Post by Logan on Jan 23, 2016 6:04:32 GMT -6
While a proposed Memorial Day weekend concert series at Waukegan Municipal Beach remains in the concept stages, opposition was voiced at this week's City Council meeting to one of the possible performers mentioned earlier this month by Mayor Wayne Motley: outspoken rocker Ted Nugent.
"If Ted Nugent comes to Waukegan, as the chair of the Lake County Black Lives Matter movement, I will contact every chapter from California to New York, and we'll have the biggest protest in Waukegan you have ever seen," Zion resident Clyde McLemore told the council on Tuesday.
"We will bus in so many black people — and we will be peaceful — but you will think you're in Africa," McLemore added.
At the Jan. 4 council meeting, Motley announced plans were underway to launch a lakefront concert festival from Friday through Sunday of Memorial Day weekend, and he listed Nugent and Kid Rock as the names of performers under consideration.
Continued at www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/lake-county-news-sun/news/ct-lns-waukegan-nugent-concert-st-0122-20160122-story.html .
"If Ted Nugent comes to Waukegan, as the chair of the Lake County Black Lives Matter movement, I will contact every chapter from California to New York, and we'll have the biggest protest in Waukegan you have ever seen," Zion resident Clyde McLemore told the council on Tuesday.
"We will bus in so many black people — and we will be peaceful — but you will think you're in Africa," McLemore added.
At the Jan. 4 council meeting, Motley announced plans were underway to launch a lakefront concert festival from Friday through Sunday of Memorial Day weekend, and he listed Nugent and Kid Rock as the names of performers under consideration.
Continued at www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/lake-county-news-sun/news/ct-lns-waukegan-nugent-concert-st-0122-20160122-story.html .