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WWW.TRIANGLE TRIBUNE.COM In N.C. gov’s race, The Triangle Cooper has $14M cash; Forest trails By Gary D. Robertson RIBUNE THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TTHE TRIANGLE’S CHOICE FOR THE BLACK VOICE RALEIGH — Recent unrest in North Carolina cities and job losses related to COVID-19 closings are featured prominently in VOLUME 22 NO. 28 WEEK OF JULY 12, 2020 $1.00 the first general election ad of the governor’s race from Repub- lican nominee Dan Forest. The television commercial began airing across the state last week, the day after Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s campaign an- Five-star recruit Makur nounced it will have a massive amount of cash entering the last four months of the campaign. The commercial initially shows Maker must enroll at footage of apparent looters inside a drug store, and Raleigh po- Howard to make a lice sport utility vehicles with flashing lights and police tape. Forest has criticized Cooper for issuing executive orders that major statement. have closed certain businesses since March in an attempt to con- trol the spread of the coronavirus, saying his strategy is mis- guided. He’s also blamed the governor for failing to stop damage caused by some demonstrators within broader, other- wise peaceful protests against racial injustice following the May 25 death of George Floyd in the custody of Minneapolis police. Please see GOVERNOR/2A Wake Beware County anti- adds Donald holiday Trump THE ASSOCIATED PRESS RALEIGH — The govern- voters ing board of North Caro- lina’s largest county by By William Rivers Pitt population voted on Mon- TRUTHOUT day to make Juneteenth a paid county holiday for its A stampeding herd of “anti- workers. The Wake County Trump” Republican organi- Board of Commissioners zations and PACs has voted unanimously for the flooded the 2020 presiden- calendar addition during a tial campaign with ads at- video conference meeting, tacking the president and according to a county endorsing his rival, Joe news release. The ad- Biden. If beating Donald ditional holiday will begin Trump in November is your for county staff in 2021. main thing, this would ap- Juneteenth commem- pear to be only good news. I orates when the last en- COURTESY am forced to wonder, ho- slaved African Americans Joy Allen, a certified trainer, teaches a basic gun training class. wever, what the real intent is learned they were free. behind this sudden solidarity Union soldiers brought the after three long years of near news of freedom to Gal- silence from the deeply com- veston, Texas, on June 19, promised “Never Trump” 1865. The release said Have gun, crew. Wake County is the first It has been a fascinating county in the state to de- election already before these clare Juneteenth a holiday right-wing voices chimed in. for its employees. Trump is running for reelec- “By making June 19 a will train tion with a trio of grand pia- holiday, we give our more nos on his back — his than 4,000 employees the By Freda Freeman round at a time!” everyone else. So, I found that handling of COVID, the up- opportunity to learn more CORRESPONDENT “We want women to have through teaching firearms, rising and the economy — all confidence, knowing that, if we’re not only teaching self- about the end of slavery in “Sisters are doin’ it for them- of which he put there him- you need to, you can defend defense, but we’re really our country and show their selves.” – Aretha Franklin self. Trump has repeatedly commitment to making yourself. When I first started teaching confidence,” said Joy proven himself to be a DIY teaching classes, I always Allen. today’s society more equi- RALEIGH – Being able to de- kind of guy when it comes to table and inclusive,” Board asked the ladies to raise their Allen is the owner of E3 Per- self-inflicted campaign fend yourself is not only hand if they were willing to kill sonal Defense and Safety. (E3 Chairman Greg Ford said knowing how to use a weapon. wounds. in the release. for one of their children, and stands for empowering, edu- His presumptive Demo- It’s also having confidence and 99% of the ladies would raise cating, and enjoying.) She is The paid holiday should believing that you are worth cratic challenger, in contrast, cost the county a little over their hand. But when you ask teaming up with Ebony Harts- is throwing darts from his defending. a woman, ‘would you be will- field-Thorne, owner of GuzN- $544,000 to implement, Two Raleigh women have basement and seemingly based on the anticipated ing to kill someone else to BlackRosez Firearms Training. running away with the race. joined forces and founded save your life,’ they hesitate. Both women started shooting payment to hourly em- InHER Piece Ladies Shooting Biden, whose age puts him ployees, the county said. “Women, particularly women about five years ago, and each squarely in the high-risk cat- Club to empower African of color, have always been is a certified National Rifle As- The holiday is usually cele- American women through egory from COVID, has been brated with parades and taught and were raised in so- sociation pistol instructor. running as if the Centers for firearms training. The club’s ciety to defend and to nurture Please see TRAIN/2A festivals but became a day motto is “Peace of mind, one Disease Control and Preven- of protest this year in the tion was in charge of his wake of demonstrations campaign. Justly so: The set off by George Floyd’s mere fact that Biden is acting killing at the hands of Min- like a responsible human neapolis police. being is a good portion of the reason why he is currently N.C. residents won’t ahead in the polls. need a doctor’s order Wake County black student At this point, Trump’s cam- for a COVID test paign staffers must flinch North Carolina an- like dogs without their Thun- nounced Tuesday that res- derShirts whenever the idents will no longer need group leads fight for equality Trumpian fireworks start, or a doctor’s referral to get a as is usually the case, won’t coronavirus test. The By Lori D.R. Wiggins stop. Case in point: Trump order, lasting until Gov. CORRESPONDENT went back to his blankie yes- Roy Cooper’s current state terday for yet another Fox RALEIGH – A co-founder of of emergency is rescinded, News interview, during the newly formed Wake aims to encourage more which he said, “I think we’re County Black Student Coalition Black, Hispanic and Native going to be very good with said the group’s call for the American residents to get the coronavirus. I think that district to sever ties with tested. at some point that’s going to school resource officers is Mandy Cohen, state sec- sort of just disappear, I merely an introduction to their retary of Health and hope.” determined push to help eradi- Human Services, also an- Flinch. Everything in that cate systemic racism, bigotry nounced the creation of up sentence is wrong, infuriat- and hatred. to 300 free temporary test- ing and cruel. COVID is not “This is our first big action; ing sites throughout July. going to disappear, even if a this is only the beginning,” The expansion comes even vaccine comes down the said Victoria Smith, a rising as Cohen said the state pipe tomorrow. “I hope” is senior at Enloe High School. needs more testing not a policy for a nation that “Racism is not just dealing supplies from the federal just notched 50,000 new in- with SROs. It’s racial profiling COURTESY government. Cohen said fections in a single day, a from teachers and admin- she and Cooper discussed Enloe High student Victoria Smith leads student rally. record which leaves the grim istrators, and we’re also talk- the need for more chemi- Smith and co-founder Yakob umbrella organization to help daily totals from March and ing about discrimination in the cal reagents Monday with Lemma, her Enloe classmate, unify other school-based April in deep shade. “We’re classrooms. We're going to hit U.S. Health and Human organized an estimated 200 groups organized under the going to be very good” from every aspect that is being af- Services Secretary Alex Wake County students for a district's Black Student Union. a president with his ex- fected by racism and inequal- Azar. Black Students Matter protest Despite the existence of the ecrable COVID track record ity within our schools. While test results pre- at the State Capitol in down- BSU, Smith said, many schools to date is the verbal equiv- “With everything going on in viously took 2 to 3 days to town Raleigh. Students in Dur- don’t have an established alent of rubbing the elector- the world right now, how can get back results in June, ham County also have group designed to support ate’s face in the rocks of a we sit still and do nothing. Cohen said supply issues demanded SROs be removed Black students. Those that do gravel driveway. How can we talk about stuff have increased current from their public schools and don’t get adequate support to Trump is the best cam- happening nationally if we waits to a week in some are planning a fall summit with be effective, she said. paign spokesman Biden can’t acknowledge what’s hap- cases. “That request (for school leaders. The protest came on the could ever wish for because pening right here in North Car- more supplies) is going to The Wake County Black Stu- heels of the Wake County he will not stop damaging olina, right here in Wake dent Coalition is a districtwide Plase see HOLIDAY/2A County?” Please see WAKE/2A Please see TRUMP/2A Index 5007 South Park Drive, Suite 200-G Publisher: Gerald O.
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