Right. I'm the type of person who speaks my mind. I'm not afraid to
speak my mind. I don't care who it is. I'm not afraid of anybody but
Jesus Christ. Just like West Charlotte. As well as I love that school,
they have been trying for years to close West Charlotte. They have, but
when we know anything about it it's almost closed. Then we've got to
fight like hell to try to keep our school. That is not right. They might
as well not think about doing it because we're going to do all we can to
keep it open, and we've got some powerful black folks around here. You
all might not think it, but we have. We'll do what we have to do to keep
that school open. But, like I said, West Charlotte had problems last
year with kids cutting class. Children have been doing it all their
life, but I think it was more last year. We had this incident where
we've got a lot of foreigners coming over here now. Nothing is wrong
with that. Everybody wants the better things in life, but instead of
those kids staying up there in school they were coming down here on the
parking lot almost every day. That was the beginning of this year when
Page 17they started all that coming down here. They
used to come last year, but not like it was this year. They used to come
across up there, but when Mr. Simmons had the fence put around everybody
griped about that. But you know what? That's the best thing that he
could have done, because that was keeping the traffic from down here
from going through the school yard. It was keeping those kids up there
better, but they got smart. They started coming down the hill and coming
over here every day. I can put up with a lot of things, but one day they
had had some type of trouble up there. I didn't know about it until
later on that afternoon. Then the next day they started gathering here
in this parking lot. I said, no, no, no, no, no. We're not going to have
this. So I called the school and I told them, "These kids are down
here." It was like gangs of them. I called the school and they took care
of it. They sent people down here to clear that parking lot, and it
didn't take them long to do it. I was very grateful for that. After that
the foreigners started coming in droves. They would be over here behind
the dumpster, down here behind trucks. They even got so bold they were
out here sitting right on this man's driveway next door. So I even
called him and asked, "Do you know these kids are sitting out here on
your property?" Some of our people are afraid to say anything, but I'm
not because I'll die and go to hell for my property and my children. I
will. I just called right up there to Mr. Cline, and I told him what was
going on. Bless his heart, he told me any time that anything happened to
let him know, and he would be glad to help me because he was going to
help me clean up this neighborhood. And by God he did. The next thing I
knew the kids used to park over here in this parking lot, they're not
allowed to park over there any more. I didn't request that because the
kids had to have somewhere to park, but I didn't want the loitering
around. I didn't want that. He cleaned it up because they don't
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had enough parking spaces up there, so that's good.