OPINION: Dazed and Confused

Rocky’s Barbershop owner Rocky Jones (lef) sitting next to former HUD Secretary Ben Carson during Wednesday’s Republican roundtable discussion. In the background there were pro-Trump campaign signs. Photo by Julia Beverly/The Atlanta Voice The owner of Rocky’s Barbershop, a small Black-owned business located on Piedmont Rd. in Buckhead, is confused. Rocky Jones allowed his small barbershop to be the site of a small business roundtable discussion hosted by a pair of Republican Congressmen Byron Donalds (FL) and Wesley Hunt (TX), and Dr. Ben Carson, the former United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under Trump. And somehow Jones has gone on record to say he didn’t know it was a Trump surrogate-led event. He didn’t know it would be political in nature. Yeah right, dude. “Never Surrender” Trump signs on the wall at Rocky’s Barbershop on Wednesday, June 26, 2024. Photo by Julia Beverly/The Atlanta Voice I was there that day, and so were 30-plus other members of the media. I’m not sure that we all would have been crammed inside and gathered outside the barbershop on a hot Wednesday afternoon if it was just “locker room talk” taking place. I was invited by a member of the Trump...