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  • County Commissioner Yow stands by NAACP remarks - opposes them until death (Whoo-hoo alert!)

    02/21/2003 2:17:48 PM PST · by Libloather · 11 replies · 291+ views
    News & Record ^ | 2/21/03 | ALEX WAYNE
    Yow stands by NAACP remarks 2-21-03 By ALEX WAYNE, Staff Writer News & Record GREENSBORO -- A group of High Point civil rights leaders called for Guilford County Commissioner Billy Yow to apologize Thursday -- or resign -- for comments he made last week about the NAACP that they consider racially offensive. Yow, who is white, angrily refused to either apologize or resign his seat. He later criticized the group for calling him out at a public meeting. "If they had any backbone at all they would have picked up the phone and called me," Yow said after Thursday's commissioners...