Right below its Skybus editorial, the N&R flips a coin and endorses incumbent Goldie Wells for the District 2 City Council seat. A fine display of how to endorse a candidate in 300 words or less.
As you can imagine, Wells’ comments about property taxes during the last budget session have stuck with me. As a result, I was looking forward to seeing who would challenge her in the upcoming election.
But you can also imagine that I’m not that impressed with challenger Lance Jones’ recent comments:
One of America’s worst realities is racism. There is no difference between racism in Jena, La., and Greensboro when looking at the judicial system as it relates to the poor black, white and Latin-speaking communities. Racists in powerful positions are also victims. The way to fix the problem in Greensboro is in the atonement process: 1. Point out the wrong. 2. Acknowledge the wrong. 3. Confess the fault. 4. Repent. 5. Atone. 6. (Victims may) forgive. 7. Reconcile and restore. 8. Perfect union within our police department, the community, the wrongdoer and God. When these steps are practiced, they will bring about a healing in our city and open up the way to a culture of peace based on genuine forgiveness and an understanding of historical prejudices.
But you want to know what the real problem is? District 2 is my district. Looks like I’ll be flipping a coin, too. Never a good thing inside the voting booth.
