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This stands to reason that if one, perchance, gets stabbed about 20 times while in prison, it is a good idea that one NOT be a fentanyl addict, high of fentanyl at the time of the multiple stabbings, with two partially blocked arteries.

Sadly, one just might just discover that 'they can't breathe.'

Commented: Saturday, December 9th, 2023 @ 12:37 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Jann and Countrygirl1411: Absolutely in Agreement. In this RINO Rich area, in these RINO Rich times, I always say: Examine the candidate, examine your conscience, and vote for your Republic.

It almost never fails for me and my wife.

Commented: Saturday, December 9th, 2023 @ 7:47 am By: Stan Deatherage

I was one of the guinea pigs on your sides social experiment on massive forced bussing, Bob. The school system I attended was the defendant in that lawsuit and it brought chaos to my senior year in high school as we were the first impacted. Judge James McMillan broke with previous law with a radical new ruling.

When I started at South Mecklenburg High School in 1968, we had a black community in Pineville, NC and a number of rural black communities in our attendance zone, and they made up a bit under 15% of the student body. Black and white students got along well and we had no problems.

McMillan's ruling required all schools countywide to have an arbitrary ratio of 70% white and 30% black. South Mecklenburg lost a few of the black communities in rural areas that had attended the school, and had a massive influx of students from the Second Ward High School in central Charlotte, which was closed and the students bussed a long distance to our school (and some bussed to other high schools).

The students from Second Ward did not want to be at South Mecklenburg. When our coaches tried to recruit their top athletes for our teams, most of them refused to play for SouthMeck. There was a well organizaed "student government in exile" among the Second Ward students who demanded their high school be reinstated and themselves returned there. A number of prominent black businessmen and professionals who had been involved in Second Ward's alumni organization publicly quit the NAACP blaming them as the lawsuit plaintiffs for the loss of their school.

At the other predominantly black high school, West Charlotte HS, which remained open, there was an assembly held to tell students where they would be bussed to the following school year. The students responded with loud boos and walked out of the assembly in protest. The radical activist Judge McMillan never bothered to ask actual black students where they wanted to go to school.

My senior year, when the forced bussing came in, was absolute chaos. Bomb threats, race riots, racial assaults, and similar problems were a common occurence, things that never happened my first two years of high school. The blacks who had been going to SouthMeck and those bussed in from Second Ward were constantly at loggerheads, and sometimes physical fights broke out between the groups. Those bussed in, who did not want to be there, resented those who felt at home at SouthMeck.

Serving on the Interclub Council, my junior and senior years, all of our clubs saw a big falloff in participation. While the blacks from Pineville and the rural areas still participated, there was almost no participation from the newcomers from Second Ward. Part of that may have been their long distances to home made afterschool activities impractical, but part of it was they did not feel a part of our school and resented being sent there.

Race relations took a huge nosedive from Judge McMillan's radical social experiment. I particularly felt sorry for the black students who had been part of our school before bussing being treated so badly by the Second Ward newcomers.

And, Bob, our schools were in full compliance with what the law was prior to McMillan's radical ruling, but he changed the law on us and everyone else.

Commented: Friday, December 8th, 2023 @ 10:53 pm By: Steven P. Rader

NC wasn’t in compliance until 1971.
My point, we dished it out. A little accountability won’t kill you.

Commented: Friday, December 8th, 2023 @ 8:01 pm By: Big Bob

Nikki Haley lost me when she had establishment Republican Paul Ryan, who is liberal on a number of issues, trying to get endorsements for her. If Paul Ryan is for someone, I am NOT!

Commented: Friday, December 8th, 2023 @ 9:29 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer

CV: Beaufort County was full integrated by 1967. Long before 1967, Beaufort County began integration on a limited basis, which would explain the "freedom of choice for parents."

In 1968, my junior high was integrated to the point that many of my team mates were Black, my coach was Black, and we all got along quite well. I kept a cordial relationship with my coach, Dave Smith, until his death.

Coach Smith gave me all the playing time I could stand in both football and basketball.

Commented: Friday, December 8th, 2023 @ 1:07 pm By: Stan Deatherage

Remember, we have the best politician's money can buy.
The man who should be there did not have the funds.

Commented: Friday, December 8th, 2023 @ 10:19 am By: Buzz Cayton

Jann, agree with "I quit falling for "vote for me cause I'm Republican crap."
Also for me no more voting for the lesser of the 2 evils as I would still voting for evil.

Commented: Friday, December 8th, 2023 @ 8:13 am By: Countrygirl1411

No such intentions. CV shot his mouth off so I will shut him up;
1971
"After this decision, public schools throughout North Carolina began busing students in order to desegregate fully. By the 1971–1972 school year, North Carolina finally had met the requirements of the Supreme Court's Brown decision satisfactorily."

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He went to a mostly white school that was segregated, which was not his fault, But then goes on to tell us, from his white perspective, how it was so great. No mention of, or empathy for, those for whom it was not so great.
The he whines because I'm all about race. He is too. The difference is, he about one race, I am about the human race. Neither of us are perfect, but I sleep well at night.

Commented: Thursday, December 7th, 2023 @ 9:16 pm By: Big Bob

The nazis may back jB, (they don't), but bB doesn't back them. The same cant be said of Trump.

Commented: Thursday, December 7th, 2023 @ 8:58 pm By: Big Bob

Central bank digital currency is a huge threat to our privacy and gives government a lot more control over our lives than they already have. It is a goal of the globalist totalitarians of the World Economic Forum (Klaus Schwab, Davos). Greg Murphy is clearly not our friend on this issue. His letter shows he is undecided and that stinks. Walter Jones would have had our backs but Murphy clearly does NOT.

Commented: Thursday, December 7th, 2023 @ 7:43 pm By: Concerned Taxpayer