A parent somehow missed the first Public Participation segment of the board meeting and stuck around for two hours to speak at about 8:30PM in the second Public Participation segment. She is the chair of the Blythewood Middle School School Improvement Council.
Holmes acknowledged a mistake (of some type) had been made. What was it? Did the woman arrive after 6:15PM?
She read her prepared statement very well.
At the 3:05 mark Holmes called time on the speaker, but the speaker did not stop talking. The speaker continued, without further interruption by Holmes, until she completed her remarks at the 4:00-minute mark.
NOW, somebody please explain why Holmes did not cut her off.
I'm going to suggest a reason. The speaker was black. Had the speaker been white, Holmes would have continued to interrupt, and Holmes would have signalled the sound guy to cut off the microphone. (Remember when Manning did that recently?)
Holmes' discriminatory act, allowing the woman to continue reading her prepared statement without further interruption, was completely out-of-order.
And why didn't Holmes read the Rules of the Road before the Public Partication segment, as she always does, emphasizing the three-minute time allotment and that the board does not respond?
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