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Greensboro artist KRYSTAL HART’s third artist campaign “Cone Care Campaign” was created specifically for the community to thank Cone Health medical workers for their services during the COVID-19 pandemic. Hart’s “Hope Cards” or “Letters of Hope” is her first art campaign for Cone Health, and are sold in packs of four originally designed and hand-signed (with first name and last initial) cards. 5 Despite a semester that was unquestionably compromised by the COVID-19 pandemic, the University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA) continues to be recognized as a leader in arts education, both here and abroad. 6 Before the coronavirus, there hadn’t been a proper TRIAD DRIVE-IN in nearly 20 years. But COVID-19 has changed everything. Suddenly, Winston-Salem is emerging as the Triad capital of drive-in nouveau, with Marketplace Cinemas and the Winston-Salem Fairgrounds reinventing themselves into outdoor theater spaces; and the “Third-base theater” at Monstercade continues rolling into the summer.
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The theme for this week is restaurants whose names begin with the letter “M.” With RECENT RE-OPENINGS, there are some really good opportunities in that category. These are chef-owned, fooddriven establishments. Seating is limited everywhere, so reservations are a really good idea. 8 The BOSTON TYPEWRITER ORCHESTRA has been performing its unique brand of music throughout New England since 2004 and will now be releasing its first vinyl album later this summer. Selfproclaimed conductor Tim Devin and a group of friends founded the ensemble as a joke... 13 At a press conference held yesterday morning in Greensboro’s Governmental Plaza, clergy and activists DEMANDED THE FIRING OF CITY ATTORNEY CHUCK WATTS, whom they alleged made false statements at the Greensboro City Council meeting on June 16. They also alleged that Watts made not only false but defamatory statements in a Wednesday email to Betsy Fox, Chair of the Guilford County Democratic Party.
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aspect that there’s more harm than good from a mask just isn’t there.” But not everyone agrees that masks are the best way to keep the pandemic under control. The World Health Organization, for example, still does not recommend the mandatory wearing of face masks because they say there is no definitive proof that masks prevent infection. Even the Mayo Clinic, which supports the wearing of face masks, advises that there are exceptions to the rule. For example, a person with breathing problems should not wear a mask, and neither should a child under the age of 2. On the flip side, even most opponents of face mask mandates agree that PPEs are necessary for those who work in nursing homes and doctor’s offices. In general, though, anti-maskers say that so long as we keep our social distance from others and wash our hands frequently, then it is almost impossible for the virus to spread. That argument seems to be falling on deaf ears. The City of Raleigh has recently ordered the mandatory wearing of face masks, UNCG just announced a similar policy last week, and Gov. Cooper may enact a statewide mandate at any moment. Meanwhile, folks who oppose mandatory face masks might have more to protest than just a Gubernatorial order. Last week, one major airline said that any passenger caught not wearing a mask, would be banned from all future flights. If that trend catches on, then watch for other industries to follow suit, and consumer groups to mount all sorts of legal challenges. Despite the vitriol surrounding face masks, we’re all trying to find our way toward a new normal, and it doesn’t help that we keep getting mixed messages from the WHO, the CDC, the White House, the state House, and the private sector. And don’t look for a consistent message from local elected officials either. Walk into most any meeting of a county board or city council, and you’ll see some members wearing face masks and others without them. What we need, then, are some designated referees who all agree on the rules, and can help us follow them. No one wants to be penalized for not knowing what the penalties are. !
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WHERE ARE YOU FROM? I grew up in Greensboro, but I recently moved back here from NYC. HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN BARTENDING? A little under a year, but I’ve had a lot of jobs in restaurants both in the front and back-of-house. HOW DID YOU BECOME A BARTENDER? I moved back to Greensboro with my boyfriend from NYC so that he could attend grad school (and cause we were both in need of a little break from the city) and was looking for a part-time job to do with my freelance illustration. My mom ran into the owner, Kumar (she plays live music here on the weekends), and told him I was looking and my experience, I interviewed, and that was that! WHAT DO YOU ENJOY ABOUT BARTENDING? My favorite part is when I pick out a glass or bottle for someone, and they immediately love it— especially when I’ve taken a risk and tried to push them outside their comfort zone. I love taking what people describe to me and trying to find something new for them to enjoy. WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE WINE THAT YOU SERVE BY THE GLASS? Right now, it is definitely the Bonsegna Negroamaro, an Italian wine that is dark and dusty and bold, but it’s also light enough that it’s not overbearing in the ever-increasing summer heat. WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE BOTTLE OF WINE IN THE STORE? Ooh, I have so many, but if I were to pick my favorite right now, it would be the Château de Santenay Bourgogne (it’s the summer, so let’s talk about a great white wine!). It’s a French Chardonnay or often called a White Burgundy. French Chardonnay tends to be much crisper than American, with less “butteriness”
and oak. I love this one in particular because it has a lightness without losing the flavors of apple and apricot, but gives you a hint of toastiness and french oak that just makes it really satisfying. WHAT WOULD YOU RECOMMEND AS AN AFTER-DINNER DRINK? My go-to right now is RL Buller Tokay. Tokay is very similar to Port, but it is from Hungary; however, the one I particularly enjoy is from Australia. It smells very sweet, but once you taste it, it has a great breadth of flavor. It starts off very raisin driven, and as it moves to your mid-palate, it turns into toasted peanuts and finishes with a little bit of baking spices. WHAT’S THE CRAZIEST THING YOU’VE SEEN WHILE BARTENDING? We have some comfier chairs inside the store directly across from the register, and one night there was a couple full-on making out; we’re a small store, so it is not like they were off in a corner; it was just like in the middle of everything. She was on his lap, and they were just going at it, I could describe it as aggressively. Needless to say, we were all a little bleh’d out. But there is also the owner’s dancing, and that’s a whole thing in itself. WHAT’S THE BEST TIP YOU’VE EVER GOTTEN? People have been very generous since we’ve reopened, which is wonderful, and to them, I say ‘thank you so much.’ Recently on one table, my coworker and I got a tip of $140 (we split tables evenly here).
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reensboro artist Krystal Hart’s third artist campaign, “Cone Care Campaign,” was created specifically for the community to thank Cone Terry Rader Health medical workers for their services during the Contributor COVID-19 pandemic. Hart’s “Hope Cards” or “Letters of Hope” is her first art campaign for Cone Health, and are sold in packs of four originally designed and hand-signed (with first name and last initial) cards. A portion of each sale is donated to the Cone Health COVID-19 Support Fund. Her goal to sell all 750 cards by the extended deadline of July 13 is almost at the halfway mark—as of June 16, 356 cards have been sold. The messages of Hart’s cards are: 1. Hope Heals—“Health, healing, and joy are yours today and every day.” 2. Hope Strong—“Be strengthened and renewed in every area of need, for you are greatly cared for.” 3. Hope Full—“Be full of hope, know that you are in many hearts and prayers.” 4. Hope Dwells—“Dwell and rest in hope today, you are deeply loved and appreciated.” Hart said when the governor issued North Carolina’s stay-at-home mandate, she packed up some watercolor paper pads from her Sternberger Artists Center studio and began working from her bedroom. “I was looking out the window at how beautiful everything in nature was, but at the same time, I could feel fear and anxiety in the air,” Hart said. “I wanted to create works of beauty, combined with hints of some fear in order to replicate that feeling of unsettledness.” She said she combined washes of watercolor, scratches into graphite paper, and bits of minerals to inspire hope. Hart used Sumi ink, which is a traditional Japanese ink made from the soot of pine branches, to paint black lines that represented anxiety and trauma. Hart’s motivation and passion for this project stems from her personal trauma from a near-death experience that put her in the care of Cone Hospital staff for seven days in 2010. YES! WEEKLY
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“I was in an accident that left me pinned in a car for almost an hour,” Hart said. “They told me over 100 men from three different fire departments rescued me, using the ‘Jaws of Life’—several types of piston-rod hydraulic tools used to pry open vehicles—and a crane.” Hart said the accident changed her life completely, and that she came out of that experience as a different person. “Before the accident, I was traveling the world,” she explained. “I was a highenergy over-achiever. I had graduated top of my class, Suma Cum Laude.” According to her website, Hart received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the New York Institute of Technology. Additionally, she is a recipient of various honors and residencies, including a 2007 Chairperson Fine Arts Award, 2009 and 2012 Limner Society Residencies, 2011 and 2017 North Carolina Regional Artist Grants, and the 2018 Mass MoCA Masters of Abstraction Workshop in Residency. After the accident, Hart said it took about five years before she was able to work again due to the physical pain from a major shoulder injury and a serious Traumatic Brain Injury. In 2017, she received a grant from ArtsGreensboro for coaching with Judith Kruger of Connecticut. Kruger helped Hart hone her creative voice, and strengthen her in
the traditional Japanese painting skills of Nihonga. In 2018, Hart attended the intense one-week art residency, Master Abstraction Workshop in Residence at the studios of MASS Museum of Contemporary Art. While Hart had always been interested in people and humanity, especially during her time serving overseas as a missionary, the accident gave her a different perspective and interest on trauma and suffering, which she is now carrying over to her artwork. “It fueled my passion to look at others’ stories,” Hart said. “My own challenges help me to communicate better—I have a deeper level of empathy, vulnerability, and intimacy—I understand. I am thinking locally and culturally on how to create safe places of silence for people to be able to find the freedom to move through what they didn’t even know they were dealing with.” Hart said she is cultivating this new and personalized perspective on trauma and suffering into her art style through the Hope Cards. “Since my work is about hope during times of adversity, I oxidized silver using a heat and sulfur process,” she explained. “All of my work, and materials—including soils, inks, metals, pigments, and minerals intermingled with man-made
materials—have some kind of trauma happen to them. I grind pigments with my mortar and pestle, and I pour very hot water to wash away pigments. These actions of destruction create spaces of healing out of leftover things that have been destroyed.” Hart said she is in the planning stages to exhibit with Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA) for a multi-artist “Draw” show with North Carolina and New York artists that will be installed in late July. ! TERRY RADER is a freelance writer/editorial/content/copy, creative consultant/branding strategist, communications outreach messenger, poet, and singer/ songwriter.
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Accolades accumulate for UNCSA Despite a semester that was unquestionably compromised by the COVID-19 pandemic, the University of North Carolina School of the Arts continues to be recognized as a leader in arts education, loMark Burger cally and abroad. In its June 3 issue, The Hollywood Contributor Reporter highlighted “The Best 25 Drama College Programs Around the World,” as polled by alumni, academics, and industry professionals. UNCSA finished sixth on the list, behind Juilliard, Yale, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, UC San Diego, and LAMDA (London Academy of Dramatic Arts). It finished higher on the list than UCLA, RADA (Royal Academy of Dramatic Art), the American Conservatory Theater, and USC School of Dramatic Arts. In addition, UNCSA’s BFA program was listed third in the article. only recruit a diverse group of young artists, It should also be noted that UNCSA has it has to serve the unique needs of those “made the grade” every year since The artists once they arrive on campus,” he said. Hollywood Reporter inaugurated its drama “They want teachers, mentors, and guests school rankings in 2012. from the industry who share their experi“This ranking from The Hollywood ences. They want some of the characters Reporter, which is read by industry insiders they play to look like them, in plays and and influencers, reaffirms what we already movies written and directed by artists from knew: Our School of Drama is world-class,” their own communities.” said UNCSA chancellor Brian Cole of the The School of Drama wasn’t the only honor. “Dean Scott Zigler’s leadership has UNCSA discipline to be recognized, as the shaped the school to create students who School of Filmmaking was recognized by are capable of success across the broadest both Variety and Backstage magazines possible spectrum, from classical theater earlier this spring. Variety cited the film in to the most current experimental work for its list of top 50 entertainment programs both stage and camera, and everything worldwide, while Backstage listed the in-between.” School of Filmmaking as one of the top “UNCSA students have a competitive edge with on-camera training woven into all four years of their training with leading on-camera teacher Bob Krakower, providing significant value and practical training for today’s industry,” said Zigler, who has been the Dean of the School of Beautiful 1965 220S Mercedes Benz with Drama since 2017. approximately 55,800 original miles. Car purchased Zigler also addressed about 23 years ago. It’s only been owned by 2 the issue of diversity in families since it was picked up in Canada in 1965. classes and curriculum. It’s time to move the car on to someone else who “To truly create a diverse can love and enjoy the car as much as I have! and inclusive environ$25,000 - Call 336-399-1012 for more info. ment, a school has to not WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM
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eight film programs for aspiring cinematographers. “The UNC School of the Arts has generated scores of now-famous alumni who’ve made a mark in the biz,” noted Variety in its list of 50 top programs and educators worldwide, which was published in April. “There are only a few programs in the country dedicated specifically to cinematography, and the University of North Carolina School of the Arts is one of the most affordable – and prestigious,” observed the Backstage article, which was posted online in April. “A hard-nosed, hard-work approach is a defining feature of the cinematography program at UNCSA – one that celebrates the romance of storytelling and emphasizes
the hard work of craft.” “Variety and Backstage consult with industry experts to determine which programs to recognize, so these are very meaningful endorsements for the School of Filmmaking,” said Henry Grillo, the interim Dean of the School of Filmmaking. “It is particularly valuable to have our faculty showcased, as they are both incredible assets for attracting new students and our best assurance of the success of our graduates.” For more information, visit the official UNCSA website, www.uncsa.edu/. ! See MARK BURGER’s reviews of current movies on Burgervideo.com. © 2020, Mark Burger.
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The rebirth of the drive-in of Music,” he added. “That’s a whole other level of cinematic torture...” However, Grease is the word at the other Winston spots—appearing on the roster for July 14 at The Drive at the Winston-Fairgrounds, which opens July 7. Running movies Tuesday through Saturday, The Drive offers the most traditional theater setup: newer movies will play on double-screens the whole week. Special events and midnight flicks are planned to add some kick, along with concessions, including adult beverages. Down on Peters Creek Parkway, Marketplace Cinemas has re-emerged as a drivein, with a robust nightly schedule starting in July (running weekends through June). Their sold-out opening weekend kickedoff with Smokey and the Bandit on Friday night, and the Muppet Movie on Saturday. Operator, Daniel Kleeberg’s optimism shines through movie quotes—Marketplace’s inaugural screening was preceded by words from Kermit the Frog: “Life’s like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.” Thanking the audience for their support, and crediting the “extreme generosity” of the Marketplace Mall landlord,
Kleeberg turned a parking lot into a drive-in over the weeks between Gov. Cooper’s shutdown and the initial reopening phases. “What is old is new again. What was cool, becomes uncool, and cool again. As the Lion King said, ‘it’s the circle of life,’“ he explained of the drive-in’s sudden popularity. Marketplace would kick-off daily specialty screenings on July 1 with the original Ghostbusters that includes a 9-minute pre-show package. For July 4 weekend, Kleeberg said Marketplace would run a double-feature, a practice he expects more of once new movie releases start rolling again. In the meantime, classics are classics for a reason, and having several area drive-ins means fans can catch them on a cycle— with cinemas around the state staggering schedules from the small pool of film distributors throughout the summer. So while Jurassic Park and Jaws are coming-up at Marketplace, they played as a double-feature over Father’s Day weekend at the Eden Drive-in (and it’s sister cinema: Badin Road Drive-in in Albemarle). Offering the most classic
drive-in experience, Eden and Badin Road have been running seasonally on the weekends for decades. It’s a cash-only affair, harkening days of simple pleasures, with Eden boasting a picturesque pine forest backdrop. Operator Tim Robertson has long provided the good, clean fun he thinks folks are looking for, especially these days—with a major focus on keeping things clean. “People are ready to get out and do something, but they still wanna be safe,” he explained. The Eden Drive-in has also added special cleaning staff and revamped the concession building to limit contact. “It’s all about making a place where folks can come out and have a good time without worrying,” Robertson added. “The response has been amazing.” Social distancing measures have cut their capacity, but crowds remain strong, particularly as the drive-ins take on new roles as event venues. In Eden, Frank Mickens will host a “Freedom Tailgate” on July 2, and the Christian rock group Casting Crowns are scheduled to perform on July 27 (and on July 28 at Badin Road). To keep up, Robertson urged folks to check Facebook for information as they rework websites (Eden and Badin have temporary WordPress pages for those not on the social network). Movie selections for the upcoming weekend are usually posted on Tuesdays. The selections will double for Eden come July once their new second-screen makes its debut with the Garth Brooks “drive-in tour” concert on June 27. Presented by Encore Live, a group developed to host major concerts in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, Brooks’s 300-theater specialty tour is selling out spaces at $100 a carload, with screenings at Eden, Badin Road, and Marketplace Cinemas. Both Kleeberg and Robertson expect to see drive-ins shift into an allaround special events realm. Special events, classic movies, and summer nights, it’s time for drive-in movie magic in the Triad. ! KATEI CRANFORD is a Triad music nerd and avowed drive-in mutant.
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he theme for this week is restaurants whose names begin with the letter “M.” With recent re-openings, there are some really good opportunities in that category. These are chef-owned, fooddriven establishments. Seating is limited everywhere, so reservations are a really good idea. Mark’s (616 Dolley Madison, 336-3870410, marksgreensboro.com) has been a personal favorite for decades, as well as one of my highest rated establishments. The restaurant is now open for dinner at 5:30, Monday-Saturday, for dine in or take out. This is one of the only places in Greensboro that regularly serves pate’. Mark’s version is a French country style, served with traditional accompaniments of whole grain mustard, onions, cornichons, and toast points. It’s a great way to start. I am also a fan of Tater Totsmashed potato balls filled with smoked trout, fried crisp. And if you are an Escargot fan, this is a good destination. For lighter appetites, or for another course, I especially like the salad of Hazelnut Crusted Fried Goat Cheese with fresh pears, dressed in Champagne vinaigrette. Small plates lend versatility to the experience here. Consider Shiitake Sliders, Grilled Quail Breast with Fried Grits Cake, Grilled Ostrich, Seared Sea Scallops with red lentils, and especially Lemon Risotto with Tempura Fried Shrimp. Among the large plates, I would suggest Wild Salmon with black truffle butter, Napa cabbage ragout, gigante beans, and summer vegetables; Duck Breast with duck confit and sweet potato hash; Veal Chop; and Grilled Kobe Chopped Steak with cremini mushroom demiglace, truffle fries, and greens flavored with duck fat. MJ’s (620 Dolley Madison, 336-8524889, mjs620.com) is open for takeout orders 5-8 p.m. Monday-Saturday, and for indoor and patio dining 5-9 p.m. I am particularly drawn to outdoor seating these days. Check their Facebook page for daily specials. WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM
From the starters section of the regular menu, Poutine is a standout. This hearty dish combines onion gravy with Cheddar cheese curds. Fried Calamari is served with fried jalapeno peppers and remoulade sauce. Two sandwiches are appealing- Chicken Salad on brioche roll with cranberry chutney and salad, and Wagyu Beef Burger with homemade pimiento cheese, apple cider bacon, and truffle fries. Entrée choices include Pan Seared Salmon with Basmati rice, asparagus, and beurre blanc sauce. Shrimp and Grits are joined by sausage, mushrooms, onions, and tomato gravy. Sea Scallops are arrayed over mushroom risotto- an especially mellow combinationwith spinach and beurre blanc sauce. Since the late 1990s, Marisol (5834 West Gate City Blvd., 336-852-3303, themarisol.com) has earned top ratings from me (and others). Marisol is now open for indoor dining Tuesday-Saturday at 5:30 p.m. Takeout orders can be picked up 6-8 p.m. This stellar reputation is a function of quiet, sophisticated ambience as well as food. Consider starting with Flash Fried Shrimp marinated in buttermilk, served with spicy sweet chili sauce. The kitchen cures Gravlax in house, then presents this salmon preparation with currycilantro lime aioli. Roasted Fennel and Garlic Sausage is also made in house. Foie Gras is lush. The Caesar Salad is unique. It’s topped with flash fried oysters and creamy horseradish Caesar dressing, joined by toasted pine nuts and shaved Parmesan cheese. The Duck entrée is twice roasted, yielding a crisp skin, flavored with Texas Pete and honey. Scottish Salmon gets an apple basil vinaigrette enhancement. The Grilled Veal Chop is major league, the exceptional meat rendered more complex with country ham, shallots, sage, Dijon mustard, and white wine. Blackened North Carolina Drum was the current fresh fish. That may change based on whatever is freshest. The kitchen was adding shrimp, plus a capercornichon dill remoulade sauce.
See my other Greensboro recommendations at issuu.com/yesweekly. If you are going to the beach this summer, see my recommendations for the North and South Carolina coast at the YES! Weekly website: yesweekly.com. Look under “Featured Stories.” !
JOHN BATCHELOR has been writing about eating and drinking since 1981. Over a thousand of his articles have been published. He is also author of two travel/ cookbooks: Chefs of the Coast: Restaurants and Recipes from the North Carolina Coast, and Chefs of the Mountains: Restaurants and Recipes from Western North Carolina. Contact him at john.e.batchelor@gmail.com or see his blog, johnbatchelordiningandtravel.blogspot.com.
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has grown grumpy and started attacking park visitors, reports KGO, prompting complaints to Oakland Animal Services. “I swear I was getting flashbacks to the velociraptor scenes in ‘Jurassic Park’ as he was ‘cooing’ at me, sizing me up,” one said. Others said Gerald charged them, clawing and pecking as they tried to run. In response, the city closed the rose garden at the end of May and asked people not to feed Gerald or any other wildlife, as it “may have contributed to the male turkey becoming more aggressive,” the parks department said. Animal control officers are also trying to “train him to revert to natural behaviors,” but have had limited success keeping him socially distanced from humans. — Kalua, an infamous alcoholic monkey in Kanpur, India, has been sentenced to live out his days in isolation, Gulf News reported. The animal once belonged to a local occultist who would give him alcohol. After the owner died, Kalua couldn’t get his fix and became aggressive, sinking his teeth into more than 250 people, one of who died of his wound. The Kanpur zoo took Kalua in, trying to acclimate him to captivity and other monkeys, but zoo workers are throwing in the towel. “It has
The Boston Typewriter Orchestra has been performing its unique brand of music throughout New England since 2004 and will now be releasing its first vinyl album later this Chuck Shepherd summer. Self-proclaimed conductor Tim Devin and a group of friends founded the ensemble as a joke, reports Ripley’s Believe It or Not, and after premiering at Boston’s Art Beat Festival, the idea took off. Using vintage machines to rhythmically clack, roll, spin and bang out “music,” the typist-musicians say different models produce different sounds. “A Smith-Corona Galaxy 12 has a power space function that makes a nice metallic clang sound,” explained Brendan Emmett Quigley.
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— In Oakland, California’s Grand Lake neighborhood, Gerald the turkey has been an institution for some time, regularly queueing up with carpool riders near Morcom Rose Garden. But lately, Gerald
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— In April, following the cancellation of basketball madness, a Twitter account called March Madness of Flags was launched “for the love of vexillology,” pitting banners from all over the world against one another in a fearsome bracket to determine which was the “coolest flag.” During the final four, held over the weekend of June 13-14, the St. Louis (Missouri) flag beat out Stuttgart’s entry, then went on to clinch the championship in a commanding 625-49 victory over the standard from Yaroslavl Oblast, a Russian federal district north of Moscow. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported the city’s flag, a relative newcomer, was designed by Yale University art history professor Theodore Sizer and adopted in 1964 for the city’s bicentennial. — For those missing travel abroad, Songshan Airport in Taipei, Taiwan, is offering 90 people the opportunity to tour the airport and “pretend to go abroad.” On July 2, 4 and 7, participants can spend a half-day going through immigration, boarding an airplane, and then getting off the plane and re-entering the country through immigration. “People who didn’t have the opportunity to take international flights at Songshan (can) use this chance to experience and learn more about the boarding process and relevant service facilities,” Chih-ching Wang, deputy director of the airport, told CNN Travel. Tour customers will also get to take home “exclusive mysterious gifts.”
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The Associated Press reported that an unnamed man in Vienna, Austria, was hit with a 500 euro ($565) fine for “offending public decency” when he broke wind following an encounter with police on June 5. Authorities said that “of course no one is reported for accidentally ‘letting one go,’” but after behaving “provocatively and uncooperatively,” the man rose from a bench and “let go a massive intestinal wind apparently with full intent. And our colleagues don’t like to be farted at so much.”
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— The Gatlinburg SkyBridge in Tennessee was closed on June 15 after a guest at SkyLift Park attempted to execute a baseball-style slide across the glass panels in the middle of the bridge and a piece of metal on the guest’s clothing chipped and cracked the top layer of glass. Ac-
cording to WBIR, multiple signs warn against “running, jumping or bouncing” on the SkyBridge, the longest pedestrian suspension bridge in North America. Park spokesman Marcus Watson said the top layer of glass serves only as protection for the other two layers and the cracks didn’t affect the span’s structural integrity. Workers replaced the layer of glass with cedar planks and the bridge has been reopened. — The U.S. Forest Service is investigating a photo posted by David Lesh, 35, on Instagram showing him walking on a log across Hanging Lake in Garfield County, Colorado, in defiance of clearly posted rules prohibiting people from entering the water there. The post blew up with criticisms, but Lesh fired back, challenging others to walk on the log and even defecate in the lake. KDVR reported Lesh has a history of run-ins with authorities, including being cited for harassing a moose with his car in 2014 and setting 25 grocery carts on fire in Boulder, Colorado. Earlier this year he was caught snowmobiling in the Keystone ski area when the slopes were shut down because of COVID-19. On June 16 he was ordered to pay $500 and do 50 hours of community service for another snowmobiling incident from 2019.
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Saying that “extra precautions are justifiable and understandable where the president is concerned,” Russian spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that anyone meeting President Vladimir Putin at his house outside Moscow or in the Kremlin must pass through a disinfection tunnel that showers visitors with a “disinfecting aerosol” and a bath of ultraviolet light. The Guardian reported on June 17 the tunnels can also use facial recognition software and take the visitor’s temperature. Peskov said, “They were installed when the epidemic was in full swing,” but would not say whether Putin has used the tunnels himself.
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The Hollywood Reporter announced on June 16 that puppeteer Pat Brymer, 70, passed away in April. As a puppet builder, Brymer worked with ventriloquist Shari Lewis on “Lamb Chop’s Play Along” and with Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s “Team America: World Police,” but he is best remembered for bringing to life Bill Murray’s pesky nemesis gopher in 1980’s “Caddyshack.” !
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or almost a month now, activists in the Triad have taken to the streets to march, paint, and demand change in response to the killings of George Floyd Katie Murawski and Breonna Taylor by police. At the end of May, a 16-year-old Editor Reagan High School student set the peaceful precedent for protesting in Winston-Salem. Olivia Moore was instrumental in organizing the Winston4Peace march on May 31. During this peaceful protest, about 250 people marched from Bailey Park to the jailhouse on North Church Street. They lied on their stomachs and backs for over eight minutes, which is how long the former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on Floyd’s neck. “It was shocking—the emotion within the crowd,” Moore said. “There were people that were crying during the eight minutes and 46 seconds; there were people that were affected by this. It was just an empowering moment for me to be there and be like, ‘wow, I kind of started something,’ and have the protesters to continue for the next several days.” As advertised on Instagram, the protest began in Bailey Park, but then protesters started marching downtown to the jailhouse. “There are a lot of black people who are wrongly incarcerated/in jail for an YES! WEEKLY
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extended period of time for small drug charges,” said Moore when asked why the group chose to end the march at the jailhouse. As activists lay in the street, a faint yet distinctive sound of clacking rang out from the jailhouse. “They were all knocking on the windows,” Moore said, referring to the inmates inside. “It was really unfortunate— and I know, there are people that actually commit crimes and that are in there and should be in there— but in terms of incarceration, African-Americans or people of color, in general, are oftentimes given longer sentences and a higher percentage of a certain jail, and that is not good. So, that was the point behind that, and it was a matter of [showing solidarity].” From that protest spawned the organization, Winston4Peace. “Essentially, [Winston4Peace] is across all organizations and parts of our community that creates widespread change,” said Moore describing the youth-led initiative. In the organization, she said there are different task forces that are focused on local issues surrounding education, the justice system/police, and the local government. With youth-involvement as its main tenet, Winston4Peace looks to spread its influence to all the local schools through a network of clubs, youth leaders, and ambassadors. Moore said she came up with the name “Winston4Peace” due to the violence she saw happening in other surrounding cities. She wanted to “build the organization around having peace.” Winston4Peace is spearheaded by Moore, Amelia Carter, 16,
and Austin Hicks, 18, who were brought together by the movement. “We’re young, and a lot of the stuff that does come up—a lot of the ideas and concepts get planned directly by us even though we have a really good team of adults who are making the specific things happen and doing the communication that we can’t do,” Moore explained. “We are engaging our network of followers [through] local, political issues. We are sharing updates and information about local legislation; we are hearing and spreading calls for community input regarding local legislation reformation; we are creating a network of organizations that can effectively share resources, goals, ideas, and volunteers for a unified voice.” Hicks said he’d been an activist since he was 13 years old. As an avid supporter of Bernie Sanders during his 2016 bid for the presidency, Hicks was still “feeling the Bern” and had worked for four months on his 2020 campaign. “I got involved then, but I really started with the March For Our Lives movement, and that has taken us here,” Hicks explained. “It is just a wonderful thing that is happening right now in our community; we are all united.” Through his involvement with the Unity Coalition and Winston4Peace, Hicks said he had significantly grown in his activism. “It’s been so hard to find the organizations that I need. Like, I organized the Poverty Town Hall, but I had no idea who to go to as an activist,” he said. “I wanted to do something good because I am morally motivated. I see the problems in Winston-Salem. I read history, and these problems have not gone away, but there
is no outlet to do something about it. And that is what is so wonderful about what the Unity Coalition will be. It will be plugging people like me, who want to do something into the organizations that can get it done, and it is so awesome.” Moore, a young Black woman, describes herself as a social justice warrior at heart. “I have always been outspoken on political activism, and my first-period debate class could definitely tell you that,” she explained. “Because I live in the country, I was the only person with my political views. So, in the class, I was fighting for every minority out there, and through that, I was kind of always having to be outspoken, because I was the odd-manout. I couldn’t have started something like this, because I didn’t have the resources or the people whose views aligned with mine to create something like this. But now I do thanks to the Winston4Peace platform.” Moore said before she moved to Winston-Salem, she attended middle school in Kentucky— the same state where Breonna Taylor was killed in her sleep by three Louisville Metro Police officers dressed in plain clothes serving a no-knock search warrant in the middle of the night in March. Despite her age, Moore said she had experienced racism. “This is just a thing that I used to think was normal—I am constantly told I am ‘well-spoken, outspoken,’ and the way that this is usually said is shocked and surprised in a little bit of a demeaning tone,” she explained. “I have been told before, ‘Oh well, you aren’t ghetto or anything,’ ‘you kind of sound white,’ or ‘you
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kind of act white.’ Or when I got braids, for instance, or wore my curly hair for the first time at school—this is all stuff that happened this year—and everyone acted surprised asking like ‘how did you get your hair like that?’ Or, ‘oh, I didn’t think you were the type to do that.’” Moore said these instances of racism for her, unfortunately, happen on a daily basis, which she attributes to mass ignorance. “I feel like a lot of people don’t understand what racism is, which is another thing we are trying to educate,” she said. Winston4Peace had been active in the community since its inception almost a month ago. Recently, the group was present and spoke at the Promise To The People Community Protest on June 12. This protest was organized by Hatasha Carter with help from other concerned citizens Sara Hines, Nate Spruill, and Natalie Hughes. In a Facebook message, Hatasha Carter described herself as a mother, wife, Army veteran, and Black woman, who does not represent a specific organization. “However, I do represent all the Black mothers and wives who have a family that they want to protect.” Before Promise To The People, Hatasha Carter organized a smaller protest against the barbershop on Trade Street. A screenshot of a Facebook profile purporting to be the owner of the barbershop had posted on a livestream of a protest against police brutality the racist comment: “Throw some bananas down the street, and they’ll run towards them ... they like bananas.” The Promise To The People Community Protest started on Trade Street in front of the partnering business, Salem Organic Supply, and garnered attention as demonstrators marched around downtown—stopping intermittently at intersections so that participants could recite poems and plead for an end to white supremacy and police brutality. The march ended up back at Salem Organic Supply, and for the next hour, a variety of speakers—including Hines, concerned citizens, other activists, and artists. Even Winston-Salem Police Chief Catrina Thompson and Assistant Chiefs Natoshia V. Miles, Wilson S. Weaver II and William Penn, Jr., took the microphone to communicate to the public. “I have heard you, Winston-Salem,” Chief Thompson said during her speech. “We, your police department, are committed to serving you and serving you safely. We took an oath to protect and serve, to protect life, not to take life. Now, I will tell you there are certain parts of policing that is not pretty; we don’t wear a bulletproof vest and carry a service weapon on our hips for no reason. There are certain parts of our job that just isn’t pretty, but just WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM
From left: Olivia Moore, Austin Hicks and Amelia Carter speaking at the Promise To The People Protest on June 12 in downtown Winston-Salem because it isn’t pretty, doesn’t mean it’s wrong. What we saw happen to George Floyd, not only is it ugly, it was wrong, and it was criminal.” When asked how she felt the protest went afterward, Hatasha Carter wrote that she was highly dissatisfied. “I feel like the team of superiors at our police force—Chief Thompson and Assistant Chief Weaver and the others there—were bullshitting us and tried to use this protest as a recruitment session. It seemed that they tried to use up time so that our other speakers could not go on, and further truth wouldn’t be shared with the community,” she wrote. “Dear WSPD, I don’t care to hear the thoughts of your Black superiors any longer. I’m not satisfied and will be back.” The “recruitment session” Hatasha Carter referred to was during Penn’s speech, where he encouraged WinstonSalem youth to join the WSPD’s cadet program. “Our children who aren’t interested in the military or going straight to a fouryear college, they can go [get] a two-year associate—we are going to pay for that. We are going to pay for them to work at the police department and go to school full time,” Penn told the crowd sitting before him. “And when they graduate with their associate degree, they will enter the police academy. I want you to spread that word to our children. That is available, but one thing they have to understand and they have to also be with you and understand that Black lives matter— that is all we want. Also, we have a scholarship program—HBCU, whatever major you want, you get a 3.0 GPA, we are
paying for books, tuition, and then when you graduate, we will give you a job. Can you dig that?” Hatasha Carter also pointed out that she was dissatisfied by only Black officers showing up to speak. “Our white officers had nothing to say,” she wrote. “Our police superiors made excuses for them and what seems like their belief that there isn’t much racism in Winston-Salem. I am also displeased with the number of Black people that have not been showing up, not just at my protest, but all the ones that I have been to. I can’t wish that anything was done differently, but you can definitely believe it’s not over.” Representatives from Winston4Peace were given the microphone to talk about youth involvement at council meetings and how to keep the movement alive after marching. “We are making a change because ignorance is no longer an excuse,” Amelia Carter said. “We need the police to start seeing Black and brown people as humans and not threats.” On June 11, YES! Weekly received a tip from a representative of the Unity Coalition, which is a network of partnering organizations with Winston4Peace, claiming that the Winston-Salem City Council was changing the meeting’s format, according to a graphic posted on the City of Winston-Salem’s Facebook page, detailing the steps on phoning in for public comment during the virtual meeting. As previously reported, the meeting had been originally advertised as the first in-person council meeting to take place at the Benton Convention Center since the
stay-at-home order for the COVID-19 pandemic had been lifted. At this meeting, a public hearing was held on the proposed 2021 fiscal year budget. After speaking with the source around 5:45 p.m. on June 11, this writer emailed the mayor’s office inquiring about the change but did not receive a response. On June 12, a mass press release or “Sunshine List Announcement” penned by City Secretary Sandra Keeney was emailed to multiple media outlets. The release announced the change to a virtual city council meeting format “due to concerns about potential exposure to COVID-19 by a city council member.” On the rainy evening of June 15, members of Winston4Peace, the Unity Coalition, Black Lives Matter Winston-Salem, and other groups gathered in protest outside the door of the Benton Convention Center. Several attendees attempted to call in for the public comment session but claimed they couldn’t get through. One person even held their ringing phone to the microphone so that others could hear. Winston4Peace was in attendance, and Amelia Carter spoke out against the WSPD’s alleged co-opting of the Promise To The People Protest into “a recruiting session.” “The officers also talked about Black on Black crime,” Amelia Carter said. “But that argument isn’t valid because they never talk about white on white crime, cause they just call it a crime or mental illness.” After other speakers made emotional statements, many of the protesters huddled together to watch the public comment section of the televised council meeting on the T.V. that the Unity CoaliJUNE 24-30, 2020
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Winston-Salem Police Chief Catrina Thompson, along with assistant chiefs, deliver emotional speeches at the Promise To The People Protest on June 12 tion set up under a tent at the front door of the Benton Convention Center. According to the Winston-Salem City Council meeting minutes, 15 residents were able to speak for 3 minutes on the proposed budget. Most of the callers this writer heard were in support of the city council reallocating money from police appropriations. (Only one person out of the five this writer heard was against what he called a “socialist” proposal.) “Historically speaking, people don’t get involved with the city council, the budget or local government because, especially in Winston-Salem, it is really hard to figure out what is going on and find information,” said Calvin Peña of the Unity Coalition. “If you go to any of the government websites, they are antiquated, hard to use, and not efficient in getting information out in a timely manner. Today, we just want to make sure that we could bring everybody together and let the local government know we are watching, and we actually know and are going to equip everybody we can with the knowledge and information that is pertinent to this movement.” Peña criticized the proposed budget’s allocation of $112.5 million to public safety, the second-largest expenditure of the City of Winston-Salem, and compared it to the $25.4 million proposed for community and economic development and $47.1 million proposed for transportation, which is where he’d prefer to see that chunk of the budget go toward. Peña also criticized how the city council handled the change in format for its meeting. “COVID is a fallback for that, which we YES! WEEKLY
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understand but again, either way, they have the ability,” he said. “If we could get all of these people and groups out in 24 hours, instead of a calling station. [We had] livestreaming, food, voter registration, census tracking—we are just a community of people without the funds, so they can just do it.” Peña believes that the council needs to pivot and be more accommodating to the attentive and concerned community. “You can do what you need to do to get everybody in the room and not obstruct the democratic process,” he said. “What we saw earlier, the phone lines weren’t working right; they haven’t invested in I.T. to bring everything up to speed, which they can do. So, either way, it is the last straw.” Peña, the co-founder of the Unity Coalition with Josh Black, said the group was started to bring issues to the forefront of the downtown “bubble.” “The main focus is to get people to shake hands across communities and to basically, leverage our resources and social capitals to help one another amplify the message.” Peña said now more than ever, all the different organizations with the same beliefs and ideas need to come together to effect change. Hicks added that there is much more to come from the Unity Coalition and Winston4Peace, such as multiple art initiatives because Winston-Salem is the City of Art and Innovation. “We are also going to be looking to honor Darryl Hunt— we are working on getting a ‘Darryl Hunt Day,’” he said of
Winston4Peace founder Olivia Moore addresses the youth present at the Promise To The People Protest on June 12 on Trade Street the Black Winston-Salem man who was sentenced to life in prison after being wrongly convicted of the rape and murder of Deborah Sykes, a young, white copy editor in 1984. “For us, it is vitally important that the names of people who have been wronged by the justice system are never forgotten,” he added. Another initiative Hicks said the organizations are working toward is reforming the local high school civics curriculum. Hicks also said he thinks it’s important to highlight significant local Black history figures such as Reynolds tobacco worker and unionist Theodasia Simpson, and Larry Little, co-founder of the WinstonSalem chapter of the Black Panthers. Hicks expressed his contempt for keyboard warriors who don’t take any other action than complaining about things online. For other young, local activists in training, Hicks offers this piece of advice: “Don’t be satisfied.” “You have to back up your word, that is the most important thing,” he said. “You need to find an organization. If you have something to talk about that doesn’t get talked about, you have to make your voice heard. Do whatever you need to do, call all stops. I feel like our example for Winston4Peace is, if you see something, you say something. Use your social media platform, use your friends, use your high school...All stops for justice, all stops for change, all stops for making a society that all people can live in.” “I do think that we are the future,” Moore said in a phone interview of her fellow young folk. “We are the people that
can make the change; we are the people that can vote what we need to do; we are resourceful, because of social media; we can get things out fast. Almost anybody can, if they really wanted to, have a viral speech, or have something they can send out to a lot of people at once. It is just like in terms of young people; we have the best resources. We are the best way to have change because right now, older people are not in the best— they don’t do that very well.” Moore said she commends the adults who have done well, such as the community activists she looks up to. She said Peña and Molly Grace (who is also part of the Unity Coalition) have been “so, so, so helpful. They have done everything that I can’t do because I am a child. They have been doing stuff and organizing; I’d love to give them a shout out.” “Winston4Peace is going to do a lot of good,” Moore added. “It is going to be big; it is big at the moment, and there are so many people involved. What I did before was cool, and it was great and inspired something, but that something is going to be really big.” ! KATIE MURAWSKI is the editor-in-chief of YES! Weekly. Her alter egos include The Grimberlyn Reaper, skater/public relations board chair for Greensboro Roller Derby, and Roy Fahrenheit, drag entertainer and selfproclaimed King of Glamp.
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Greensboro City Attorney: ‘They’re being pimped’ as clergy, activists call for his firing *Editor’s note: This story originally appeared online. A correction has been made on behalf of Byron Gladden, who did not call for the city attorney’s firing but questioned Watts’s motives atIan McDowell tacking the GCDP. At a press conference held June 18 Contributor in Greensboro’s Governmental Plaza, clergy and activists demanded the firing of City Attorney Chuck Watts, whom they alleged made false statements at the Greensboro City Council meeting on June 16. They also alleged that Watts made not only false but defamatory statements in a Wednesday email to Betsy Fox, Chair of the Guilford County Democratic Party. The press conference was organized and hosted by Rev. Nelson Johnson and Rev. Wesley Morris of the Beloved Community Center of Greensboro. Other speakers calling for Watts’s termination included Greensboro Rising organizers Irving Allen, Kiera Hereford and Casey Thomas; and retired Civil Rights attorney Lewis Pitts Jr. Byron Gladden, Chair of Minority Affairs at N.C. 6th District Democrats, questioned Watts’s motives for attacking the party. Pitts, the sole white speaker, has been frequently denounced by Watts, and was the subject of several incorrect statements in Watts’s email to Fox. As they all have done on previous occasions, the seven speakers also denounced the response of Greensboro’s mayor and city council to the fatal hogtying of Marcus Deon Smith by Greensboro police officers during the 2018 North Carolina Folk Festival. To date, none of those officers have been fired or disciplined. Last year, attorneys for Smith’s parents filed a Federal Civil Rights suit against the City of Greensboro, eight GPD officers and two EMTs. In that lawsuit, the city and officers are defended by the Greensborobased firm Turning Point Litigation / Mullins Duncan Harrell & Russell PLLC. According to information released in compliance with a public records request, the City has paid that firm $213,038 as of May 16, 2020. On June 12, the Defense entered a motion to delay the start of discovery. WWW.YESWEEKLY.COM
Rev. Nelson Johnson speaks at the Beloved Community Center of Greensboro press conference on June 18 Discovery is a pre-trial procedure in which each party to a lawsuit can obtain evidence from the other party by methods including depositions. Plaintiff attorney Flint Taylor of the People’s Law Officer of Chicago has stated that he and his colleagues intend to deposition former Greensboro Police Chief Wayne Scott, Mayor Nancy Vaughan, City Manager David Parrish and others in order to determine not only the facts of Smith’s death, but whether Greensboro Police Department training procedures (or lack thereof) were a factor in that death, and if city or police officials attempted a cover-up. The Defense’s June 12 joint motion cited another ongoing court case in which Mary Smith, mother of Marcus Smith, allegedly acknowledged that her late son might have one or more children. The Defense’s joint motion asked for the discovery process to be delayed until the paternity of those children can be determined. At a previous press conference hosted by the Beloved Community Center on the morning of June 16, every speaker called
for the Greensboro City Council to “stop delaying” and come to terms with the Smith family. These speakers included Gladden and GCDP Second Vice Chair Adrienne Spinner. At the June 16 press conference, Gladden stated that the GCDP had recently passed a resolution calling for the City of Greensboro “to publicly atone for the homicide of Marcus Deon Smith, adequately compensate his family, and hold the presiding officers and their supervisors accountable.” Spinner stated that she was there on behalf of the CGDP “to stand with the Smith Family, Greensboro Rising, and the Beloved Community Center in solidarity, as we demand an end to the continuous stalling taking place regarding justice for Marcus Smith’s death.” Near the end of the June 16 council meeting, Mayor Vaughan asked Watts to bring council up to date on the litigation, including “a stay that may have been filed by your office or by our attorneys.” Watts stated that “there is no stay being requested, no stay whatsoever.” Watts described the motion entered by
the Defense as a request to delay only the start of the discovery process, whereas “a stay would stop all litigation processes.” After describing the paternity issue, Watts concluded by stating “we are not asking for a stay” and that “we don’t expect the delay that we’ve asked for to delay the date of trial.” Despite Watts’s claim that “no stay” had been requested, the June 12 request by the Defense is titled DEFENDANTS’ JOINT MOTION TO TEMPORARILY STAY THE START OF DISCOVERY. According to Cornell Law School, a stay is a “ruling by a court to stop or suspend a proceeding or trial temporarily or indefinitely.” By this definition, the June 12 motion is indeed a stay, even though it is requesting a delay in an individual proceeding (the discovery process), rather than the entire trial. On June 16, I emailed Watts and asked him why he had stated, “there is no stay” when that very term was used in the title of the motion he described. On June 17, he sent the following response: “Typically, a ‘stay’ and the way that this JUNE 24-30, 2020
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term was generally being used by Mr. Pitts and his crew was that the litigation generally would be stopped such that no civil litigation activity would be going on. As I said last night, all we were asking for was a delay of the start of the discovery period.” He also denied any claims “that our goal was to delay the completion litigation and any ultimate payment to the plaintiffs as much as a year,” which he described as “the fundamental point of the protesters” and “the fundamental untruth.” His email further stated: “We have agreed to a one-year discovery period but we could reduce that by the time it takes the plaintiffs team to figure out who are the real parties in interest. While we did not know that there were children, the parents did and continued to pursue the case as though they [the parents] were the next of kin. Now they have acknowledged that there may be as many as three children.” On June 17, YES! Weekly acquired the email Watts sent to the GCDC chair with the subject line: “Is the Democratic Party part of Mr. Pitts litigation team?” In that email, he wrote, “I was shocked to see the party participating in a ‘press conference’ put on yesterday by Lewis Pitts where lies were spread in connection with a matter in the
litigation process. Was that participation approved in the regular way?” Watts stated that, “Mr. Pitts’ efforts to make this civil litigation matter into a public cause and to fan legitimate flames of discontent in the wake of Mr. George Floyd’s murder is deplorable. And it would be different if it was all about finding a just outcome, but it’s not. He has but one goal in mind and it’s not justice. I would hope that the Democratic Party would not participate in his efforts to take advantage of the terrible murder of Mr. George Floyd and the legitimate protests that have ensued. The unfortunate death of Mr. Marcus Smith was totally different from what happened to Mr. Floyd and both cases deserve to each be addressed on their own merits.” This letter is only of several statements in which the city attorney has made accusations about Pitts. On June 18, I texted Watts and asked why he described a press conference organized and hosted by two Black clergy as “put on” by Pitts. I also asked why he referred to the “Lewis Pitts litigation team” when Pitts cannot litigate anything, having resigned from the North Carolina Bar in 2014 in order to speak freely about what Pitts has described as the “legal system’s corruption and tacit support of white supremacy.”
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That evening, Watts texted back and we discussed these questions in a phone call. “You asked me why I thought Lewis Pitts was behind this,” Watts said. “Well, he’s been at the forefront of everything. He’s before council all the time, talking about this issue, this litigation. In one of the articles that’s been written about this, he was named as the lead attorney here in Greensboro, and he’s not an attorney.” I am unaware of the article he mentioned, describing Pitts as an attorney in the Smith litigation. It is not published by YES! Weekly, Triad City Beat or the News & Record. YES! Weekly has accurately described Pitts as co-lead attorney in a 1985 civil suit that found the only liability to date from the 1979 Greensboro Massacre. I asked Watts if he was aware that this week’s two press conferences, like many others at which Pitts has spoken, were actually organized and hosted by Black ministers and activists, and if he was familiar with the Rev. Johnson’s activism against police brutality, which goes back to the 1960s. Watts said that he is still new to Greensboro, being hired as the city attorney in May 2019. “I don’t know all the players involved, but it’s clear to me that [Pitts] is the leading force behind the stuff.” Watts expressed his concern over what he described as “the ethical” issue of Pitts’ involvement in the protests. “He’s also playing the role of a lawyer, and he’s not a barred attorney. So, it creates a lot of angst on my part that he’s in the middle of it, and I’d just like his role to be clarified.” I told Watts, who is Black, that his remarks could be interpreted as stating prominent Black clergy were holding these press conferences at the behest of a retired white attorney. “I think they’re being pimped!” replied Watts with agitation. “That’s my view of it.” He also stated that “all the deceit and duplicity” is on “the whole other side.” “All I’m trying to do is make sure the city’s money is not paid to the wrong party, if it’s to be paid at all. With respect to the discovery process, if we start discovery today, and we don’t know who the real party of interest is— it’s a whole different game plan. Two or three months later, we find out it’s some kid, the process gets restarted. Why should we do that so that they have three months of basically run time on the year clock that we agreed upon, that they can do all the discovery that they want to do. They know who we are, and everything they’re looking at is public. Their job is nowhere near as
challenging as ours. They shouldn’t get a three-month head start on it. That’s all we were arguing for. There was no intent to delay the ultimate conclusion of this litigation.” Plaintiff attorney Flint Taylor of the People’s Law Office of Chicago gave YES! Weekly the following response to Watts’s statements. “Mr. Watts is not even the city’s lawyer in the Smith case. The City is paying the Mullins/Duncan firm $300 an hour to defend the case. Who, and under what authority was this assignment, which has already cost the City more than 250,000 dollars, made? Did he? It is beyond disgraceful that a high-ranking City official is falsely and maliciously calling Mary Smith and her lawyers liars, blaming them for the City’s attempt to delay justice and thereby demonizing and re-traumatizing Mary Smith with his slanderous remarks. Does he speak for Mayor Vaughan and the City Council? This distraction is an attempt to shift the public discourse from the City’s desperate attempt to avoid answering for the brutal hogtying of Marcus Smith and the official coverup that followed while thousands are in the streets demanding Justice for Black lives and Marcus Smith. I do agree with Mr. Watts that the City’s job in continuing the coverup and defending the indefensible is very challenging. His rambling discussion about the probate proceedings shows a profound ignorance of how the issue of heirship and the distribution of money will be managed, issues that in no way will be affected by the hogtying case going forward now. Similarly laughable is his assertion that all of the evidence is public. In fact, it is secreted in the files and memories of the city and its witnesses. Is he willing to make all of that evidence public?” The court document PLAINTIFFS’ RESPONSE TO DEFENDANTS’ JOINT MOTION TO STAY DISCOVERY can be found on YES! Weekly’s website. UPDATE: at 6:30 p.m. on June 19, Mayor Nancy Vaughan gave YES! Weekly the following statement: “I regret the words used by our City Attorney. That is not how I would characterize the actions of those supporting the Smith family during this difficult time. We respect the right of the Smiths to pursue their case. We hope to have a productive dialogue once all the heirs are established. We try to be professional at all times. I apologize to those speaking on behalf of the Smith family.” ! IAN MCDOWELL is the author of two published novels, numerous anthologized short stories, and a whole lot of nonfiction and journalism, some of which he’s proud of and none of which he’s ashamed of.
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She compared people staring into their cellphones to the pod people from “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” and called it “antisocial” to be texting in public. Like this woman, we often assume we know what’s best for other people, especially when whatever that is presents a lovely frame for our own moral and intellectual superiority. But as I wrote in “Good Manners for Nice People Who Sometimes Say F*ck,” unless you’re such an obliviously wandering phone zombie that it “causes me to swerve into oncoming traffic to avoid running you down, it really isn’t up to me to dictate whether you text your days away or spend them reading Good Books Approved by the Reviewing Staff of The New Yorker.” Also, texting in public isn’t “antisocial.” It’s socializing with somebody who isn’t in our immediate environment. And being social, whether in person or with someone miles away via a tiny wireless “window” in our palm, is something we crave. That’s probably because humans evolved to be a cooperative species, living in groups and working together. In this context, cooperation means sometimes putting aside our self-interest to act in the interest of others. Friendship and the emotional bonds that result suggest that our friends’ interests have become in our self-interest, and this, in turn, suggests our friends can rely on us when the chips are down. Human cooperation is a psychological adaptation, an evolved solution to recurring problems that impinged on survival and reproduction. Cooperation is basically, “United we stand; divided we
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other words, social connection feels good because it’s a sort of insurance policy for our emotional and physical well-being that we evolved to maintain. Chances are you haven’t felt comfortable about making the (totally reasonable!) request to not be included in the roommate textathons because of your less-than-charitable feelings about the existence of these conversations (like that the roomies are “ridiculous,” etc.). Maybe through your understanding the evolutionary benefits of social engagement and what they might get out of this emotionally, you can see your roommates in a kinder light and request accordingly: “I’d rather talk to you guys face-to-face...” As poet John Donne wrote, ask not for whom the group text tolls; ask that it stop tolling for you — unless it’s deeply urgent: “Your room is on fire. Where do we keep the fire extinguisher?” or if somebody just got photos of a mongoose dressed as Batman. ! GOT A problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405, or e-mail AdviceAmy@aol. com (www.advicegoddess.com) © 2020 Amy Alkon Distributed by Creators.Com.
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