Jackson is an alumnus of North Carolina A&T, the school whose students sparked the sit-in "movement" at the Woolworth's cafeteria where the museum is located today. Alston, past president of the North Carolina NAACP, is chairman of the non-profit Sit-In Movement, Inc., which was established to develop and run the museum.
It's also not a surprise that the museum has received annual donations in the $250,000 range from the City of Greensboro.
However, what surprises city councilmembers, according to the Rhino Times, is that the museum is actually renting the old Woolworth's building from the for-profit Museum Landlord LLC. And the sole member of this LLC is -- Skip Alston!
Perhaps the city council shouldn't have been surprised. Just last month, it was revealed that Alston convinced the Guilford County Commission (of which he is a member) to put the put the Ole Asheboro hotel project (of which he is a broker) first in line for federal stimulus money!
It seems Alston has learned to play the shakedown game well.
If that's not conflict of interest, I don't know what would meet the criteria.
ReplyDeleteKeep up the fight. Only exposing these race-baiting narcissists for what they truly are, and at every turn, will bring their reprehensible abuse of history and public perception into the theater of reality.
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