Reginald Hildebrand - Greenbridge (clip)
Interviewed by Rob Stephens on April 21, 2010
Rob Stephens (RS): And you say you did talk to elders about it?
Reginald Hildebrand (RH): Yeah. Elders, I mean older people, not officials of the church.
RS: Yeah.
RH: Yeah. But these are the same people you’re talking to. Velma Perry and Rebecca Clark and others like that and they had, well it became an issue for them because of the video. And their perception of what was going on, I think they’re conscious about what was going on. Which, thinking back on it, is surprising to me. It was raised by sort of community activities consciousness raising activities of UNC-NOW and people in this church. That I think when they, well I know, when they participated in the video, they had no idea what the ultimate intent of that was, in fact they were pretty clear that the intent was quite, very just the opposite of what it was.
RH: And that surprises me a bit, given how tuned in they were to what was going on and who is asking to do this at the…
RS: It’s very tricky.
RH: Yeah.
RS: And so did-did any of those conversations go beyond the video, or was that the primary.
RH: Oh, just a general anger, frustration, disappointment, with what was happening. The same reasons that you know we’ve been, that you’ve been talking about, but in terms of specific references to proposals, plans, or individuals, nothing beyond that.
RH: There were-there’d be times when she would reflect on the video, reflect on some of the people involved in it, and make clear her, and the project as a whole, the Greenbridge project as a whole, and make sure, make clear her, both her and Velma Perry, their concern and discuss about what was going on and how it was going on, and what it might mean, what it would mean for the community, but…
