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STAFF PUBLISHER: Jeff Fobes ASSISTANT TO THE PUBLISHER: Susan Hutchinson MANAGING EDITOR: Virginia Daffron A&E EDITOR: Alli Marshall FOOD EDITOR: Gina Smith FRANNY’S FARM GREEN SCENE EDITOR: Daniel Walton - FRANNY’S OPINION EDITOR: Tracy Rose FARMACY STAFF REPORTERS: Able Allen, Edwin Arnaudin, Thomas Calder, Laura Hackett, Brooke Randle, Daniel Walton COMMUNITY CALENDAR EDITOR: Deborah Robertson CLUBLAND EDITOR: CARTOON BY RANDY MOLTON Lauren Andrews MOVIE SECTION HOSTS: Edwin Arnaudin, Bruce Steele so far along in my years, I’d sell and move TDA needs to listen farther out. CONTRIBUTING EDITORS: So, yes, Mr. Karvir, there is such a thing Peter Gregutt, Rob Mikulak to concerns as going too far. And you need to heed REGULAR CONTRIBUTORS: these complaints and concerns. Tourism Mark Barrett, Leslie Boyd, You know. When someone says it’s all adds a lot of wear to Asheville’s stressed Abigail Griffin, everyone else’s negativity and claims zero infrastructure. And yet I see busted-up Bill Kopp, Cindy Kunst, accountability for complaints, that’s a sidewalks and horrible potholed roads Jeff Messer, Joe Pellegrino, pretty big red flag right there. After read- go unfixed for years. Tourists act like Kim Ruehl, Luke Van Hine, Kay West ing Himanshu Karvir’s little rant [“On they can jaywalk anywhere they please ADVERTISING, ART & DESIGN MANAGER: the Defensive: TDA Board Members React without regard to traffic. And tourism has Susan Hutchinson to Criticism,” Nov. 27, Xpress] ... my first caused the popularity of Asheville to soar. LEAD DESIGNER: thought is: What a crybaby. Forcing out residents as cost of living Scott Southwick I have lived near Asheville and called shoots skyward, but measly service-job it home now for nearly four decades. I pay that the industry provides remains GRAPHIC DESIGNERS: loved it when I moved here. Yes, down- stagnant. It’s absolutely a factor. And to Norn Cutson, Olivia Urban town was mostly dead. But there was a say it’s all good and none bad just makes MEMBERSHIP AND vibrant community here. I was happy to you a shill. This kind of denial of how DEVELOPMENT COORDINATOR: see the turnaround as old buildings were tourism has negatively impacted people Laura Hackett renovated and cool shops and restaurants who live here will only infuriate them MARKETING ASSOCIATES: sprouted up. Buskers and colorful events more. Sara Brecht, Bryant Cooper, Brian Palmieri, gave the city a spark. It’s always been a Instead Mr. Karvir (and all the TDA) Heather Taylor, Tiffany Wagner MOSTLY tourist-based economy. need to listen to these concerns. And OPERATIONS MANAGER: But as more and more posh hotels understand why people are pissed. And Able Allen AUTOMOTIVE sprouted up, rent hikes forced out the acknowledge that they are very legitimate small businesses or forced them to hike concerns and not just blow them all off INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES & WEB: prices and target the well-to-do; infra- with “tourism is all good and nothing Heather Brown, Bowman Kelley INC. structure is utterly maxed out; homeless bad.” What BS! BOOKKEEPER: people pushed out of sight; and liter- — Troy Amastar Amie Fowler-Tanner Alexander ally the whole wonderful feel of the city ADMINISTRATION, BILLING, HR: moved into a fake simulation of what Able Allen, Lauren Andrews used to be — yeah, I no longer care to DISTRIBUTION: dine, shop or hang out downtown. I work Remembering the past Susan Hutchinson (Coordinator), three days/week near the RAD, and some more accurately Cindy Kunst, Laura Hackett days I literally dread the certain traffic DISTRIBUTION DRIVERS: snarls. I have watched the neighborhood The year 2019 was particularly impor- Gary Alston, Russell Badger, I work in gentrify before my eyes in the tant to U.S. history because it marked the Autumn Hipps, Clyde Hipps,, last four years. And now even out where 400th anniversary of the first slave ship Joan Jordan, Mark Low, I live in the country, it is swiftly changing landing in the United States, marking Angelo Sant Maria, Desiree Davis, into housing developments. If I weren’t the beginning of slavery. Upon reading Charlotte Rosen, David Weiss MOUNTAINX.COM JAN. 1 - 7, 2019 5 OPINION Send your letters to the editor to [email protected]. an article from The New York Times and right direction toward acknowledging and When we think about plantations, we the 1619 Project, we realized that the use remembering the past more accurately. personally reminisce about picnics, skip- Problematic CBD of the words slave, slave owner and planta- — Ben ping through the valley and a nice sum- experience, thanks tions are dehumanizing to the ancestors Asheville mer day. Knowing that plantations were of enslaved people and continue the insti- not like that in the past and that they to lax regulation tutional racism that was propagated back were actually places of great torture, we then to justify slavery. Change the way we would prefer to call them forced labor I thought the CBD trend was harm- As socially conscious students of speak about slavery camps. less, snake oil that could drain your wal- Francine Delany New School for Children, It will be hard to change our vocabu- let but not much else, but a recent experi- we believe it is the just thing to do to ence has me questioning otherwise. I had We are writing this because we believe lary, but with a conscious effort, we think change the language that is commonly previously purchased several different that we all should change the way we we can change the way we speak to bet- used among our community. Unjust lan- brands of the oil, eventually finding one speak about slavery. The main words we ter suit everybody. It will truly take prac- guage directs attention away from the that did help me sleep, as well as several would like to change are “slave,” “slave tice, but that is only because those words that probably contained little or no CBD, suffering that happened at these forced owner” and “plantation.” are ignorantly embedded in our minds. thanks to the lack of regulation. While labor camps, and changing it acknowl- In the case of the word slave, we believe — O., Cameron and London I have no doubt CBD can be useful for edges the fact that people were kidnapped that by calling the enslaved people that, it Asheville certain types of epilepsy, sleep and pain, and brought here to unwillingly serve by dehumanizes them and labels them as a the dosages are likely much different all means of their enslavers. We feel that commodity, disrespecting those who suf- calling people slaves labels them more and higher than any amount found in a fered and putting them in a place where Language shift will tincture.