Cat.

I have started having my Amazon shit delivered to work with the permission of the mailroom. A FedEx package that gets stuck in Williston for a week makes it on time every time to a business address in my experience.

When you serve on a select board and make a move like this, and give no clear basis, yes, that does imply things. You serve and represent the town residents and owe them clarity, transparency, and inclusion.

If it is proven that this was an act of discrimination, I hope that’s illegal.

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Can confirm. Have hung out with hillbillies in WV. Lots in common, poverty is pretty universal.

I agree with what you say, however the goal is to raise everyone out of poverty.. it’s just BIPOC folk have a substantially further to be pulled

You guys don’t moonshine?

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More of a statement/question than question but that's fine.

Do I agree with you? Probably not. Seems that your statement/question makes some assumptions and your stating what the Highgate Select Boards are implying...ao you're drawing your own conclusion rather than seeking truth.

And you state that you "hope it's illegal" that they decided not to align themselves with a special interest group. I certainly don't agree with that.

Really? I had no idea. That is great information, I appreciate it

Ooo I got r/Alaska suggested to me. I’m assuming because I’m in here and Washington

Bigfoot

Catamount

I want to believe you and give Highgate/Wakefield the benefit of the doubt that their objection to the Inclusion Declaration was that the statement doesn’t go far enough but there’s this part to the article, which shows Highgate select board in a bad light:

According to Vice Chair Vern Brosky: “I invite all of you to go on their website and research for yourself. And don't just go on the front page, go through the whole website. It's eye-opening. They say don't judge a book by its cover — in this case, you definitely don't want to do that. Read the whole thing.” And, Bousquet declined to say what specific issues board members had with the website.

Has anyone found anything alarming on that website?

Now that they are seen as making racist decisions on behalf of the town, my hunch is a few more people will be making adjustments to their leisure time to attend their next meeting and call them on the carpet.

They imply that their is some hidden scandal on the Inclusion Declaration website if you just search into every nook and cranny.

Can’t say much about the food but I went to school with the owner’s son and was pretty good friends with him. Very friendly and kind family!

Honestly WV and VT have a lot in common. I would definitely have a lot in common with hillbillies in WV

If we were being honest about its history then we would be calling out Christianity and Islam, not the demographic at the end of the slave trade. Probably Capitalism too as we still have quasi legal slavery in the form of prison labor. Hell the bottom earners of all colors are in a form of economic slavery as we have the choice to work or die since you cant even live off the land anymore.

Raising Everyone out of poverty, not just BIPOC is the right answer.

Drug testing has been waived for 3 years now.

Drug testing has been waived for 3 years now.

Exactly. That’s my point. Ernie Royal is someone to be proud of.

Getting a PO Box (if they are available) would help the office workers.

Asking to hold your mail for you to pick up would help, if you’re really serious about helping.

I order a lot from Amazon and have a PO Box. Sometimes I have to make a few trips to the car but that’s okay. It saves Fed-Ex, UPS, and the PO from having another stop and I work in town so it’s easy for me, too.

Welp - time to stop testing for marijuana.

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Being woke isn’t about beating people with the actions of there ancestors, it’s about make people aware of what happened, what continues to happen and that correcting a this together will take non passive actions.

Even today many BIPOC individuals suffer because of the loss of multigenerational enforced poverty

My comment above was a question, not a statement and intended as a challenge to the Highgate select board.

The article made a reference to the Highgate select board suggesting people check the website from the group promoting the inclusion declaration, as if you would find some terrible, awful, no good, very bad info there (some kind of scandal) that would explain why it is so very important for the Highgate town council to pull a 180 even when 50% of Vermont towns support this.

According to Vice Chair Vern Brosky: “I invite all of you to go on their website and research for yourself. And don't just go on the front page, go through the whole website. It's eye-opening. They say don't judge a book by its cover — in this case, you definitely don't want to do that. Read the whole thing.” And, Bousquet declined to say what specific issues board members had with the website.

So… I went to the website of the group promoting the inclusion declaration. Did I find anything terrible, awful, no good, very bad? Anything scandalous? No. I found a story of an honorable black man on which this movement is based, a black man who is highly respected. And also found the mission statement: “to make Vermont a welcoming and safe place for all.” This I support fully and enjoyed learning about Ernie Royal as well.

So I asked here above, is that who the Highgate select board doesn’t want to associate with? Because that is what the Highgate select board implied and I find that discriminatory and sickening. And (I hope) illegal.

How about you? Do you agree with me?