Will Knecht, chairman of the New Hanover County GOP, attempts to talk down an angry protester. “General bullshit is spewed out without any foundation,” the man, who declined to share his name, said. (Port City Daily photo/Alexandria Sands)
NEW HANOVER COUNTY –– Hundreds of charged protesters crowded the entry to the New Hanover County Board of Education meeting Tuesday evening. Most were aware the school administration was only permitting 50 people inside the building at a time due to Covid-19 precautions. Still, they arrived in large numbers an hour early in hopes of squeezing through the door before their rivals.
Around 5:30 p.m., protesters elbowed toward the front of the building as a sheriff’s deputy ordered the group to back up. By the time the meeting started, the room filled, although it was unclear who had been brought in. The members of opposing political groups –– including the New Hanover County GOP, the lowercase leaders and education activists –– wer
Throughout the crowd, there were some pockets of civil discourse occurring.
On Tuesday night, June 8th, two sizable crowds gathered outside of the New Hanover County School Board Building off of 13th Street. They mainly fell into two camps: One opposing what they call Critical Race Theory, and the other supporting diversity and equity measures, as well as the new policy on transgender middle school students’ ability to play sports. WHQR was there and talked to those at the rally.
A major skirmish in the culture wars exploded onto the scene before this week’s board meeting, after both sides spent weeks organizing.
SOUTHEASTERN N.C. — New Hanover County Schools continues tracking its lowest cases since Covid-19 began and school started back again. Only six cases were…