Who invited Craig Khanwell to Feb. 8 meeting?

How did Craig Khanwell "just happen" to show up at the February 8th school board meeting?

Was he invited? By whom?

Does he even live in Richland 2 school district? 

LinkedIn shows a business in Lexington County that he may be involved in.

School board meetings are open to the public. He can certainly attend. But he cannot speak during Public Participation if he does not live in the District or own or operate a business in the District. 

And nothing gave him the right to speak as he did (livestream.com/richland2  1:46:30). 

Why didn't Teresa Holmes cut him off for violating Board Policy? Why didn't fraternity brother Baron Davis cut off?

Shall I list the reasons they didn't?

At first I thought it was the lies published by Richland Two's media relations department that were the source of Khanwell's rants. He seems to accept them as Truth, according to his Facebook post on January 27, 2022 at 11:45AM. He wrote: "THE TRUTH IS IN THE ARTICLE BELOW!

"Once You Crazies Start Going After That Man's Wife With Your Foolishness: All Bets Are Off!!!

"Do You All Really Think That Black Manhood In Columbia, SC Is So Weak That We Will Allow You To Behave Like You're On Some Damn Plantation and You Can Accost Black Women At Will?!

"This Kind Of Asinine Behavior Will Be Met With An Appropriate Response If It Ever Raises Its Massa Mentality Head Again!"

If that's not a threat, I don't know what it.

How many more people believe the "spin" put out by Richland 2 School District? When you believe LIES, then you tend to do crazy things, like show up at a school board meeting and spew out Louis Farrakhan radical nonsense and threaten white people. Or any people.

What if Khanwell did determine the truth? What if he had to accept that no one "accosted Pamela Davis" or any woman at a school board meeting or at R2i2?

Would he make a public apology for his rant and his threats? Is it in him to apologize?

Teresa Holmes: "Stay woke"

If you want to hear the most worthless political campaign opening speech of the year, be sure to watch the ending of the February 8, 2022 meeting of the Richland 2 school board. 

(Illegitimate*) board chair Teresa Holmes began her closing remarks at 4:14:40. That's on livestream.com/richland2  (Disregard the ongoing error with the date embedded in the video at the top left, which reads "081120"; the District seems to be incapable of correcting that error in meeting videos)

The public meeting had been dragging on and on for three hours at that point. If she had had any grace, she would have thanked all for coming (except Craig Khanwell) and adjourned the meeting. 

We should all be thankful that Teresa cannot say everything she would like to say (4:15:12). If she did, would that make Craig Khanwell blush? Would Teresa come up with a fire-and-brimstone message that would make everyone forget what they had to endure when Khanwell ranted and raved (starting at 1:46:30)?

Teresa started talking about the 2022 elections coming in November. She didn't directly use the word "elections", but  that's what she was talking about. She said she doesn't really care about what is coming in 2022 (meaning the elections). Whoops! She is bringing politics into the board meeting. Of course, she cares. Teresa is already worried that she won't be re-elected. And, if she is, she'll find herself on the short end of failing votes, because the public is sick and tired of her "leadership" since July 1, 2021.

But back to her comments. She said, "Stay woke." Seriously? Stay woke? (4:15:28) "You need to staaay woke." 

Then she brought up that Judas walked with Jesus.

GIVE ME A BREAK. SAVE THAT FOR CHURCH OR YOUR PRAYER GROUP, TERESA.

And no one objected. Not one person. No Point-of-Order was called. No one in the audience objected. 

Oh, and then she said how she sat through the February 4 workshop and was "disheartened". Oh, poor me. No wonder that chair is so hard to sit in.

Then she said again to "you all, as parents", you have to stay woke. 

Please, PASS THE BARF BAG.

What's wrong with this District? It's not that the demographics are changing. It is the racism that is accompanying those changes. That's the elephant in the room, and she is sitting right there in the chair's chair, right next to the superintendent (who ought to be sitting across the room with the rest of the staff, and not occupying the King's chair of prominence right in the corner).

And again, she said, "Stay woke, as a community." She spoke about teachers and staff who are getting awards. Did she mention the 56.2% of students in poverty? Nope!

* Why "illegitimate"? Teresa Holmes has never taken the oath-of-office legally. She took one on November 13, 2018, but she did not become eligible to take it until December 4, 2018. She has never taken the oath since December 4, 2018. She is not a legal board member, and thus she cannot serve as a officer of the board. Yet there she is. 

Craig Khanwell - District resident?

Craig Khanwell

Tuesday night's fiery speaker during Public Participation, Craig Khanwell, has a tiny footprint on the internet. 

Does he reside in or have a business in Richland 2 School District? Was he eligible to speak on Tuesday night, February 8, 2022? 

Khanwell, according to his Facebook profile, is very likely aligned with Louis Farrakhan. That may explain his racially-based remarks and his warning to whites in the audience. Louis Farrakhan is the one who called for 10,000 "fearless men". Remember why Farrakhan wanted those 10,000?

Is Khanwell still living those days? Sure sounded like it on Tuesday night. 

 Why did Holmes let him rip away for three minutes like that? Can you imagine how quickly she would have gaveled any white man into silence and submission, if he had launched into such a threatening, racial-based speech? What if I stood at the microphone and screamed about White Power and White Supremacy or denigrated Black Power or Black Lives Matter (more than White Lives) or Antifa rules! What if I made threats against the blacks in the audience? 

I would have been face down on the boardroom floor. 

Why did Holmes allow that "show"? Why didn't Holmes tell Khanwell to calm down? She never made a peep. Nor did Supt Davis! Nor did any of The Core Four? It wouldn't have done any good for The Other Three to complain. The Core Four would have outvoted them 3-4, as they did the rest of the night. 

Does Khanwell even live in Richland School District Two? His LinkedIn bio mentions a Lexington-based business. He has obviously scrubbed his internet presence. How can an activist, especially such a loud one, not have hundreds of results when his name is searched on Google?

Who knows more about him?

R2 Board Hits a New Low

Only four days after a workshop that was supposed to be a start to healing the chaos on the school board, several board members hit new lows in their remarks to other board members.

Worst was DR. CHERYL. CAUTION. PARKER. Listen to her remarks aimed at Trustee Lashonda McFadden during the segment when Trustee McFadden was asking for a special-called board meeting about the January 25th board meeting. 

Trustee McFadden made the "grievous error" in addressing Caution-Parker as Ms. Parker.

www.livestream.com/richland2  Feb. 8, 2022 meeting. Fast-forwared to 3:43:40.

How did Caution-Parker respond?

"It's Doctor Parker. DOCTOR Parker. Doctor. Cheryl. Caution. Parker."

I was waiting for Caution-Parker to add, "and you'd damned well better remember that!"

That was just after Caution-Parker coined a new word in the English language: "gitcha"  (Cheryl, it's "gotcha".)

Never again will I use the honorific of Dr. when addressing Caution-Parker. She blew it last night. She doesn't even deserve "Ms."  or "Trustee". Maybe "that woman" will suffice. Or "CP".

CP was rude, insulting, demeaning, disrespectful. 

And she violated Board Policy.

And Holmes didn't say a word. 

"White Supremacy Race Theory"?

Craig Khanwell

This is Craig Khanwell (or Conwell?), as he spoke to the Richland 2 School Board on February 8, 2022.

Tap here <https://www.vibby.com/watch?vib=mkPTSmosh> for his rant. Viewer discretion advised. Or go to livestream.com/richland2 for the February 8, 2022 meeting and fast-forward to 1:46:30. 

[Edited 6/3/2022] That Vibby link worked when it was posted. Subsequently, Richland 2 changed its setting to prevent the use of vibby.com with recordings of the public meetings.

To view the racist and threatening remarks of Craig Khanwell (Conwell), go to livestream.com/richland2, select the February 8, 2022 Board Meeting, and advance the timer to 1:46:03

Listen carefully to his words, tone and intent. Watch his demeanor and behavior.

Ask yourself a few questions:

Was Craig Khanwell present at the January 25th board meeting?

Where do you think Craig got his information about what happened on January 25?

Why didn't Holmes cut him off?

Why did Holmes allow him to address the audience and not just the board?

Why did Holmes allow threats and warnings?

Why did Supt. Davis just sit there?

Why didn't one Trustee object?

Why didn't security step in?

Where was Marq Claxton, the security director of Richland 2?

Where were the security officers?

Where were the deputy sheriffs?

What do you think of his remarks? Use the Comment section below.

[EDIT: Craig's last name was corrected to Khanwell. 2/11/2022}

Shame on Caution-Parker!

Caution-Parker laid into Trustee McFadden tonight during the Draft Agenda portion of the February 8, 2022 board meeting. Tomorrow I'll review what and how she said it, but Caution-Parker was AGGRESSIVE, rude and threatening toward Trustee McFadden, and Teresa Holmes did nothing about it.

Caution-Parker deserves to be sanctioned by the Board for her behavior.

Maybe she even should have been trespassed by Richland 2 security and removed from the meeting. 

More tomorrow. I don't want to be up all night writing about the chaos in the February 8th meeting, only days after the workshop on Friday, February 4th. Caution-Parker certainly didn't take anything away from that workshop. Nor did Manning.

Chaos continues on the board

I don't know what happened before I tuned in at 8:30PM, but I can assure you that chaos continued in the meeting.

McKie got long-winded and off-topic.

Manning made a VERY inappropriate, rude, offensive and unprofessional comment toward  Trustee McFadden, accusing her of having many motions to be offered . Manning deserved to be disciplined by the board for his behavior during the Draft Agenda portion of the meeting.