The High Point City Council will get a lot more diverse very soon.
Once the newly elected members are sworn in, the council will have more minority and female representation as well as a new mayor who brings a youthful outlook to a job that’s typically held in High Point by those much older.
Four years ago, there was a lot of attention called to the fact that High Point voters elected four African-American candidates to the High Point City Council, and, now, in 2023, more history was made on Election Day, Tuesday, November 7: Five black candidates won seats on the council – making the upcoming council the first High Point City Council to have an African-American majority.
The new council will also have more women in the seats, and – as for diversity of age – 31-year-old High Point Mayor-elect Cyril Jefferson beat Councilmember Victor Jones in the bid to replace High Point Mayor Jay Wagner, who didn’t run for reelection.
Jefferson is thought to be the city’s youngest mayor ever.
In another interesting twist, High Point’s new black mayor represents a majority-white electorate.
That’s not the only infusion of diversity on the council. The new council will have three women, after having only one – Monica Peters – for the last half-dozen years.
In the November 7 election, two At-Large High Point City Council seats went to incumbent Britt Moore and Amanda Cook.
In Ward 1, with the incumbent not running, Vickie McKiver was victorious.
In Ward 2 – also with the incumbent not running – at-large incumbent Tyrone Johnson won the ward seat.
As for Ward 3, incumbent Monica Peters will remain in that seat.
In Ward 4, Patrick Harmon will apparently be in that seat. He seems to have beaten incumbent Wesley Hudson but that race was a very close one, and provisional votes and a potential recount might mean things could get interesting before it comes time to certify the vote count.
In Ward 5, with the incumbent not running, Tim Andrew took the seat, while, in Ward 6, incumbent Michael Holmes will keep that seat.
Be careful High Point. I hope you don’t want to be like Greensboro and if you do you’re screwed.
Diversity is the new qualification!
Good luck HP!
So glad NOT to live in High Point anymore!!
Quotas for race and sex?
Guilford County? I was born here, and have spent most of my life here. GSO was a wonderful place to grow up and to live. Now? Include me out.
It is really sad to see where we are going.
Give me Davison County or Surry County! I knew the country was in trouble when they took Confederate flags out of NASCAR.
Elon Musk is an African American. The blacks in High Point are simply Americans with dark skin, and not African Americans. There’s nothing wrong with either one, but they are NOT the same thing.
Some people on this form always complaining about a particular councilman pulling the race card. But whenever you post something, you’re pulling the race card by speaking about one particular race in general. Greensboro and High Point are two cities that has been hit the hardest when the economy went bad under the Bush administration. These two cities are just starting to bounce back, because we now have new members with new ideas to create growth. I think y’all are just fine with Greensboro/High Point becoming somewhat a ghost town. People has left this area because of there was no jobs and the salary sucked. Now that jobs are being created, salaries are going up, people are starting to come back, and now you’re complaining. Is the crime rate high? Yes. Like every other city, there’s crime. Whether it’s white on white, black on black, Asian on Asian, Russian on Russian, Chinese on Chinese or whatever the case maybe, crime is crime. I guess you’re overlooking these events and school shootings that goes on in other cities that goes on around the US?
Greensboro has 65 homicides. A record. That is not because people are returning for high paying jobs. It’s because our liberal city council keeps dumping money into programs that do not have quantifiable results. What the F is a “violence disrupter” and how can you measure its effectiveness? Go look at the demographics of the homicide victims. No one in our city or society wants to address the issue. Go look at the video of the Electric Tequila. Lucky we are not at 70. The mayor’s solution is to blame it on the clubs. Start blaming it on the ones who pull the trigger.
TL “spoke” at length and said almost nothing.
Diversity is the new qualification?
Good luck