Citizen Green: Classic cars, candy and black pride at MLK parade

After parking on Bragg Street and
making a final swipe at my 5-year-old’s runny nose with a length of TP, we make
our way up to Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, and survey the scene near the
culmination of the anticipated parade.We gravitate to the Wilbur Mapp bust
of King, displaced from a burgeoning strip of South Elm Street by a 9-11
memorial and relocated to section of the Downtown Greenway in Ole Asheboro
among monuments to local heroes like Nettie Coad and Dorothy Brown. My daughter
and