The general election was fought between the Republican incumbent Jesse Helms and the Democratic nominee Mayor of Charlotte Harvey Gantt. But we didn’t know it was going to produce Trump.When he first announced for presidency, I thought it was a joke. Now they’re going to school and all the kids may be Black because that progression has occurred, or it may be very much mixed. That a police officer who represents the government, the society, that’s there to protect us, that there are different responses.It’s like with Beatties Ford. That was a certain naivete on the part of all of us.The racism that’s embedded in you and me, and the latent racism that exists. The fact that kids get it early.

All those things are here. Someone called me last night and said, ‘Harvey there were four people killed in Charlotte last night.’ I said, ‘Yes, there was.’ And they said, ‘Well, are you as upset about that as you are the George Floyd killing?’ I said, ‘I’m upset about I am encouraged by the diversity of the demonstrators, the protestors, nationwide and worldwide. Gantt built his campaign around helping forgotten people, white and Black, throughout the state. When my kids went, it was a little more desegregated. “The Board of Trustees acted in true liberal arts practice by listening and learning, then having a thoughtful discussion to make an informed decision regarding the renaming of the Helms Center.”Hurricane Isaias: Some Florida counties, North Carolina, Virginia declare states of emergency as East Coast bracesAt least 150 hospitalized due to salmonella outbreak in 48 statesBy Bailey Aldridge, The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)Facility at North Carolina university will scrap name of civil rights opponent Sen. Jesse HelmsShow full articles without "Continue Reading" button for {0} hours. And that was trauma for a lot of the pioneers, the Dorothy Counts (who integrated Harding High in Charlotte in 1957) of the world.I’ve concluded that what we did was easy, relatively speaking. In 1990, Gantt ran for U.S. Senate against Jesse Helms. The tapes I have are different from my parents and my parents’ parents, and great-grandparents, who were all slaves.I said to them in that same Father’s Day gathering, I can see in every single one of you the same values that your parents passed on to you and that I passed on to them. But he was recently replaced as its namesake.The facility is now the Hawks Athletic Center after the university’s board of trustees decided to rename it, the school posted on Facebook last week.“The new name of the athletic center is in recognition that the building has had significant renovations in recent years, and is a central building for our Hawks competition,” the Facebook post read.The decision came after “recent events” brought to light concerns from members of the campus community that the name was a “symbol of hate,” the school said in June.In early June, school leaders held a virtual forum for students to express their opinions and concerns.“We believe voices should be heard,” the university’s president said in the June Facebook post.

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