Post 2 Councilman Joe Clark will face Cathryn Vaught in the only contested race for three posts on the Fayetteville City Council. Incumbent Mayor Ed Johnson and Post 1 incumbent […]
sticking with our law and justice lead and the aftermath from saturday s racist deadly attack in jacksonville, florida, where a white gunman, motivated by racism killed three innocent black people, i want to bring in jacksonville city councilman rockman johnson, a professor at edward waters university, where the gunman initially stopped. first of all, councilman johnson, how are you, how is the community and how is everybody doing? i will tell you jake, thank you for having us on. there was a heaviness in this community that continues. i m better. but i will tell you after i went over near the school to talk with our students and be with the community, i came back to city hall, sat in my office,
i do not want to get in the way of the councilman. he had to go. saying a lot of things that we need to continue to unpack. the councilman did a good job. the structure that we create for some of these people. we don t know if this guy would ve taken the gun and shot them. we do not know what this is. a permission structure that says, we do not need to lean into understand the injustices in this country and in places like florida, it is not getting better. councilman johnson pointed to the hatred in the country. they are networks of hate