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February 17, 2014 (Regular Meeting)
<br />(D) INFORMAL PUBLIC COMMENTS
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<br />Chairman Poole opened the meeting for Informal Public Comments at 6:51
<br />p.m. She stated each speaker would be limited to three minutes.
<br />Price Crutchfield, resident of 592 Love Street in Concord, encouraged
<br />everyone to support CVAN. He also stated local merchants are filing false
<br />claims and reports against him.
<br />Robert Simmons, resident of Concord, made the following statement:
<br />I came here to ask for the resignation of Trish Baker as a civil
<br />rights officer. Before I get into that, I want to mention
<br />something to you, it's kind of interesting here. Eighteen months
<br />ago, I came to you guys and I mentioned to you that in trying to
<br />get on a program, I had to go through a clinic called the McGill
<br />Clinic. At that clinic, I noticed that the people who worked
<br />there, there were Hispanic young, Hispanic women, who were
<br />deliberately discriminating against American citizens in favor of
<br />the Spanish- speaking women from other countries who were maybe
<br />here illegally. And then they were not only discriminating
<br />against them by letting them pass in front of them but they were
<br />sending the American citizens home, not giving them treatment,
<br />saying we can't treat you today and letting those other people
<br />get treatment. And I thought that someone on this Board would,
<br />at that time, whoever was on the Board at that time, would have
<br />at least picked up the telephone and made a phone call and asked.
<br />Hey, is this going on? Can you tell me about it? But, I found
<br />out months later that nobody did. Not one single person on this
<br />Board thought enough about me saying that we are being
<br />discriminated against in regards to medical treatment, to even
<br />pick up the telephone and call. And, to show you how bad that
<br />is, if you go to California or other places where there's a huge
<br />Hispanic population, mostly illegal immigrants, you cannot go
<br />into a free clinic, tax funded clinic, and get medical treatment,
<br />unless you're Hispanic. They won't treat you. They will tell
<br />you the doctor is not in, come back next month. They won't treat
<br />you. And it all starts with people who are in a position of
<br />power, to solve a problem early, ignoring it. Now, I'm talking
<br />about hundreds of clinics, not just one clinic in California.
<br />Also, in New Mexico, Arizona, anywhere, where there is a large
<br />illegal alien population. They are denying American citizens
<br />treatment in those clinics. Once they get enough power in there,
<br />all the women working in there who process people in, they are
<br />all the daughters of Hispanic women. And they are not letting us
<br />have medical treatment. You should really take that seriously
<br />and look into it. Now, Mrs. Baker is a civil rights officer. I
<br />believe, I'm fairly certain she's violated her oath of office.
<br />Eighteen months ago, when I filed my complaint with you guys and
<br />with them, telling you what the discrimination I had to go
<br />through just to be allowed to get on the program, she was
<br />supposed to, or Mr. Rose was supposed to file a civil rights
<br />violation with the Department of Social Services. Carlotta Dixon
<br />is the person who handles that. And now, filing a civil rights
<br />violation is actually a waste of time most of the time because
<br />they don't really do anything unless it suits their own purpose.
<br />I know because I tried to file a complaint last year when some
<br />people denied me medical treatment because I filed a complaint.
<br />Once they found out that the people I was complaining on were all
<br />women, they hung up the phone on me and never sent me a form. As
<br />I'm leaving, I want to say this. You need to find out why she
<br />didn't file that civil rights violation. You need to find out
<br />why when she's on the board of directors for the Cabarrus... I'm
<br />sorry, I have a brain tumor and sometimes I have trouble
<br />thinking. But, she's on the Community Care Program of Southern
<br />Piedmont and she should have got involved in trying to solve that
<br />problem once the civil rights people refused to help me. She did
<br />not. Why? She's a civil rights officer. Doesn't she have the
<br />right to investigate these problems? You should at least get a
<br />statement from her explaining why she didn't send that first
<br />civil rights violation in to Mrs. Dixon and why she did not work
<br />with finding out why I was being denied medical treatment. I
<br />also offered Mr. Koch the, an audio tape of what has happened and
<br />transpired between me and the Department of Social Services and
<br />the Community Free Clinic and the other program. But, he has not
<br />responded that. The reason why I don't type up all these things
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