Cleveland Community College Board of Trustees Finally See the Light!!! Stops “taking the knee” to the American Flag !! And Other Serious Political Stuff!! A must read report by Robert A. Williams

After being reminded by public comments made during a CCC BoT Meeting and at least three mentions in articles posted on this website for the past year the CCC BoTs have finally seen the light. Kinda like the mule who finally gets hit over the head with a two by four, they get the message that they are a governmental agency in the United States of America and Pledging Allegiance to the Flag is expected of them by the citizens.

So, finally, at their May 8, 2018 meeting BoT member and Commissioner Johnny Hutchins makes the Motion to add a Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag to the meeting agenda and every meeting thereafter. Despite all these years of NOT doing their civic and patriotic duty, the BoTs vote unanimously to add the Pledge to their agenda. However, there was no Flag in the room, so they (and we) recited the Pledge to a Flag someone said was flying outside the building. I never saw the Flag, so it was like just Pledging Allegiance to the West. I reckon they will have a Flag in the Room at their July 10, 2018 meeting. Stay tuned and I will let you know about that.

But, don’t get your hopes up too high that the CCC BoTs are straightening up their act. This decision to Pledge Allegiance came right at the May Primary elections that almost took out Commissioner Chairman Eddie Holbrook in the Democrat Primary race.

Other bad signs that it is business as usual, monkey business that is, for the CCC BoTs came out in that particular BoT meeting. The BoTs, under a Federal Lawsuit already filed and another one on the way, hired themselves a lawyer that told them, waiving a lawbook in the air, that North Carolina Law prevented them from releasing information regarding a second investigation of numerous complaints flying around CCC. Allegations of dumbing down classes, misappropriation and misuse of funds, discrimination in hiring and firing, etc. Sources indicate the lawyers advice was based on the fact that the complaints and allegations had legal merit and the lawyers didn’t want the investigation material released as it would implicate the BoTs in wrong doing.

After the meeting I went up to the lawyer and asked to see the lawbook he had just waived around. He showed it to me, I wrote down the info and went directly to the CCC Library to check out a copy. They did NOT have a copy. I asked them to obtain a copy as their lawyer had just waived the book around and the public needed access to that lawbook to read for themselves what it said. Lawyers and judges always hate it when members of the public want to read the law for themselves. But that is why the first laws in America regarding education of children were written in 1642. Two reasons, First, so citizens could read the Bible themselves and not depend on “State” churches telling them what the Bible said. Second, so the general public could read the law for themselves and not have to always depend on lawyers to read the law for them. So, here it is 376 years later and the “state” churches and the lawyers still don’t want people to inform themselves on what is moral and legal. It is certainly too bad that in the last 50 years of crazy Supreme Court rulings citizens have made it easy for the false religions and false legal rulings to go unchallenged because the people are too dumb or too lazy to read and inform themselves on the teachings of the Bible and what the laws actually say.

Another strange thing in the meeting happened during the Committee Report sections. The BoT’s have, over the years, adopted the poor practice of having BoT members become Chairpersons of Committees that submit reports during BoT meetings. This poor practice has devolved into just an easy way to cover-up what is going on. CCC Staff (who mostly-maybe all-report to the Executive Vice President Shannon Kennedy and not the BoT Committee Chairman) produces the reports and send them out to the BoT members a few days before the meeting. The majority of the BoTs apparently never read the reports, just approve them at the meetings. Very few questions are asked and it appears the BoTs know what they are doing when it is obvious they don’t. Then they vote to approve the report unanimously.

However, The Cirriculum and Student Development Committee, Chaired by Rev. LaMont Littlejohn, report, noted as Exhibit M on the original Agenda was not hyperlinked on the agenda like all the other reports. Then, after the fact, the Agenda is “doctored” to remove all traces of the written “Exhibit M” notation. Since minutes of meetings and the meeting agenda are public records as well as legal historical records doctoring such records are a sure sign of something amiss. And illegal. Same as not providing public records for inspection by the public when requested.

The cirriculum and student development at CCS and CCC, as related to workforce development in Cleveland County. have been determined to be in a “crisis” situation. Doctoring such official legal documents at CCC BoT meetings is a big time no-no that the CCC BoTs just don’t seem to understand. Just like they don’t understand that responding to Freedom Of Information Act and Public Records Requests is also required by law. But, perhaps they do understand. Doctoring records and illegally refusing to make public records public may just be smaller crimes than the crimes they might be covering up. Perhaps that is what is going on here. But, who needs crooks in governing bodies??? Little crimes or big crimes, citizens want NO crimes. If the CCC BoTs can’t do the little things right and in accordance with the law, they should all just resign on the spot.

But then the next item on the agenda was the Continuing Education and Workforce Development Report by Chairman Allen Langley. That report was totally not about workforce development but was about auditing hours and resolving audit findings. Not a peep about the workforce development “crisis” and any problem resolution there. One very troubling part of that report was regarding “Under aged students Enrolled in Courses art CCC and Reported for Budget FTE.” There were three students 15 years old enrolled. One in a welding class and two in firefighting classes. All hours were reported as being charged to the CCC FTE Budget.

I don’t know what the FTE Budget is, but I do know that 15 year old students enrolled at CCC (too young to drive to class) in such classes indicates the Cleveland County Schools are lacking, big time, in their workforce development programs and sending kids to CCC that are too young to be accepted in such classes. And CCC is getting illegally paid for such activity. No wonder the CCC lawyer (and BoTs) wants to keep the complaint investigations secret.

Now, the School Board, the Commissioners and the Governor are in the process of appointing CCC BoTs for new terms. The School Board appointed Chris Monroe to replace Chris Turner who did not seek re-appointment. CCS clearly stated they want their appointments to support CCS. That is Code for “Covering Up for CCS.” No change there. No word about the new Governor’s appointment except it is certain that the Democrat Governor will not re-appoint Republican Wayne King. The Commissioner’s appointment is another thing. At the June 5, 2018 Commissioner’s meeting there was a big split vote on this CCC appointment that caused a delay. Then at the June 19, 2018 commissioner’s meeting the Commissioner’s re-appointed CCC BoT Chairman Wes Westmoreland without discussion although several other people had lobbied for that appointment on the troubled and gridlocked CCC BoT.

So, either the Commissioners gave Wes Westmoreland some new marching orders on what they are expecting Westmoreland to do on the CCC BoT or decided to keep the same ole same ole. I expect it to be the latter. Meaning no changes for the CCC Board leanings. Meaning no needed further changes to the imbedded CCC staff who have caused most of the problems and scandals to start with.

The meaning of all this is ominous. The totally qualified new CCC President, Dr. Jason Hurst, announced at the CCC BoT meeting that he has not as yet moved his family to Cleveland County. This guy can get a job anywhere he wants and if and when he decides to. When he determines he has been lied to about how good CCC is or decides he doesn’t need or want the hassle of dealing with the “protected” internal problems at CCC on top of an impotent and gridlocked Board of Trustees, all he has to do is resign and go somewhere else where the BoTs are honest and forthcoming with their information to him. In a blink Dr. Hurst could tell Cleveland County to go stick it and leave the BoTs with their Executive Vice President who is alleged to be devious and vindictive. And, allegedly, just waiting to stab somebody in the back to get the President’s position for herself. Just what CCC needs is a never ending scandal that truly never ends.

Other juicy tidbits of CCC related political gossip are as follows.

1. CCC BoT member Sheriff Alan Norman, presently a Democrat, has been reported to be considering a switch to Republican after the 2018 election. Then, two years into the new term, retire and resign to make way for Captain Joel Shores to be appointed as Sheriff of Cleveland County. This makes sense as Norman would have his full time in for maximum retirement benefits and best keep Democrat wannabe Sheriff Phillip “Bully” Glover from the office he is known to covet. Perhaps Sheriff Norman will be asked about this in his run against Clyde Ledbetter in this year’s election for Sheriff. Mr. Ledbetter has obtained and submitted over 2,500 confirmed registered voter signatures on a petition to the Board of Elections to place his name on the 2018 ballot for the Office of Cleveland County Sheriff. Mr. Ledbetter is also the author of a book entitled “The Search For Truth” subtitled “What one believes should be based on truth, truth should not be based on what one believes.” I ordered a copy for myself on Amazon. Cleveland County voters learning about “truth” seems to me to be a very good thing.

2. Sources have reported that CCC Senior Dean of Development and Governmental Relations at CCC and Commissioner, Eddie Holbrook, (“Massa Eddie” as I nick-named him in this year’s Democrat Primary Election because of his “Plantation Politics” scheme he pulled off with a cadre of Uncle Tom black ministers to “steal” the Democrat Primary election) had a backup plan to file a lawsuit against certain “black” churches if he had lost the Democrat Primary. Which he did lose considering he is a 12 year incumbent commissioner and got beat by almost a thousand votes by one young black candidate and only defeated a second young black candidate by 268 votes to make it through the Democrat Primary. Holbrook’s campaign financial records show that he is backed by many who have or would benefit financially if Holbrook is re-elected. Also, Holbrook, either directly or indirectly, engaged the services of a sexual identity troubled surrogate to run ad hominem attacks on me through false Facebook posts. Third party sources identified Holbrook’s surrogate as a participant in an “Adam4Adam” website and that was the end of the false ad hominem attacks on me. Now, Massa Eddie Holbrook will have to learn the hard way that he is the candidate running for office, not me. Massa Eddie will have to answer for his own record in office, not me. But what I certainly intend to do with Massa Eddie is to publish his record, in office and elsewhere, for all to see and make their own judgment on whether Massa Eddie should be re-elected for office or tarred, feathered and rode out of town on a rail.

3. Brand new information indicates I may have made a mistake in nicknaming Commissioner Eddie Holbrook “Massa Eddie.” This new information, a letter to Commissioners through another governmental agency they fund, calls Holbrook, the Commissioners and others a bunch of “Willie Lynch’s.” Willie Lynch being famous (infamous) for being a great “slave maker” (taking new slaves from Africa and “breaking” them in to be Plantation slaves) in Virginia several hundred years ago. According to the dictionary:
The Willie Lynch Syndrome takes its name from a speech allegedly given by a slaveholder named Willie Lynch in 1712 in the then-colony of Virginia.

The Willie Lynch Syndrome is often cited as a reason why black people struggle to unite and overcome centuries of institutionalized racism. The Willie Lynch speech has been referenced by thinkers and artists like Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam, hip hop artist Kendrick Lamar, and quoted extensively by Denzel Washington in the 2007 movie The Great Debaters.

Since both terms “Massa Eddie” and “Willie Lynch” both refer to Plantation Politics, Perhaps I should re-nickname Eddie Holbrook as Eddie “Massa Willie” Holbrook to be more historically and politically accurate. Especially since Massa Willie Holbrook has “one-upped” the original Willie Lynch by controlling white citizens as well as black citizens by the very same tactics as the original Massa Willie.

Stay tuned as I will publish this new information regarding “Massa Willie” and the Willie Lynchers in the Cleveland County agencies that Commissioner Holbrook defends in a forthcoming article.