Eugene Farrar - On Chapel Hill (clip)
Interviewed by Hudson Vaughan on January 12, 2010
Eugene Farrar: Right now, I see a lot of work to be done. A lot of work to be done. You know in housing, you know we speak of – the most houses in Chapel Hill is public housing. You can’t live in Chapel Hill, where African-Americans really dominated this town, as well as all of your major urban cities in the–every state.
HV: Yep.
EF: African Americans dominated, were the largest population. But now you have this thing where you’re pushing African-Americans out, because you don’t think that they can pay taxes, or they don’t have the jobs, or the revenues to support the town. So you find a way to push them out and you bring people in to live in these houses, to build three, four, five hundred–six hundred thousand dollar homes.
EV: Which you know that the average person that was born and raised in Chapel Hill cannot afford them. So, I see work to be done in Chapel Hill and hopefully, you know somebody else will see it, get on board with that, and that we can make some changes.
HV: Yeah.
