For the last week+ the City of Charlotte, NC has been “Ground Zero” in both State and National news coverage. The thing we’re trying to figure out is which Charlotte, NC is the real Charlotte, NC? And which is the real State of North Carolina? This all started last week when the NCAA and the ACC chose to, through the mechanism of economic terrorism extortion, inject themselves in to the ongoing political and legal battle in the State surrounding the Charlotte City Council choosing to pass an illegal local ordinance. Then on Tuesday, the whole world started watching Charlotte, NC after the response to a Police Officer shooting a Black Man that as of today has resulted in 3 nights of disruption in the City.
All of this is happening less than 8 weeks before the coming “Landmark” election, where the State of North Carolina is the focal point and possible determining State in the Presidential Election. As well as the election, which will determine whether or not the State will continue to move forward as a beacon of the positive direction that Conservative governance can move a State. No one can legitimately question that the “changing of the guard” in Raleigh in 2010 and 2012 has resulted in North Carolina going from a Progressive State racing in to economic destruction, to a Conservative State, which is now leading the way in proving that simple common-sense limited-government actions, at the State level, can turn around what was less than a decade ago an economic basket case State.
The question has to be asked, “Are these events interconnected or just random acts of coincidence?” As a person who doesn’t believe in coincidence, I have to believe that there is at least some level of interconnection. And the amount of “outside of the State” influence and interference has been greatly missed, or underestimated, in the mix of what’s happening in Charlotte. First, the whole Charlotte ordinance was a power play by a national activist LBGTQ bullying organization, the Human Rights Campaign, who through influencing a local municipal election initiated the first conflict. I have to believe that they never expected the State Legislature to actually react the way they did. But once the State Legislature reacted in the way they were required to under the State Constitution, the HRC has gone “Full Bully” against the State for daring to stand against their agenda. Using “economic terrorism” against the whole State and hoping to influence our State elections to promote their agenda. The jury is still out on the results of their actions and we will probably not know the results until November.
Then the situation that happened Tuesday was local initially, but went national in a matter of hours. There is no question that there has been a national quick response “domestic terrorism machine” built and it is ready to deploy on short notice anytime one of these “racial” incidents happens. This “machine” is called Black Lives Matter and is an operational arm of the national Anti-American progressive movement. By Wednesday, radical paid “activists” were sent in to Charlotte to infiltrate the situation and escalated the whole situation. So Wednesday night the assault by the domestic terrorists on the Charlotte business district was displayed on national media. And it was an ugly night. The response by the Police Chief of Charlotte, working with the Governor, seems to have stymied the work of the domestic terrorists on Thursday as it was a much more controlled situation. We’ll just have to see what happens tonight. Concerning the outside influence of the quick-response domestic terrorists, a spokesperson for the Fraternal Order of Police said the majority of those arrested Wednesday night had Out-of-State IDs.
So, what’s happening in and to Charlotte? I believe it is a micro view of the macro situation that is happening to the urban environments all across the Country. As the “Big Blue City” in an increasingly Red State, Charlotte is caught in an “identity crisis”. As someone with a long history of watching and doing business in Charlotte, I have watched it morph from a medium-large American city, wanting really badly to be a big city, in to a big city that has just gotten too big for its britches in the State of North Carolina. And many of the people who built the city in to what it is can’t even recognize what it has become. The city government is totally out of phase with the majority of the rest of the State. We’ve watched as the consolidated city/county school system has failed the majority of the residents because of an ongoing “race war”, and “culture war” between the city and the suburbs, creating a growing unemployable dependent “under class” in the city. (SHHH, that’s an unspoken local secret.)
As the push by the Charlotte “Proper” crowd is to continue building their “Cosmopolitan Utopia” with big shiny buildings, walk-able communities and “trains and things”, the real wealth producers are running from the city out to the counties surrounding Mecklenburg because they are tired of paying for everything and seeing less real return on their investment. And they are watching as what used to be a great place to raise a family and to build a business devolves in to a progressive cesspool of social decay. I guess we’ll just have to watch what happens going forward, but sadly, I see an awful lot of 1965 Detroit in 2016 Charlotte, without the solid manufacturing base. I can only hope the good of things happening in the State of North Carolina will outweigh what’s happening in and to Charlotte.
God Bless America! And America, Bless God Again!
