Former council candidate calls for unity

By CHRIS FROST
Eagle Times News Editor
CLAREMONT, NH — Former At-Large City Council Candidate Kevin Tyson spoke during the City Council’s Citizen’s Forum portion of their Wednesday, Dec. 13, meeting and said he and his wife purchased his home in Claremont four years ago — and he’s felt at home ever since.

They arrived during the spring of 2019 with “COVID hot on their heels.”

“Shortly after that, a black drug addict died from the effects of his drug abuse under the knee of a white police officer while being arrested by a black officer,” said Tyson. “His death led to a coordinated, widespread, left-wing insurrection across urban America, excused by the mainstream media and encouraged by left-wing politicians.”

He called it an exciting time to discover his new neighborhood.

“As we traveled north from Claremont, we noted a profusion of lawn signs stating Black Lives Matter,” Tyson said. “I found this confusing because Claremont is 95% white. The communities north of Claremont are even whiter, if anything.”

He then discovered the Friday afternoon BLM supporter sign wave at Broad Street Park and was curious about all the Black people whose lives mattered so much that people had to display signs.

“It turns out that it’s the Black people living rent-free in their heads,” Tyson said. “With the benefit of hindsight, it’s now evident that BLM was a scam raising millions of dollars from well-meaning white people, which was spent by the BLM leadership on their friends and family. Likewise, Ibram X. Kendi’s Center for Anti-Racist Research was a fraud, having enriched him, Robin DiAngelo, and many HR Departments across America with no meaningful research.”

Tyson attended the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom with his parents 60 years ago and noted that he was one of the 250,000 people who heard Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech live.

“Because of that, I want to thank everyone in Claremont for having delivered on the promise of that speech,” he said. “Here, in Claremont, I am treated as the person I am, as opposed to an occupant of some point in an intersectional field of races, religions, ethnicities, genders, sexualities, disabilities, mental health problems and age. The guy who keyed my truck did it because I parked too close to him. Not because I am Black.”

Tyson said nobody blinked when he applied for his concealed carry permit.

“I can’t begin to tell you how wonderful this feels,” he said. “I want to reciprocate, and I want you to know that it’s OK to be white, it’s OK to be straight, it’s OK to be a man, and it’s OK to be a Christian. I’m not saying this because I’m your ally; I am saying this because I am Kevin, and many people advocating for diversity cannot say those things without caveats.”