On the White Street Landfill: Did Greensboro's African American leadership betray their people?

In politics, nothing happens by accident.


If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.


Franklin D. Roosevelt

"...the results of Tuesday’s elections

were a referendum on the White Street landfill"

 

Robin, Allen and Doug

What happens when the city's budget deficit spikes shortly,
because of higher energy costs and debt payments
and the city has to fire police and firemen
to make up for the money lost by keeping the landfill closed?


If the City of Greensboro’s average employee salary is about $50,000,
and the city could not spend about $8,000,000 per year
by reopening the White Street Landfill and selling the methane,
could Greensboro's City Council have to choose
between shipping our trash to Montgomery County
or about 160 city jobs, sooner than later.

If a few purchased relatively inexpensive homes near a landfill

established more than 60 years ago,
why should the many unaffected who may have paid more for their residences
to avoid potential hazards and easements, be taxed to have trash shipped elsewhere?

When the money in the budget isn't there,

is Greensboro going to have to sacrifice city jobs
to keep the landfill closed and the swimming pool financed?

...the solid waste problem won’t go away

and had not been adequately addressed by previous councils.

Robin, Allen and Doug

Move next to a landfill at a discount,

and get the local government to close the landfill
by charging everyone else a premium for property taxes
so those living near a recently closed landfill like Yvonne and Goldie
can sell out at a premium
after waiting while paying relatively lower taxes then everyone else?


Did they vote for Yvonne, who lives two blocks from the landfill,
who profited from the landfill staying closed
and increased the value of her property,
which everyone else has been subsidizing for 30 years?

Did the electorate vote how the News & Record told them too,

after Greensboro's African American leadership betrayed their people?

The council has a second chance to lead honestly,

openly and effectively on this issue."

Allen, Doug and Robin

Did the Greensboro News & Record, Yes Weekly or any TV stations
report the $175 million savings potential of reopening the landfill?


Did the Greensboro News & Record, Yes Weekly or any TV stations
report how much the city has lost by closing the landfill?


How could a majority of Greensboro taxpayers feel
about Greensboro's media not reporting what could be some candidate's willingness
to exchange about $175 million of other people's property taxes
for the chance to become Greensboro's election winners?


Did some some candidates put their personal political interests above those
of the majority of Greensboro taxpayers and their children?


Why should Greensboro's taxpayers
have to pay for other's artificially inflated real estate values
after they bought property near the landfill at a discount?


Are most of those who purchased properties at a discount,
because the landfill was there when they bought in,
deserving of a premium funded by everyone else when they sell?


Could many in East Greensboro have received misrepresented messages
from some who may profit from a particular outcome?


Should the White Street Landfill remain closed to artificially increase the value
of privately owned residential real estate at the expense of public safety?


Why did the Greensboro News & Record Editorial Board
inject Race into the White Street Landfill Issue and last year's election?

...Deliberate distortion is never permissible.

Diligently seek out subjects of news stories

to give them the opportunity to respond to allegations of wrongdoing.

Examine their own cultural values

and avoid imposing those values on others.

...Analysis and commentary

should be labeled and not misrepresent fact or context.

Deny favored treatment to advertisers and special interests

and resist their pressure to influence news coverage.

The SPJ Code of Ethics

If 2011's City Council election was a referendum on the landfill
how could it not have been considered Black against White
instead of financial and sustainability issues
if the Greensboro News & Record Editorial Board
took what most believe to be a financial budget issue
and converted it into a race based campaign propaganda platform
that brought out minority and thought controlled voters at the News & Record's behest?

The propagandist seeks to change the way

people understand an issue or situation

for the purpose of changing their actions and expectations

in ways that are desirable to the interest group.

Propaganda, in this sense, serves as a corollary to censorship

in which the same purpose is achieved,

not by filling people's minds with approved information,

but by preventing people from being confronted

with opposing points of view.

...Propaganda is generally an appeal to emotion, not intellect.

..."Propaganda is a form of communication

that is aimed at influencing the attitude of a community

toward some cause or position.

As opposed to impartially providing information,

propaganda, in its most basic sense,

presents information primarily to influence an audience.

Propaganda often presents facts selectively

(thus possibly lying by omission)

to encourage a particular synthesis, or uses loaded messages

to produce an emotional rather than rational response

to the information presented.

The desired result is a change of the attitude

toward the subject in the target audience..."

Wiki

Was the City of Greensboro's 2011 City Council election

rigged by our local media?