Earline Parmon, state senator for Forsyth County (click on images for high-res version)
North Carolina’s urban counties have been having Moral Monday events, but I’m wondering if Stokes County isn’t one of the few small, rural counties to do it. The turnout was not exactly tremendous — less than a hundred. But the speeches were fiery.
While listening to several dynamic and experienced African-American speakers at today’s event, I had a breakthrough realization about why it has been so difficult to organize rural white Southerners against fracking. African-Americans learned how to organize and fight decades ago. Rural white people are just getting started.
Linda Hall Hicks, a retired schoolteacher and member of the No Fracking in Stokes steering committee
Ann Meadows, also a retired schoolteacher and member of the No Fracking in Stokes steering committee