{"id":9190,"date":"2014-07-02T11:57:09","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T15:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/?p=9190"},"modified":"2014-07-02T11:57:09","modified_gmt":"2014-07-02T15:57:09","slug":"the-ed-newsome-final-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2014\/07\/02\/the-ed-newsome-final-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ed Newsome Final Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s over. Danville School Superintendent Ed Newsome is no longer with the Danville Public School system. Let&#8217;s analyze what happened.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>No one will know exactly what happened unless the code of silence is broken. I don&#8217;t expect that to happen because that invites lawsuits. this analysis article will be based on facts, investigation results, my opinions and common sense. It&#8217;s my analysis based on the work that I&#8217;ve put in on this story.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s get it started with the Big Board&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He didn&#8217;t &#8220;resign for personal and family reasons&#8221;. He resigned under pressure of the school board.<\/li>\n<li>Ed Newsome wasn&#8217;t fired because he was black. The Danville School Board didn&#8217;t fire him because him because they had a majority of white people on it. Get it? This wasn&#8217;t a racial issue.<\/li>\n<li>Newsome&#8217;s supporters were George Wilson, Renee Hughes and Philip Campbell. Yes, they&#8217;re all black. Newsome&#8217;s detractors were Ed Polhamus, Rebecca Bolton, Terri Hall and Cheryl Bryant. Yes, they&#8217;re all white.<\/li>\n<li>If we had a clear black\/white split on the vote, how can it not be racial? Easy answer. The school board fired superintendent Ed Newsome. The school board did not fire Ed Newsome, the black man.<\/li>\n<li>Superintendent Ed Newsome had grounds to be fired. Morale was a problem in the schools due to some of Newsome&#8217;s policy implementations. Newsome clashed with the school board (his bosses) over the budget process and tried his best to muscle them into his way of doing things. The newer members of the board finally stood up against a superintendent, unlike how previous boards rubber stamped anything Sue Davis wanted.<\/li>\n<li>Yeah. those newer members of the board were white women. That doesn&#8217;t make them racist because they stood up against Newsome, as some of the people who are trying to fixate on racism think. I certainly hope and believe that they stood up against Newsome&#8217;s initiatives because they knew that they were bad ideas.<\/li>\n<li>Let&#8217;s get back to the people that fixate on racism. I stopped one of them in their tracks yesterday after they said &#8220;The school board is racist. All of the black members were sitting on the left.&#8221; My head exploded as I pointed out that Philip Campbell sits on the right side.\u00a0 Also, the rest of the positions were chosen by a random draw. I said &#8220;Unless you&#8217;re saying that a lottery draw is racist, you&#8217;ve got nothing.&#8221; I got silence after that. I hate stupid race-baiting comments.<\/li>\n<li>There was no government conspiracy in play when the fire marshals came in the enforce occupancy limits. Shelby Irving &amp; Richie Guill were\u00a0 there to protect people&#8217;s safety and they were doing their job. I found it quite hilarious when one person decided to give Richie Guill a hard time, saying he was going to stay in the room. He folded quickly when Guill informed him that he would be subject to arrest is he didn&#8217;t follow the order to leave. That guy was the same one who tried to give me a hard time at the previous meeting because I was getting photos. He folded against me, too.<\/li>\n<li>I think it&#8217;s safe to assume that the supporters of Dr. Newsome didn&#8217;t really care about the school system&#8217;s business because they all rudely walked out once Newsome&#8217;s resignation was announced. It&#8217;s quite funny when you realize that 98% of them had never been to a school board meeting before, and I bet that they won&#8217;t be back to another one in the near future.<\/li>\n<li>Where&#8217;s the &#8220;outrage from the black community&#8221; that was said to be coming? Here&#8217;s my prediction. There isn&#8217;t going to be much. There probably isn&#8217;t going to be any. Danville&#8217;s race pimps rarely continue a battle once they&#8217;ve lost. There&#8217;s very little to get people fake-outraged now that Newsome&#8217;s gone.<\/li>\n<li>In an interesting event, Ed Newsome will be a special guest at Sunday&#8217;s Bibleway Church service. Hoo Boy.<\/li>\n<li>No, the new version of the school board will not re-hire Newsome. Not a chance in hell.<\/li>\n<li>Newsome was due $312,000 over the last 2 years of his contract. His buyout number of $160,000 was reasonable. He could have refused to resign and the board would have fired him, but Newsome was smart enough to know that a &#8220;resignation&#8221; looks a lot better than being fired.<\/li>\n<li>The school board will have to find a way to make this payoff work. No word on how that will happen yet.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I may add some things to this, but that&#8217;s my analysis on this story as for now. More coming up on SouthsideCentral!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sclogo.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8644\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2014\/05\/13\/breakdown-danville-school-board-election\/sclogo\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sclogo.jpg?fit=120%2C120&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"120,120\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"sclogo\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sclogo.jpg?fit=120%2C120&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8644\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sclogo.jpg?resize=120%2C120\" alt=\"sclogo\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s over. 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