The best service the NAACP could do would be to teach local minority officials, or prospective officials, how to identify, recruit, prepare, and mentor young people, in this case, minority young people, to prepare them to be nominated and eventually, elected, to public office.

This is not a new concept. Political parties for generations have scoped out their future candidates and made sure they were electable. This is how its done. Not by gerrymandering, pandering, whining and complaining about "the system."

The system works just fine. The problem is that the minority community wants the gold medal without the work.

There are legions of citizens yearning for a qualified, competant, honest minority candidate for whom they could vote and feel good about their vote.

The problem isn't the "white community," not "allowing" another minority, or any number of minorities (although you are not the minority) to seek and hold public office.

The problem is that the local self absorbed black leadership still thinks it has ownership over the black community and that they will vote as instructed.

The minority communities, black, hispanic and others, need to spend their time identifying and grooming electable candidates.

That's how we change the "complexion" of council.

Sallie

Does Rivers run this county?  Who keeps letting this guy speak?  If the NAACP would put more effort into creating quality candidates they would see more of their constituents in office. Instead they live in the past and keep trying to promote color over character and qualification.

To create a district that would favor any race is nothing more than political gerrymandering. Unconstitutional.To place any candidate in a seat JUST because of his/her race is nothing more than racism at its best. A disgrace for any race. The white vote alone did not elect those white individuals presently holding their seats on the BOC. They apparently had and represented qualities that appealed to the voters.
Here's a novel idea. Why not have another black candidate run that is respected, ethical, sensible, levelheaded, has decent moral character, and is capable of being unbiased? Mr. Perry has demonstrated these qualities and fits this profile. Surely there is more than one black individual living in Pasquotank County that fits this criteria and is electable.
I, for one, do not vote along party lines nor by race. I look for the above listed redeeming qualities and vote accordingly. And yes, I voted for Mr. Perry!