Should Pat McCrory Apologize? »
There are times - which occur all too frequently - that it seems like perhaps everyone ought to just take a really deep breath and relax a bit. The latest example of this is our illustrious leader Pat McCrory, who has been catching a huge amount of flak for the comments he made last week about the Fourth of July festivities uptown.
On July 5th, McCrory wrote in a letter to the city manager that they should be congratulated for their efforts in containing things (you may recall that prior years have not gone so smoothly). This, despite the fact that 169 people were arrested uptown. At least there wasn't a riot, right? Anyway, McCrory also made the unfortunate choice of saying that (quote) "too many of our youth, primarily African American, are imitating and/or participating in a gangster type of dress, attitude, behavior and action." Some people, including the NAACP, quickly demanded an apology. To throw fuel on the fire, McCrory insisted that he wouldn't.
