02/07/2024
As Mayor of the City of Winston-Salem, NC I Will Always Speak On Behalf Of The Trenches! I’ll NEVER Give Up On My People! And When I’m Sitting At The Table, I Will Always Represent Them & Always Be Their Voice🗣️
So many of the Black, Hispanic, and even White Men/Women in the community that’s in the streets just need ONE chance. They need someone to believe in them and give them a chance to try it again. We can’t expect them to get a job after being released from prison with felonies on their records because there’s no one hiring felons. Before you say there’s programs for them to get jobs and temp agencies as well, I want you to know those programs are NOT what you think they are. After the temp agency job, What’s next? They go right back to the streets doing the same exact thing that got them put in prison. Then with them being in the streets, here comes gun violence because of jealousy and envy due to the fact that person making more money than me so that person must die or someone gets killed doing other criminal activity.
But if they had a job they love doing and paid them GREAT then we would see the change we’ve been looking for. We need programs that can teach them how to apply for their LLC, We need programs that teach them how to put together their resume, We need programs that give them casual/business clothing for job interviews, We need programs that teach them interview skills, We need the City to use ALL the vacant buildings they have and build jobs that cater to men and women with felonies or misdemeanors on their record instead of building brand new museums and nice little outside patios!
We need to build Community! My job as Mayor will be to make sure that these efforts happen immediately!!!! Everyone deserves a chance🙏🏿 Make sure you VOTE Frankie L. Gist for Mayor so we can have 🙏🏿
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