The Saga Continues Part II
Written by admin on May 29, 2009 – 5:20 pm -The Saga Continues Part II
Nobles: Called on again
Anthony Witherspoon
Mississippi – Tribune posted 05-29-09
Selectmen E.C. Nobles and Wade Lamb’s latest proposal to change McComb’s city charter and strip the mayor of his “Duties, Power and Supervision†is actually proof that the charter empowers him with such. This point should not go unnoticed, especially since these two guys, Norman Gillis and others have been arguing a different point for the last two years.
It’s a shame that Mr. Nobles has no more respect for himself than to play puppet for Gillis and the rest of those who would like to dictate the way things run in the city. It’s also a shame if we, both black and white folks, in the community allow a hand full of folks to change the charter at this point in the city’s history.
Why now? How could the charter have worked for so long and now all of a sudden it’s no good? I’ll tell you why.
Due to white flight from the city limits, the city is now majority black. Norman Gillis and others fear that if black folks start working together the city may never see another white mayor; to even assume that we’d even vote as a block solely because of race, of course, is a racist mind set.
Guys like Gillis plan twenty years in advance. He and other Rotary Club members knew that this day of a black majority in the city was bound to come, and this is why the city developed the appointed position of city administrator. The second step would involve empowering this person with the “Duties, Power and Supervision†that the charter now gives to the mayor of the city. If successful, Gillis and his comrades can use their money and influence to buy board members and have appointed whoever they feel will work in their best interest, but not in the best interest of the people. Mr. Nobles, resist the devil and the devil will fl ee.
Mr. Nobles has accepted that job of carrying out the will of this coup, and he needs to be stopped. To put it quite bluntly, he is selling out his community. Someone has to speak up, who will stand with us against this assault on the black community. This is not about Mayor Patterson, this is about an attempt to disempower the office of mayor now that blacks are the most likely the win the position. Don’t be fooled by the junk you read in that other trashy, racist “Two Cent†valued newspaper.
We must hold Nobles, Gillis, Lamb, Jack Ryan and others accountable for this racist attempt.We must show them that the “Good Ole Days and Good Ole Boy System†has come to its end.
History tells us that a number of black elected officials, “so-called†black leaders and money hungry black ministers have worked for the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission, the FBI and COINTELPRO to spy on real leadership in the black community that sought to empower the people. We have work to do on both sides of the track. Let’s now allow history to repeat itself. Who will stand? If God is with us, who can be against us. Speak now or forever hold your peace.
Min. Anthony Witherspoon
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