Your letters: NAACP school rhetoric is frustrating

Posted November 24, 2009 at 4:03 pm and filed under Opinion.

On Nov. 3, after the election results for the Wake County School Board runoff were in, the Rev. William J. Barber, president of the N.C. NAACP, was interviewed. As usual, he ended his spiel with threats of lawsuits and bringing the feds down on Wake County.

This type of speech has always irritated me to no end. So I decided to contact Barber and offer him a chance to have a public discussion or debate on what WCPSS is about, which he declined.

We did have a short discussion on magnet schools, block voting so Southeast Raleigh would almost be guaranteed a seat on the city council, school board, county commission, N.C. House and Senate.

Phil Jeffreys
Former Wake County commissioner

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