What a shame that elected reps can’t figure out what real leadership means. With the national spotlight on Greensboro today and with more than decade’s work by numerous volunteers and tens of millions of dollars of money and work by local foundations, Rep. Earl Jones tells a semi-stunned press conference (who likely had no idea what he was talking about),
Jones used his moment in the spotlight to defend Skip Alston’s involvement in the controversial hotel deal — the controversy level of which, of course, was multiplied about tenfold by Alston himself. Naturally, Jones portrayed the issue in racial terms. The hotel plan is all about “putting green dollars in black hands,” which he suspects is why it’s “subjected to special scrutiny.” To have all this happen on the 50th anniversary of the sit-ins, Jones said, is “very telling and very timely.”
Servant leadership is about knowing when to shut one’s mouth or be circumspect or demonstrate some class. In a word, #earljonesfail
I am appalled at the audacity of Earl Jones and his Uncle Tom leadership comments. I am sure that all of the white citizens ie. the white lawyer that put his house on the line for the loan to keep the museum dream alive or the white tax lawyer that pulled them out the second time by educating these two black men how to obtain the funds by getting business backings and the business to be able to get the money back off their taxes. If he is so smart and does not trust white people, than why did he accept their help then, and then make a mockery of the ceremonial affair that was intended to honor four black men that sacrificed for a cause, He acts like Skip and himself built the museum single handed and with this type of leadership no wonder Greensboro is constantly making the news with their racial issues from the city council to the Police dept to everything you here about them in the news. If you look at all of the problems the city has as a whole politically, than maybe they have to much BLACK leadership already, and it is reflected by the events like yesterday when he stole the platform for his own personal agenda. He, Bellamy Small, Skip Alston they sicken my stomach, think God I live elsewhere!