The Reverend Whacks the Chairman
2010-01-20 - by
One of the more dangerous varmints walking around on two legs is the good old-fashioned morally outraged Southern Demagogue and right now Reverend William Barber (head of the NAACP) fills the bill and he’s as mad as hell; the Reverend’s razor-tongued and ’fraid of nothing and he’s chomped down on school board Chairman Ron Margiotta with a bulldog grip and shows no sign of turning loose.
Barber’s telling every newspaper reporter who’ll listen Margiotta (who’s from New Jersey) is a throwback to 50’s red-necks, who wants to restore segregation – and what’s more the Reverend’s put the Chairman over a barrel by demanding forty-five minutes to rip into him in front of the TV cameras at the next school board meeting.
What on earth can Margiotta do to avoid a pending disaster? He’s got a buzz saw by the tail and being a Yankee he’s got no idea how to outsmart a southern politician. The minute he tells Barber no he gets pummeled for being un-American and anti-free speech and comes out looking like a thug; but if he’s open-minded and tells Barber yes the Reverend’s going to stand in front of the TV cameras and make it sound like Margiotta’s first cousin to a Grand Knight of the KKK.
Margiotta’s only got one hope but it’s risky: To give the Reverend more than he’s asking for which means (in poker parlance) calling the Reverend then raising him. How? By inviting every local elected Democratic politician in sight to speak at the school board meeting.
At first glance that sounds crazy but what matters is the local Democrats – the ones who have to get re-elected this fall – don’t want to get within a mile of that school board meeting.
And they’ve got good reason: Because last election voters sent a troop of Democratic candidates packing for supporting the Reverend’s position when it comes to busing suburban nine year-olds to achieve racial ‘diversity.’ That’s why just about the only Democrat hollerin’ right now is the Reverend, who’s not running for anything.
So Chairman Margiotta ought to write the Reverend and Mayor Charles Meeker and Commissioner Betty Lou Ward and every other Democrat running in Wake County and say, I’m inviting you all to come on over to the meeting and explain to voters how you figure their voting to return to neighborhood schools – last election – makes them segregationists.
The Reverend Whacks the Chairman
2010-01-20/
One of the more dangerous varmints walking around on two legs is the good old-fashioned morally outraged Southern Demagogue and right now Reverend William Barber (head of the NAACP) fills the bill and he’s as mad as hell; the Reverend’s razor-tongued and ’fraid of nothing and he’s chomped down on school board Chairman Ron Margiotta with a bulldog grip and shows no sign of turning loose.
Barber’s telling every newspaper reporter who’ll listen Margiotta (who’s from New Jersey) is a throwback to 50’s red-necks, who wants to restore segregation – and what’s more the Reverend’s put the Chairman over a barrel by demanding forty-five minutes to rip into him in front of the TV cameras at the next school board meeting.
What on earth can Margiotta do to avoid a pending disaster? He’s got a buzz saw by the tail and being a Yankee he’s got no idea how to outsmart a southern politician. The minute he tells Barber no he gets pummeled for being un-American and anti-free speech and comes out looking like a thug; but if he’s open-minded and tells Barber yes the Reverend’s going to stand in front of the TV cameras and make it sound like Margiotta’s first cousin to a Grand Knight of the KKK.
Margiotta’s only got one hope but it’s risky: To give the Reverend more than he’s asking for which means (in poker parlance) calling the Reverend then raising him. How? By inviting every local elected Democratic politician in sight to speak at the school board meeting.
At first glance that sounds crazy but what matters is the local Democrats – the ones who have to get re-elected this fall – don’t want to get within a mile of that school board meeting.
And they’ve got good reason: Because last election voters sent a troop of Democratic candidates packing for supporting the Reverend’s position when it comes to busing suburban nine year-olds to achieve racial ‘diversity.’ That’s why just about the only Democrat hollerin’ right now is the Reverend, who’s not running for anything.
So Chairman Margiotta ought to write the Reverend and Mayor Charles Meeker and Commissioner Betty Lou Ward and every other Democrat running in Wake County and say, I’m inviting you all to come on over to the meeting and explain to voters how you figure their voting to return to neighborhood schools – last election – makes them segregationists.