Thank you Anderson-Thorpe Breakfast Club for supporting my campaign and recognizing my efforts to address the concerns of ALL of our community.

Chapel Hill faces some tough choices in the next four years.

Do we forge ahead with an agenda that puts our community front-and-center in the decision making process or continue to defer to those with political pull? Do we find the resources to redress a debt long owed our neighbors on Rogers Road? Do we follow through on our written commitments to the Pine Knolls/Northside neighborhoods? Do we live within our means, work to retain folks of modest means that have long contributed to our community’s well-being? Do we work to increase economic and social diversity within our Town?

The last eight years I’ve worked hard to bring forth the best ideas from our diverse community. I’m confident that our citizens have the talent and the drive to help Council move forward on these critical issues. Without leadership and persistence, though, we will continue to fail to meet the needs of our greater community. I look forward to meeting that challenge.

More on the Anderson-Thorpe Breakfast Club:

The Anderson-Thorpe Breakfast Club was founded by Hank Anderson, the first Black Recreation Department Director in the South in the 1970’s to help analyze and remedy the issues faced by African-Americans in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro communities. After Hank’s death, Bill Thorpe, who served on the Chapel Hill Town Council for 11 years until his death in 2008, led the Club. The Breakfast Club spearheaded the efforts to name Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd, and to improve the pay and working conditions of African-American and Latino employees at the University, hospital, schools and municipalities. The Breakfast Club’s political agenda is a progressive and inclusive agenda that supports the State NAACP’s 14-Point Agenda, with particular emphasis on justice for young people in our schools, fairness in employment and housing, and dismantling institutionalized racism.