NUKE NEGRO

Sorry for the delay I keep saying that (I don't mean it)

Anyway, this is a special episode of NNF and will hopefully signal a new change in the format.

About two days ago I attended an open forum put on by Central Baptist Church. They were discusing the placing of a nuclear disposal plant on President's Island (for those that don't know the island located past MLK Park in Southwest Memphis) by a company known as RACE. I came in the middle of the presentation so I missed the introductons. Now if you have ever been to a public forum populated by angry African-Americans then you know whoever they're mad at will not get a word in edgewise. I'm not going to go over the issue at hand because the whole event ended up being a confusing mess; the president of RACE along with their chief council were there to discuss what the plant does but they were constantly getting cut off by irate Negroes (especially a black woman in the front who looked like the old lady on 227). A slight aside when aking questions do not mention your life story or talk about your education in situations in which they ain't relevant. Also, keep your conspiracy theories to at least 2. going on. There were many problems with the forum. First RACE needed to have had one main speaker; one versed in both the lawsuit and the nature of the business. RACE came off looking a little amateurish. Secondly the people running the forum needed to keep a tighter reign on the event. One person would ask a question bacame five and at one point there was an argument over wheteher one guy (a worker at the plant) was from South memphis. And then there was the opposition. The lawyer for the group against the plant kept reiterating about his recieving a law degree from Stanford and the various cases he handled. Also the arguments he made in regard to case smelled funny. Lastly there was the combination of Barbera Cooper and the Rev Ralph White (both came equipped with entorages). Cooper the first to speak after the presentation talked about how she always fought for the community, about education and after that confused me so I stopped listening. White came up and for the most part talked about the persecution he faced for opposing the plant and felt so unnerved that he brought his own poss in the form of the Men Of Bloomfield. He kept running in and out the whole night. I want you to know that it is now election season in Memphis (specificaly the District9 seat of Haqrold Jr. and the State Senate seat of John Ford)

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