Adrienne Copland Your White Privilege Ends Here Councilman Andre Knight Said

Copland said of Knight’s response to Davis, “I can’t believe none of you interrupted and said, ‘Hey, point of order. Hey, we are businessmen. We are gentlemen — and we’re representing the city.’ No, no. You’re an embarrassment. I cannot believe that was allowed to go on — and it’s not the first time. (Rocky Mount Telegram)

Adrienne how in the hell do you think that the other councilmen have the right to interrupt a grown damn man who was responding to Troy Davis a Developer who came for him? Well since you say they are businessmen then when you and the others disrespect them, then you get what you get. Yes they represent the city however they are citizens of the city and have all rights to represent themselves just like they do for those who elected them. Well since you can’t believe it, get the hell over it.

“Copland said that time and time again, she has come to council meetings and she noted that there is a whole page of rules saying how citizens should conduct themselves, directing citizens not to address any council member in particular and telling citizens they could be removed from the council chambers.” (Rocky Mount Telegram)

Well damn you speak to rules of how the citizens should conduct themselves but you and your friends think you can say anything to the council and they not respond. There is not anything in the rules saying they can’t respond and I ain’t going to state it because the Mayor reads the rules before Public Comments and it does not say they can not respond. The council responds all the time but when they respond to y’all disrespect you don’t want to hear them trues.

Copland Troy Davis set the tone for the response during his comments and when he walked away from the podium he really set the tone. See why Andre Knight responded to Troy Davis by clicking on the following link Rocky Mount Councilman Responds To Troy Davis A Local Contractor.

Rocky Mount Councilman Responds To Troy Davis A Local Contractor

I find it quite interesting that Troy Davis began his public comments talking about fair housing and then named some areas in Rocky Mount that is unfair. He talks about there has been a conversation for around 13 years.

Troy goes on to make his case by linking monies to building a new judicial center when money could go towards fair housing instead of investing to lock up Black boys and girls in the city. Well damn just because a judicial center is built does not mean one has to go there. These Black boys and girls have options and that is to not commit crime but if they choose to do so the judicial center is where they end up.

Troy says the council is made up of mostly Black males and this is what they want to invest in a judicial center.

Troy says there need to be focus put on landlords and slumlords. I totally agree but that goes for all and he need to remember that he is a landlord as well. I have heard some rumors about some landlords but I ain’t going there.

When Troy leaves the podium he walks away cursing. But Adrienne Copland (White Female) obvious missed that. I will get back to her later.

Andre Knight said let me correct Troy Davis right here and right now. Andre set the record straight see it for yourself by clicking on the following link “Don’t Blame Me 2!”. Good to me! It has been past time that the council respond to folk coming down disrespecting them. Hell I would been set the record straight so they would know who I am every time they come down with their disrespect.

Now back to Adrienne, she has been the White voice for those who have stopped attending the meetings. She comes monthly with mess.

But Adrienne it ain’t nothing in the policy saying they can’t respond to the citizens and they does it about every meeting on some type of issue but see when they address you and the others disrespect y’all don’t want to hear them trues. It is about like the night I got your …. at Mount Zion First Baptist during a candidates forum.

When Andre told Adrienne her White Privilege ends here I like to have choked.

I challenge the Rocky Mount City Council to start  responding to the disrespect during every meeting. There are some folk that want you to address the mess.

Now if didn’t click on “Don’t Blame Me 2!” earlier now do so and see how Andre Knight preached. What he should have done was stood up and then he should have came down from the podium and ran around the room shouting telling somebody to hold his mule.

It is time out for foolishness and when the citizens act like they got some sense then the council need to act accordingly.

I don’t understand why anyone in their right mind do not understand that the council is in control over their meetings and will have the last say, hell no you don’t get to keep talking.

I hate I was not in the house but I was at the Edgecombe County Commissioner’s meeting where I addressed them.

Woman, councilman clash during retreat (Adrienne Copland & Councilman Andre Knight)

The DCN News Blog Online TV response: Wow! This is news story. Wow! This ignant mentioned me in her video so I made this article too. I got this ignant told at the Candidates Forum at Mount Zion on Friday night. I told her that I was voted in by the NAACP and Knight had only one vote. I told her Knight don’t need me to agree with anything he does because he can handle his own. I said what have I agreed with him about and she didn’t give me answer. I will wait til somebody tell me about her video of what happened on Friday night before I say more.

A back-and-forth about the subject of a City Council subcommittee during the Wednesday morning phase of the final day of a two-day council retreat also ended up involving a councilman and a spectator.

During extensive and wide-ranging remarks by Councilman Andre Knight, he sought to resume comments he made earlier about “these naysayers.” Knight turned to his right, which was in the direction of where author and blogger Stepheny Houghtlin and resident Adrienne Copland were sitting.

Knight told Copland, “I didn’t call your name.”

(Me: So why did Knight say “I didn’t call your name.” So Copland didn’t say anything for him to say, “I didn’t call your name?”)

To which Copland told Knight, “I’ll call yours.”

“Well, why are you looking at me?” Knight asked Copland.

“Because you’re speaking,” she told him.

Councilman Richard Joyner, who was sitting alongside Knight, said, “Hold it. Hold it. Hold it. Point of order. Point of order.”

Knight said, “But again, the naysayers that’s sitting in this room, that live in Nashville and on the reservoir, want to come and question what we are doing. I’ll tell ’em: Go back where you live and fix your own community — and let us do what we need to do.”

During a break in the retreat, the Telegram asked Copland about what more specifically had happened between her and Knight.

“He was speaking his normal nonsense and he looked straight at me — and so, I smiled at him,” she said.

Copland said of Knight, “I think he’s just a coward.”

Houghtlin declined comment, except to say of Copland’s response to Knight, “She did beautifully.” (Read Entire Article)