Bob Shiles
Staff writer
LUMBERTON — The new president of Robeson County’s chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People on Monday will call on the county commissioners to hire a black as an assistant county manager.
Robert Davis said that he will also ask the board that the person hired for the position be one who is acceptable to members of the county’s black community.
“The manager must be one who meets all of the requirements for the position,” Davis said.
Davis, who was installed Saturday as the NAACP’s president, told The Robesonian that when he addresses the board at Monday’s meeting, he will introduce himself to the commissioners, describe the mission of the NAACP, and urge a working partnership between the county and his civil rights organization.
“I’m not going to be discussing anything involving legal action,” Davis said. “I’m just going to be asking the commissioners to partner and work together with us.”
County Manager Ricky Harris will review applications for the manager’s position and recommend to the commissioners who should get the job.
The position to be filled is the one that has been held on an interim basis by Charles Britt, the county’s fire marshal and director of Emergency Services, since former Assistant County Manager Rod Jenkins — who is black — left in June 2011 to become deputy director of Human Services for the Cumberland County Health Department. Britt, who is white, has acknowledged that he has applied for the job.
The county in the past has had two assistant managers, but there has been only one since Harris became the county’s interim manager when former Manager Ken Windley left the position in November 2010. Harris was named permanent county manager in June.
Among requirements for the job is graduation from a four-year college or university with five to seven years of “increasingly responsible experience in administration and management in the public or private sector with knowledge of personnel practices or any equivalent combination of training and experience which provides the required skills, knowledge and abilities … .”
A master’s degree, which has been required in previous searches for assistant managers, is not required.
Absent from the agenda is any discussion about the commissioners pay and benefits. Harris late last year, acting at the commissioners’ request, did a study that show the commissioners pay and benefits are far above those of fellow commissioners in nearby counties.
At Monday’s meeting, the commissioners will also:
n Act on business brought before the board by Ronald Oxendine, the director of the Robeson County Housing Authority.
n Consider appointments to the county Parks and Recreation Committee.
n Hold public hearings on two rezoning requests that would allow for 15,000-square-foot lots with county water.
n Hold a public hearing on a conditional-use permit request by James W. Chavis, of Philadelphus, that would allow for the establishment of a mobile home park.
n Hold a public hearing on a request for a conditional-use permit that would allow for the establishment of a family cemetery in Philadelphus.
The meeting begins at 6 p.m. in the commissioners room of the county administration building on North Elm Street.
Donnie Douglas
Editor
The Robesonian
Stop lumping all whites together with the term klan. They don't support it. Again less than 1/10th of one percent belong to the klan.
Now what percent of lumbees are in the tribe club, and what percent of blacks belong to the naacp? Let's do some math people and discuss who belongs to race based groups.....
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Ross do you actually think that the Klan would tell you everything? Ahhhhhhhh, Ross has him some white friends! They even let him read their King James Bible. Such nice people. They don't call the Klan a secret society for nothing. At least the NAACP and Lumbee Tribe don't hide behind sheets.
I don't knock them. They better do something to protect their race. A whole lot of them white women are going colored (not just black) and ain't going back.
Do you realize how stupid this comment makes you appear?
Then you also stated this elsewhere: "I try to be neutral when it comes to white and black issues"
Yet you make an issue out of supposed white women going for black men. Maybe the black women better watch out, since their men are leaving their race for whites. Sounds ignorant, huh? Well, that's exactly how you sound.
You, sir, are the true racist and it's people like you who keep setting race relations back 2 steps for every step forward that is made.
I try to be neutral when it comes to white and black issues. White people need to get them a orginization NAAWP. Why not?
Speak out against the naacp, or your silence proves you agree.
Quote: "those who sit silent show they are in agreemwnt with Trent Lott and Strom Thurmond's racist views. I demand all to denounce Trent Lott or forever cement your views on race" Al Sharpton, 2002
You call us a "Joke"? Look at what your ancestor's have created. This country my friend is a joke on a much larger scale. And the whole world is laughing. It's only a matter of time when it will be called the United States of China. Your ancestors brought African's over here. Your people deserve to deal with them. The NAACP is only following the same tactics that "your people" taught them. They want their own kind in office so they can "look out" for them.
Your people still have their groups. There are many. Golf Country Clubs, Ku Kluxx Klan, Baptist Church's, Congress, etc. The list is numerous. Right here in Ol' Robeson County where white, black, Native American, and hispanics clash together. You still have to show your stupidy. You sir are now the minority, feels different don't it?
By the way, your race is on a rapid decline. Once you go colored, you don't go back.
Why not the "best qualified"?
This is why I say this group, and people who think this way, don't want equal rights for all races, they want to see their race on top, period. They will not be satisfied until whites are the minority and bow down and beg for their needs from them.
This should anger enough people to demand this club to be closed down. What is this teaching young children? Why not a 9 year old demanding a better grade in school because of his race? Is this how you are teaching the children?
Naacp you should be ashamed of yourselves for this demand.