Dear Ms. Lunelle,
On Friday, May 10, 2024 I would attend the Council of Independent Business Owners (“CIBO”) in Asheville, NC. The Agenda encompassed the Recognition of Candidates for the Office of Commission and its Chair.
The Candidate questions were pre-determined and the membership and public could only listen to the Candidate response. (Fund Balances, tax increases to fund Teachers' pay, building in the Historic District, Affordable Housing, chronic mental health, short-term rentals, budget lows and surplus, crime).
The Honorable AL Whiteside (County Commissioner) would ask the CIBO President to break the Agenda protocol to answer his question. His request was granted.
However, as he made himself to the podium, I asked him to address the issue of Reparations. My request was rejected by President Canady who commented that “reparations was a door that CIBO had chosen not to open”
This is despite the fact that two of the Candidates in attendance were African American. (One of whom I had chosen to wholeheartedly endorse…the Honorable Jennifer Horton).
I must remind my readers that it was the scalawag Stockholm-syndrome Anti-Semitic Jewish Mayor of Asheville who had knowingly introduced the promise of Reparations to the Black community with full knowledge that it would never happen.
Everything offered or promised to the Black citizens was a lie meant to buy them off for some elite plan or ill-gotten gain, including tearing down the Vance Monument with a Mellon Foundation Grant.
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