There was a lot of excitement when the Board of Commissioners passed an $840 million budget on Thursday, June 15, so some people might not have caught what happened right after that.
In one of a series of separate votes on items in the budget, the Board of Commissioners approved giving $200,000 to the International Civil Rights Center and Museum.
The money is going to help the museum at 134 S. Elm St pay for the 2022 purchase of the former First Citizens Bank building next door as well as the purchase of the rest of that entire downtown block.
It’s part of the museum’s attempts to expand and become a UNESCO World Heritage Site and join company with the Grand Canyon and Statue of Liberty. Those sites are recognized by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. Currently there are only two dozen sites in the US that have been designated World Heritage sites.
Museum officials say the site of the historic 1960 Sit-in in downtown Greensboro can become the 25th one.
Chairman of the Board of Commissioners Skip Alston, a co-founder of the museum who serves on its board, could not legally take part in the vote, so Alston did not conduct that part of the meeting and he did not vote in it.
The purchase of the property and building next door cost just over $10 million and the museum is making renovations that will cost millions more.
In 2022, the Board of Commissioners gave $1 million to the museum and “committed” to giving the museum another million over a five-year period. The June 15 vote was notable, however, because past boards cannot commit future boards and in the past the Board of Commissioners have gone back on commitments by previous boards plenty of times.
Alston said this week, “This is to pay down on the mortgage for the building we purchased last year. Since the commissioners approved a five-year commitment last year. We just had to reauthorize it again this year for this budget.”
That rat hole can’t cover the bills without taxpayer dollars being used. We all know that money buys alot of votes to keep the money flowing in year after year.
Who’s surprised by this? I’m sure not.
Where’s the covid money that pleasant garden community center was promised???
Why? Money could have been better spent on employees.
The sit-ins in Greensboro were not the first in the country. Blacks in Greensboro have worked hard to make it seem that Greensboro was the first. It was not. Skip’s “museum” is not worthy of all the publicity it receives. It certainly does not deserve taxpayer money. Property taxpayers should remember come July when property tax bills arrive, you are paying for the “museum” whether you want to or not. If as a taxpayer you would not voluntarily give to the museum, why should you be forced to pay through your tax dollars. The truth is, the “museum” would fold if it were not for tax money and Skip’s shakedown of businesses. If the “museum” is not worthy to stand on its own, it should close. The entire enterprise pays no taxes, no taxes. Skip Alston is Al Sharpton South. Yet, Blacks continue to celebrate Alston. This reveals a great deal about Blacks’ traits.
Although not the first sit-in, the non-violent Greensboro protest became the best known. Local television provided extensive coverage, and in subsequent days, similar sit-ins occurred in more than 30 other cities. The key was that it started a broader movement that was in the end very effective.
How do you know that the Greensboro sit-in was responsible for the starting a broader movement? You don’t. Greensboro Blacks are proud of the AT&T students who engaged in the sit-ins. That is good. However, it does not warrant a museum and especially a museum that cannot support itself without tax dollars. Skip Alston has grandiose ideas that do not match reality. He cannot accomplish his goals on his own endeavor so he hustles others to try and make his dreams come true. What happens if the hustles stop working?
Whoa, whoa, whoa, so the scam continues. They’re trying to insert that bigoted place on the same level as the Statue of Liberty and the Grand Canyon? OMG, come on people wake up! Who has the real ownership of these properties they want the public to pay for? Of course, it’s not politically correct to question this sort of crap and that is why Alston and the rest of the gang do it.
Get the UN put of the US! Get the US out of the UN!
PERIOD!
Just more taxpayers money being given to The Greensboro Money Pit. As long as the same old people get elected aka Steve Austin we will have the same old problems and Hightower is his partner in crime.
Ok Skip you and your democrat minions have screwed the good taxpayers enough. Elections are coming so get ready and as far as the money for your worthless money pit, the good fellow from Samet said it best to you “ this is some RACIST BULLS$$T”
Election will not change anything. Greensboro demographics are such that Blacks will continue to vote for Black candidates regardless of character, regardless of integrity, regardless of leadership. Then there is the Black-Whites that for some reason have no integrity and believe that voting for a Black candidate is some type of soul satisfying exercise. These voters are generally Jews.
Tip O’Neill famously said “All politics is local”. I think it’s more accurate to say “All politics is racial”.
There is a statistically significant correlation between race and voting habits (and the Democratic Party knows it).
When this happens in Third World countries, we call it “corruption”.
Yep. Never been, don’t plan on ever going. We frequented the Woolworth’s at Parkway Plaza as long as I can remember. When you’ve seen one, you’ve seen ’em all.
It’s also called corruption here in GBO. It’s the gift that keeps on giving, and the outcome is a heavy get-out-the-vote for the sitting council members. See how this works? It’s also scratch my back, and I’ll scratch yours.
They don’t have to answer to anybody or account for anything. They know they can get away with robbing the tax payers
How about my rights? Hypocrites.
Don’t the “museum ” still owe the City money?
Do we get any revenue from that place?