FORMER CHIEF JUSTICE CHERI BEASLEY
REPORT: FORMER CHIEF JUSTICE
BEASLEY TO RUN FOR 2022 SEAT
By Cash Michaels
Contributing writer
If a report this week in the conservative Carolina Journal is to be believed, former NC Chief Justice Cheri Beasley, a Democrat, is preparing to announce a 2022 run for the U.S. Senate from North Carolina, hoping to take the soon to be vacated seat of outgoing Republican Sen. Richard Burr.
According to the Carolina Journal, an online publication of the conservative Raleigh-based John Locke Foundation, Beasley, who is currently a partner at McGuirewood Law Firm in Raleigh, has hired a new campaign consultant in preparation for her upcoming announcement.
Currently there are two other candidates running in the Democratic primary, state Sen. Jeff Jackson (D - Mecklenburg), and former state Sen. Erica Smith.
This would be Smith’s second run for a U.S. Senate seat. She lost to Cal Cunningham in the Democratic primary to unseat Republican incumbent Se, Thom Tillis in 2020.
In the Republican U.S. Senate primary, former Sixth District Congressman Mark Walker has announced, while former NC Gov. Pat McCrory is expected to any day now.
Lara Trump, daughter-in-law , of former Pres. Donald Trump, is also rumored to throw her hat into the ring. She has been heavily rumored to run against incumbent Fla. Senator Marco Rubio in 2022. A native of Wilmington, Trump would have to move back to North Carolina to establish her residency requirements.
According to the Carolina Journal article, Beasley is seen as the most formidable Democratic candidate possible for 2022. She’s seen as a good campaigner, and has statewide electoral experience, having just lost one of the tightest elections in North Carolina history when she missed election her chief justice seat by just 400 votes in November 2020.
Being a Black female candidate, Beasley is also seen as being popular with the base of the Democratic Party, especially since Black women lead all groups in Democratic voter turnout.
Her candidacy will draw lots of attention statewide and from across the nation, especially since, if Beasley were to be elected, she would replace Vice President Kamala Harris as the only Black woman elected to the U.S. Senate.
According to the Carolina Journal story, the expected 2022 contest would be between Democrat Cheri Beasley, and Republican Pat McCrory.
At presstime, there was no confirmation of Beasley’s rumored candidacy.
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Mark Robinson
BLACK LT. GOV BLASTED
FOR SAYING SYSTEMIC RACISM
DOESN’T EXIST
By Cash Michaels
Contributing writer
Mark Robinson, North Carolina’s new lieutenant governor, and the first African-American ever to be elected to the post, says, “The system of government that we have in this nation is not systematically racist,” and to say or teach otherwise is “being divisive, promoting left-wing ideology, and indoctrinating our students within public schools.”
The Guilford County Black Republican was responding to new K-12 social studies standards that were being discussed during a meeting of the State Board of Education last week. New Schools Supt. Catherine Truitt had brought the proposed standards to the board for it’s approval. Even though Truitt made slight modifications to some of the terms used, the point of the new proposal was not to whitewash American and North Carolina history, but expose some of the bitter truths on slavery, racial discrimination, and even the 1898 Wilmington race massacre.
But Robinson, who is automatically a member of the SBOE, maintained during board discussion that the “standards would inaccurately teach that the United States is a racist nation.”
“In fact, it is not racist at all.”
Other Republican SBOE members stood with Robinson, saying that the new standards were “anti-American, anti-capitalism and anti-democracy.”
Several Democratic lawmakers have taken Lt. Gov Robinson to task for his remarks, but the Rev. Dr. T. Anthony Spearman, president of the NC NAACP, was the most explicit in blasting the Black Republican for his opposition to the proposed social studies standards.
“His acidic language generates nothing but putrid hatred as evidenced by his claim that the current standards “have been crafted by those on the radical left with an explicit agenda of being divisive, promoting left-wing ideology, and indoctrinating our students within public schools” while his radical right-wing ideology distorts the truth,” said Rev Spearman in a statement.
Then to say there is NO systemic racism in America demonstrates just how deeply insidious the problem of race actually is definitely prompting the question, Does Mr. Robinson understand himself or better yet how does Mr. Robinson understand himself and the forces that conspire against him?
Rev. Dr. Spearman continued, “My hope is that the Almighty would pour the sweet waters of serenity on Mr. Robinson’s head as I would love to see him succeed as the first African American elected to this office.”
The new SBOE K-12 Social studies standards are scheduled to be voted on this week.
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STATE NEWS BRIEFS FOR 02-04-21
NC TO CEASE PRODUCING CONFEDERATE LICENSE PLATES
[RALEIGH] Those seeking to get a NC license plate featuring a Confederate battle flag in the future are out of luck. The NC Division of Motor Vehicles will no longer issue the specialty plates. In fact, they ceased issuing them as of Jan. 1st. Reportedly there have been complaints from the drivers who have been offended by the racist symbol. The plates were issued to Sons of Confederate Veterans organization.
TWO ALLEGED NORTH CAROLINA CAPITOL RIOTERS NEVER VOTED IN NOVEMBER
[WASHINGTON, D.C.] Two North Carolina alleged U.S. Capitol rioters who face federal charges for the Jan. 6th insurrection to overturn Pres. Biden’s election reportedly did not vote in last November’s election, published reports say. Stephen Maury Baker of Garner and Christopher Raphael Spencer of Pilot Mountain are the only North Carolinians facing serious charges from the riot.
WHITE SUPREMACIST GROUP TAKES OVER CUMBERLAND COUNTY CHURCH
[LINDEN] A white supremacist pagan group has taken over a former church building in Cumberland County that closed in 2015. The name of the group is the Asatru Folk Assembly, which honor gods named by their Norse and Germanic ancestors, and believe in the preservation of ethnic European folk. The Southern Poverty Law Center says the group believes in white genocide conspiracy theories.
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