Creekmore's polished website features some very motivational writing. He has a firm grasp on what has happened and continues to happen to our politics, our transformation under the oligarchy of billionaires into a permanently unequal administration of benefits and laws. The puny and feckless politicians who should rein in the oligarchs are too often wholly subservient to them. Kyah projects defiance and a penetrating intelligence with no patience for bullshit:
Most politicians — Democrat & Republican — won’t like me because their loyalty is to big money, not the voters who sent them to Congress. I will call them out. I will hold them accountable. They’re like roaches. They scatter when we shine the light on them. They’ll hate when their AIPAC checks and lobbyist donations go viral, when their votes against their own constituents get exposed for what they are. They posture as moral saviors, but the truth is they care more about campaign ads and donor checks than the people in their districts. That ends when we start shining a brighter light.
Kyah tells a tale of being born to a 15-year-old single mother who nevertheless, through remarkable grit and determination and holding down three jobs simultaneously, managed to get her first-born son through NC A&T.
We moved almost every two years. By graduation I had gone through nine schools. Some had broken trailers for classrooms. Others had shiny new facilities. That constant shifting showed me how unfairly opportunity is divided by nothing more than ZIP code.
He sees the same grinding inequities that (in fairness) motivated many a working-class MAGAite in past elections:
I worked corporate retail jobs that drained my time and dignity. They demanded everything while paying barely enough to scrape by. Those jobs did not just show me hardship. They showed me how a system designed to grind people down really works.
He is preaching solid working-class economics and the crying need for reform:
No one should wake up wondering if they can afford insulin, their child’s medicine, or rent.
No student should be learning in a trailer while politicians cut school budgets.
No worker should clock in full shifts and still need food stamps while CEOs brag about record profits.
Housing is not a luxury. It is a human right. Clean air and safe water are not bargaining chips for corporations. And poor families should not be blamed for conditions they did not create.
This is not abstract to me. It is lived reality.
Creekmore lives in Greensboro, where the most recent outrageous gerrymander of Foxx's district wrapped in some Black precincts in Guilford (with an awkward protuberance that looks like a satyr's broken hoof) -- not to help Foxx but to dilute the Black vote in CDs 6 and 9.
But Creekmore points out that the gerrymander raises the population of college students in Foxx's district to some 63,000 potential voters, not just at AppState but also at NC A&T and at UNC-Greensboro. I don't know about that statistic, and I also don't know if Kyah has the resources and help to actively campaign for those 63,000 before the primary.
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