Pack your bags Zeno. It's a long walk home. Anyway, this group of civic minded folks were upset at the odds an African American person would have if they ran for County Commissioner. The democrats had made it pretty standard policy for years only white democrats need apply for such a lofty role in local government. You initiate a civil rights lawsuit.
Racism is a crappy substitute for earlier racism.
And David Moore, who incidentally has walked the path of righteousness while wagging the tongue of a racist, has got his seat on the board. This system guarantees voting racial blocks a certain number of seats based solely on denying the citizenry their full voting privileges. State politicians and U.S. Congressmen have hung their jaws open in disbelief when they heard what had been forced on us by the Justice Department. One of the sellouts that was on that cowardly Board of Commissioners eleven years ago is still on that board today. Congressman Walter Jones, Republican, has the rest of northern Beaufort County in his Third Congressional District.