http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/news/
(Raleigh) News & Observer
ELON - The ruling body of the N.C. Democratic Party took a stand on searing issues of the past and present Saturday, adopting a resolution apologizing for the party's role in what is known as the 1898 Wilmington race riot and another calling for the withdrawal of troops from Iraq.
The first nonbinding measure repudiated the role of party leaders in the racially motivated violence of Nov. 17, 1898. Dozens of black citizens were killed in the fray, which terrorized and banished black businessmen, community leaders, journalists and their white allies.....
....The Wilmington resolution, by contrast, drew no debate and was passed unanimously.
The violence of 1898 was the most notorious act of a white supremacy campaign that resulted in laws that denied the vote to blacks and poor whites across the state. The conflict gave rise to Jim Crow legislation that instituted segregation that remained in place until the civil rights movement of the 1960s.
State party Chairman Jerry Meek, who was unanimously re-elected by the committee Saturday, said the apology was an attempt to address the role of Democratic leaders and leading newspapers of the state -- including The (Raleigh) News & Observer and The Charlotte Observer -- in the riot and the party's subsequent statewide reign as proponents of white supremacy. That role was detailed in a 464-page report released in May by the 1898 Wilmington Race Riot Commission.
Those recommendations include establishing a Restructuring & Development Authority endowed by governments, media and businesses -- particularly those that benefited from the riot and subsequent takeover of state government by white supremacists. The commission also recommended creating a system for hearing claims for reparations by heirs of victims.....
...."Certainly, an apology is the minimum thing that is required," said Irving Joyner, a commission vice chairman and a law professor at N.C. Central University in Durham. "I would hope they would go further and look at all the recommendations in our report and seek to get all or some of them enacted by the legislature.
"That would show they are really serious about the apology and righting the wrongs of that overthrow."
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Any wonder why the racebaiters are cranking up the racist machine?
REPARATIONS!!!!
Race pimps and precious is but one ho' in the stable.
From article: The ruling body of the N.C. Democratic Party took a stand on searing issues of the past and present Saturday, adopting a resolution apologizing for the party's role in what is known as the 1898 Wilmington race riot and another calling for the withdrawal of troops from Iraq.
Now, the WilmingtonJournal article "We're Watching YOU MR. COOPER", make a great deal more sense, no?
The article you posted is dated January 21. Today.
The "threatening" article to Mr. Cooper, January 18-24, issue.
"Certainly, an apology is the minimum thing that is required," said Irving Joyner, a commission vice chairman and a law professor at N.C. Central University in Durham. "I would hope they would go further and look at all the recommendations in our report and seek to get all or some of them enacted by the legislature.
That sound you hear in the background is the sound of crashing county and city bond ratings in North Carolina.