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Asking for money, and other crimes On Tuesday night, Greensboro City Council took further steps to criminalize poverty in the city.

A 5-4 vote enacted temporary

by Brian Clarey ordinances that amount to a stopgap measure that targets poor people without actually saying so — panhandling is constitutionally protected speech, after all, and it’s not illegal to be poor… yet. (See Jordan Green’s reporting on page 10) DeWitt McCarley, from the Parker Poe law firm, outlined the city’s precarious position at the meeting: “This is not a solicitation ordinance,” he said. “That’s the key issue. If you call it solicitation, you’ve now made it content-based, and that’s the thing that triggers a level of review by the Supreme Court that it will never withstand.”

It’s becoming less rare, in the era of Trump, to see someone so transparent about his obfuscation.

We can’t make an ordinance against asking for money, because it happens all the time. Every single piece of construction in downtown Greensboro right now

is at least partially the result of handouts — from investors, from incentives, from Greensboro City Council itself. Every nonprofit in the city regularly extends its hands to maintain a mission or an ideal, just as every church passes around a collection plate to keep the fires burning.

And come election time, councilmembers themselves will be asking for campaign contributions to fund their re-election efforts.

Of the things addressed in the new city ordinances, I myself have perpetrated just about every single one at different times in my life. I’m guilty of “blocking or impeding street and sidewalk access” every time I stand outside the Green Bean and have a smoke. “Weaving or darting through, around, and in between multiple occupied vehicles”? Yep. I have sat on a traffic island. Every time I load the downtown newspaper boxes with Triad City Beat, a paper filled with advertisements, I am technically participating in the “distribution of items.” And, a time or two, I have even engaged in “following an individual in or about a public space with the intent of threatening, intimidating, or causing fear for personal safety.”

But that was a long time ago.

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It’s been clear in this conversation that ‘solicitation’ is a dirty word to say, according to the law firm. But that’s what everything was surrounding in the first place. I think Councilperson Outling pointed out the fact that we have been talking about solicitation. And now we want to call it not about solicitation because that might mean you can’t pass a law. So at that point, what’s the point?

— Ryan Tardiff, in the News, page 10

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CITY LIFE July 26 – Aug 1, 2018

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Lords of Mace @ the Ramkat (W-S), 8 p.m.

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Crooklyn @ Aperture Cinema (W-S), 6 p.m.

LGBTQ Center Open House @ Guilford Green Foundation (GSO), noon

Candid Yams Kickback presents Crooklyn, the 1994 semiautobiographical film co-written and directed by Spike Lee. The film, set to a classic ’70s R&B soundtrack, follows young Troy and her family as they live life in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood in the summer of 1973.

Come for the show, but stick around for soul food, music and conversation. Learn more at aperturecinema.com.

Drop in for a drink and piece of cake (cutting at 12:30 p.m.) any time until 8 p.m. and learn more about the center’s resources, programming, staff and board members.

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Hanes Estate tour @ SECCA (W-S), 1 p.m.

The Swamp and Deals on Bombs warm up the crowd for southern doom metal Lords of Mace out of WinstonSalem. Learn more at theramkat.com.

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Shark Week celebrations @ Greensboro Science Center, 10 a.m.

It’s that time of year. Join other families for a round of “pin the fin on the shark” and shark-themed crafts. Celebrations continue through Saturday. Find the event on Facebook.

SATURDAY

Gourd festival @ Dixie Classic Fairgrounds (W-S), 9 a.m.

Did you know a woman landscape architect designed the gardens at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in the 1930s? Meet at the historic Hanes House entrance for a free, one-hour historical tour of the estate, the how it came to be the home of the art gallery in 1972.

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Jeff Kashiwa @ Corpening Plaza (W-S), 6 p.m.

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Reggie Buie, a smooth jazz pianist from Winston-Salem, opens Downtown Jazz Friday for renowned jazz saxophonist Jeff Kashiwa. Learn more at downtownws.com/music.

Health Fair & Community Day @ 14th Street Playground (W-S), 10 a.m.

The East Ward Safe Coalition brings music, games, vendors, free food and job information to the playground for a free community day. Winston-Salem State’s Health on Wheels Mobile will be on site providing free health screenings.

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Summer Shorts @ Foothills Brewing Tasting Room (WS), 5:30 p.m.

Mulan @ Geeksboro (GSO), 8 p.m.

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East coast zinesters, bookbinders, small press publishers and print-makers converge in the WAMRev Gallery, offer free workshops and talk zine culture during panel discussions. Find the event on Facebook.

Boulevards @ Washington Terrace Park (HP), 6 p.m.

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RiverRun presents a lineup of free family-friendly shorts by student filmmakers at UNC School of the Arts. Head over early for a bite at Camel City Grill and El Taco Vaquero food trucks before for live music from Aaron Burdett at 6:30 p.m. Outdoor screenings begin at dark. Learn more at foothillsbrewing.com/events.

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Folk duo Anna & Elizabeth fills the Stevens Center with their Appalachian sound. Find the event on Facebook.

National Dance Day celebration @ LeBauer Park (GSO), 6 p.m.

Lovers of dance can catch performances and learn dance styles from line, tap and jazz to traditional Mexican dance.

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Whip out the family picnic blanket for Boulevards’ visit to the Triad. The Raleigh-based artist borrows inspiration from Prince, Rick James and Earth, Wind & Fire. Learn more about Boulevards at boulevardsfunk.bandcamp.com and find the event on Facebook.

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Busting catfish

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It should surprise no one that I get into a lot of fights on social media — with readers, friends old and new, occasional family members and, often, people I have not met, as the kids say, IRL. Often, when in the throes of an argument, I’ll click over and check out the person’s personal page, just so I can get a look at the SOB. Sometimes I find common ground with the person — mutual friends or interests, family photos, something that reminds me that the person with whom I so vehemently disagree is, indeed, an actual person like me, with their own fears and concerns. But sometimes I find that the other person isn’t a person at all. No one truly knows how many fake Facebook accounts are out there, but in May the company scrubbed half a billion of what it termed “fake accounts,” and it’s enough of a problem that the company announced increased measures to deal with it last month.

And there are plenty more out there. I busted one just this week in a popular Greensboro political forum: an argumentative bastard who said he lives in Oregon, with just four friends — two of which were bots — and no posts to speak of, yet he made regular stops at this forum to throw turds. In other words: not a real guy. It’s important to distinguish here the difference between a bot, which is a profile run by a computer program, and a catfish, which is an actual person hiding behind a false identity. They’re equally loathsome, have similar negative effects on the discourse and are both designed to distort reality. But at least the bots are programmed to act that way. Catfish decide to do it all on their own.

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The battle lines are being drawn ever sharper in Russiagate, which American Enterprise Institute resident scholar Norman Ornstein predicts will end with Mueller indicting Trump, followed by the president pardoning himself and firing the special prosecutor, followed by patriot militias loyal to the president brutally suppressing mass protests, leading to a declaration of martial law.

The latest development turns on Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein’s unprecedented decision to release the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant application against one-time Trump campaign advisor Carter Page.

Taken in light of the behavior of a US president who bullies the heads of state for ostensible allies like Canada, Germany and the United Kingdom while blowing kisses to Vladimir Putin, the FISA application certainly raises eyebrows.

“The FBI believes that Page has been collaborating and conspiring with the Russian government,” the application reads. “Based on the foregoing facts and circumstances, the FBI submits that there is probable cause to believe that Page… knowingly engaged in clandestine intelligence activities (other than intelligence gathering activities) for or on behalf of such foreign power….”

The FISA application points to exactly what the Russian government might want from the Trump administration in exchange for their services in releasing damaging information on Hillary Clinton (see the Democratic National Committee emails).

“According to open-source information, in July 2016, Page traveled to Russia and delivered the commencement address at the New Economic School,” the application reads. “In addition to giving this address, the FBI has learned that Page met at least two Russian officials during this trip.” A heavily redacted section of the application references a “secret meeting” with an Igor Sechin, who is president of the Russian energy company Rosneft. An unidentified source tells the FBI that, “Page and Sechin discussed future bilateral energy cooperation and the prospects for an associated move to lift Ukraine-related Western sanctions against Russia.”

Trump apologists, including US Rep. Devin Nunes, have argued that the source material for the warrant — widely believed to have come from Christopher Steele —is fatally compromised because Steele was helping the Clinton campaign. They’ve additionally argued that the FBI failed to verify the raw intelligence from Steele. (Put aside for a moment that the FBI’s inquiry into Trump’s entanglements with Russia was not triggered by the Steele dossier.)

One problem for Trump’s apologists is that, however shoddy the FBI’s application for a FISA warrant, judges approved it three different times, including under the Trump administration.

In a piece published by the National Review on Monday, Andrew McCarthy, a retired federal prosecutor, argues that “the newly disclosed FISA applications are so shoddy that the judges who approved them ought to be asked some hard questions.”

He goes on to say, “Much of my bewilderment, in fact, stems from the certainty that if I was so daft as to try to get a warrant based on the good reputation of one of my FBI case agents, with no corroboration of his or her sources, just about any federal judge in the Southern District of New York would have knocked my block off — and rightly so.”

Not every Republican lawmaker in Washington is ready to start impugning federal judges to provide cover for Trump. Sen. Richard Burr, the Republican from WinstonSalem who chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee, told CNN on Tuesday: “I don’t think I ever expressed that I thought the FISA application came up short. There [were] sound reasons as to why judges issued the FISA.”

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On July 18, six military veterans stepped forward to accept certifications of completion from Forsyth County District Judge David Sipprell. They were the first graduating class in a special court designed to divert veterans charged with criminal violations so they can receive treatment for PTSD, substance abuse, depression and other service-related challenges instead of going to jail.

Local and state officials ruefully acknowledged that the Forsyth County Veterans Treatment Court would be suspended because of an interruption in federal funding. Jemi Moore, the program coordinator, had previously disclosed to Triad City Beat that July 31 would be her last day on the job. Although veterans already enrolled in the court would continue to see Judge Sipprell, the program would not be accepting any new applicants. James Prosser, assistant secretary of veterans affairs for the state of North Carolina, pledged to do what he could to get funding restored.

The Governor’s Crime Commission, which funnels funding from a federal grant known as Byrne JAG to local specialty courts like the Forsyth veterans treatment court, disclosed to local media outlets that the “grant money was scheduled to be awarded Oct. 1, 2017 to the GCC and then the veterans treatment court, but it was held up by litigation and ultimately a nationwide injunction.

“The litigation and ultimately a nationwide injunction was due to the requirement that states comply with the new conditions added by the federal [Department of Justice],” said Margaret Ekam, a spokesperson for the Governor’s Crime Commission. “Those conditions included among others, matters related to sanctuary cities. While there are no sanctuary cities in North Carolina, we were impacted by the nationwide injunction, which in turn adversely affected the veterans treatment court.”

US Rep. Virginia Foxx indicated in a formal statement received by City Beat late Monday evening that the funding snag is getting resolved.

“After discussions with Gov. Cooper’s office and the US Department of Justice

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US Rep. Virginia Foxx says that after conferring with Gov. Roy Cooper’s office and the US Justice Department, the federal funding for the Forsyth County Veterans Treatment Court “is in the process of being restored.”

about the alleged funding cuts faced by the Forsyth County Veterans Court, it is my understanding that no cut has occurred and the suspended funding is in the process of being restored,” Foxx said. “The state of North Carolina is aware of and on track for its August 9 deadline to certify formal compliance with federal law, a necessary condition for receiving the Byrne JAG grant that funds the veterans court.”

Ekam said Wednesday that the Governor’s Crime Commission is aware of the deadline and working to meet it.

Foxx also said in her statement to City Beat: “Forsyth County will also need to certify compliance within 30 days, which will allow funding to be reinstated.”

Judge Sipprell and Moore, the program coordinator in Forsyth County, did not respond to multiple inquiries on Tuesday and Wednesday JORDAN GREEN seeking clarification on the Scott Dash accepts a citation of completion from Judge David Sipprell during a July status of the local veterans 18 graduation ceremony for the Forsyth County Veterans Treatment Court. court. current dysfunction in Washington has state leaders have forgotten how to coop“It is unfortunate to see these minor threatened this outstanding program,” erate, it’s time for local leaders to step up administrative hang-ups delay the court’s Adams and Besse said.

“Diversion and ensure that the job gets done.” great work serving our veterans and their of people from standard prosecution Adams, a Democrat, is challenging families,” Foxx said. “I will continue to routes into treatment and counseling is Republican Virginia Foxx in the 5th monitor this closely and will take any Congressional District midterm election exactly the kind of approach we need necessary action if additional delays in November. to expand, and no one arise that stand in the Nicholas Wright, a Vietnam combat deserves this opportuway of our veterans veteran who graduated from the treatnity more than the men receiving the treatment Rep. Virginia Foxx ment court on July 18, said it would be and women who have they deserve.” a mistake to let the program fall by the served our country. Afand Democratic rival Winston-Salem City wayside. ter hearing the moving DD Adams are trying Council members DD “I think that is a bad move because stories of the graduates, Adams and Dan Besse to restore funding. we really need this program,” he said. and seeing the obvious both attended the vet“There are so many veterans who get effectiveness of this aperans court graduation caught up in the justice system. They proach, we agreed that on July 18. Adams and have no way out other than going to jail. this program is worthy Besse issued a statement two days after If you’re going to pull funding, you’re of stop-gap funding from the city to the graduation pledging to lobby their pulling the life out of veterans and putensure that the first Forsyth graduation colleagues on city council to approve ting veterans back in the same situation ceremony is not the last.

We are reaching stop-gap funding to allow the program where I was when I almost went to jail.” out to our colleagues on the city council to continue. and other local leaders. When federal or “We were shocked to learn that the

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City council shows hand with ‘aggressive solicitation’ ordinance

by Jordan Green Greensboro City Council narrowly approves a set of “public safety” ordinances meant to replace the city’s unconstitutional panhandling ordinance. But lacking sufficient votes to enact the measures immediately, council imposes a more restrictive ordinance as a temporary placeholder.

In a tortured piece of public-policymaking, a split Greensboro City Council showed its hand to potential litigants Tuesday night by enacting a temporary “aggressive solicitation” ordinance as a placeholder for a more nuanced set of ostensible public-safety measures crafted to survive First Amendment challenges in court.

“Aggressive solicitation” itself was conceived as a legal substitution for panhandling, after city council recognized that panhandling ordinances were a violation of the Constitutional prohibition against content-based speech regulations, set in the wake of the US Supreme Court’s 2015 Reed v. Town of Gilbert case.

The circuitous legislative course taken by city council over the past three months is likely confusing even to its authors: First, in April, council enacted an “aggressive solicitation” ordinance by a 6-3 vote. Then, Councilwoman Sharon Hightower, one of the members in the majority, made a motion to recall the decision. The ordinance passed 5-4, necessitating a second majority vote for enactment, according to the requirements of the city’s code of ordinances.

But instead of taking a second vote, city council hired an outside law firm to craft a more nuanced set of regulations after facilitating public-input meetings and reviewing law enforcement data. In the meantime, the city had no ordinances on the books regulating panhandling or soliciting.

“What we’re putting in front of you is not a solicitation ordinance,” DeWitt McCarley, a lawyer with the Parker Poe law firm, told council. “That’s the key issue. If you call it solicitation, you’ve now made it content-based, and that’s the thing that triggers a level of review by the Supreme Court that it will never withstand.”

Councilman Justin Outling, one of the staunchest advocates for regulation, publicly acknowledged the issue that the drafted legal language dances around.

“Ordinances designed to confront the actual problem that we’re confronting now, which is aggressive solicitation, it sounds like you’re not aware of any

[ordinances in other cities] that exist right now, but you think this is the best path forward,” Outling said, addressing Parker Poe lawyer Catherine Clodfelter.

“That’s what led us to this venue. But for our attempting to deal with that problem, we wouldn’t be here.”

Ryan Tardiff, with the Homeless Union of Greensboro, asked council to delay the vote.

“It’s been clear in this conversation that ‘solicitation’ is a dirty word to say, according to the law firm,” Tardiff said. “But that’s what everything was surrounding in the first place. I think Councilperson Outling pointed out the fact that we have been talking about solicitation. And now we want to call it not about solicitation because that might mean you can’t pass a law. So at that point, what’s the point?”

The legislation drafted by Parker Poe repeals the city’s current ordinance prohibiting loitering and “loitering for the purpose of engaging in drug related activity.” In their place, it creates a new ordinance against “blocking or impeding street and sidewalk access” with specific language prohibiting conduct such as “weaving or darting through, around, and in between multiple occupied vehicles,” “placing or throwing a tangible thing on or inside an occupied vehicle that is on the street…” and “standing, sitting, or lying down on the portion of a traffic island that is less than 6 feet wide.”

Another ordinance prohibits “solicitation and distribution of items in public parking garages and public parking lots.”

Clodfelter said an anti-soliciting ordinance narrowly restricted to parking garages and parking lots would pass muster because of a demonstrated concern about people getting hit by cars coming in and out of parking areas, and people feeling intimidated if they’re approached while getting in and out of cars; the ordinance does not restrict solicitation on sidewalks or landscaped areas that run through parking lots.)

A third ordinance meant to address harassment prohibits “following an individual in or about a public space with the intent of threatening, intimidating, or causing fear for personal safety” or “crowding or cornering an individual with the intent of threatening, intimidating, or causing fear for personal safety.”

Sarah Sills told council she was concerned that the wording in the antiharassment ordinance “is too vague and

Justin Outling questions lawyers during a hearing on Tuesday. Also pictured: Mayor Nancy Vaughan (right) and Marikay Abuzuaiter.

leaves too much room for interpretation.”

“I’m afraid a person could be accused of and arrested for crowding someone or cornering someone when they’re just standing and walking on a sidewalk,” she said. Highlighting the dubious concerns that have led people to call the police on homeless people under the previous now-repealed panhandling ordinance,” Sills read from a spreadsheet itemizing citizen complaints to police in 2017: “Asking for money and eating a sandwich,” “sitting in a wheelchair [and] asking for money,” “sleeping on the corner,” “crying and telling people her grandmother has died,” “sitting down,” “wearing a hospital bracelet and panhandling,” and “making people feel uncomfortable.” (Asking people for assistance, commonly known as “panhandling,” is Constitutionally-protected speech.)

“You know what else is uncomfortable?” Sills continued. “Experiencing homelessness. And I’m afraid that our friends who are experiencing homelessness will be disproportionately affected by this ordinance.”

Public comments ran roughly 10-1 against enacting even the more nuanced ordinances drafted by Parker Poe. “Panhandling — that’s not the issue, guys,’” Vaughn Ramsey said. “The issue is that people are sometimes getting out of control…. I can tell you, living down-

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town, it can be a problem when you live here with these people. I don’t know that we want to go to a crime. You have assault, you have battery. The police chief last time talked about having something that was less than that. I think something needs to be done about it, and I ask that you do something about it.”

Dawn Chaney, a residential property developer, argued that safety is necessary to maintain investment and the city’s tax base.

“How about the other people who live in our city and contribute to our city every day?” she asked. “Our workforce.

Creating jobs. Creating businesses brings the tax base to our country and to our city. Think about that. How important is that for our city? And if we allow anybody to devalue us because of safety issues and businesses start to leave our city, and people won’t come to our city because they don’t feel it is safe. Safety is a major issue; all of you know that.

“I’m not saying that I personally feel negative against someone who is panhandling, but I have seen it, and I know people who come to our city have spoken to me about it, and have said to me: ‘I can’t come downtown, Dawn, because I don’t feel safe,’” she continued.

“I also know I have businesses leaving downtown because their clients don’t feel safe.”

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of the votes said they believe there is by others who are African American, an urgent need to implement a new tall and large in stature, alcoholic lookordinance, adding that they have been ing — may not even be on any kind of lobbied by residents who are reluctant to alcohol — I think the perception is that speak publicly. it’s dangerous,” she said.

“I’m sorry, but this is about harassCouncilwoman Michelle Kennedy ment and public safety,” Vaughan concurred. said. “I’m sure that all of us have been “Passing this ordinance is an intencontacted by a multitude of people, not tional act of discrimination,” said Kenjust from downtown, but from Lawndale nedy, who is the executive director of the [Drive] and Battleground [Avenue] and Interactive Resource Center, a homeless Gate City Boulevard and MLK, who day center. “Taxpayers, the 285,000 have been harassed, who have people people we represent, people experiencfollowing them to their car, opening up ing homelessness and people who aren’t, car doors. They’ve said, ‘When are you get out your checkbooks. Because if going to act?’ They’ve said that, ‘You this passes, we are about to waste your have let us down’ because not only do money on legal action that we know we panhandlers have human rights; everycannot win and which is in direct conflict body has human rights.” with the United States Constitution.”

“You can see story Outling rejected the after story where peocharge of discriminaple have been chased tion.

‘Passing this ordinance down the street,” “It’s been said to Vaughan continued. me that this is about is an intentional act of “Not catcalls; it’s worse protecting fragile discrimination. Taxthan catcalls. People Caucasians in downpayers, the 285,000 being touched inapprotown Greensboro; it’s priately. We can’t have about nothing else. people we represent... a city like that.”

They don’t want to see get out your checkDuring a break, five persons soliciting for books.’ members hatched a money,” Outling said. plan to enact the “ag“I will tell: I’ve never — Michelle Kennedy gressive solicitation” believed that to be ordinance as placethe case. It’s certainly holder for the three not supported by the ordinances drafted by communications that Parker Poe, although Councilwoman I’ve received…. This is about prohibiting Tammi Thurm assured the audience what everyone should agree is wrongful that they hadn’t violated public meetings conduct.” law by meeting all at once.

City Attorney Tom Carruthers in“What I hope we can do between now formed council members that the Parker and the second reading of the Parker Poe ordinance would go into effect next Poe ordinance is do whatever fine-tuning month with a second majority vote with — if there is other information needed at least five members on the prevailfrom the ACLU — if people want more ing side. If the ordinance is revised to time and they want more input, go incorporate input from other interested ahead and put that in for a second readparties like the ACLU and the National ing,” Thurm said, “at which time I will Law Center on Homelessness, the meabe in favor of repealing the aggressive sure would need at least six votes to be solicitation ordinance and voting a secenacted, he added. ond time on the Parker Poe ordinance.”

City council also voted to amend the Councilwoman Sharon Hightower ordinance regulating street performdenounced the maneuver. ers, or buskers, so they are no longer “I think it’s very unfortunate that this required to undergo a background was done under the dark of cover in check and obtain a license from the about 10 minutes coming back not being city. The city’s legal staff determined full disclosure to the people that are listhat the background check and licenstening, that are watching, that are in this ing scheme was likely in violation of the audience, that have spoken, talked about Constitution. The replacement ordihow we feel about this,” she said. “This nance includes spacing requirements, is what democracy doesn’t look like.” and a time limit of four hours for each Hightower warned that unwarranted performance. The ordinance passed fear of black people could lead to disunanimously with no discussion. criminatory enforcement.

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Trump’s Russophiles have been there all along

Shortly after Donald Trump acOn the heels of Trump’s prostration before Putin in cepted the Republican nomination Helsinki, the League posted an open letter, entitled, “To for president, the candidate made our Russian friends.” an appearance at the Lawrence “We understand that the Russian people and SouthernJoel Veterans Memorial Coliseum ers are natural allies in blood, culture, and religion,” the post in Winston-Salem, supported by reads. “As fellow whites of northern European extraction, an all-star undercard of GOP we come from the same general gene pool. As inheritors politicians, including then-Gov. Pat of the European cultural tradition, we share similar values,

by Jordan Green McCrory, Lt. Gov. Dan Forest and customs, and ways of life. And as Christians, we worship the one or two congressmen. same Lord and savior, Jesus Christ, and our common faith During the speeches, I wandered out of the exhibit binds us as brothers and sisters.” area in the center of the floor where the candidate lobbed Whether, as some have suggested, Kremlin-tied funds derisive barbs at the press to the delight of his audience. are flowing to the League or not, Putin has reason to One of the most startling revelations from my foray out cheer an organization whose primary goal — establishing of the press pen was the sight of a man standing near the a whites-only breakaway state — inherently undermines front who wore a long-sleeved shirt with the back covered the sovereignty of its primary geopolitical foe, the United in vivid color with the image of a bare-chested Vladimir States. Affinity between the League and the Kremlin would Putin riding a horse. To many political reporters in July 2016 be right in line with the activities of a St. Petersburg troll — certainly to me — admiration for Putin among a small farm, whose sock puppets generate and share inflammatory number of Trump supporters seemed like a freakish but and often false posts designed to exacerbate divisions. largely insignificant sideshow.

In another sense, the parallels between resurgent Russian Later, a YouTube video surfaced of Greensboro area nationalism and the Southern nationalist ideology prowhite supremacist Manuel Luxton at the Trump rally a moted by the League are genuine and not just a cynical month prior exhorting, “Stop the ploy for mutual advantage. In Russia, war crimes against Novorossiya” — a Putin exploited an anti-gay crackdown politicized term denoting support for and witch-hunt against supposed Russia’s expansionist aims in Ukraine.

To many political report- “pedophiles” to consolidate control The geopolitical reference might seem in the earlier part of this decade while ers in July 2016 — cerobscure, but it points to a striking embracing illiberal political ideas and irony: that the anti-globalist right is far challenging the European Union. tainly to me — admiramore internationally engaged than the Unlike other segments of the Amerileft at the moment, whether it’s Ameri- tion for Putin among a can far right that embrace the rhetoric can evangelicals traveling to Russia for of patriotism and “constitutionalism” small number of Trump “family values” conferences or Trump as cloak for a reactionary agenda, the supporters seemed like promoting Brexit.

League of the South explicitly rejects Trump’s successful exploitation of the founding principles of the United a freakish but largely white nationalism to build a political States, such as, “We hold these truths insignificant sideshow. coalition and his strange attraction to be self-evident, that all men are creto Vladimir Putin have never quite ated equal.” synced up as a unified narrative. Until Hill’s remarks during the League’s last week, that is, when, one day after 2013 National Conference track more the president’s disastrous press conference with Putin in closely with the national socialism of the Third Reich than Helsinki, the League of the South announced plans to the “white man’s democracy” of the Jim Crow South. launch a Russian-language page.

“We’re not wedded in the League or in the true South to To those who aren’t immersed in the nuances of whitea universal proposition,” Hill said. “Equality, democracy, the nationalist discourse, the name might sound innocuous, like universal rights of man — all of these poisonous things that a collection of history buffs who get together from time to have been foisted upon us we’ve been conditioned to think time for academic conferences or Civil War reenactments. are good. No, we are wedded to a real historical order, But take it from the league’s president, Michael Hill: “We based on, as I said, blood and soil, kith and kin.” seek to restore the South to the dominance of the white We should be either thankful that the League of the man and make it our own ethnostate for our posterity.”

South is pulling the mask off the United States’ march toThe League of the South, along with an ad hoc group wards fascism, or terrified that Trump and the League now that included Luxton, provided some of the gladiatorial feel secure enough to flaunt their alignment with Putin’s foot soldiers of the far right at the Unite the Right rally in Russia.

Charlottesville in August 2017.

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STIP PROJECT NO. U-5896 The N.C. Department of Transportation proposes to reconstruct the Interchange at U.S. 29 – 70 / I-85 Business and South Main Street (S.R. 1009) in High Point.

A public meeting will be held at the High Point Theater located at 220 East Commerce Avenue on Tuesday, July 31, 2018 from 4 to 7 p.m.

The public may attend at any time during the public meeting hours, as no formal presentation will be made. NCDOT representatives will be available to answer questions and receive comments. The comments and information received will be taken into consideration as work on the project develops.

For additional information, please contact Ms. Aileen Mayhew, PE, Project Manager at (919) 552-2253 / aileen.mayhew@mottmac.com Mr. Bryan Key, PE, Senior Project Manager at (919) 707-6263 / bckey@ncdot.gov; or mail to: Bryan Key, PE, Central Project Delivery, 1548 MSC, Raleigh, NC 27699-1548.

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Anyone requiring special services should contact Tony Gallagher, Environmental Analysis Unit, at 1598 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699-1598, by phone (919) 707-6069 or by e-mail at magallagher@ncdot.gov as early as possible so that arrangements can be made.

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The North Carolina Legislature got called back for yet another surprise emergency session, this time to name the six — six! — constitutional amendments the Republicans coaxed onto the November ballot.

A reminder: Voter ID, capping income tax at 7 percent, an amorphous hunting and fishing amendment, taking away the governor’s power to appoint judges, merging the ethics and elections boards and one that increases the rights of victims of crime.

It’s never good when the legislature brings everybody back for an emergency session. This is how we got HB2, remember. But quibbling with the nuances of each proposed amendment, could take up an entire issue of this paper — and indeed, the volume of legislation dropped into the voters’ laps is but one indicator of the bad governance at work here.

Clearly, most of these amendments were designed to Clearly, these bring the red-meat Republicans out at amendments were a time when each of designed to bring their votes are sorely needed to maintain red-meat Republithe GOP’s chokehold cans out at a time in Raleigh. Voter ID is a dog-whistle for the when their votes politics of exclusion, are sorely needed. even though it has been ably demonstrated that the measure is a solution in search of a problem. The crime-victims amendment exploits racial tropes and allows anyone who opposes it to appear soft on crime during campaign season. The right of North Carolinians to hunt and fish has never been questioned.

If the right people respond to these messages, the rest of the amendments — call them “wish list” items — should slip through like the last few participants in a conga line.

To call it a farce would be an understatement.

The political malpractice here is procedural. The proposed amendments were tacked on at the end of the short session, ramrodded through and were created with so little thought put into them that they have literally not been written yet.

But the tragedy is one of missed opportunity.

Perhaps it is time to revisit the North Carolina Constitution, a document initially created after the Civil War by white, landed men before women could vote and blacks were considered second-class citizens.

But a constitution cannot be written by voters. And the rewrite needs to be looking forward, not backward.

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Ciska Weber started making sorbets and gelatos after an offhand suggestion by a friend. Now she sells her unique confections at Café Gelato.

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ost ice cream shops are blues and whites, cold colors,” Ciska Weber says. “I wanted it to feel cozy and warm here.”

She’s talking about the melon and pink-painted walls of Café Gelato that mirror the summery cantaloupe and strawberry confections in the glowing, glass-windowed freezer. Weber, the founder and majority owner of the Winston-Salem storefront, grew up on the island of Terschelling in northern Holland and, after finding herself in North Carolina, got into making gelato and sorbet at the offhanded suggestion of a friend.

“I didn’t know that much about gelato,” she said, “so as I was doing some research I found this little place

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on Reynolda and it turns out the company that makes [frozen ice cream and it’s easier on the stomach,” she says. Neither gedessert] machines, their American headquarters is in Winstonlato nor sorbet require heavy cream like ice cream or custard.

Salem. It felt like it was meant to be.”

“I have to say I think cardamom is my favorite, but lemon Weber opened the door of her brick-and-mortar at 845 mint is pretty amazing” she says. “The bestselling gelato is Reynolda Road in 2006. Along with daily-made gelato and chocolate, and then for sorbet, lemon then mango probably sorbet, she offers wine by the glass or bottle, soda, tea and and mixed berry, pistachio and roasted almond.” espresso for cappuccinos or affogato-style gelato servings.

Weber sources from the Triad Buying Co-op in downtown On July 14, she and her partner Christopher Edwards opened a Winston-Salem, the Cobblestone Farmer’s Market and occasecond location at 1612 S. Hawsionally Sam’s Club for ingredithorne Road which also serves ents like Nutella.

Boba teas.

Referring to the Cobblestone Learn more at cafegelatowinston.com.

The original location’s cozy inMarket in Old Salem Weber says, terior features three petite bistro “It’s very inspiring because when tables, bar-seating overlooking I go there. I’ll see different stuff Hanes Park and a table just outside — prime real estate in and I’m like, ‘Oh I could make gelato with this,’ and it feels warmer months. Natural sunlight bathes both cafés through good when I make a black raspberry that’s from Plum Granny big, bay windows and Weber maintains tabletop vases of fresh Farm or when I make cantaloupe from the guy across the way. flowers and succulents.

Fairshare, they have their fruit sometimes, too. I use whatever “A lot of people like gelato because it’s not as fattening as is seasonal.”

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Sorbet is non-dairy and non-fat, as are all her fruitflavored gelatos, making them apt options for vegans and the lactose intolerant.

All require about the same amount of sugar, though, because it largely determines the dessert’s consistency.

There are two ways to do it: hot or cold. Weber uses the cold process due to limited space — the hot process necessitates a prohibitively expensive, large machine that controls temperature and is capable of pasteurizing the milk used in some flavors. She starts with sugar and a different powder base for either gelato and sorbet, which she sources from PreGel in Concord. For sorbet and fruit-flavored gelato she’ll add lemon juice, a stabilizer, fresh fruit and a homemade fruit paste in an immersion blender.

“What that does is keep the flavor consistent because sometimes you have a strawberry that has a lot of flavor LAUREN BARBER and sometimes a strawberry Weber uses the cold method, making classics like chocolate alongside novelties such as pistachio, lemon basil and gelato and sorbet made from just about every fruit in the state. that has no flavor, so if you just put strawberries in by experiments with herbs like elderflower, too, and makes a mean lemon basil. Occathemselves, you could end up with a pretty bland gelato depending on the time of sionally, she will wrestle with the frustrating but delicious pawpaw fruit, somewhat year,” she explains. “It’s almost like an intense homemade jam.” out of love for its unique flavor, but mostly for her customers who are always asking For non-fruit gelato flavors, she reaches for whole milk from Homeland Creamery for their favorites. and skips lemon juice.

“What I love so much is that people are always happy when they come here, and Customers can find classics like chocolate alongside novelties like pistachio, and they tend to stay in a good mood,” Weber says. “The friendships that I’ve made, being gelato and sorbet made from just about every fruit available in the state: strawberry, in this location and now our new store.” mango, pineapple, lemon, peach, blood orange, banana, mixed berry and more. The peach crop was excellent this year — I recommend pairing with toasted almond. Weber

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atrick Douthit, better known as hip-hop producer and DJ 9th Wonder, says he leads a double life: fan and producer.

He neglects to mention he’s also a scholar.

After teaching classes at NC Central University and Duke University, 9th catches flights to Cambridge, Mass. to work on his fellowship at Harvard University. The hip-hop savant began research as a Hip-Hop Fellow there six years ago and is dedicated to enshrining the Top 200 hip-hop albums of all time in the Hiphop Archive at the Loeb Music Library. He’s curated projects at the Smithsonian and National Museum of African American History and Culture, and the Kennedy Center appointed him to its Hip Hop Culture Council alongside the likes of Common and Roots drummer, Questlove, last year.

He’s worked with artists like Beyoncé, Jay-Z, Erykah Badu, Buckshot and Ludacris and earned a Grammy for production on Mary J. Blige’s 2005 album The Breakthrough. Last December he dropped his ninth studio album Zion II, an instrumental project featuring no less than 43 sublime aural collages, and supporting artists like Rapsody on his label, Jamla Records.

And now he’s home, in Winston-Salem, for his high school reunion.

Tonight he’ll share the Ramkat stage with Brand Nubian, Black Moon, Nice & Smooth and Dres from Black Sheep. 9th curated the evening as the 25th reunion for Glenn High School’s Class of ’93.

Before the show, 9th says some things are the same as they were when he grew up here. He always drives by his old high school, catches up with the same friends and makes a point to visit Mountain Fried Chicken. He still craves Moravian sugar cake from Dewey’s Bakery.

“There’s been lots of talks of gentrification,” 9th says. “What’s strange about downtown to me is… to see these $1,900-a-month apartments in the [RJ Reynolds] factories where not only my dad but a lot of my friends’ dads and moms worked. Even the tobacco smell is gone. Merita Bakery’s smell is gone.”

“Change is good but depending on who’s looking at it but it’s bittersweet,” he continues. “People living in these areas are being forced out because of things being built, being displaced.

Change is always gonna happen though and that’s what it is.”

9th shared the Ramkat stage with artists he grew up listening to like hip-hop duo Nice & Smooth (pictured above).

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Past, too, are the days of combing through cassettes at attending NC Central before leaving to pursue music-making Peaches Records & Tapes on Peters Creek Parkway. as part of Little Brother.

“Buying CDs was an event, buying a tape was an event,” 9th Even prodigies need community support, whether through recalls. “Then you finally found it and you got to take it home. tangible resources or mentors. 9th had Earnest Wade, thendirector of minority affairs at Wake Forest University, who Now it was time to listen to it and you lay on the edge of the invited Douthit to participate in Project Ensure, a summer bed and lean back and read the credits.” program aimed to prepare high-performing students of color Other than the living legends of the hip-hop pantheon for college. who will join him on Ramkat’s stage tonight, he says his “Being at Wake kind of changed us,” he says. “Dr. Wade high school soundtrack oscillated between artists like A really pushed me intellectually… to take the hip-hop I was Tribe Called Quest, Pete Rock and LL Cool J to Mary J. Blige to listening to and drive it forDigable Planets. Snoop Dogg, ward with the books that he Tupac and Biggie Smalls all gave us: The Autobiography of emerged as 9th rounded out Learn more at hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu his senior year. Couple that Malcolm X, A Raisin in the Sun, coming-of-age exposure to They Came Before Columbus. and jamlarecords.com. the Golden Era of hip-hop He gave those to me when I with his ability to read sheet was 14… [and] the zeitgeist music — the future musical of that time was to be young, impresario played in the all-state orchestra, commanding no gifted and black like the Aretha Franklin song and the Big less than seven instruments by eighth grade from clarinet to Daddy Kane song.” drum set — and you having the makings of a Renaissance man.

From that time on, hip-hop and academia became a lens But 9th never planned on becoming a prolific producer and through which he could understand himself and the world.

DJ; he studied history and planned to teach it during his time “A lot of rappers were some of my best teachers,” 9th says.

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Brooklyn-raised rapper Buckshot delivered a high-energy set alongside fellow Black Moon members 5 Ft and DJ Evil Dee. The East Coast hip-hop group is best known for their 1993 debut album Enta da Stage.

Despite this consciousness, he says he felt a sense of not quite fitting in as he made and mixed music from studios in North Carolina.

“What changed that was the coming of Outkast,” he says. “When Outkast stepped into the scene in 1993, it gave me a sensibility of ‘Okay, now I feel like I don’t have to change my accent. I don’t have to not be country to be a part of this thing.’ André 3000 felt like a cousin to me… and spoke about things that the New York cats did, but in a Southern way that I could relate to.”

That night, onstage in his Southern hometown, 9th made sure his old classmates knew their histories, playfully quizzing them on classic hip-hop samples from the stage, shaping new lineage stories just like those told in the liner notes he found tucked into those jewel cases from Peaches.

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“They taught me… how to see, to search for truth, to not settle for what somebody’s telling you. Brand Nubian, they were catalysts of, ‘Go out young man — read, study, understand what’s going on around you.’”

That emphasis on historical memory — personal, political, cultural, whatever — is the crux of his curricula and why his concept of “paying it forward” lies beyond teaching his students to craft beats or score recording deals. He says it’s about knowing where you come from, an idea upon which he’s long meditated.

“People say, ‘Oh, your music sounds like you’re from New York,’ and I say, ‘Well, New York hip-hop was based on the musical theories of James Brown who was born in Georgia. I’m following in the footsteps of… a Southern kid.’ You take sampling out, hip-hop is gone.”

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Strength in Numbers: The Lasting Impact of Women’s Organizations in High Point, currently on display at the High Point Museum, shows how women gained access to power in the city and used it to shape history.

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ust weeks after thousands of women took to the streets in January earlier this year, commemorating the one-year anniversary of the historic Women’s March from 2017, a smaller, quieter show of women’s empowerment went up at the High Point Museum.

Strength in Numbers: The Lasting Impact of Women’s Organizations in High Point highlights the achievements of four different women’s organizations based in the city over the course of the 20th Century.

“We’ve had the idea to do an exhibit about women for a while,” says Edith Brady, the director of the museum. “It seems the timing was right.”

The exhibit, which went up this spring and runs through Oct. 18, follows the achievements of the High Point Women’s Club, the Junior League of High Point, the YWCA of High Point and

the Alpha Art Club. It’s the first exhibit at the museum that’s focused solely on women and comes at a time when women’s organizations are increasingly gaining traction in the wake of Trump’s election.

And while the four historical groups might seem less progressive by today’s standards than, say, the recent #MeToo movement, the groups’ lasting impacts on the city and the culture at large are resoundingly familiar.

“You can go through this exhibit and see echoes of things happening today,” Brady says.

Pictures of women huddled together as they smile decorate the back wall while a tennis racket and handmade doily fill a case in the corner. As she walks through the show which is tucked in the back of the museum, Brady points out the ways in which the different groups helped both white and black women in High Point take on roles in the public sphere.

“It started with women marching for the vote,” Brady says.

“It showed women that when they get together and get organized, things can happen.”

Spanning from the early 1900s through the 1990s, the exhibit timelines how women began by tackling domestic issues like healthcare and education for children to hosting public discussions about racial equality and eventually running

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for office. Judy Mendenhall, the city’s first female mayor, and Mary Jarrell who served in the state house from 1983 to 2002, are both listed in the exhibit as former members of the Junior League and the High Point YWCA. “You can see a clear progression of how women began take on greater roles in the community,” Brady says. “It wasn’t about being conservative or liberal. It was about how their views were important and how they had something to offer.”

The exhibit acts as a kind of microcosm of the country at large, reflecting both the triumphs of society like the women’s suffrage movement, as well as its flaws like segregation. In the center of the exhibit, an agenda from a meeting hosted by the Women’s Goodwill Committee—a group formed in 1963 specifically for the purposes of talking about race relations—show the types of conversations had by white and black women about segregation.

Questions like “To what extent do [negroes’] rights to use [public] facilities affect the extent to which white people use them?” and “Are young negroes ready for the job opportunities available and what is our responsibility in fostering their preparedness?” demonstrate the complex nature of these talks.

“These groups were helping women step out and tackle

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says Knight, who is 81 years old. “But over time, we became more active politically.”

Often times the group took on the “grunt work” as Knight likes to say, of putting pressure on local officials to keep up black schools and black sections of hospitals during segregation. Like the female-led Black Lives Matter movement, the club was established and is run by black women who advocate for the betterment of their communities. These days, the group has been pushing for the revitalization of the area around Washington Street, as the city continues to grow.

“It’s lost a lot of its luster and support economically over the years,” says Knight, who grew up in the Wash-

ington Street neighborhood. “People of color began to move to other areas and we didn’t support Washington Street. We’re trying to bring it back.”

Knight, like Brady, says the exhibit’s significance lies in its ability to tell a story of the past while informing the present and future.

“These women gave us our footing,” Knight says. “I want our children to see that we’ve been out here fighting and not just sitting and waiting to be given things, and we will have to do it again.”

And January’s just around the corner.

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the most controversial issues of the time,” Brady says.

“They had the message that together, women have the ability and responsibility to affect their communities.”

The Alpha Art Club, established in 1924, fully embodies that sentiment. Prohibited from joining white women’s clubs, black women joined together to form the club as a way to organize on their own. Early actions of the club included recruiting musicians to perform in High Point as well as holding community art auctions.

Over the years, however, the mission and goal of the group changed according to Burdell Knight, who’s been a member since 1997.

“It started as a recreational club for black women,”

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“You can see a clear progression of how women began to take on greater roles in the community,” says Museum Director Edith Brady.

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