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In Kaepernick’s shoes I remember my first pair of Nikes. This was a long time ago — 1982 or maybe early ’83, when junior high lasted from seventh grade unby Brian Clarey til ninth, encapsulating all the awkwardness of adolescence in one building. I had made it to eighth grade without getting the crap kicked out of me too many times — most seventh grade boys took occasional beatings from upperclassmen back then, at the bus stop, in the locker room, on the bus itself, that ranged from the casual to the downright sadistic — and by then was working to establish myself as, if not exactly a boy not to be reckoned with, at least to get off the short list of potential victims when they went looking for someone to dunk in the toilet. One of the ways in which I did this was to avoid bully triggers like stupid haircuts, public references to Dungeons & Dragons and clothes meant for little kids: Levis instead of Supercords. Nothing with too many buttons. And I had to convince my mother to stop buying me Zips off the bargain rack at Marshalls and get me into a pair of Nikes before I found myself in the locker room hanging by my underwear from a towel hook.
It was the front end of the sneaker revolution — before Air Jordans, before Little Penny, when Vans were new to the East Cast market and suede Pumas were coming on. Nike popped when they started making shoes not just for the game, but for the culture behind it. In that way, it makes sense that the company just made former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick the face of their 2018 football season campaign. Kaepernick hasn’t played since 2016; today he’s better known as the activist who gave up his career by kneeling during the National Anthem. Back in ’83, Nike Legends were the preferred footwear of the white suburban boy. I got the sweet white hi-tops right before Christmas, with the perforated toe piece and the navy blue swoosh. I adored them as much as a 13-year-old boy has the capacity to adore. And I believe they saved me from at least one beating, by a ninth-grader who found me outside the town library one afternoon and, instead of making me eat my overdue library books, commented on the sneaks. Now, the Trumpies are burning their shoes, swearing boycotts of Nike, the NFL and anything else that sports the swoosh. And I’m reminded of those junior high bullies and those magic sneakers, and how much I wish I had an old-school pair of Nike Legends right now.
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The NYT bestselling children’s literature author reads aloud from her picture-book biography, Dorothea Lange: The Photographer Who Found the Faces of the Depression, and engages the audience in discussion. Enjoy music and hands-on activities while learning about the exhibition Dorothea Lange’s America, which opens Sept. 14. Donations to Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest North Carolina are welcome. Learn more at reynoldahouse.org/ calendar.
The museum showcases local guitarist and soloist Fredd Reyes and Alto Ego’s Donalja James. Enjoy light refreshments as they perform live. Find the event on Facebook.
Donalja James & Fredd Reyes @ International Civil Rights Museum (GSO), 6 p.m.
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Carole Boston Weatherford @ Reynolda House Museum of American Art (W-S), 5 p.m.
Semper’s Kinetic World of Art reception @ Center for Visual Artists (GSO), 6 p.m.
Radical ’zine workshop @ Elsewhere (GSO), 6 p.m.
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The Bicycle: Art Meets Form opening reception @ Theatre ArtGalleries (HP), 5:30 p.m.
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Internationally-renowned sculpture artist Felix Semper shows a solo exhibition through Sept. 21. He is known for stretchable paper sculptures that integrate everyday objects like books and vinyl records and wood. Learn more at felixsemper.com and find the event on Facebook.
TAG exhibits 73 juried pieces reflecting some aspect of bicycles or cycling by 57 artists across the globe. The Upstairs Gallery will specialize in vintage bicycles and the Kaleidoscope Gallery will feature work from Guilford County art teachers. Learn more at tagart.org.
This First Friday proffers an opportunity to co-create a mixed-media, independent magazine alongside former Elsewhere intern Coco Spencer after she leads a discussion about intersectional feminism. Learn more at goelsewhere. org/events.
Rhiannon Giddens @ NC Folk Fest (GSO), 6 p.m. Beloved local Rhiannon Giddens curates an evening of jazz, spoken word and tap dance on the stage at the intersection of Commerce Place and Bellemeade Street, eventually performing herself. Her programming continues throughout the free, 3-day outdoor festival celebrating cultural roots. Hundreds of musicians, dancers and craftspeople will perform and offer demonstrations. Learn more at ncfolkfestival.com.
Cactus Black @ Monstercade (W-S), 9 p.m.
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Abigail Dowd Duo @ Joymongers Barrel Hall (W-S), 8 p.m. Abigail Dowd is a down-to-earth dream. Don’t miss this guitar-wielding folk artist with Jason Duff on bass and percussion. Find the event on Facebook.
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Sahara Reggae Band @ GreenHill (GSO), 6:30 p.m.
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Wally West Jazz Trio @ Preyer Brewing Company (GSO), 8 p.m.
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Wally West on saxophone, Matt Reid on piano and Ginnae Koon on bass want you to drink local beer, listen to them do their thing and probably to tip everyone involved. Why not do that? Find the event on Facebook. ‘Viva Italia!’ concert @ UNCSA (W-S), 7:30 p.m. The Piedmont Wind Symphony opens its 29th season with Italian music, including opera and symphony, with works by Verdi, Persichetti, Puccini and Respighi at the Stevens Center. Learn more at piedmontwindsymphony.com.
And Then There Were None @ Triad Stage (GSO), 7:30 p.m. Agatha Christie’s infamous murder mystery novel animates the Pyrle Theatre through Oct. 7. Learn more at triadstage. org.
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Orquesta Akokán @ SECCA (W-S), 5 p.m. The Cuban orchestra hailing from Havana will be the first international musicians to grace the SECCA stage in the years-long Crossroads series. Their sound complements the main gallery’s continuing exhibition, Cubans: Post Truth, Pleasure and Pain. Food trucks visit the tucked away contemporary art museum for the evening and attendees find Foothills Brewing brews available for purchase. Music begins at 7 p.m. Learn more at secca.org.
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The Jellyman’s Daughter @ Muddy Creek Café & Music Hall (W-S), 2 p.m. Sweet mandolin and honeyed cello drive along the Scottish duo’s vocal harmonies at the crossroads of bluegrass, postrock, folk and soul. Learn more at muddycreekcafeandmusichall.com.
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Do you like local bands who posture so hard you begin to doubt their self-awareness or worry that we are collectively slipping toward a late-capitalist dystopia in which all forms of sincerity are debased under pressure to achieve peak detached, hip branding? If so, you’re in luck! Arcadia’s latenight joint presents a three-band lineup (Cactus Black, the Sammies and GSO) of “taxidermy rockers,” “hardscrabble dabblers” and “airport code enthusiasts” who offer the following associational nouns to describe their sounds: new haircuts; whiskey beards; karate kicks; porch chops. Your guess is as good as mine but it’s Monstercade, so the concert will probably rock. Find the event on Facebook.
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The vivacious reggae band provides a colorful backdrop to the museum’s First Friday merriment. Note the cash bar and free access to awesome artwork. Find the event on Facebook.
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The Greensboro Police Department’s reached the parking lot at the Morehead little-known civil emergency unit made a Planetarium. Right around the same time jarring appearance at a nighttime rally on I personally observed that the unit althe campus of UNC-Chapel Hill on Aug. lowed a gap in its bicycle line, prompting 30 that began with pro-Confederate activone officer to frantically yell for his fellow ists gathering under heavy police protection officers to tighten up. If the aggressive use while antiracist students held a dance party. of bicycles and pepper spray was premised First revealed thanks to the reporting of on the fear that a melee would ensue if the former Triad City Beat associate editor Eric police lost control, no one tried to make a Ginsburg in 2015, the GPD civil emergency run for it during the two- or three-second unit anchored the multi-agency response in period when the gap opened. Surreally, all the wake of widespread criticism from UNC of us — counter-protesters, journalists and Police for allowing the opposing groups to cops — were coughing from pepper spray mix during a previous event. Officers in the together. GPD civil emergency unit formed a cordon The Move Silent Sam Twitter account, with their bicycles to allow ACTBAC NC maintained by activists involved with the and their supprotests asked porters to reach on Tuesday: the site of the “Anyone worktoppled Silent ing on getting Sam monument answers about on Aug. 30, and Capt. Jonathan then extracted Franks’ pepper the pro-Confedspray misuse erate activists so at UNC last they could leave week? And the while pushing inappropriate back against use of bicycles counterprotestas weapons?” ers. The tweet also The unit’s asked whether handling of the a formal review DANIEL was underway. Capt. Johnathan Franks of the GPD’s civil event, includHOSTERMAN emergency unit, in Chapel Hill. ing ramming “It’s still being bicycles into looked into by antiracist counterprotesters and deploying the department,” said Ronald Glenn, the pepper spray, has drawn marked criticism. public information officer for the GreensCapt. Jonathan Franks, the commander of boro Police Department, while declining to the special operations division, can be heard elaborate. in a video posted by the Daily Tar Heel sayAdmittedly, subjectivity can come into ing, “Use your bicycle and hit them if you play in the fraught dynamics of police inhave to,” as counterprotesters pursued the volvement in conflict between ideologically departing ACTBAC contingent. opposed groups, so here’s another reporter’s Indeed, a freelance writer covering the take. protest showed me a photo of her leg that “Things didn’t get really testy until police had been bruised and scraped from being were escorting those supporters out of here rammed by a police bicycle. Whatever the and they used pepper spray on the counpolice’s justification for that level of force, terprotesters — that’s when things really she contends that the counterprotesters flipped,” said Briana Connor of WXII 12 were not attempting to break through the News. “It’s just students out here now, and police line, and that the police escalated again this crowd here has been pepperthe situation. For what it’s worth, an officer sprayed twice. And they’ve turned on cops, in the unit also shoved his bike against my chanting some ugly things toward them, colleague, Daniel Hosterman, before ACTand police have been aggressive, too. I’ve BAC even arrived. noticed two separate instances where police Capt. Franks also pepper-sprayed coungot a little nasty with protesters out here.” terprotesters and journalists as ACTBAC
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The Triad’s college football teams, ranked (right now) by Brian Clarey
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5. Greensboro College (USAS) 0-1 Even deep into the NCAA’s Division II, where Greensboro College shares a conference with schools such as Gallaudet University and Ferrum College, the Pride can’t get no respect. They lost their season opener, against Newport News Apprentice School, 34-13.
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4. Guilford College (ODAC) 0-0 Tough to rank Guilford College after a middling performance last year in the ODAC, and their home opener this season against Huntingdon was declared as no contest after an extended rain delay. In those cases, NCAA rules dictate that no stats from the game be entered into the record, like it never happened. In actuality, the Quakers were down after 45 minutes of play 58-48, which must have made for an exciting three quarters of football.
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3. Wake Forest University Demon Deacons (ACC) 1-0 Let’s face it: Wake Forest is the biggest football program in the Triad, a genuine Division I operation that has more resources than most of these other schools’ entire athletic departments. And they started off strong this year, too, with a Week 1 win against a soft Tulane squad. But they’ve got powerhouses on their schedule in Notre Dame, Boston College, Florida State and Clemson. And they lost three players — offensive tackle Justin Herron, defensive lineman Elontae Bateman and safety Coby Davis — to season-ending injuries in that Tulane game.
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2. Winston-Salem State University Rams (CIAA) 1-0 Were it not for an unfortunate development for Wake Forest, the Rams might be No. 3 on this list. Unlike the Deacons, the future looks pretty solid for WSSU, which plays in a conference with other HBCUs. They beat UNC-Pembroke in a 2-day contest for their first week, stretched out over the weekend by a rain delay, with almost 150 yards on the ground while allowing just 54 rushing yards.
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1. NC A&T University Aggies (MEAC) 2-0 Maybe the Triad is not a college football hotbed like, say, south Alabama or all of Texas. But we’re not without some prospects. Take the Aggies, who by virtue of an early season start have the best record in the Triad at 2-0. But they top the list because of this weekend’s win against ECU at the Pirates’ hope opener that established them as a contender. Look for veteran quarterback Lamar Raynard to hand off his legacy to backup Kylil Carter as the season progresses.
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Democratic tide laps at Republican stronghold in House District 62 by Jordan Green In suburban House District 62, a Democratic “rock star” who has outraised her opponent almost 10 to 1 is seeking to unseat a Republican incumbent lawman who has lost the support of law enforcement.
support over the years, and I’ve supported my constituents well in Raleigh. And I have the committee assignments to be able to do great things for North Carolina.” While taking positions on many issues In a normal election year, we probthat are diametrically opposed to where ably wouldn’t be talking about Rep. John Faircloth stands, Shafer downplays party Faircloth’s re-election prospects because affiliation in her pitch to voters. his eventual triumph would be a fore“I’m an eight-generation North gone conclusion. Carolinian born and raised in CharWhen he wasn’t running unoplotte with parents from small towns in posed, the four-term Republican House eastern North Carolina,” Shafer said. “I member has rarely faced a serious know people of many different affiliachallenge. And while the newly drawn tions. I know people in both parties are House District 62 hasn’t been tested, the concerned about the behavior of the western flank of Guilford County from General Assembly. I want to see less Summerfield down to through a more partisanship and more concern with the affluent stretch of High Point would common good for the people of North seem like friendly territory for a conserCarolina.” vative Republican. Shafer’s lopsided fundraising totals Even in a midterm election billed as aren’t the only sign of slippage in the a “blue wave,” District 62 wasn’t on too race. Faircloth is one of only two retired many people’s lists of likely Democratic law enforcement officers in the state pickups. Then came the second round House, but the NC Police Benevolent of campaign finance Association — repreports in early resenting retired and July that showed active federal, state, ‘Generally, on the policDemocratic chalcounty and local law lenger Martha Shafer ing issues we agreed. enforcement officers outpacing Faircloth When we’re talking about — gave its endorsein fundraising by ment to Shafer the benefits to the ofalmost 10 to 1. A instead. The endorsehealthcare executive ment for Shafer is all ficers when they retire who recently retired the more striking beor when they get into from Cone Health, cause Faircloth is the Shafer and her fellow architect of a 2016 trouble, that’s where Democratic challaw that restricted lenger Terri LeGrand we haven’t been able to access to police-body in neighboring camera video, and agree.’ District 74 have been the Police Benevo– Rep. John Faircloth dubbed “the rock lent Association has star candidates” by rebuked Democratic the Durham-based Gov. Roy Cooper in Indivisible group Flip NC. the past for advocating that the public Faircloth, a former High Point City have more access to the recordings. Council member and retired police Faircloth indicates he holds no hard chief, acknowledged that he needs to feelings towards the members of the asmake up ground. He cited an extended sociation, saying that he has “the greatlegislative session that produced a raft of est respect for them.” constitutional amendments, which Re“They are interested in some issues publicans hope will motivate their voters that I haven’t been able to come around to turn out in November while giving to,” Faircloth said. “Generally, on the Democrats yet another rallying point. policing issues we agreed. When we’re “We’ve got two months to go [before talking about the benefits to the officers the election],” Faircloth said. “Those of when they retire or when they get into us who are in office got a very slow start. trouble, that’s where we haven’t been We were in Raleigh much longer than able to agree. I suspect they put that we expected. I would say we’re behind ahead of the body camera issue.” in momentum. But I’ve got wonderful In addition to the Police Benevolent
Association, Shafer has received the endorsement of the State Employees Association of North Carolina. “We had a very thorough conversation about things that were of interest to them, like protections for whistleblowers and due process rights for police officers,” Shafer said of her interview with the Police Benevolent Association. “I don’t know how my opponent answered those questions. I was proud to get their endorsement.” On the issue of police body-camera John Faircloth video, Shafer said she favors a less restrictive policy than the law crafted by Faircloth, which requires an order from a superior court judge to access the video. “I think when law enforcement agencies have body cameras, I don’t think the intent was to keep the footage as personnel records,” Shafer said. “We need to have a process that allows people who are in videos in use-of-force incidents to have access to those videos.” While the police body-camera law frustrated many community members at a time when calls for police accountability were mounting, the new law was yoked with a separate measure that tacked to the left on drug policy. HB 972 dropped a prohibition on needle exchanges designed to reduce the spread of HIV, AIDS, hepatitis and other bloodborne diseases among addicts. The needle exchanges, which have sprung up in Greensboro and Winston-Salem, among other North Carolina cities, also provide Naloxone kits to reverse drug overdoses and encouragement to addicts to seek treatment when they’re ready. The idea of providing clean needles to people who use illegal drugs would have been unthinkable to Faircloth when he started his career in law enforcement as a Greensboro police officer, after serving in a civil affairs unit with the US Army. “If you go back to the time I was still a police officer and working the drug prob-
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lem in Greensboro, I moved a long way to get to this point; it was not overnight,” Faircloth said. “I realized over time we’re not dealing with a bunch of criminals. We’re dealing with people with a weakness and a problem, and we need to find some way to address it.” Harm reduction as a means of addressing the opioid crisis is one rare area of bipartisan accord in Raleigh. Prison reform is another. If elected to another term, Faircloth said he would like to develop a way for inmates to qualify for early release, citing the $36,000-per-year cost of housing incarcerated individuals. The state of North Carolina eliminated parole in 1994. “I think there needs to be a way for people, if they are convicted of something and they’re given time and they go to prison and they follow the rules and they do the things they should in terms of taking classes, there ought to be a way to be rewarded for that,” Faircloth said. But on many other issues, the two candidates align with their parties. Republican lawmakers, who have held control of the General Assembly since 2011, have resisted calls to expand Medicaid. A 2016 University of North Carolina study found that expanding Medicaid would provide coverage for an additional 463,000 people and create 43,314 jobs over a 5-year period. Fair-
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Gov. Cooper was sworn in and a pair of Constitutional amendments that will go before voters in November. Shafer charged that Faircloth’s voting record “doesn’t show respect for the separa-
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tion of powers that’s called for in the constitution.” “Obviously, the legislature, we read the constitution to say we’re the body that’s supposed to pass the laws and have oversight, and our interpretation differs from the governor,” Faircloth said. “One thing I am pleased about the constitutional amendments is the citizens will vote,” he added. “If they feel the legislature went too far, they can cast their vote in that direction.” On one matter, Faircloth has bent towards Shafer’s view. Shafer said she would have voted against House Bill 2. “I think that was a black eye for our state,” she said. Passed during a special session in 2016, House Bill 2 law dictated which bathrooms transgender individuals can use and barred municipalities from passing non-discrimination ordinances. The following year, Gov. Cooper signed legislation scaling the law back. “I have regrets about how it affected our state,” Faircloth said. “I’m never comfortable when something divides people greatly. I think we went too far. I’m glad we were able to back up.”
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campaign website features a photograph of the lawmaker reviewing a map of the 2011 plan. (The website hasn’t been updated since Faircloth’s last election in 2016, and still lists his old district.) “I think you can’t go anywhere in our history to find the party in the majority has backed away and not made it favorable to their party; that’s what politics is,” Faircloth said. “I do support and have always supported finding a way to take partisanship out of redistricting. I would support an independent redistricting commission attempting Martha Shafer to find a neutral way of drawing districts.” Similarly, Faircloth defends his votes to shift power from the governor to the legislature, including legislation passed during a special session shortly before
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cloth joined his fellow Republicans in 2013 in a nearly party-line vote to block Medicaid expansion. “Closing the Medicaid coverage gap would be good in a lot of ways,” Shafer said. “It provides care for people who have none. It brings good-paying jobs to our state.” Faircloth touts what he views as economic progress made by the state since Republicans took control in 2011. “The progress we have made in North Carolina with regard to our business and our employers and employees, almost across the board universally we are better off than we were eight or 10 years ago, and we still have work to do,” he said. Shafer said she also would also have voted differently than Faircloth on three other issues. “He voted for the unconstitutional racial and partisan gerrymandering redistricting plans, which the courts struck down over time,” Shafer said. Faircloth makes no apologies for his votes on two successive redistricting plans, which have each been ruled unconstitutional. A member of the House Redistricting Committee, Faircloth’s
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Council wants Dems to select new rep for temporary position by Jordan Green Councilman Derwin Montgomery surprises supporters and opponents with a concession to allow the Democratic Party to play a role in selecting the next representative of the East Ward on Winston-Salem City Council. Derwin Montgomery, the popular Winston-Salem City Council member who is moving up to the state House, bowed to pressure from community leaders to yield responsibility for naming his immediate successor as representative of the East Ward to the Forsyth County Democratic Party. The motion made by Montgomery, which city council unanimously approved on Monday, followed a two-week tussle over who would control the appointment. After hearing concerns from East Ward residents, council members had rescinded an earlier decision which would have allowed council members to nominate and vote for candidates who applied for the position. That plan, presented by Mayor Allen Joines, would likely have resulted in Montgomery’s hand-selection of the next council member, considering his colleagues’ deference to the popular councilman who will soon have influence over the outcome of items on the council’s legislative agenda. The plan for filling the vacancy adopted by council on Monday entrusts the county party with forwarding a candidate for city council’s consideration through an open nominating process and a vote of party officers who live in the East Ward. But the resolution adopted by council also includes a second step of requesting enabling legislation from General Assembly to allow for a special election with both a primary and general election to fill the seat until the next regular election in 2021. The candidate appointed through the party recommendation would serve only until the conclu-
sion of the special election. “I’ve had conversation with both Republican and Democratic members of our delegation and they have stated that this is something they would support to amend the charter to allow the city to have this special provision to allow for a special election because it is the most democratic process to allow for a fullfledged special election,” Montgomery said. The plan to temporarily fill the vacancy through a nominee recommended by the Democratic Party follows a precedent in which the council approved a recommendation from the Republican Party to fill a vacancy in the West Ward in 2001. In both cases, the decision is turned over to the party of the member who is being replaced. East Ward residents who have advocated for the Democratic Party to play a role in the selection process expressed pleasant surprise at the new plan put forward by Montgomery. “What I see tonight deeply restored my faith in all of you,” East Ward resident Dee Washington said. “Now the job is to make sure the Democratic Party does that caucusing that they were committing to,” she added. “What I want to say to the council is, ‘Thank you for listening.’ This is how the process works — that the people speak, the council listens, and we work together to ensure democracy.” Marva Reid, a community leader in the East Ward who had enthusiastically backed the previous plan, expressed measured support. “I feel like the candidates would be okay, and the best candidate will win,” Reid said. “We ask that you be strong and stand for what you actually believe and do not fall prey to fearmongers. I’ve seen this body do that before. We must
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Derwin Montgomery agreed to delegate responsibility for selecting his replacement to the Forsyth County Democratic Party.
not take our Democratic Party into upheaval. We must remain focused on our November elections. I’ve seen so much in this past month of this group tainting young minds. It just bothers me when Councilman Montgomery has done such an outstanding job of bringing in millennials into the East Ward that have set up businesses, and we would like to have someone that can work cohesively with a new House of Representatives…. There are some very competent millennials that can keep the East Ward going into the right direction. We will approve however Councilman Montgomery wishes.” Reid has previously said that Montgomery “selected” Nicole Little, a 2013 Wake Forest University graduate who practices criminal-defense law and landlord-tenant matters, to fill the seat. Montgomery declined to confirm that he asked her to fill his seat on council. Little has also declined to comment. Despite Montgomery’s concession, his modified proposal still sought to limit the role of the party in selecting the next council member from the East Ward. “I would also ask that the recommendation that comes from the party come with the caveat that the person that is appointed may only serve until a special election is called and request that that
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person not run in a special election,” he said while making the motion. Some members indicated they don’t believe the council can bind the Democratic Party or the eventual appointee to not run for election. “I don’t know if we can legally put caveats that the person’s got to quit or resign or we’re gonna kick ’em off,” said Robert Clark, the sole Republican on the city council. The process for filling the East Ward vacancy takes on additional weight because of the possibility of two additional vacancies if council members Dan Besse and DD Adams win their respective elections in November. The process for filling the East Ward seat is likely to set a precedent, and Mayor Joines indicated that if there were multiple vacancies council would likely seek enabling legislation to provide a single special election to fill all open seats at once. The two Democrats are both running in Republican-leaning districts. Besse’s bid for the state House in District 75 is considered somewhat more feasible than Adams’ run against Republican incumbent Virginia Foxx in the 5th Congressional District.
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we also find ourselves with a president who faces his own serious problems. Over a dozen cabinet members and senior aides to President Trump have resigned, been fired or failed their confirmations under clouds of corruption, scandal and suspicion. The president’s personal lawyer, campaign manager, deputy campaign manager and several campaign advisors have been entangled by indictments, guilty pleas and criminal convictions. So it’s this backdrop that this nominee comes into when what we’re looking at is, is he in the mainstream of American legal opinion and will he do the right thing by the Constitution?” Peter Shane, a law professor at Ohio State University who has been called by the Democrats as a witness in the confirmation hearings, told Robin Young of WBUR’s “Here & Now” that the 42,000 pages withheld from public review might reveal Kavanaugh’s opinion of so-called “signing statements,” which President Bush used in signing legislation to indicate which parts of the bills he believed to be an unconstitutional infringement on executive authority. “So, it would be as staff secretary, it could be that Mr. Kavanaugh, as he would then be, might have contributed to the analysis behind these theories, he may have advocated them, or he may just have gone along with them,” Shane said. “We don’t know. But they are of a piece with the positions he has taken on the president’s authority over the executive branch.” There’s already plenty in the public record to indicate that Trump’s nomination of Kavanaugh amounts to an insurance policy against impeachment or indictment following the conclusion of the Mueller investigation. “There’s also the question [of] whether presidents have the power of self-pardon,” Shane said. “President Trump has said he absolutely has that power. I think there’s every reason to think he does not, but again, if you believe as Judge Kavanaugh wrote in a law review article that presidents should be able to do their jobs with as few distractions as possible, one way to remove distractions is to assure that if need be, they can always pardon themselves.”
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Stealing a phrase from Silent Sam supporter Thom Goolsby, Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) described Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation hearing as “mob rule,” while Democratic lawmakers attempted to stall the process until they have a chance by Jordan Green to review documents related to the nominee’s service in the Bush White House. It was an unprecedented breakdown in decorum for the normally august Senate Judiciary Committee, with periodic interruptions from protesters and Democratic lawmakers cutting in to request adjournment to executive session as Chairman Chuck Grassley stumbled through platitudes welcoming the nominee’s family and praising his qualifications. Democrat committee members contend they still haven’t seen 90 percent of the documents relevant to Kavanaugh’s career, many of which related to his service as staff secretary to President George W. Bush, and that they received of thousands of pages on them Tuesday morning that they didn’t have an opportunity to review. (Another 42,000 pages were released on Wednesday that are stamped “confidential.”) Sen. Grassley (R-Iowa) and other Republican lawmakers have argued that the documents from Kavanaugh’s stint as staff secretary will shed little light on his judicial philosophy since his job was largely passing on information from other advisors, and that their release could compromise the president’s ability to receive candid advice from staff. “Whether it’s not seeing 90 percent of the resume of the gentleman before us or 50 percent or 40 percent, that should come within time,” Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) told Grassley, arguing to delay the hearing. “And there is no jeopardy when we have a lifetime appointment. He will be there, should he be confirmed, for decades and decades and decades. Waiting another week or five days or two weeks for those documents which you yourself have requested…. I don’t understand what the rush is given all that is at stake.” Even some progressive activists have questioned why Democrat lawmakers are staking their fight on the withheld documents. But short of walking out on the hearings, procedural questions are the only card the minority party has to assail Kavanaugh’s nomination. What we already know about Kavanaugh — who started his career working under the special prosecutor on the Clinton impeachment proceedings, volunteered for the legal team that helped Bush survive the disputed 2000 election and then performed an about-face on the issue of executive power — and the man who is appointing him should be enough to know he isn’t fit for service on the highest court on the land. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the ranking member and a veteran of eight previous confirmation hearings, got closer to the marrow than most of her colleagues. “I think these are very unique circumstances,” Feinstein said. “Not only is the country deeply divided politically,
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Greensboro News & Record and the Winston-Salem Journal, continued this week with a single departure, but a fairly significant one. Publisher and Executive Editor Daniel Finnegan “left his position” according to a N&R staff report. In the last 12 months, BH Media has laid off a horde of talent at both papers, including dynamite columnist Susan Ladd, incisive editorial writer John Railey and marketing guru Justin Gomez. They have sold the 6.5acre downtown property where now stands the N&R behemoth office building, always better suited for a suburban office park than the middle of a downtown district, just as they sold the Journal’s downtown building in October 2015, three years after acquiring the paper and its assets. Massive relocation for the newsrooms and sales desks is in the works. Is there anyone here in the Triad who still Is there anyone believes that Warren Buffet will rejuvenate who still believes the newspaper busithat Warren Buffet ness? From here, at the will rejuvenate the editorial desk of a newspaper small alternative weekly, it looks an business? awful lot like the last few drops being wrung from a sponge. Now the consolidation of the two papers — foregone from the moment BH Media acquired the N&R all the way back in 2013 — moves one more step towards completion. We can’t argue with the idea of a single news entity covering the entire Triad, because that is what we have been doing all along. But BH Media’s plan as the monopoly daily newspaper for the third- and fifth-largest cities in the state is to appoint a regional vice president‚ Alton Brown, as a group publisher, lumping our cities together with their other, rural North Carolina properties in Morganton, McDowell County, Statesville and Hickory. What BH Media doesn’t — and won’t — get is that we are not making widgets here in the newspaper business. Our mandate is spelled out in the First Amendment and our purview is clear. It’s less about the money and more about the mission; the service we provide is essential to the function of our towns, cities and countries. A self-governing society requires an informed citizenry. Our business is the business of the American people, and it doesn’t do well in the hands of those who don’t care about that most essential function.
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These days Bookmarks might be better known for its retail store on West Fourth Street, which opened last year, but the festival bearing the same name and run by the same folks has become the largest in the Carolinas in its 14 years in existence.
This year’s festival features everyone from Kentucky-based bestselling author Silas House to South Africa native Zinzi Clemmons. Like any good book festival, Bookmarks lets fans take their love of the written word and the page into the next realm, with author signings and panel discussions. Visit bookmarksnc.org/2018-festival-books-authors for the full list of authors and schedule.
What We Lose, Penguin Random House, 2017 by Lauren Barber
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“My theory is that loneliness creates the feeling of haunting,” muses Thandi, a young woman coping with her mother’s death in Zinzi Clemmons’ debut novel What We Lose. Like Clemmons, a graduate student in the fiction MFA program at Columbia University at the time, her character Thandi takes a leave of absence from school to care for her mother as she dies of cancer. In short, fragmented vignettes Clemmons beautifully captures the lucid moments in which Thandi reckons with the fresh reality of a dead mother Zinzi Clemmons amidst the befuddlement and dissociation that so often absence just as Thandi conaccompanies trauma, but it’s fronts her mother’s physical clear from the onset Clemabsence from their family mons was never interested home, which is still full of her in a highlights tour through hand-picked treasures from only the most insightful or her South African homeland. excruciating moments of her Clemmons’ experimental mourning period. In What structure mirrors the ways in We Lose, she’s showing what which processing grief is itself everyone who an ongoing has mourned creative already feat. She knows: that Attend the keynote includes it is tedious, handopening event featurunpredictable drawn ing Zinzi Clemmons at and exhaustcharts, ing; that it photos, Hanes Auditorium at feels like hip-hop Salem College at 7:30 limbo. lyrics and Clemmons’ p.m. and learn more at blogposts debut is also amongst bookmarksnc.org. about sociothe vieconomic and gnettes. racial idenThe tity, and the disrupted chronology feels politics of belonging. Thandi like coming in and out of a remarks early in the novel dissociative state or like the that she’s “often thought that whiplash of bounding to and being a light-skinned black from Philadelphia, Johanwoman is like being a wellnesburg, Portland and New dressed person who is also York, never quite feeling like homeless.” The mourning proshe’s in the right place, aching tagonist reflects more than for someone to anchor her. once on the disproportionate So then Clemmons’ debut age expectancies between also becomes a meditation black and white Americans, on love and sexuality, on fear, and her shock at the number on criminality and political of black patients in the cancer resistance. What We Lose is treatment facility she visited about everything because with her mother. nothing slows down for you Blank spaces on the novel’s when your mother dies. It’s 200-some pages force the about everything because she reader to visually confront was everything.
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Roshoni Choksi: Science fiction with a purpose Star-Touched Stories, Macmillan, 2018 by Sayaka Matsuoka
Young adult author Roshani Chokshi is a regular on the book festival circuit. With three books out since 2016 and another Find Chokshi at the slated for publication in January, “Check Your Reality at Chokshi’s visit to the Door” panel from the Bookmarks 12:15 to 1:15 p.m. on Festival is just one of the many stops Saturday at the Haneson her book tour brands Theater; bookthis year. It will be her second visit to signing at 1:30 p.m. the festival, where she will be moderating a panel called “Check Your Reality at the Door,” about young-adult fantasy fiction. As a Filipino-Indian woman, Chokshi uses her craft to tell fantasy stories that draw from her heritage and empower characters that look like her. “It’s important to me because they are me,” Chokshi
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says about her characters. “These are the stories of my childhood.” In her first novel, The Star-Touched Queen, Chokshi used Hindu folklore and mythology to tell the story of a young woman who becomes queen of a mysterious
nation, while her upcoming novel, The Gilded Wolves, takes place in 19th Century Paris during the 1889 World Fair. This era, often described as la Belle Epoque, or French for the “beautiful era,” was actually steeped in deep colonialism, Chokshi says. She notes the dichotomy of glimmering creations such as the Moulin Rouge with atrocities like “human zoos” that were found in world expos where people of color were displayed like animals. After the election of President Trump, Chokshi says that writing and fantasy took on even more meaning and showed her again, how necessary her genre is. “It’s not about escaping,” says Chokshi. “We need to see that voices matter and that monsters are taken down.” She notes the importance of inclusion and diversity in storytelling, especially now. “My hope is that at the end of something, readers ask who is telling them the story,” Chokshi says. “History is shaped by the tongues of conquerors and a story is a multifaceted jewel; it has many faces.”
Georgann Eubanks: An essayist travels North Carolina’s foodways The Month of Their Ripening: North Carolina Heritage Foods through the Year, UNC Press, 2018
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It started with the fig tree, which had grown enormously, beside her condo in Carrboro. “Picking figs is interesting because they hide behind the leaves,” Georgann Eubanks says. “I learned that figs are the most fragile fruit. They don’t ship well. You can dry them, but if you want to eat ’em fresh you have to eat them right when you pick ’em, when they’re just at the right moment.” The seasons keep the tempo in Eubanks’ recently published The Month of Their Ripening: North Carolina Heritage Foods through the Year, a collection of literary nonfiction essays about 12 North Carolina foods deeply intertwined with the state’s cultural histories. “Figs, with all their quirks and metaphors, are a symbol to me about how things used to be in the food
world: that we would wait, happy to receive something because we’re overharvesting or, in the case of oysters, that only came back once a year and look forward to our storm-water runoff along the coast from our develit,” she says. “The thrust of the book is it’s more fun opment makes it hard for oysters to thrive,” Eubanks if you have to wait, it’s more interesting to not have says. “Ramps were an obscure garlicky green that the everything at your fingertips all the time. There are traCherokee people favored, and they have been harvested ditions, celebrations, folkways in North Carolina that by the roots and are in danger because chefs in fine were very dependent upon the restaurants decided they’re a seasons that I want to lift up cool thing to serve.” again.” The Month of Their RipenLearn more at georganneubanks. The prolific writer and ing is not doom-and-gloom net and see Eubanks interviewed Emmy-winning documentarnonfiction, though. Gorgeous during a live taping of DG Marian spoke with farmers, cooks, botanical paintings by Carol historians, scientists, and the Misner keep company with tin’s public television show Booklay people carrying on Old Eubanks’ story vignettes from watch on Sept. 8 at 11:45 a.m. in North State food traditions mountain ranges to shorelines, Mountcastle Forum in the Milton today, including an 80-yearand the first chapter kicks off Rhodes Arts Center. old man who still checks 400 the journey with some whimsy. soft-shelled crab pots every January’s food is snow. morning during the season and “People get really passionate an 84-year-old woman growabout whether you’re suping scuppernong grapes along their namesake river. posed to add to the snow sweetened condensed milk, “She was just so down-to-earth and smart,” Eubanks evaporated milk, whole milk or heavy cream,” she says. says. “She said to me that people always want the big“And then there’s people who add brandy. That’s the gest scuppernongs. She said, ‘Honey a quart is a quart, other piece of this: There’s a scholar at the University of and the little ones are the sweetest.’ There are a lot of Wisconsin that talks about edible memory. We all have wise people still providing these delicious foods for us.” memories of particular foods we were raised eating As much as Eubanks’ goal is to preserve cultural or had on special occasions. The farther east you go in knowledge and folk wisdom, it’s also to shed light North Carolina, the more special the occasion of snow on the state of food systems and to help protect the and everybody has their idea about how you’re supstate’s biodiversity. posed to make ice cream out of it. It’s trivial, but it’s “I learned there are certain food that are in danger important to people.”
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If You Leave Me, Crystal Hana Kim, Harper Collins, 2018 by Sayaka Matsuoka
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Crystal Hana Kim: Children from unified Korea are refugees twice Often times, the lives and experi14 when the war began and I grew up ences of first-generation Americans exist hearing stories about how she lived in a between two different countries: The one refugee camp.” Like Kim, who talks about their parents migrated reconciling her Kofrom and the one they rean heritage with her live in now. For author American identity, her Meet Kim at the Crystal Hana Kim, it grandmother also faced “Finding Home: Stowas a bit more comchallenges of what plicated. Kim, who is “home” meant to her ries of Immigrants & the daughter of Korean after her country split in Refugees” panel on immigrants, was born two after the war. and raised in New York “A lot of people from Saturday at Reynolds by her grandmother my grandmother’s genPlace from 3:45 to 4:45 because her parents eration want reunificacouldn’t afford daycare. tion or the end of war,” p.m. with a bookShe says her grandsays Kim, who visited signing at 5 p.m. mother would tell her South Korea during the stories about growing inter-Korea summit in up during the Korean April. War and how it shaped her life choices. In her debut novel, If You Leave Me — “She was born into Korea when was released last month — Kim reflects on it one country,” Kim says. “She was only themes of home, war, love and belong-
ing as she chronicles the life of a poor Korean woman in love with two different men over the course of 16 years, beginning during the Korean War. “There’s so much I hope to capture about this tumultuCrystal Hana Kim ous time in Korea’s history,” Kim says. “Growing up here, the Korean War is not a part of cultural consciousness. It’s called the “Forgotten War” and I wanted to write about it for myself but also for the culture at large.”
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“As a novelist, you’re always looking for real trouble and you want to report on that trouble,” says Silas House, a Kentucky-based author of six bestselling novels including this year’s Southernmost. In his latest, he focuses on the particular, yet universal, troubles of Asher Sharp, a fundamentalist preacher who reevaluates his worldviews after sheltering a gay couple in the wake of a natural disaster in their rural Tennessee town. Sharp and his
son soon embark on a journey to find Sharp’s demption but he harbors no sympathy for the devil, older brother — shunned for being gay — in so to speak. the Florida Keys. “To me, it’s real easy to know that difference “The Supreme Court decision on marbetween having a discussion with [bigoted] people riage equality in 2015 is such a historic who want to have a conversation and somebody like decision that it deserved a novel,” House Steve Bannon,” House says. “He’s had plenty of opsays. “I would’ve portunities to say his piece… never dreamed that so for the New Yorker to give I would’ve been him another platform was House appears on the “Setting able to get married a bridge too far. So on one in my state, in my hand, we have to be open to Out to Journey In” panel at Reynlifetime. I wanted conversation; on the other, olds Place at 11:30 a.m. and the to write about that we have to have boundaries “Book Club Essentials” panel at huge shift… and to protect ourselves. Just like especially the way I the gay character in the novel the Mountcastle Forum at 2:15 saw people changing is open to forgiving some p.m., both in the Milton Rhodes and evolving in ways people but with others, he’s Arts Center on Sept. 8. Learn more that I would’ve never just done because they were thought possible.” violent and abusive.” at silas-house.com. Southernmost is Fictional or otherwise, more than a modern House holds deeply that narroad novel. Hill’s texratives of the South should tured characters grapple with manifestations be told by and written by Southerners, particularly in of homophobia, toxic masculinity and the this cultural moment. nature of moral courage in faith communi“It’s so important for Southerners to tell their ties of the American South. own stories,” House says. “So often, the way we’re “Sometimes people say… I shouldn’t have given presented in the media is shaped by people who are these evangelical people a voice,” House says. “To not from here and have very little knowledge of the me, the great challenge of this novel was how to place so it’s a regurgitated cycle of stereotypes,” he give voice to people I disagree with most… to try to says. “There’s this idea that all people of any diverfind their vulnerability and humanity. I found that sity escape to New York City, and this idea that the discrimination is always rooted in fear of the other, South is a place where diversity cannot thrive. Stories fear of the unknown. I didn’t want to write a book of historically invisible people… need to be told so that caricaturized anybody.” they’re not erased.” But make no mistake — House may explore re-
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