For now at least, the school system doesn't have to deal with the Rev. Al Sharpton in the fight over a possible slave cemetery on school property.

Sharpton had been invited to tour the cemetery on Saturday by neighbors who are fighting a planned high school on the site. He wasn't able to attend, but representatives of the NAAACP did visit the site.

It wasn't that much of a stretch considering that Sharpton was in the Triangle on Sunday to speak at N.C. Central University in Durham.

The spectre of a high school being built on the site of a potential slave cemetery in Northeastern Wake County is leading to some pretty tough words being used by critics.

As noted in today's article, critics on their Web site say that letting the school be built would be like treading on the suffering of the slaves buried there. (While one historian says it's "clearly a slave cemetery," no official determination has been made by the state yet.)

"What a disgrace to our heritage and our nation," according to the Web site. "I guess the slaves are in their way, and they are to be discarded just as they were, when they were of no longer use to their owners."

UPDATE

Cilick here for the online story from today's board meeting.