The biggest obstacles to OneAthens working will be the people in charge and the people OneAthens is trying to help.

That the black community doesn’t trust the two-year-old poverty initiative became abundantly clear at an East Athens Development Corp. board meeting Monday to discuss the Athens-Clarke Commission’s recent budget cuts.

Board chairwoman Diane Dunston expressed disappointment that EADC isn’t getting more funding through OneAthens. Others went further, voicing a conspiracy theory that EADC was cut so the commission could direct the funding to white-controlled OneAthens (never mind that OneAthens is run by a black man, Steve Jones, or that it’s not getting any block grants, or that its community foundation is going after super-wealthy private donors, not federal funds).