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EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK

Rampant running of red lights gets real On the thing similar actions on Holden Road and West with the red lights: Market Street.

At first I thought Weird. it was just in my And then it got real. I saw a random head.

Facebook post from Greensboro comI spend a lot of plaining about red-light runners in the city. time in the car: I swear it made me shudder just a little. delivering papers, Now, my training is in journalism and

by Brian Clarey driving to meetsociology, so I know that just because I’ve ings, picking up and depositing children, started noticing something doesn’t mean sometimes just driving around smoking it just started happening. And running the and listening to James intersection is someBooker with the windows thing that people have down and the sunroof been doing for as long I know that just open. as there have been stopbecause I’ve started A couple weeks ago I lights. I know a guy from noticing something first noticed it: A motorist Texas (of course) who on Battleground Avenue in just completely ignores doesn’t mean it just Greensboro blew through red lights altogether. started happening. an intersection well after Sometimes he doesn’t the light had changed. At even slow down. the time I just registered it But my anecdotal as just another distracted A-hole who was evidence tells me that something is afoot looking at a phone screen instead of the when it comes to red lights and their auroad. But later that day I saw a driver comthority over drivers. Maybe it’s a symptom mit the same infraction again on Piedmont of resistance against our government, or Parkway. maybe it’s the product of those members It kept happening: a driver on Wendover of our entitled society who feel that the Avenue and another on South Elmrules apply only to others. Or maybe it’s Eugene Street. Last week I saw a chain of just people looking at their phones. three cars run a red light on Murrow BouI’m going to keep my eyes open on this levard. And when I told my wife about it one. More reporting is needed. later that day, she said she has been seeing

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NCDOT TO HOLD PUBLIC MEETING FOR THE PROPOSED IMPROVEMENTS ON LEWISVILLE CLEMMONS ROAD (S.R. 1103) FROM CLEMMONS ROAD (U.S. 158) TO SOUTH PEACE HAVEN ROAD (S.R. 1891) FORSYTH COUNTY TIP PROJECT NO. U-6004

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The N.C. Department of Transportation will hold a public meeting regarding the proposed project to improve Lewisville Clemmons Road (S.R. 1103) from Clemmons Road (U.S. 158) to South Peace Haven Road (S.R. 1891) in Clemmons. The meeting will take place on Tuesday, July 10th from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the River Oaks Community Church located at 1855 Lewisville Clemmons Road in Clemmons.

The primary purpose of this project is to address safety issues. Another purpose is to improve flow and reduce traffic delays, particularly through the interchange.

The public may drop-in at any time during the meeting hours. A brief presentation will be made at 4 p.m., 5 p.m., and 6 p.m. Each presentation will be the same. There will not be a Q&A session during these presentations; instead, attendees will have an opportunity to talk one-on-one with project team representatives. The opportunity to submit comments will also be provided at the meeting or via email, or mail by August 8, 2018. Comments received will be taken into consideration as the project develops.

Project information and materials can be viewed as they become available online at http://www.ncdot.gov/projects/publicmeetings.

For additional information, contact Connie James, P.E., NCDOT Division 9 Project Engineer at 375 Silas Creek Parkway, Winston Salem, NC 27127, (336) 747-7800, or ckjames1@ncdot.gov.

NCDOT will provide auxiliary aids and services under the Americans with Disabilities Act for disabled persons who wish to participate in this meeting.

Anyone requiring special services should contact Caitlyn Ridge, P.E., Environmental Analysis Unit Public Involvement Officer at ceridge1@ncdot.gov or (919) 707-6091 as early as possible so that arrangements can be made.

Persons who speak Spanish and do not speak English, or have a limited ability to read, speak or understand English, may receive interpretive services upon request prior to the meeting by calling 1-800-481-6494.

Aquellas personas que hablan español y no hablan inglés, o tienen limitaciones para leer, hablar o entender inglés, podrían recibir servicios de interpretación si los solicitan antes de la reunión llamando al 1-800-481-6494.

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CITY LIFE June 28 - July 3, 2018

by Lauren Barber

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

Laser Metallica @ Greensboro Science Center, 7 p.m.

EmiSunshine & the Rain @ the Ramkat (W-S), 8 p.m.

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Julian Sizemore & Hunter McBride @ LeBauer Park (GSO), 7 p.m.

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Just when you thought “Enter Sandman” couldn’t sound any better, your local science center adds lasers for a multisensory experience. Head to the OmniSphere Theater at 7 p.m. for an electric mix of Metallica’s hits or catch later shows at 8 and 9 p.m. Learn more at greensboroscience. org.

Purple Rain @ On Pop of the World Studios (GSO), 7:30 p.m.

Bring a lawn chair or blanket for live music under the full moon and prepare to dance when DJ MikeWawa takes over at 8:30 p.m. Find the event on Facebook.

The powers that be are calling her a musical prodigy. See for yourself as the roots singer/songwriter brings her blend of bluegrass and country to the stage. Learn more at theramkat.com.

Labyrinth Anniversary Ball @ Reboot Arcade Bar (W-S), 8 p.m.

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Brave @ LeBauer Park (GSO), 8:30 p.m.

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Dress up as your favorite character for Reboot’s Labyrinth screening and stick around for free arcade games midnight ’til 2 a.m. Find the event on Facebook.

OPOTW Studios screens Purple Rain in the backlot before the Ringos perform Prince classics. Don your best purple clothing and accessories for the occasion. Find the event on Facebook.

UNCG’s Spartan Cinema series continues at sunset. This week, a rabble-rousing archer challenges tradition, turning a kingdom upside down. Find the event on Facebook.

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Basement Life @ Boxcar Bar & Arcade (GSO), 9:30 p.m.

Blueberry Pancake & Celebration Day @ Greensboro Farmers Curb Market, 8:30 a.m.

1970s Film Stock @ Monstercade (W-S), 9 p.m.

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That’s right: cassette release. 1970s Film Stock aka Eddie Garcia releases a live, improvisational album recorded in his hometown of Gastonia. It’s called Irrational Aesthetics: Live in Gastonia. Experimental rock groups Hectorina and Spookstina join in the fun. Find the event on Facebook.

SATURDAY

Junie B. Jones @ Community Theatre of Greensboro, 2 p.m.

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The “Death of Geeksboro” Sale @ Geeksboro (GSO), 6 a.m.

Geeksboro is moving, and much memorabilia, furniture, AV equipment, merchandise, games, movies, video games, fixtures and artwork can’t come along. Proceeds from the sale — which will take place at the original location — will help dull the pain of moving expenses. Find the event on Facebook.

Jill Goodson Band @ 6th Street & Liberty Street (W-S), 7 p.m.

The Jill Goodson band continues Winston’s Summer on Liberty series. Come out for classic rock and blues with a twist of country. Learn more at downtownws. com/music.

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Taste the indie rock rainbow. Greensboro-based post-punk band Basement Life headlines with math rockers Youth League and local newcomers Saucer.

Find the event on Facebook.

On the 49th anniversary of Stonewall, celebrate Pride by learning some queer kink history followed by product demonstrations, a sexual-health discussion, games and raffles.

Take advantage of free STD testing with the Triangle Empowerment Center at 4 p.m. and stick around for a drag and poetry performance with Flex Jonez and Ivy Carter at 7 p.m. Find the event on Facebook.

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Rock Out the Quarry @ Quarry Park (W-S), 6p.m.

Whip out the lawn chairs and blankets for this pre-Fourth of July festival. Enjoy a fireworks show with grub from one (or two or three) of 10 participating food trucks: Zekos 2 Go, Wingz and Thyngz, Off the Hook, Manna, KingQueen Haitian Cuisine, Gunny Smitty’s Hotdogs, Spice Delight Mobile Café, Sunset Slush, Kona Ice, and Cherries on Top. Darryl Little & Friends play live.

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Thank Goodness it’s Pride! @ Adam & Eve (GSO), 1 p.m.

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On the corner lawn of Lindsay and Yanceyville streets, guest chef Alex Amoroso of Cheesecakes by Alex prepares pancakes with fresh blueberries as jazz musician Griffin Ross and singer-songwriter Laura Jane Vincent perform live all morning. Market-goers will find other blueberry-centric products throughout the market and proceeds benefit the Curb Market’s non-profit. Learn more at gsofarmersmarket.org.

Barbara Park’s beloved children’s book character Junie B. Jones tackles everything from making new friends and adjusting to glasses to kickball tournaments in first grade.

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Queer North Carolina writers to read this Pride Month

by Lauren Barber

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Toni Newman, author of I Rise: The Transformation of Toni Newman.

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1. Toni Newman, author Newman is an African-American trans author who came of age in Jacksonville, NC and later graduated from Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem. She is known for her memoir I Rise: The Transformation of Toni Newman, which explores her 25-year transition journey. Newman is also community editor for a digital magazine, Proud to Be Out, and blogs for Huffington Post’s Gay Voices. Learn more about Toni at tonidnewman.com.

2. David Sedaris, essayist Undoubtedly the best known author on this list, Sedaris is the author of several personal essay collections. He is widely-regarded as a master of satire and social critique with a side of wit. Learn more at davidsedarisbooks.com 3. Lewis Wallace, multimedia journalist Wallace is a trans independent writer, editor and multimedia journalist based in Durham where he focuses on telling the stories of geographically, economically and politically marginalized people as state politics editor for Scalawag magazine. He is currently writing a book about the history of “objectivity” in journalism. Learn more about Wallace at lewispants.com.

4. “I Don’t Do Boxes” youth contributors This magazine produced out of Elsewhere in downtown Greensboro features the narratives of queer-identifying youth living in the American South. QueerLab, a youthled digital storytelling project develops the publication. Learn more at idontdoboxes. org.

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5. Bertha Harris, novelist Born in Fayetteville, Harris was a lesbian postmodernist novelist best known for her novel Lover, which reflected her engagement with the second-wave women’s rights movement.

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6. Allan Gurganus Born in Rocky Mount, Gurganus is best known for his 1989 debut novel, Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, but went on to publish several other novels, novellas and short stories, and some of his shorter fiction has appeared in The New Yorker and The Paris Review. Upon returning to North Carolina after a stint in New York City, he cofounded Writers Against Jesse Helms. Learn more at allangurganus.com.

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Declining civility

by Jordan Green Angry confrontations with Trump administration officials and their Republican allies in response to the “zero-tolerance” family separation policy have seemed to explode in the past couple weeks. Not just the moms in New York City who clogged the hallways of an ICE office, but protesters disrupting Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen’s dinner and prompting her to flee a Washington DC restaurant. And the proprietors of a Lexington, Va. restaurant denied Sarah Huckabee Sanders a farm-to-fork meal last week, causing uproar in the GOP camp about the notion of civility.

It feels like we’re at an inflection point.

The old truism is that violence begins where language ends.

“When you’re violent and cursing and screaming and blocking me from walking into a movie, there’s something wrong,” said Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, a Trump ally who was confronted by progressive activists while entering a theater to view the Mister Rogers documentary Won’t You Be My Neighbor? In Tampa on June 22. “The next people are going to come with guns. That’s what’s going to happen.” Bondi and other Republicans view the agitation on the left with some measure of satisfaction, predicting that it will prompt a backlash from the silent majority that will bear electoral fruit in November.

The activists who harassed Bondi said they escalated their tactics because she had refused to meet with them.

The flipside of the argument for civility is that when the administration is inflicting harm, as with a policy that separates children from parents at a critical stage of development, discomfort and public shaming is an appropriate consequence.

There’s a view that says that disruptive confrontation is not only righteous, but also tactically effective. When the country seems to be moving inexorably towards irreconcilable conflict, perhaps aggressive confrontation might serve as an inoculation against more severe violence.

“By confronting collaborators now, in ways that involve the lowest levels of physical resistance, we may be able to stunt or block the growth of the Trumpist cancer inside our remaining institutions,” Chris Ladd writes at the website Political Orphans. “All our civilized instincts toward civility and national unity are being used against us now.

Resist that. No one should feel safe expressing support for this regime in public. Smart exercise in resistance or even low-level violence forces a cleaving, placing decisionmakers, authorities and even bystanders in a position from which they can’t escape a clear, consequential moral choice.”

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Far-right Constitution Party exploits disaffection from GOP

by Jordan Green

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Al Pisano, David Waddell and the Rev. Robert Wells (l-r) vet candidates at the Constitution Party’s nominating convention in Charlotte in mid-June.

rights.”

Michael Curtis, a constitutional scholar at Wake Forest Law School who received the Frank Porter Graham Award for his work to advance civil liberties, said Article VI of the US Constitution, known as the “supremacy clause,” grants the US Supreme Court the authority to interpret the meaning of federal statutes and the Constitution. Curtis said a state legislature could pass a statute declaring the Obergefell decision to be unconstitutional or even stating that marriage is restricted to one man and one woman, but it wouldn’t have the force of law.

“If they were to order magistrates not to perform gay marriages, then an injunction could be brought under federal law to order them to perform gay marriages,” Curtis said. “If the state refused, they could be held in contempt of court.

That would be considered criminal contempt.”

One wild card in such a scenario might be a presidential pardon. Curtis cited President Trump’s pardon of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who was held in contempt of court by a federal judge for violating the constitutional rights of immigrant detainees.

Curtis said nullification, a mechanism

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party treasurer, and candidate Kevin Hayes, a computer-repair technician, during the nominating convention.

Hayes, who is himself the party’s vicechair, fielded questions from Guarino and other members of the candidate affairs committee.

“Let’s say the federal government or US Supreme Court makes a ruling that violates the sovereignty of the state,” Guarino said. “How would you handle that?”

“Honestly, I don’t think the state should recognize decisions that violate the Constitution,” said Hayes, who will challenge Republican incumbent Jimmy Dixon in House District 4, covering parts of Duplin and Wayne counties.

One of the party’s core values holds that marriage by one man and one woman “should be encouraged by law.” The two party activists cited the Supreme Court’s 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges decision, which overturned North Carolina’s constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, as a federal overreach.

Hayes said he would introduce legislation to nullify unconstitutional laws, adding, “Honestly, it comes to a point where we should just ignore the federal government when it intrudes into states’

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positions, including opposing abortion even in cases of rape and incest, with a limited-government view that sees little role for the federal government beyond national defense. At the same time, the party advocates for strict controls on immigration, mirroring the hodgepodge of sometimes contradictory, ultra-conservative views that helped President Trump get elected. While immigration control is not listed among the party’s seven “essential core values,” a brochure devotes an entire panel to what the party terms “a peaceful invasion” of undocumented immigrants.

Philosophically, the Constitution Party shares common ground with the patriot militia movement. The party recruited from the Patriot Network Summit, a militia gathering that took place in April at Jomeokee Campground outside of Winston-Salem. Allen Poindexter, an unsuccessful Republican primary candidate in state House District 90, said he became interested in the Constitution Party after speaking with a member of the candidate affairs committee at the gathering.

The party’s disdain for federal authority was on display during an exchange between Dr. Joseph Guarino, the state

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When the Republican-controlled General Assembly approved legislation in 2017 to reduce the number of signatures needed to form a new political party, they likely saw an opportunity to put the far-left Green Party on the ballot and peel votes away from their Democratic rivals.

What they might not have anticipated was a far-right revolt using the same mechanism to field candidates through the Constitution Party, which selected nominees for a handful of state legislative offices, a congressional race, one county commission seat, and a sheriff’s office during its convention at a suburban church in Charlotte on June 16. The Constitution Party was recognized in late May by the state Board of Elections & Ethics Enforcement after collecting about 16,000 signatures — far above the 11,925, or 0.25 percent of the electorate, now required.

While some Constitution Party activists have groused about the Republican leadership in Raleigh using “midnight bills” to force members to vote on legislation without reading it, their grievances mostly center on the national party. The GOP takeover of both houses of Congress and the White House after years of unfulfilled promises to repeal the Affordable Care Act sewed the seeds of revolt.

“Failure to repeal Obamacare, failure to de-fund Planned Parenthood, have they secured our borders?” Pattie Curran said. “They said, ‘We need the House and the Senate,’ and we gave them the House and Senate. ‘We don’t have the presidency.’ We gave them the presidency. You get tired of the BS and lies. They’re a bunch of liberals, and they don’t really care. They’re not conservative.”

A Kernersville tea party activist, Curran unsuccessfully challenged US Rep. Virginia Foxx in the 2016 Republican primary. Earlier this year she collected signatures to help get the Constitution Party on the ballot in North Carolina.

The Constitution Party platform welds together extreme social-conservative

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The Constitution Party, which will field candidates in the upcoming general election, has ties to the far right and the militia movement.

The Republican-controlled General Assembly disqualified three candidates, including one who would have challenged a member of the House leadership team.

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Islamic immigration from terror-prone countries; and also why he is attempting to protect illegal Hispanic immigration,” Guarino wrote. “Those from within his own ethnic group want the Christian majority with roots in Western countries to be numerically diluted.”

While Guarino’s argument is grounded in religious identity, it echoes a slogan chanted by white nationalists at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville: “You will not replace us,” and a more pointed variant, “Jews will not replace us.”

The Carolina Plott Hound conservative news aggregator also came under fire for sharing Guarino’s post. The Civitas Institute, part of the influence apparatus funded by the conservative Pope family, cut ties with the Plott Hound in response. Civitas Institute President Francis De Luca at the time: “Civitas condemns the use of identity politics and believes that assigning the motivations of Allen Poindexter (left), who was disqualified from running for state COURTESY PHOTO House, poses with constitutionalist icon Jeanette Finicum (center). individuals based upon their membership of a group violates a core conservaattempted by the state of South Carolina of [Export-Import Bank of the United tive principle. As such, the sentiments that prompted a showdown with PresiStates]. Get rid of the Department of expressed in the blog post do not reflect dent Andrew Jackson in the 1830s, holds Homeland Security.” our values nor the values of our sponsors no legal validity.

While Curran is active in the camand supporters.”

“The current law is absolutely clear: paign to preserve Confederate monuNot all the candidates vetted by the States can’t nullify federal law, period,” ments — a focal point for white nationparty leadership during the nominating Curtis said, “as long as the federal law is alists — Guarino has come under fire convention were as ideologically pure as constitutional and is considered constirepeatedly for promoting anti-Semitic Kevin Hayes. Sharon Hudson, an antitutional by the US Supreme Court.” He views on his blog, Triad Conservative. toll road activist from Davidson, quesnoted that President Eisenhower sent in Posts attacking NBA Commissioner tioned the vetting committee on some federal troops to enforce a federal court Adam Silver and NC Attorney Genof the party’s core values to discern order to ensure that black students could eral Josh Stein purport to explain what whether she felt comfortable committing attend Central High School in Little Guarino views as dishonorable conduct to them. While endorsing the party line Rock, Ark. in 1957. by the fact of the two men being Jews. In that the Obergefell decision “was an inThe states’ rights stance of the NC a September fringement on Constitution Party, not surprisingly, 2017 post our rights,” overlaps with a veneration of the Conentitled “Josh Hudson said ‘The current law is absolutely clear: federacy by some of its members. Pattie Stein’s Latest she couldn’t States can’t nullify federal law, Curran and a friend have visited dozens Ethno-Lawcommit to filof Confederate war memorials in North suit,” Guaperiod, Supreme Court.’ — Michael ing legislation Carolina and Virginia over the past two rino wrote to reinstate a Curtis, constitutional scholar, Wake years, as documented on a Confederate that by joinban on sameForest University Memorial Tour Facebook page. Curran ing a multisex marriage said she believes veneration for both the state lawsuit and quessoldiers who fought for the South and against Presitioned what their cause are in line with the party’s dent Trump’s would happen constitutional principles. immigration policies, Stein was “acting to same-sex couples who are already “The states absolutely have the right in accordance with the worldview and married. to secede,” she said. “It was a war of ethnic interests of his own particular Hudson also expressed ambivalence Northern aggression…. That’s the group — i.e. those within contemporary about the party’s opposition to any law whole point of a republic: You enter into Judaism.” requiring gun registration. a contract; you can withdraw from a The post goes on to cite Kevin Mc“I can see the pros and cons,” she contract.”

Donald, an academic widely admired said. “Especially when we talk about a “We have to take power back from by white supremacists, in support of mental-health issue. Or what if someone the federal government,” she added. a slanderous argument that Jews are has a gun for years and years and then “I’m not saying North Carolina should conspiring to demographically displace they develop Alzheimer’s or they become secede. We need to get rid of the [US] Christians. indoctrinated by an ideology that makes Department of Education, and give that “And thus we gain insight into the reathem dangerous to others. But registrapower back to the states. Get rid of the sons Josh Stein is likely trying to protect tion is not in the Constitution, and I

think as a representative of the Constitution Party I should probably go by the Constitution.”

The party nominated Hudson in Senate District 41, where she will face Republican incumbent Jeff Tarte and Democrat Natasha Marcus.

The party nominated one candidate for Congress. David Fallin is running in the 7th Congressional District, where he will face Republican incumbent David Rouzer and Democrat Kyle Horton.

Stuart Collins, an elementary school music teacher with Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, will challenge Democratic incumbent Jeff Jackson in Senate District 37. Other nominations include Mark Crowe in House District 42, which is currently represented by Democrat Marvin Lucas; and Peggy Lanier for the District 3 seat on the Pender County Commission.

Days after the party submitted its list of candidates to the Board of Elections & Ethics Enforcement, the General Assembly passed a measure to disqualify three of the candidates who have previously competed in primaries. North Carolina election law typically prohibits candidates from running in a general election after losing a primary, but the so-called “sore-loser” provision was not included in the law for new parties. The measure effectively disqualifies Allen Poindexter, the Constitutional Party nominee in House District 90. Poindexter previously ran in the Republican primary, and lost to incumbent Sarah Stevens, who serves as the speaker pro tem. Also disqualified were Jerry R. Jones, who previously ran as a Democrat for the District 3 seat on the Greene County Commission, and Greg Holt, who previously ran as a Republican for the District 1 seat on the Craven County Commission.

The party nominated one candidate for sheriff. Tony Keech told members of the vetting committee that if elected Beaufort County sheriff he wouldn’t hold undocumented immigrants in jail beyond the resolution of criminal charges “because I don’t want to be charged myself with kidnapping.”

And responding to a vaguely worded question from Dr. Guarino about how he would deal with an unconstitutional federal mandate, Keech said, “If you’re asking me if I’m going to get a militia together and go to war with the federal government, that’s probably not a good idea. If we have issues, I think we can sit down together and work them out.”

The Forsyth County Board of Elections is waiting for a final decision from the state General Assembly and permission from the city of Winston-Salem to use recreation centers before finalizing an early voting plan.

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Locations and times for early voting in Forsyth County await a final decision on legislation that would require counties to keep all early-voting sites to be open at the same time.

The Forsyth County Board of Elections met on June 21 and then again on Tuesday to consider its options, but still has yet to take action. Following the state Senate’s ratification on June 15, the bill awaits Gov. Roy Cooper’s signature. If the governor vetoes the legislation, the Republican supermajority is likely to vote to override.

Traditionally, Forsyth County has opened one location at the Government Center at the start of early voting and then gradually expanded to additional sites around the county over the course of the 17-day period of early voting.

Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed SB 325, which requires counties to open all early-voting sites at the same time, on Monday. He wrote, “Previous attempts like this by the legislature to discriminate and manipulate the voting process have been struck down by the courts. True democracy should make it easier for people to vote, not harder.”

Forsyth County Elections Director Tim Tsujii said on Tuesday that the local board should expect the Republican supermajority in the General Assembly to override the veto.

When they met on June 21, the four members of the local board of elections contemplated the possibility that the pending state uniformity rule would reduce the overall number of early-voting sites, and narrowed down to two plans — one with 12 sites and another with eight — in anticipation of final action by the General Assembly.

Coverage for early voting, which is subject to a partisan tug-of-war between rural and urban interests, depends in large part on funding from the county.

The county budget for FY 2018-2019 allocates $144,640 to pay part-time, early-voting poll workers. Tsujii told board members on Tuesday that County Manager Dudley Watts informed him on Monday that the county set aside $203,000 in the event of a second primary. Considering that a second primary was not needed this year, the

funds are available to help pay for early voting during the general election. The total amount of money available for early voting is $347,921. Earlier, Tsujii had told the board that the plan with 12 sites would cost $307,020. A plan with 12 sites would expand on the 10 sites open during early voting in 2014, when Republicans controlled the board of elections and when the last midterm election took place.

Two plans submitted by board chair Susan Campbell, a Democrat, during the June 21 meeting include a location at Winston-Salem State University. The site, which serves students at the historically black university, was the object of strident debate in previous years, and Republican members eliminated the location when they controlled the board of elections.

JORDAN GREEN Forsyth County Elections Director Tim Tsujii presents options for In contrast to the last midterm in early voting to the local board of elections.

2014, when Republicans controlled the board, the plans drafted by Campbell around town?” she asked. “We have to gesting the location wasn’t needed. Both whittle down the number of sites outside find a friend or a neighbor or whatever of Campbell’s plans retain Mazie WoodWinston-Salem from four to three, if you have car trouble or whatever.

I ruff Center, a popular location in northretaining polling places in Clemmons, also am old enough where Election Day east Winston-Salem, while adding St. Lewisville and Kernersville, but dropwas the only day we had to vote on, and Paul United Methodist Church on the ping a location in Walkertown. we figured out how to get to the polls on east side of Winston-Salem and SouthComments by speakers who addressed Election Day.” side Library. The more ambitious plan the board during the June 21 meeting Lung returned on Tuesday and read also includes polling places at Brown & predictably reflected the county’s partia list of timed distances between the Douglas Recreation Center, Miller Park san rural-urban split. urban polling places, arguing that the Recreation Center and Sprague Street Jim Norris, a Democrat who lives in plans floated by Campbell tilt in favor of Recreation Center.

Winston-Salem told board members: Winston-Salem.

In addition to the uncertainty around “There’s a lot of “I understand the ultimate fate of SB 325, the local evidence that the the close proximity board still needs approval from the city places that are alin east Winston, of Winston-Salem to use recreation ‘I am old enough where Eleclowed for early votbut transportacenters. The board voted unanimously tion Day was the only day ing and the times tion is more of a on Tuesday to postpone a final decision that are allowed we had to vote on, and we challenge in that on early-voting locations and times, but for early voting are figured out how to get to the area,” Campbell settled on a wish list of recreation cenvery biased against responded. ters to take to the city. The list includes polls on Election Day.’ marginalized comBoth of CampHanes Hosiery Community Center, munities.

— Beverly Lung bell’s plans also at the request of Democratic member “Those same drop WinstonRobert Durrah Jr. people really need Salem sites at Old SB 325 also eliminates the final to have precincts Town Recreation Center and Sedge Saturday of early voting, and moves the open for them to do early voting that Garden Recreation Center. Questioned 17-day period back from Thursday to are close to them,” he added. “Many of

by Republican Vice-Chair Stuart Russell Wednesday. The legislation mandates them do not have transportation. They about the changes, Campbell said Polo that early-voting sites are open each have to go on bus routes. This is exPark Recreation Center or alternately weekday from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., but gives tremely important. We’re talking about Reynolda Manor Library could serve the local boards the option of scheduling democracy here.”

Wake Forest University students instead early voting on Saturdays and Sundays Beverly Lung, a conservative Repubof Old Town.

On Tuesday, Russell said during the two middle weekends of the lican in Walkertown, argued on June 21 he favors Old Town because it would early voting period, which runs this year that rural residents are at a disadvantage. provide access to people who live in the from Oct. 17 to Nov. 2. Anne Wilson, “When you’re out there in Tobacrural northwest corner of the county. a Democratic activist, asked board coville and Rural Hall and Belews Creek Campbell also said that turnout at members to take advantage of opening and out in the outer areas where we still the Sedge Garden Recreation Center in polling sites on Saturdays during the have citizens that have no buses and no southeast Winston-Salem was low, sugmeeting on Tuesday. public transportation… how do we get

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Playing fast and loose with the NC Constitution The North Carolina Constitution and elections board into a single entity; was written in 1776 — a big year for the delegating the power to fill judicial state and the country and its original 13 vacancies away from the governor and states. It hewed closely to the original to the legislature, further reducing the document, which set the template for a efficacy of the position; maxing out the new nation. state income tax at 5.5 percent; and the We wrote another one in 1868, plum of the group, a voter ID amendanother big year in the United States, ment that, when it was passed as part of to conform to the new normal after the an omnibus state law, has been repeatCivil War — and edly shot down by also because we had federal judges. seceded from the But a constituThe proposed amendunion and needed tional amendment ments come from a to get our house is different. For in order before we if the voter ID wish list of the modern one, could be readmitamendment makes Republican Party and ted. it to the ballot, More than 100 Gov. Roy Cooper its funders, designed years later, in 1971, cannot veto it. And we had to rewrite it when federal judges to stoke fear and drive again to reflect the overturn it for being turnout. growing complexity illegal, again, GOP of governance. In lawmakers can point that edit, voters had to “activist judges” approved five of six new amendments who go against the will of the people of by ballot referendum. The one they North Carolina. didn’t go for was a repeal of the literacy But the real point of this and all the test required by state voters. other amendments is to drive RepubNow state lawmakers have another lican turnout in the fall, when Republisix amendments poised for the ballot in cans across the state and country must November; two of them have already face accountability for what they’ve cleared all legislative hurdles and will wrought. be put before voters: a hunting and Here in North Carolina, they’re hopfishing bill written by the NRA and a ing that our electorate is the same one victims rights amendment that basically that voted against banishing the literacy replicates existing state law. test in 1970.

The others, similarly, come from a Sometimes that seems like a pretty wish list of the modern Republican Party safe bet. and its funders: combining our ethics

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removed Iraq from the list while eliminating the exemption for Christians. The final iteration, which is the subject of the Supreme Court’s ruling on Tuesday, included Iran, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Somalia and Yemen, while substituting Chad for Sudan. Two other nonMuslim countries added to the list — North Korea and Venezuela — look like a fig leaf. (Chad was later dropped from the list after administration officials determined it had sufficiently improved its vetting protocols.)

The United States’ history is rife with examples of exclusion akin to the travel ban, and this country has deep-seated legacies of genocide, slavery and conquest that need to be addressed before it can fully realize its potential as a multi-racial, multi-faith democratic polity. The Civil War partially resolved the United States’ foundational contradiction, although White House Chief of Staff John Kelly’s statement in late 2017 that the war could have been avoided through compromise presents a symbolic unraveling of the national consensus on racial equality before the law.

The slavery question was supposed to have been settled in 1865.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s dissent stands as a tragic signpost for the road not taken.

Commenting on Korematsu, the 1944 ruling by the Supreme Court that found that President Franklin Roosevelt’s order to hold Japanese Americans in internment camps during World War II, Sotomayor writes, “The formal repudiation of a shameful precedent is laudable and long overdue. But it does not make the majority’s decision here acceptable or right. By blindly accepting the government’s misguided invitation to sanction a discriminatory policy motivated by animosity towards a disfavored group, all in the name of the superficial claim of national security, the court redeploys the same dangerous logic underlying Korematsu and merely replaces one ‘gravely wrong’ decision with another.”

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The Supreme Court’s ruling in Trump v. Hawaii on Tuesday rightfully joins Dred Scott and Korematsu in infamy as a shameful abrogation of the Constitutional principle of equal rights under the law.

Regretfully, the travel-ban ruling places the imprimatur of legal legitimacy on Trump’s aggressive project to elevate a

by Jordan Green vision of nationalism based primarily on membership in the white race and Christian faith. Muslims — like Mexican “drug dealers,” MS-13 “animals” and black “crime” — are being vilified by the president to reinforce a sense of siege against demographically dwindling white Christian America.

Trump has effectively portrayed himself to his base as the strongman protector.

“The Democrats want open borders; they want anybody they want, including MS-13, pouring into the country,” he said, campaigning for Henry McMaster in South Carolina on Monday. “The Democrats want to protect illegals coming into the country, some of whom are not good, some of whom cause lots of problems in the worst possible way. They want to protect illegals coming into the country much more than they want to protect you, and that’s not where we’re coming from.”

Curiously, the conservative majority opinion in Trump v. Hawaii sidestepped the question of intent. Typically, discrimination claims fail because claimants are unable to prove intent thanks to the fact that few judges possess the omniscient ability to look into the hearts of men and women, and measure their malice. On the question of whether the travel ban violates the Establishment Clause of the Constitution, which forbids government action that favors one religion over another, then-candidate Trump made his intent abundantly clear in December 2015, when he said, “Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out what the hell is going on.”

The Supreme Court opinion, written by Chief Justice John Roberts, elliptically refers to Trump’s declared intent as “a series of statements by the president and his advisers both during the campaign and since the president assumed office,” and simply finds: “For today’s purposes, the court assumes that it may look behind the face of the proclamation to the extent of applying rational basis review, i.e. whether the entry policy is plausibly related to the government’s stated objective to protect the country and improve vetting processes.”

As the order acknowledges, officials in the Department of Homeland Security, along with colleagues in the State Department and intelligence agencies, devised a policy to improve vetting processes and meet the government’s stated objective of protecting the country long after Trump broadcast his hostility towards Muslims. The task before Trump’s DHS underlings was pretty obvious: Come up with a policy that will translate the boss’s bigotry into action while clearing judicial scrutiny. The multiple iterations of the policy, which have been bandied between lower courts for the past 18 months, tell the story. The first ban, issued in January 2017, applied to seven overwhelmingly Muslim countries — Iran, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen — while containing an exemption for refugees who were religious minorities in their own countries (read: Christians). After the original ban was challenged in the courts, Trump replaced it with a second that

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Abdelfattah emigrated to the United States from Egypt in 2002 when she and her husband, Hossam Elsaie, married. The couple and their four children moved to the Triad in 2009, just before the wave of Arab Spring uprisings that spurred a surge in Arab and Muslim people seeking refuge abroad. Abdelfattah — a recent recipient Winston-Salem Foundation’s ECHO Award — is on a mission is to assist those refugees on the arduous journey to financial independence as they navigate life in America.

Currently, she works with five to 10 refugee families on an ongoing basis and hopes to expand the business enough to integrate more families on a rotating basis in the future.

“It’s especially important to us to create economic stability because most of the refugee men have part-time jobs right now so they work for low wages and are not able to pay all of rent,” she said.

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don’t work every day and there is not stability to what we are doing. We want to help them on a regular basis, so they can depend on this as salary or basic income every month and plan expenses.”

It’s clear she isn’t looking to line her pockets.

“We appreciate what they are doing and work with any situation,” Abdelfattah says. “We want to make this a good environment, so they feel they are the owner, not worker.”

For her, it comes down to basic human dignity and the idea that communities thrive when all members are valued.

“I want for them to be able to afford their utilities,” Abdelfattah says. “I want to give them peace and the feeling that they don’t have to worry again, that they have stable good jobs and can be part of their community, that they can grow their future here in America.”

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abundance of support from “good neighbor” teams assigned through World Relief, while others weren’t immediately plugged in to reliable, well-resourced networks.

Abdelfattah focuses on those families.

Her dream is to operate from a brickand-mortar building with a certified kitchen, start cooking whole food and employing more women. She is ServSafe certified, but equipping a commercial kitchen is cost prohibitive and according to Abdelfattah, loans carrying interest are in conflict with her religious conviction. She says a shared commercial kitchen under development in WinstonSalem is more than a year away from opening, so plans to scale up are at an impasse.

“This could be success for the whole Triad,” Abdelfattah says. “We have the certifications to start, we are ready to go but we need the financial support. We

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areas, although the food there is often just as good.

“We would love to do more cooking classes because it’s not just delivering food; to them, it’s starting relationships,” Abdelfattah says. “Cooking classes make Mona and the other women so happy because they are face to face with other people from the community.

It gives them the opportunity to share experiences and make new friends.”

Delicious caters for private events ranging from small orders to feasts for 300, and hosts cooking workshops for anywhere between 10 and 20 people, but work is sporadic other than the reliable monthly take-out dinner events hosted at churches in Triad.

“All the churches here in Winston-Salem are doing an amazing job,” Abdelfattah says. “Our mosques help as much as they can but have limited resources.”

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CULTURE The pride of Cucalorus, Rozalind McPhail, create a bowl of flute loops

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efore Rozalind McPhail took the stage, already arranged with her flutes, headphones and effects board, and an overhead projector aimed at an improvised screen made from a shower curtain, the sound tech at Monstercade bearhugged a gold mannequin and attempted to lift it off the set. McPhail gestured for him to leave it.

The flute-loopist from the Canadian province of Newfoundland has been creating sounds for the imagery at hand — mostly short films, but sometimes photos and, often, the things she sees around her — since she graduated art school, and began wondering how she could change the world with her flute, which like all wind instruments can only play one note at a time.

Technology, and the skill to use it, provided an answer. For her live set, she loops flute lines set to drum and synth tracks, building layer upon layer with a midi foot controller and a voice synthesizer she applies to the flute.

“I consider the electronics my duet partner,” she said.

The effect is somewhat electronic and generally ethereal, but as she demonstrates during her short set at Monstercade, it can be effectively applied to all sorts of imagery.

During her three-month residency for Wilmington’s Cucalorus Film Festival in 2014 that she called “a tribal experience,” she created “From the River to the Ocean,” an audio-visual project about the port city that won her an East Coast Music Award in 2017 — eastern Canada’s version of the Grammys — and fueled interest in her short North Carolina tour, with shows in Asheville, Greensboro, Wilmington and here in Winston-Salem.

Her North Carolina material plays heavily into the set: “Greenfield,” about Wilmington’s Greenfield Park; “Film Equals Jobs,” a mini-doc about local film-industry protests against the state General Assembly’s move to strike film incentives from the state budget; “Now Accepting Food Stamps,” a piece she shot herself about income inequality in Wilmington, the likes of which she had not experienced in Canada, inspired by a large sign above a store.

“You see poverty in Canada, but not so blatant,” she said. “[That sign] was

Canadian flute-loopist Rozalind McPhail blows through Monstercade as part of a North Carolina tour. Her multimedia set includes short films shot in Canada and NC, to which she provides live accompaniment.

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so humungous. It really struck me that there’s something decided to knock on everyone’s doors and introduce themwrong with the world. I saw little reminders of it every day. selves to their neighbors.

“I wanted the music to be my form of acceptance,” she “It just shows how impermanent life can be,” she said. continued. “There are just some things we can’t change in “None of the relationships in this film exist anymore. We’ve the world.” got to document our lives, capture our memories. They The music can elevate never happen again.” the tensions and catalyze She closes the Monsterrelease along with the imcade set with “The Gaze,” For more about the artist and other tour dates ages on the screen, embelfeaturing musical lines see rozalindmacphail.com. lish moments of beauty created with an omnichord and sorrow, dramatize flute, laid over a supercut the narrative in a way that of old civic documentary dialogue never could. films from the 1940s, salvaged from the Wilmington Li“Yukon” is set to slides of the 735-mile Dempster Highbrary, the scenes chosen for the moment when the subject way that runs through the region: stills of water, naked looks directly at the camera. mountaintops, frosty tundra, wildlife. “Floe” uses timeSome glance surreptitiously while others beam smiles lapse footage of the phenomenon taken from the Belcher at the lens in time-capsule clothing and hairstyles, old Islands. As the Northern Lights electrify the sky, we see the automobiles cruising the streets. It’s both film and music, ice floe in for foreground break up and float off. “Victoria art and documentary.

Street” takes place in her own neighborhood on St. Johns Like the music behind it, the piece manages to hit several Island, on a day when McPhail and her then-boyfriend notes at once.

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olychrome snakes writhe in the corner enclave while birds chitchat around delicate, blue-speckled eggs. The red-orange gators drink from a ritual chalice.

These are the subjects of Beauty of the Beast, an ode to our phylogenic brothers and sisters and the latest group exhibit at GreenHill on display through July 15.

Even during the most casual walkthroughs, the exhibition imbues a hit of magical realism — works expressing a predominantly realistic view of the world while incorporating magical elements in seamless ways, especially through allegory to fables and myths.

Andy Farkas’ mokuhanga-style woodblock prints are obvious examples, featuring easily-missed messages in tiny

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golden text. He couples a frolicsome, swinging bird, whose assorted grid of his hand-transferred digital prints, in which plump form is a tad off, with a brief poem: It came to her/ She layers of digitally collected data — relevant maps, diagrams didn’t ask for it,/ but neither did she push it away. Just down the and habitat scenery — depicts each Latin-named specimen in line, the gallery features a half swan-half/human holding an collage. elegant pose, and dozens more testaments to the psychologiA small room houses works from Casey Allen and Jim cal tendency to anthropomorphize, Kransberger, who match lighthearted or attribute human characteristics to forms with searing political commennon-human creatures. tary. Jim Kransberger’s “PORK.gov,” Learn more at greenhillnc.org and Artists take turns sizing our bretha mixed-media sculpture of a pink ren up, naming names as Amanda pig — think Platonic piggy bank — visit at 200 N. Davie Street (GSO).

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Bryant Holsenbeck’s colony of Some artists borrow more directly from scientific findings grey-headed flying foxes relay a bit of a subtler message from and material than others, taking part in artful documentaabove. These (now) urban wildlife beings are fabricated from tion during ongoing destruction. Matt Zigler’s Natura Technica trash and undesirable found materials in a fashion at once project serves as a modern-day nod to moralizing, descriptive bestial and endearing. As he alludes, our ever-increasing proxbestiaries popularized in Medieval era. GreenHill displays an imity to these wild ones reminds us we are also of Animalia,

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the cerebral cousins obsessed with domestication, lost in the dominative charade of “property” and “civility” in opposition to wilderness.

Artist Carol Gentithes’ whimsical porcelain mix sculpture “Zoboo Played by Jovian” riffs on this theme. Jovian was a lemur born and raised at the Duke Lemur Center in Durham. Though she sculpted a biologically accurate rendering of Jovian’s head, the surface of his body is finely decorated with scenes of his indigenous Madagascar.

Beauty of the Beasts reveals human shame intrinsically tied to our emergent selfawareness of our place on Earth and in the cosmos. Maybe the more important reveal, though, is a commitment by some to persist in cultivating wonder, and hope, with an eye to reality.

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