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Nah, The fact that the title of the OP includes the race of the judge tells me all I need to know.

Commented: Tuesday, December 19th, 2023 @ 8:41 am By: Big Bob

Bobbie does not want to 'fess up that it was HIS party, the Democrats who brought Jim Crow to North Carolina. Charles Aycock and his Red Shirts. It was the Republicans (and the Populists) who voted against the Jim Crow laws when the Democrats introduced them in the legislature. Look it up, Bobbie.

Commented: Monday, December 18th, 2023 @ 10:21 pm By: Rino Hunter

Have a nice day

Commented: Monday, December 18th, 2023 @ 9:13 pm By: Big Bob

The opinions of expert medical researchers who have a lot more expertise and experience in these areas than a country doctor, would seem to be worthy of consideration, as would databases compiled by government researchers. The VAERS database in the US, and a similar database in Europe have always been public, so the government attempt to cover up this one in New Zealand is eyeopening. While VAERS does not specifically break out the Covid vaxes, the number of vaccine related incidents goes up dramatically once the Covid vaccines came on the scene.

Commented: Monday, December 18th, 2023 @ 9:28 pm By: John Steed

Correction, Bigot Bob, YOU are the one making stuff up. You won'r accept what I have to say, but even leftwing Wikipedia says Jim Crow was from the turn of the century (NOT 1865) to 1965 (NOT today). en.wikipedia.org

Lets look at how Jim Crow came to North Carolina, for example. For about 15 years starting in 1865, North Carolina was under northern military occupation, called Reconstruction, and that regime was highly favorable to blacks, except perhaps to the blacks who had fought in the Confederate army or navy. After Reconstruction ended, there was a relative balance in society.

Then in the 1896 election, the "fusion" ticket of the Republicans, then the party of most black voters, and the Populists, won the governorship with Republican Daniel Russell and a majority of the legislature, also electing a fusion US Senator. The Democrats responded with a white supremacy campaign, with a racist goon squad called the Red Shirts. The Democrats ran the 1898 legislative campaign on a platform of white supremacy and won a majority. In 1899, they passed a voter registration law with a literacy test, poll tax, and grandfather clause, the first of NC's Jim Crow laws. In 1900, Democrat Charles Aycock, who had helped plan the racial pogrom at Wilmington, beat the Republican / Populist candidate for governor. After Aycock took office in 1901, the white supremacy Democrats had all the levers of power and they went whole hog on Jim Crow.

BTW, the big annual Democrat Party dinner in North Carolina until not too many years ago was the Vance / Aycock dinner, and the Aycock in the name was the very same Charles Aycock.

Commented: Monday, December 18th, 2023 @ 7:24 pm By: Conservative Voter

Neither is the covid Novavax

Commented: Monday, December 18th, 2023 @ 3:59 pm By: Big Bob

Hmmmm, now you are just making stuff up. I'm out. I don't debate crazy.

Commented: Monday, December 18th, 2023 @ 10:04 am By: Big Bob

No "medical advice" in the post, only medical facts, some that many govenrments around the world, and Big Pharma, try to suppress.

Had my flu shot, too. It is not mRNA.

Commented: Monday, December 18th, 2023 @ 9:02 am By: John Steed

The Summer of George continues.

Commented: Sunday, December 17th, 2023 @ 11:17 pm By: Stan Deatherage

1865 until now. 100 plus years. And yes, you still benefit from Jim Crow today. Proof? Being so nice and white, you can deny it ever really happened or 'wasn't so bad'.

Thank you for conceding my point on the religion.

Commented: Sunday, December 17th, 2023 @ 7:37 pm By: Big Bob

Firebrand:

Eighty-year-olds may have something to offer called wisdom. What have consolidated schools brought you? 65% of the children in Beaufort County are below the standard reading level and math levels. If the current goes off, they can't make change. Most cannot read a ruler. Many cannot read cursive. How about basic math like 8X9? Let's look at discipline. I know some teachers who have left the profession because of not getting the support they needed. Last year (2021) 8 of 13 Schools in Beaufort County were rated (D) (now 40) by the DPE. I talked to a man running for the school board in Belhaven who has two people on the PTO (Old PTA) committee. No Parent involvement. Another one of us old eighty-year-olds wanted to visit a class his grandchild was attending. He found that was not allowed. There was a time when we had "Grade Mothers" who came and helped students who were falling behind. There are tons of money for underserved children, but I never hear this mentioned at the local school board meeting. We are facing the largest drop-out rate of students in history and building bigger schools that the Government control is not the answer. Ride through some small towns and communities that got smaller when the schools were closed for consolidation.

If bigger and consolidation works, show me.
Buzz Cayton

Commented: Sunday, December 17th, 2023 @ 7:30 pm By: Beaufort Observer Editorial Team