spirited, not thoroughly researched and ofttimes just the opinion of the writer. Media that spends more time insulting people and displaying a childish need to get a laugh is beyond pathetic. 

I hope that readers who take the time to even bother with that paper will look beyond the printed word and find out what people and issues really are about.

I have constantly been the target of this paper and other papers with information that was not true and hurtful. I don't like it and I hope others who see the hateful mean-spiritedness printed will also speak out or just ignore it.

I've given most of my life to service to the people and the greater good. To be marginalized by a paper or groups of people to maintain their selfish status is not acceptable. I ask to serve because I have demonstrated that I have much to offer and no man has given me these gifts. I clearly understand who has sent me. 

I understand the political process and want to be of service to the people not to the process. Anyone who wants to know the truth about me needs to come as me. I am reachable and honest and worthy to be quoted. 

The local papers would do better to clean up their act, be fair, transparent and be a more objective service to our community."

Our thanks to T. Dianne Bellamy-Small for speaking out. As I've written before, we didn't know what we had until she was gone.

Watching The News & Record Squirm

Ever wondered how the reporters at the News & Record get their stories? Well when they're not reading EzGreensboro.com they're mostly making things up.

For example: recent articles about the International Civil Rights Museum have turned out to be pretty much all fiction. Yes, the ICRCM is riddled with problems but nothing like as many problems as the N&R keeps telling you. I mean, honestly I believe Skip Alston is a thief and a liar, and every time I ever met Earl Jones he was drunk, slurring his words and hanging on to what looked to be young prostitutes but the ICRCM is a lot bigger and a lot more important than Skip and Earl will ever be. Skip and Earl won't live forever but the legacy of the Civil Rights movement will.

Take this e-mail that was recently sent to ICRCM board members:

"Dear Community: A public information request was made by the News and Record for the documents that were shared at the last Civil Rights Center & Museum board meeting. 

Since they will be made public, I wanted to share them with you as well, please see the attached DRAFT.  I hope you will see that the museum leadership is working very hard to increase revenue, manage costs/expenses and stabilize our finances.  We are grateful for your support and how you all have rallied around the museum during this critical time.  Because of you, the attendance for the Annual ICRCM fund raising gala is nearing "Sold Out" status.  We will continue to keep you informed. 

We are in the process of a turnaround and part of that is clarifying our vision.  We haven't completed that process yet, but feel confident about the direction we are heading in.  The schematic outlines our short term options and long term components of sustainability required to grow and is capable of building a strong institution.  We have engaged external expertise to develop best business practices regarding legal protocols and revenue enhancing through a solid business plan.  Stabilizing the museum financially continues to be our priority. 

Thank you!

Deena Hayes-Greene"

 

Attachment Draft"

 

As you can see by clicking on the draft there's not really anything there except a format from which to build on but the News & Record has been writing negative stories and plans to continue writing negative stories based on no more than documents like this. And does the News & Record EVER produce the actual documents they mention in their stories?

 

I do, on a daily basis.

 

 

A Solution To The CWP-Nazi-KKK Historical Marker Problem

As usual, in this morning's News & Record editorial, Twenty-five words, the News & Record editorial staff pointed a lot of fingers and made a lot of noise but never got down to the brass tacks of the problem: On one side were people promoting a sign with very inflamed language:

“Greensboro Massacre — Ku Klux Klansmen and American Nazi Party members, on Nov. 3, 1979, shot and killed five Communist Workers Party members one-tenth mile north.”

Even the N&R editorial staff described it as terse-- a cowardly synonym for inflammatory.

On the other side are people who are afraid to see the story told. People who while claiming revisionist history don't want the history even to be recorded. Sad, so very sad.

Even members of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission have objected to the use of the word massacre. From Wikipedia:

A massacre is a specific incident which involves the deliberate slaughter of unarmed people, although a tight definition has never emerged

Remember, members of the CWP shot back. There were not entirely unarmed. Outgunned, unprepared for what they had gotten themselves into but not unarmed.

And nothing the CWP did excuses the Nazis and KKK members of their own crimes. They came there to kill and should have been punished as such. Had it not been for the involvement of police, FBI and Mayor Jim Melvin they would have been.

But not once does the News & Record Editorial Staff or the Greensboro City Council consider rewording the sign. Not a word is uttered about rewording the sign except in comment threads by yours truly and a few others including Christine Wilhelm who suggested:

"Death to the Klan March CWP & KKK-Nazis Shootout occurred near here November 3, 1979 at the former Morningside Homes Federal Housing Community."

Her sign tells the truth just as historical markers are meant to do. It might not be perfect but it's the first alternative I've seen. It was a tragic event, a dark day in our city's history and one we should never forget lest we be doomed to repeat it. A historical marker should be placed there, just not the proposed historical marker. If not Ms Wilhelm's wording then another but the original wording is unacceptable. And we deserve a City Council bold enough to say so.