Mrs. Davis speaks ---

Was anyone listening?

WIS-TV's Judi Gaston carried a report on tonight's news with a few comments from Pamela Davis, a Blythesood High School teacher, who became upset at the January 25th board meeting when I attempted to introduce myself to her.

Now keep this mind. I was not introducing myself to Mrs. Davis. I had no idea who the woman was. The woman was a black woman who had taken a seat behind me, as I stood talking with two men and one male student in the second row of audience seating.

You don't want to miss that interview. Notice how calm she is. Notice how careful she was with her words. Was it all practiced? Did she prepare for the interview with a coach? Or with one or more lawyers? If so, who paid for them? Were they lawyers on Richland Two's payroll?

The Judi Gaston part of the news was not understandable by anyone who knew what happened.

Mrs. Davis made it clear to me that she did not want to talk, I'll say!! What could be clearer than shouting, "I KNOW WHO YOU ARE! DON'T TALK TO ME! GET AWAY FROM .ME!"   That's pretty clear, right?

And so I didn't talk to her. I backed away. Then she skipped ahead to what she says she said to the 14-year-old student. "You are a child. You don't need to talk to me."

Media are reporting what else she said, and it's not fit to be printed here. 

Judi Gaston said that Mrs. Davis was "very uncomfortable with the two men because one of them had sent threatening emails to her husband." Mrs. Davis said: "I felt threatened. I felt targeted."

Maybe that's why she sat down exactly where she did.

I was just waiting for her to add that she felt like a victim and that she felt oppressed. Straight CRT nonsense.

If I were asked today if I knew that woman on TV, I would say, "Absolutely not. I've never seen her before." If I were asked, is that the woman you said Hello to on Tuesday night, I'd say, "Absolutely not."

I received numerous phone calls today about her appearance on TV. I won't say who called. I won't even repeat what they said. It wasn't favorable.

And then there were the quickee interviews with Teresa Holmes and James Manning.

They deserve a different page.