(In full disclosure I am on the board of the Carroll County
NAACP)
Carroll County commissioner withdraws diversity commission
initiative after NAACP chapter president expresses opposition
Akira Kyles
Carroll County Times |Jun 29, 2020
In the Board of County Commissioners meeting on Thursday,
Commissioner Eric Bouchat withdrew his initiative to establish a diversity
commission after the president of Carroll County’s NAACP chapter expressed her
opposition toward it.
[…]
Bouchat previously said he’d like for the commission to
look into memorials to lynching victims and Black Americans who served in the
Civil War, but Lewis said the NAACP chapter has already been engaged in
projects to do both.
She said the chapter has been involved with rededications at
Ellsworth Cemetery in Westminster, where Black veterans are
buried. And she said the chapter is involved with the Carroll County Coalition of the Maryland Lynching Memorial
Project, which began meeting in February to discuss ways to bring awareness
and improved understanding of lynching history.
According to Wantz, after Lewis spoke with him, the board
took a step back.
Wantz
said, “We’re pulling back the reins to allow for the groups that have been
putting the sweat and tears into doing all this research and let them do their
job.”
Lewis said she was speaking as an individual, but discussed
it with the rest of the NAACP board members.
“We met
[Thursday] night, and there was total agreement that we do not do this
diversity thing that Commissioner Bouchat introduced,” Lewis said.
“What was going to be the end result? Was this going to be a
group that was founded and it would be dropped after an election cycle? Your
support would not be there after that? I don’t think it was necessarily heartfelt,” Lewis said.
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