You can't imagine the ability of the Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners to find ways to waste taxpayers money.
In May 2021, Commissioners Mark Jerrell and Laura Meier of the Mecklenburg County Board of County Commissioners reached out to the Robinson-Spangler Carolina Room at Charlotte-Mecklenburg Library about their aims for restorative justice in the county. As a public resource, the Robinson-Spangler Carolina Room houses historical works and original materials that document the history of North Carolina, Mecklenburg County, and the greater Charlotte area. Therefore, Commissioners Jerrell and Meier have enlisted the help of the Carolina Room to produce an evidence-based report on the historical actions and inactions of the government of Mecklenburg County that resulted in the perpetuation of systemic racism. Active discrimination and apathy on the part of public and private institutions have sustained the racial inequities that exist in the region today.
You can read the entire 40 page document which is essentially Charlotte's own Critical Race Theory here. And you should read it because it cost you the taxpayer about $1,000.00 a page.
The report presents the usual racist tropes promoted by hate groups like the NAACP and Southern Poverty Law Center for years.
Much of the report centers on "racist police" that have remained unchanged since reconstruction.
Addressing the riots following the Officer Involved Shooting of Keith Lamont Scott and later George Floyd the report states;
While these demonstrations were a reaction to the most recent police-involved shooting, the protests represented decades of frustration with law enforcement in Mecklenburg County. Onlookers from Charlotte’s more suburban districts were shocked by the unrest, but to residents of the county’s over-policed, predominantly Black neighborhoods, the marches and riots amplified calls for justice that had existed since the dawn of modern policing. These communities understand first-hand that the criminal justice system in Mecklenburg County has unequally targeted Black citizens from its conception. Racism was built into the operations of the county courts and police force at their founding, and Black residents of the greater Charlotte area disproportionately experience the ramifications today.
Then report compares the police to "slave patrols":
Many local historians, such as Ryan Sumner and Dan L. Morrill, have written about the connections between southern police forces and pre-Civil War slave patrols.
Addressing Mecklenburg County's only Lynching a fact that is lost on those who produced the report:
Lynching in Mecklenburg County
In his essay on the lynching of Joe McNeely, J. Michael Moore asserts that the prison camps in Mecklenburg County were among the worst in North Carolina, in terms of treatment of inmates. In the early 1900s, two of the most notable inmates were a pair of brothers, James and Joe McNeely. James “Chicken Jim” McNeely was shot four times by a prison guard in 1908, after he allegedly tried to run from chain gang duty. James died of his wounds at the Good Samaritan Hospital.
His brother, Joe, had served time in a labor camp for fighting in 1907; therefore, he had experienced the very worst of the convict leasing system both through brutal treatment for a minor crime and the murder of his brother.
On 22 August 1913, Joe McNeely engaged in a shootout with Charlotte police officer L.L. Wilson, who was responding to a report of men brandishing guns on South Tyron Street.
While the Charlotte Daily Observer indicated that McNeely began the shooting, his motives for firing at Officer Wilson are unknown. One could speculate that McNeely feared returning to the prison camps after his experiences with the brutality of the system.
Both parties were rushed to the hospital – Wilson to the Presbyterian Hospital in Charlotte and McNeely to the Good Samaritan Hospital, the only Black medical center in Mecklenburg County.
Four days later, a mob broke into the Good Samaritan Hospital and dragged McNeely outside. The group of masked men shot him multiple times and left him for dead.
This lynching was believed to be the first in Mecklenburg County, shattering any perception of the region’s “progress” in race relations. The subsequent handling of Joe McNeely’s murder highlights the structural racism in Mecklenburg County’s criminal justice system in the 1900s.
The report takes issue with the fact that no one was ever charged with the murder of McNeely.
According to the report:
The legacy of school segregation lives on today, and is increasingly visible in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school system, which was the most segregated district in North Carolina as of 2019.
Typical of those you believe they have been wronged and blame life's disappointments solely on the color of their skin the authors have combined fact with fiction to further their claim of systemic racism.
And it is easy to point to arrests as posted on the Mecklenburg County Sheriff's Office web site. On any given day the number of African Americans is typically 3 or 4 times that of white arrestees. Yet the African American population of Charlotte is only 35% so clearly Police are racist? That or African Americans are 3 times more likely to be involved in criminal activity than their white counterparts.
Scroll through the arrests and you'll quickly notice that white people are arrested for DWI and Assault occosinally B&E. Black inmates are typically charged with more serious and violent offences.
The fact is for some reason African Americans are simply committing more crimes. On any given night the number of CMPD Officers in Providence or South districts is 1/4 that of smaller Central or Metro districts. Black communities are not "over policed" in fact the Beatties Ford mass shooting that left four dead and another 11 injured was a direct result of CMPD Officers being told to stand down.
It is unfortunate that the democrat Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners would have the Mecklenburg County Library which is run by an African American administration produce a racist manifesto supporting their claim of systemic racism.
Charlotte and Mecklenburg County as many with many communities in the South have enjoyed peace and harmony for decades. We are not perfect there are racial stereotypes that indeed endure. Yet even Dr. King found that the state of race in Charlotte was of little interest to him when compared to Memphis, Atlanta, Selma and Birmingham. So much so that he wasted little time in Charlotte during any of his very brief two visits to the Queen City
9 comments:
waste of taxpayer dollars. like the mural on the skreet after floyd
Anyone surprised? What a waste of effort more divisively sick WOKE BULL SHIT. The city and county are run by nuggets so you should not be surprised. The BOCC is all democrats. White Fight is what killed Baltimore and Detroit. I know we talk about Detroit a lot but do you realize at one time Detroit was a thriving city of nearly 1.9 million? Now it's less than 700,000! That's white flight. Ask yourself why does Charlotte a city where the population is 2/3rds white have a city and county run by all nuggets? Because the real taxpayers are planning to leave. And when it starts it is going to be epic. Property values are going to plummet.
"The number of crimes committed by members of the African American community is disproportional to the population at a 5-1 ratio. Yet the liberal masses refuse to address the fact that "The African American Community has become a culture of violence embracing criminality and gun play". Instead of addressing this core issue, they dismiss this charge as racism and white privilege."
What is the reasoning behind this? White guilt? Really? So white people should be ashamed their grandparents where racist democrats or slavery supporting plantation owners? OK I'm embarrassed. Is Vilma Leak embarrassed that her family is full of unwed mothers? Is Vi Lyles ashamed that her grand parents were spear chukers who were not fast enough to outrun the slave traders? What about Johnnie should he hang his head that his great grand father was an Uncle Tom? Yep this is pretty stupid after all its 2022 and in another 20 years ain't no one gonna give a shit. Someone tell the BOCC to just knock it off.
I went to the link and read parts of the county funded the document. Such a bunch of bullshit. Cops are bad. White people suck. White elected officials are really bad. People who tired to correct the wrongs of the past are still racist. All white people are racist. On and on.
Next time you need the police call DBaby or Vi Lyes.
I don't need to read this to understand this city is still segregated, not by law, but by action. We still have Stonewall Street uptown, and West Charlotte and Harding are still underperforming AK and MPHS. Until we see equity in results, you haven't tried hard enough.
All well said 11:56 but you know you'll not going to change anything by being critical of the past. Today problems in the black community have nothing to do with the past and everything to do with the here and now. Can't raise kids without fathers or discipline. At court system that makes excuses for felons rather than making the law count are the reason we are here at this crossroads. Unless the Black community can admit that they are the problem and not the past it will never change.
7:29...You are right in your assessment, "Unless the Black community can admit that they are the problem". They choose to blame rather than accept.!
'Deez nuggitz!
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