Atlanta leads nation in gap between rich and poor
There’s been a lot of talk lately about the growing income gap in America between the rich and the poor.
Turns out the the gap is larger in Atlanta than in any other big city in America, Reuters reports.
Also making the list is Athens-Clarke County, home of UGA and the Dawgs, which ranked sixth on the list.
Atlanta’s No. 1, followed by New Orleans and Washington, D.C.
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Ari Northington
October 27th, 2011
8:41 am
Headline says it all.
Ken
October 27th, 2011
8:42 am
The difference between above and below I-20 demonstrates our gap and the political divide within the state. It’s almost like a mini Civil War all over again.
Rich Black
October 27th, 2011
8:42 am
No it doesn’t.
LOL
October 27th, 2011
8:46 am
Someone should tell the “poor” they actually have to work to make money. Tired of standing lines at stores watching people buy nail products, makeup, and other stuff with food stamps.
onechris
October 27th, 2011
8:46 am
This is not surprising! Sad but not a shock.
Butch Cassidy
October 27th, 2011
8:48 am
LOL – “Tired of standing lines at stores watching people buy nail products, makeup, and other stuff with food stamps.”
Hey, JP Morgan/Chase is the largest supplier of EBT cards, someone has to keep my shares profitable.
Kareem
October 27th, 2011
8:48 am
Where da white women?
Tom G
October 27th, 2011
8:55 am
Kareem – I saw the perfect woman for you at the Occupy Atl protest. She was white also!
PerPlexed
October 27th, 2011
8:57 am
You gon eat yo cornbread!!!!!!!!!!!
the TRUTH
October 27th, 2011
8:57 am
With a large Black population that doenst want to work, what did you exspect. Obama will provide, hows that workin for yah?
Vince
October 27th, 2011
8:59 am
We’re Number 1!
We’re Number 1!
Buck
October 27th, 2011
9:00 am
The Bible tells us that the poor will always be amongst us. And we certainly should help those who are truly in need. But a good percentage of the “poor” in this city and this nation are that way due to the bad choices they have made in their lives. It is very sad that hard work and self-reliance is no longer the way most Americans strive to live their lives!
the TRUTH
October 27th, 2011
9:00 am
Mandatory Drug Testing for anyone on Public/Government Assistance, and stop having babies by multiple looosers.
Buzz G
October 27th, 2011
9:00 am
The great divide has been accentuated by illegal aliens. They sneak across the border in large numbers, coming from places of extreme poverty. They generally have few marketable skills and don’t speak the language. They end up taking the lowest paying jobs like mowing lawns, washing dishes and plucking chickens. They have no health insurance so they end up going to the emergency room, and when their frequent babies arrive, we have to pay for them. These statistics show just one more reason why we need a fence on our southern border. Wake up Washington.
Illegal alien labor is cheap only to the employer.
Art
October 27th, 2011
9:02 am
I will look forward to seeing the statistics. Since 2005 when the economy began contracting and northern cities were collapsing several occurences combined to bring catastrophe to Atlanta.
1. A huge amount of poverty ridden, uneducated,crime oriented people came to metro Atlanta from northern areas and Louisiana(70,000 from Katrina 2005).
2. The build up also began in earnest with the unlimited stream of illegals which have now covered every county of our state like locusts inundating our schools and creating unsustainable costs which threaten to collapse many school districts(450,000 estimated by AJC 7./2011)
3. The collapsed housing industry in which metro Atlanta one of most overbuilt in USA (Las Vegas # 1 and Atlanta #2 took away 100,000 jobs alone. With an excess of 15,000,000 empty units nationwide this area will not recover for years. price collapses of 50% common in many areas of Atlanta for homes and more stringent credit conditions mean 95% of applicants turned down for new mortgages
4. A mass exodus has occured of young white 20 somethings college and skilled employees to other parts of nation and even other countries(200 teachers to other countries AJC 8/2011)Graduates flock to pro work areas Austin Texas and Rick Perry dynamic state AJC 9/2011
black assault in Buckhead kills one young white women and injures severely another young white woman 8/2011 AJC. Crime like this should not be tolerated and continues to drive whites from this area.
Combine these trends and you will see the arrow continue to drive down income due to stratification of education , abilty and jobs now available in the lower economic service oriented economy called greater Metro Atlanta.
Tom C
October 27th, 2011
9:08 am
I love these IN-DEPTH stories in the AJC. I feel like I have all the details after such total coverage of the story. Thanks AJC. Now I’m going to go read a real newspaper: The New York Times
logical thinker
October 27th, 2011
9:09 am
@ LOL, you cant buy nail products and makeup with food stamps (ebt card) such ignorance, hopefully your job never lays you off genius
logical thinker
October 27th, 2011
9:13 am
And Art is blaming every minority for this problem as if there are no profesional college graduated minorities in this world…..sweet ga….I tell you
RAMZAD
October 27th, 2011
9:13 am
LOL:
You are an inveterate liar. Food Stamps can’t be used to buy nail polish. Food Stamps can only be used to buy food. Your “tired” is an effort to bring rhetoric to support your propaganda.
For your information, the poor are also people with three kids and two jobs.
I bet you are one of the blood suckers who believe that the poor should be on a plantation working for bucky Massa from sun up till sundown for food and a place to stay and regular beatings.
Get your head out- bed bug.
And the rich will get another tax break
October 27th, 2011
9:14 am
Enter your comments here
Rayzer
October 27th, 2011
9:15 am
IF THE “POOR”SPENT AS MUCH TIME AND ENERGY SEEKING EMPLOYMENT AS THEY DO SEEKING THEIR NEXT HIT OF CRACK, THIS POVERTY TO RICH GAP WOULD CHANGE.
duder
October 27th, 2011
9:15 am
Someone got shot trying to rob a mansion on West Paces Ferry….awesome!
PJ
October 27th, 2011
9:16 am
I’m surprised. I would not be surprised to hear that ATL is near the top, but I wouldn’t expect it to be #1. I would expect that to be New York or LA, where I perceive there to be more extreme wealth. Every big city has some extreme poverty, but the size of the gap is going to be determined by the difference between the lowest poverty and the highest wealth. I thought there were other cities with people much richer than in ATL.
tired of nonsense
October 27th, 2011
9:17 am
@Art: You’re a serious racist and need help. Nice attempt at rational analysis, well organized nonsense, but, nonsense nevertheless. Keep your vision focused on the bottom like this, never look at the overriding causes, the functioning of the plutocratic dictatorship of the rich and the disenfranchisement of the people. Your smugness knows no bounds, but you are losing your position of white supremacy and, like it or not, your children and grandchildren will be living in a world in which white people are no longer the majority culture. Hopefully they will be able to adapt better than you.
Flash
October 27th, 2011
9:17 am
The Truth and Art you both are such fools your parents were such fools to raise you this way be careful where you go with your wacked thoughts but you both are only talking your no fool.
jd
October 27th, 2011
9:17 am
I EARNED my assets and income by working for them. What did the rest of these fools do to earn so little? Live off my taxes paid by their fairy godmother, the government. Have they no shame? Can’t they just immolate?
logical thinker
October 27th, 2011
9:17 am
@ The Truth when all else fails blame it on black people and Obama…..(who is 50% white raised by his white mother in white communities by the way)………..and further more its called EXPECT not EXSPECT….(epic fail….genius)….i’m sure you’re on the lower in of the economic divide, and you have no excuses…..
Junior
October 27th, 2011
9:19 am
@RAMZAD
“For your information, the poor are also people with three kids and two jobs.”
Don’t have children if you can’t afford to raise them…don’t ask me to pay for your choice to have children.
Quantavius
October 27th, 2011
9:20 am
Sure, I don’t see any stereotyping in these posts.
zeke
October 27th, 2011
9:21 am
If the government(s) would stop financing unemployment, child birth, welfare, these gaps would tighten and a growing middle class would again power the economy! It is not that the rich are getting richer, which they are, but, the fact that the government dole has made the middle class and poor, poorer with the socialist moronic policies and programs! The government programs have caused a drastic loss of middle income families and individuals! More power to the successful, the so called rich, I WANT TO BE IN THAT GROUP ONE DAY!!!
Idea
October 27th, 2011
9:22 am
Education is the key to improvement. Excellent times to get motivated to improve yourself.
nonsense
October 27th, 2011
9:25 am
Logical you are funny. You point out someone’s spelling error while your post is riddled with grammatical errors (e.g., “i’m sure you’re on the lower in of the economic divide…”). And by the way, it is not hard to trade food stamps for cash.
Quantavius
October 27th, 2011
9:26 am
Education is a farce. 30K for the average degree. I don’t think kids should be going to college unless they can afford it.
#occupy my desk...
October 27th, 2011
9:26 am
I am such a sinner. All this time I didn’t realize that my ambition and determination were hurting people. Somewhere along the lines, my success became greed.
Do us all a favor and have a seat!!!
October 27th, 2011
9:27 am
For all of you racist idiots on here, I guess you failed to do your research because poor whites are the majority of people on welfare. Its easy to tell someone to go out and get a job and please tell me how that is possible when these imaginary jobs that you speak of don’t exist here.
logical thinker
October 27th, 2011
9:28 am
touche’ nonsense…..I will give you that one but your point is????
MARTA Rida
October 27th, 2011
9:29 am
The large income gap is the cause of uneven employment distribution across the metro. South of I-20, good paying jobs are hard to come by and many people don’t have the means to commute without mass transit. Increase mass transit and this will help to reduce the income gap by providing easier access to employment opportunities.
Without income supplements the crime rate in this country would sky rocket. Be glad that there are EBT and social security income because without people would do anything to get food. When someone doesn’t have anything to lose, they don’t care and will do anything to get the necessities.
RAMZAD
October 27th, 2011
9:29 am
Junior:
The three kids did not arrive yesterday. The parents had a job, a place to live. A position in their church. A post on the PTA…Fact is that the kids are here and they are American kids. I suppose you would like to send the kids back with the illegal immigrants. You are another racist disgruntled fool.
Your problem is that white people is a depleting population and very soon we will have to search hard to find a white person.
Uncle Ruckus
October 27th, 2011
9:30 am
You can thank Dr. Hall for that! It all starts with POOR education.
nonsense
October 27th, 2011
9:31 am
Quantavius, that line of thinking is exactly why other countries are churning out smarter and more qualified people than the U.S. By your thinking, I guess the poor will always remain poor since they can’t afford to go to college.
BSandwich
October 27th, 2011
9:32 am
Thank you Idea!
Liberal Elite
October 27th, 2011
9:33 am
“It is not that the rich are getting richer, which they are…”
Zeke, you’re definitely in the running for dumbest statement of the day.
Straight Talk
October 27th, 2011
9:34 am
The statistic is confirmation that America’s capitalist system provides the greatest opportunity on the face of the earth for all of us to become rich [however you define rich]. Money knows no color, social or religious restrictions. There is no guarantee of wealth only the opportunity to acquire it. We have people in our country who are truly unable – due to debilitating physical or mental conditions – to take advantage of this opportunity. To those folks we must continue to extend a helping hand. However, most of the folks – whatever their color, class or social situation – who we are asked to believe are victims because they are not well off financially have decided not to work for it but want it be given to them. A great example of someone who overcame many obstacles to become wealthy is Herman Cain. He is a black man who was born into poverty but who chose to make the commitment and work for years to overcome them is Atlanta Herman Cain. His new book is a great instruction manual on how to overcome adversity and major obstacles in life to get to where you want to be: http://www.amazon.com/This-Herman-Cain-Journey-White/dp/1451666136/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1319722085&sr=1-1 . After Herman is nominated to run for President in the November 2012 election against President Obama the race card will finally be off the table as it should be. At that point the voters of this great country will be able to follow Martin Luther King Jr.’s vision in his ‘I Have A Dream’ speech and judge the two candidates “not on the color of their skin, but on the content of their character.” Herman Cain will make a great President for all of us – rich, poor and in between.
GG
October 27th, 2011
9:35 am
It does not surprise me that its #1, I have never seen so much poor white trash until I came to GA, they want to blame these statistics on African Americans and Mexicans when its actully in their own backyard, if you don’t believe take a drive 40 miles in either direction outside of Atlanta.
Art
October 27th, 2011
9:35 am
9:24 am 10/27
for all the readers of this post around 9:00am was from articles published by the AJC. Are you saying you do not believe in the published articles by a black oriented newspaper? who said anything about race and you have no idea if I am black white or possibly hispanic or oriental?
Bert
October 27th, 2011
9:38 am
This article should not confused with the metro area but with the city itself. From the same source report from the Census (which is not being sensationalized in the article reported by AJC), METRO ATLANTA is #23 with the income disparity being LOWER THAN THE US ESTIMATE as a whole. The top 5 metro areas as reported by Census is NY, Miami, LA, Houston and Memphis.
Hey poor people....
October 27th, 2011
9:38 am
get a job!
pj
October 27th, 2011
9:39 am
and many venters are so skeptical of the Occupy movement, including in Atlanta. Are you starting to get it now?
Quantavius
October 27th, 2011
9:41 am
Nonsense, just so you know, the poor have the best chance of getting a free ride to college. (pell grants, etc.) It really hurts the middle class charging so much for a higher education.
WTT
October 27th, 2011
9:42 am
Those who were born to families who benefited from free slave labor, denial of education, systemic injustice, beatings, hangings, watching the american dream realized by only you, get over yourself. I don’t hear anyone poor people complaining about your benefits (until now), tax breaks, insider benefits, nepotism, corruption, providing drugs to poor communities and the list goes on and on…much more costly than a food stamp.
RAMZAD
October 27th, 2011
9:43 am
Fact is that we- black, white, green, yellow and read- are all in this together. America is our country, and the thing is for all of us to work to help each other to improve the country and the size of our stake in it.
One American tearing down another is what our enemies want to see. Marginalizing minorities and demonizing the poor does not help. They are here- now, and talk of moochers and EBT begotten nail polish to refer to Americans who are not doing as well plays into the hands of those who would like to prove that America is a fraud.
Junior
October 27th, 2011
9:43 am
I’ve made the right choices in life, I have a good education (for which I paid off my 30k in student loans in 8 years). I will be enjoying Vienna over the New Years’ holiday and Maui in February. Yes, I live intown and north of I20. I have struggled in the past (I lost my job in Jan of 2010, but by Feb had found a higher paying job among other struggles), but with my education and work ethic I can enjoy my income and the fruits that come with it.
Quantavius
October 27th, 2011
9:46 am
Hey junior, nobody cares. Take your elitest attitude somewhere else.
CanWeAllGetAlong
October 27th, 2011
9:46 am
You know…we ALL need to work, live, and play together. How come we as adults want our kids to live by those simple rules, but never show an example of it. Its time to STOP bashing each other, and work together. I was not born here, however I think its a pretty good city. We don’t need elected officials (Dem or Rep) to tell us how we should live/work together. I think we all have an idea or two to make Atlanta metro area a better place, lets put them on the table. Rich and poor people have ideas…
RAMZAD
October 27th, 2011
9:48 am
Right Junior:
It is all about you. I also bet you have no intention to help anyone but you and help out the conversation that says that those people who are no able to work the system like you did are mooching losers. You are only as secure as your neighborhood. If I were you I would stay in Vienna.
Saddened
October 27th, 2011
9:48 am
So interested to see so many people take shots or make blames at a group of people before knowing all the facts….How many of you actually know at least 1 person who live off welfare, I mean literally live off welfare alone….Don’t worry Ill wait….the answer is no one, because contrary to most people beliefs, there is a cap on how many years you can stay on walfare, and the max you can get is may 700 a month TOPS…Yeah that’s alot of money!!!!. If you see someone living off of funds, they usually have a child support check (which is another subject) or Food stamps which cost a tax payer who makes 25000 a year only $.13 a MONTH (right a dime and 3 pennies)….SO NO ONE LIVES OFF JUST WELFARE!!!!!! If they do, let me know who they are !!!!!!
2 things I want to point out….1. the issue on government assistance only became a big deal after the recession….and the people hit hardest in the recession were MIDDLE CLASS….so this means that these were people who had jobs went to school and was laid off. Yes the people you are helping are now “Shaquna” with 6 kids and 5 different baby daddies! Its Susan who worked at Coke for 10 years, and just has her bachelors and has 2 kids and divorced! 2. Poor people are not necessarily people who DON”T HAVE JOBS…their also people who jobs don’t pay enough for them to survive. Some of our hardest jobs in America are underpaid…. Custodians, customer service positions, fast food positions, maids…the jobs that most Americans pass up because their too GOOD to do that type of work…
So before you make statements and quick to judge people learn your facts…because 3/4th of our population are a paycheck away from being the POOR, BROKE, LAZY people you describe.
Saddened
October 27th, 2011
9:50 am
its not shaquanna its susan (gotta love auto correct
itamazesme
October 27th, 2011
9:51 am
Get educated? Lack of motivation? Tell that to my sister who furthered her education and received her Master’s to get ahead in the company where she was employed for 10 years-only to be laid off in August of this year because they downsized. Sadly, there are well educated people out of work now. You have young people fresh out of college unemployed but with debt of student loans. I am all for someone furthering their education, but doing so with this economy is not going to guarantee you a job right now, it will only add to a person’s debt woes.
More and more people who were middle class are finding themselves in the poor category. They used to donate to the needy, but are finding themselves in need now. It isn’t a black or white issue. It saddens me to see the posts on this blog, and it is my prayer that those equating it to being black, on drugs, lazy, etc. I pray you never find yourself without a job or in need of anything.
Junior
October 27th, 2011
9:54 am
@RAMZAD
I do donate to charity…and not for some tax deduction. You apparently have a problem with those of us who are successful enjoying ourselves to the fullest. Life is full of choices, you are what you make of them. Four years ago I had a $300/day cocaine habbit, lost my condo and my job. But I made a choice to stop, like I made a choice to start. Both were choices, one was better that the other. So don’t assume that people who who are ‘better off’ or ‘won life’s lottery’ have always been that way. We made choices to get us where we are, for better or worse.
Do us all a favor part 2
October 27th, 2011
9:54 am
Thanks for your comment “Do us all a favor and have a seat”. Some people are past ignorant. If my family (whether they were white, black or purple) had wealth and I had a fortunate upbringing, I’m sure I would be financially independent with a great job because of my great education I received. I’m sure I take regular trips to the malls to do my seasonal shopping and I plan my yearly vacations because life has afforded me these things. I’m probably an active participant in the investment industry and my cabinets and fridge are never empty. Pumping gas for me is not an enjoyable experience because, although I can afford the inflated gas prices, I too am responsible with my finances and don’t want to be robbed like the rest of the country BUT I really can afford the damn gas. So IF YOU ARE THIS PERSON AND YOU ARE LOOKING DOWN ON THOSE WHO WERE NOT FORTUNATE AS YOU WERE please do us all a favor and go to the top of your nearest building and jump….please find a really tall building for splash effect! People are so cruel! Why must you assume every homeless, broke, out of work person in Atlanta is BLACK AND LAZY??!?? I don’t understand that at all. It is sickening to me because I AM BLACK AND BROKE. But I also have two degrees! I was raised in poverty…not because my family were lazy black people that wanted goverment assistance…it was because my family picked cotton, worked for low wages without decent education during a time when WHITE people were doing what they are still doing today….UPHOLDING RACISM and PROMOTING ECONOMIC INEQUALITY. Now what if the tables were turned….please people who are taking the time to read my babble…please think with me for a second…what if it was BLACK men that kidnapped an entire country and separated them from their entire CULTURE and for years they suffered enslavement, torture, homocide, degradation, and the rest of the bullsh*t that comes with it….Do you really think WHITE people would be the majority today? Do you really think WHITE people would lead in having more wealth amongst their families? BUT if we take race out of the picture we will realize that many people of many races are very fortunate despite the economic climate. SO INSTEAD OF POINTING TO ONE GROUP OF PEOPLE FOR THEIR LACK OF RESOURCES AND ASSUMING IT IS BECAUSE OF THEIR PERSONAL LIFE CHOICES please stop to think that maybe their circumstances were not as candy-coated as yours. That is why when I hear about crimes against white people I seldom feel any sympathy and I know that it is wrong to feel that way BUT like the many ignorant racist on this board I will chop it to being a BLACK HUMAN!
Katz
October 27th, 2011
9:55 am
Pray tell, where in this article do they define “gap”? Perhaps we have the largest gap by virtue of having the most wealthy people of any metro area. I know I’m a deserving filthy rich dude who likess nothing more than his money. Except, watching the poor whom I have wrung it from squirming under my feet. Wait a minute hos, I said like, not love, y’all know I love every one of you. There, that’s better, now fix me a blunt and some crow-vassy.
itamazesme
October 27th, 2011
9:55 am
Kudos Saddened!
Leah
October 27th, 2011
9:56 am
It really saddens me to read such ignorant, uneducated comments. Firstly, poverty is not a racial issue. I volunteer at a local food bank and I am sure it would surprise many people to find that there is an equal mix of all ethnicities requesting services. In Alpharetta, churches are giving to all families but we have a high ratio of white families that now require help due to job loss. Not everyone who is poor uses drugs and drinks. It is unfortunate that this population of those in need has become the face of porverty. Yes, there are certainly those who could do better and make better choices. But there is a population who is in genuine need. For those of you who hide behind your anonymous blog postings, I truly hope you never have to experience job loss nor bias based on your color. America is a truly great country but it is a sad day when white people turn a blind eye to those other white people who take advantage of systems. It is a sad day when black people turn a blind eye to those other black people who take advantage of sytems. It sad when any race points to another as the problem. It is a human race issue, not a color issue. Laziness and ignorance knows no color boundaries. There are bad people in every race. But bigger than that, there are great people in every race. And it will be a great day when the citizens of Atlanta can come together to address the issues that affect our city, rather than sit and point fingers at each other. If you don’t like something, do something about it. But if you are not contributing to the improvement of society, please keep your racist, ignorant comments to yourself. You are not helping anyone nor proving any level of intelligence by typing them.
Eddie Long
October 27th, 2011
9:57 am
Look at me, I’ve made my millions the honest way! Don’t need to be white!
Ed
October 27th, 2011
10:00 am
To all of the misguided souls who are directing their discontent at Wall Street: You should be directing your anger at the civil rights leaders, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, MLK, Baraque Obama, and the like who promoted laws requiring banks to make loans to the unqualified among us. When are you ever going to learn that those who have something worked for it while those who wait for a government handout have what they earned. Nothing!
Learn your history. At one time there was something called redlining, a practice of lenders to draw a line around communities whose inhabitants were not qualified for loans. Redlining became illegal and you now sit on the curb wondering why. Tell your community organizers to stop lying to you and you’ll begin to live in the real world.
RAMZAD
October 27th, 2011
10:02 am
Fact is that the real moochers are the rich and the large corporation who holler patriotism but hide their wealth from taxes overseas.
Fact is that the real moochers are those people who believe the Bush tax cuts should go on forever even as the country sink into poverty, because they can escape to Vienna when dog eat dog begins- like now.
Fact is that America has lost its competitive edge, because even physicists want to become hedge a fund managers. Fact is that no train is coming from Washington. The train is coming for within our own spirits.
Fact is that America is a racist powder keg who has almost thirty percent of its population Hispanics and Negros locked out of true participation in the democracy and the economics that go with it.
You must have to have nothing for my something to mean anything- that ethos will destroy us.
You people make me laugh
October 27th, 2011
10:06 am
@ RAMZAD
“Your problem is that white people is a depleting population and very soon we will have to search hard to find a white person.”
Census estimates do show that just under half of children under 3 now are non-hispanic whites. But, this is far from having to search hard to find a white person.
RAMZAD
October 27th, 2011
10:06 am
ED
You are the consummate moron simpleton. Don’t you see that it is the banks, AIG, GM that got the hand outs. How can you decide that you should economically pit one American against another? Don’t you see that if enough people become poor you are only as alive as the number of slugs in your shot gun?
j
October 27th, 2011
10:07 am
wow, great article … a lot of content to read
PJ
October 27th, 2011
10:08 am
Amazing! The AJC publishing 3 sentences (I won’t even call it a news article). No depth, no explanation, no insight. And, still, they manage to get the readership whipped into a frenzy. Let’s all go do something productive.
Chris
October 27th, 2011
10:11 am
It would be nice if you write a article that the article would state in it how large the gap is and provide details. Thanks for nothing Reuters.
jon
October 27th, 2011
10:13 am
Wow…. I graduated a year ago and still unable to find a job. I have a good clean record…
I did what I’m supposed to do…
People are telling me to create something. One problem… People do not want to work for free. I have $4 in the wells fargo bank which will probably be eaten up by the monthly fees. I seriously doubt the bank would give me any sort of loan since I don’t have collateral.
RAMZAD
October 27th, 2011
10:16 am
Junior:
I bet you had a lot of support and help getting off the powder. I bet you had family rooting for you. I bet you became the Great White Hope of Cocaine Recovery. You had your degree before your cocaine foray, so you just had to stop using- which I am sure was no cake walk to get off from, but
the infrastructure was waiting, pleading, begging you to come in from the cold.
My point is that if you are white in America- no matter how you look you are trusted. Your are given a break. Even blacks are condition to look out for white people no matter what. The service is horrible until a white person shows up, so being white has immaculate advantages in America. It is that song that says that minorities are only trusted when they are in cuffs.
I am sure that you have to work hard. Can you see a black person with a cocaine past showing up at one of those posh offices in Dunwoody for a job? It is a scandal. Channel 11 would come out there to file a report.
ASB
October 27th, 2011
10:17 am
I am a single, Black, college educated woman with two children. I am a homeowner and have never been on the public dime. I have worked hard in my career and was at my company for many, many years when a new manager came into our department. The manager, who is Black, harassed me and made my life a living hell at work when I wouldn’t “admire” him. After going to HR, he retaliated and the company did nothing. Now, I have received a layoff notice while he laughs at getting away with harassment.
So, don’t tell me all Blacks should stick together because of skin color. I associate with people of like minds without regard to color, culture or background.
nonsense
October 27th, 2011
10:21 am
For the most part, people are poor because they refuse to change. If you have a college degree in philosophy and can’t find a job, don’t sit around for 2 years crying about how useless college is. Change your career to something that there’s a need for, that’s what i did. There’s no rule in life that says once you have a degee in something you can’t do something else.
Also, debt or no debt, education is the most important thing any of us can have. It opens up doors to other opportunities when you least expect it.
WoodstockAndy
October 27th, 2011
10:21 am
There are plenty of jobs if you’re in right field. Yes, perhaps if you don’t have education (not necessary 4 year degree, even technical college) there are less jobs that are for unskilled positions. But if you don’t have relevant education (i.e. majoring in English, history, or other crap like that) then you have yourself to blame, not Wall Street. If you’re struggling artist, then it’s your problem. I came to this country 15 years ago as an immigrant (legal mind you), with 2 suitcases. I was able to finish 2 years in technical college, and currently working for company in a position that is usually staffed with someone that has higher degree than mine, but i’m doing just as good a job as they wood. It’s about applying yourself, and making something out of yourself. But if you’d rather spend time staring at TV for half a day, and don’t have any education, and you were born here, which means you had more opportunity than me, the immigrant, then it’s YOUR FAULT for not being able to provide for yourself.
Ed
October 27th, 2011
10:21 am
Ramzad, get a life. Stop sitting in the NAACP ofice cranking out nonsense.
RAMZAD
October 27th, 2011
10:22 am
ASB:
I get your point. The only worst enemy to black people than racism is other black people. Black people are not all blameless in this, we are the ones killing people for a stupid car. Frankly, I have no interest in working for a black boss, and I am half breed.
However, it is my point that whites needs to be more sensitive to the black experience in America and help take the stigma off being black in America. We need all hands on deck.
nonsense
October 27th, 2011
10:24 am
Ramzad, stop making excuses for black people. That is why so many people have been brainwashed into thinking they are poor because of the evil white man. Being a minority has nothing to do with it – just look at the chinese, koreans, and indians that are eating our lunch.
ASB
October 27th, 2011
10:24 am
RAMZAD,
A “brother” did me in at work because I wouldn’t cooperate with his “agenda”.
Reminds me of this story…
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stephanie-schriock/anita-hill_b_1005689.html
So spout that crap if you want to…
Most of my career connections in the past have been through non-minority networking contacts and friends.
RAMZAD
October 27th, 2011
10:25 am
Ed ofice is really office or you may mean orifice, No NAACP here. You should see my letters to Chairman Jealous. You should see my comments to the CrossRoadsNews about trifling black people.
WoodstockAndy
October 27th, 2011
10:26 am
If you have 2″ holes in your years, half your body (or more) covered in tattoos, body piercings in places that were never designed for that, pants hanging down around your ankles, etc. don’t be crying that there are no jobs for you. Nobody cares about your personal expression, and nobody wants to employ people that look like freaks.
You people make me laugh
October 27th, 2011
10:26 am
RAMZAD
“My point is that if you are white in America- no matter how you look you are trusted. Your are given a break. ”
This is not true. I have seen plenty of white people put down by other white people, and not “given a break”.
Everybody talks about getting along and working together, but this cannot happen when everyone (black, white, etc) has such deep rooted issues with the other race. This goes for both sides.
nonsense
October 27th, 2011
10:28 am
In countries like China, Korea, and India, people with no education are looked down upon. In the U.S., successful people with an education are looked down upon as greedy and evil. Can you see why we’re being passed on the intellectual highway?
You people make me laugh
October 27th, 2011
10:30 am
And we will continue to be passed on the intellectual highway, cause we are too busy fighting the same fight with each other over and over again.
ASB
October 27th, 2011
10:33 am
RAMZAD,
You are correct. In a lot of cases, blacks undermine other blacks. I apologize for the angry tone. However, you can well understand my disgust.
Often, Black women (I prefer woman of color or nothing at all since I am just me) have been expected to choose being black over being a woman. We are expected to be silent when a black man is harassing us. We know there is a lot of division in our community due to skin color, hair texture, income, wealth, family background and education to name a few.
(ir)Rational
October 27th, 2011
10:36 am
nonsense – That is an interesting observation. And perhaps the only one on the list so far that actually makes sense. If I were to believe everything I’ve read here so far, I would be led to believe that I only got to where I am today (which isn’t very far YET, with the keyword being yet) because I’m white and everything, including my degree from Georgia Tech were handed to me simply because I’m white. That because I’m white, my family obviously benefited from slavery and got all of our money (what money? but all white people have money right?) off the backs of others, which is interesting because most of my family came to America during the War Between the States, got off a boat in New York and were given a gun and a uniform and told to go fight for their country. Oh, and the newest one is that I should go climb to the top floor of the tallest building I can find and jump out. Not sure why, but I’m guessing that will help “Do us all a favor part 2″ find a better job? Maybe? No? But seriously, the level of ignorance displayed on these pages leaves no doubt in my mind why there is such a disparity between the incomes of the richest and the poorest in the City of Atlanta. But I guess I’m just viewing the world through my privileged white eyes and don’t see how it “really is.”
itamazesme
October 27th, 2011
10:41 am
ASB – have you thought about going to the EEOC. Your situation definitely seems to warrant their involvement.
RAMZAD
October 27th, 2011
10:43 am
Nonsense:
Quit your revisionist nonsense and come out honestly!
Indians, Koreans, and Chinese has no legacy of Bull Conner. No legacy of Separate bur Equal. No legacy of Klan Lynching. No legacy of Jim Crow. No legacy of Brown v Board of Education. No legacy of Voting Rights Act. No legacy of Buffalo Soldiers. No legacy of Tuskegee Experiments. No Legacy of Tuskegee Airmen. No legacy of Atlanta Race Race Riots.
They came when all the work was done.
Woody
October 27th, 2011
10:44 am
Wow. A lot of you guys really HATE the poor. And a bunch of you really HATE the rich. Makes me glad I’m in the middle! This ‘divide’ has more to do with our lack of meaningful contact with one another, than with income.
RAMZAD
October 27th, 2011
10:45 am
Nonsense:
The “evil white man” needs to put some clothes on and come out to join us in building America one citizen at a time.
M'Karyl
October 27th, 2011
10:48 am
Well, one thing is for sure…the poor have always been amongst us and always will be…we are not going anywhere…lol…poverty is not about ppl who are too lazy to work…it is also about not being able to earn enough income withing 30 days to meet expenses and remaining in financial deficit with all available resources options have been exhausted to make ends meet…yep, that be poverty too…and the exponentially increasing rate of consumer costs only continually add to that dilemma…between the continual increase in prices at the grocery store since July and the most recent increase in MARTA weekly and monthly passes…my monthly living expenses have increased $50-$100 per month…without any change of income…without any change of activities…and so, even with a degree, experience, and a good work ethic a person can struggle to move beyond these limits…ppl living income levels beneath the poverty level drop the fastest and the hardest when cost of living increases beyond reasonable measures to control outgo over income…and that number of ppl in this country is increasing every single day…and the demographic of that face is slowly changing…yep it is…
RAMZAD
October 27th, 2011
10:48 am
Rational:
You are white. You are not trying to understand. Your mind is made up. You are hopeless. Georgia Tech an all….
nonsense
October 27th, 2011
10:48 am
Ramzad, I seem to remember seeing pictures of Chinese people building railroads out west back in the day. You also need to get your head out of your rear end and stop living in the past. So are you telling me that the reason black man X can’t find a $100,000/year job is because his great, great grandfather was a slave who was forced to eat rotten apples everyday?
Again, that is why so many people are stuck in this “i’m a victim” rut. Stop making excuses and use all that energy to better yourself.
Do us all a favor part 2
October 27th, 2011
10:52 am
Again, if you are not that person then my comment does not apply to you. It applies to the group of people that can identify with my description of some white people in Atlanta and are the ones looking down on those that are not fortunate to be where they are. I know that every white person is not wealthy….hence white people are the majority on goverment assitance. My “irrational” comment was directed soley to the people that feel that blacks that are not as fortunate as they are chose to be that way AND do not want a better life because they are lazy! that to me is irrational! Getting a better job will not solve my financial struggles. (well it may help) I make a decent salary but the COST OF LIVING is placing a strain on my income. Who controls the cost to live??? Mainly big corporations! I CHOSE to get a part-time job. So I work two jobs just to live comfortably and do not complain about it. I understand the definition of hard work and sacrifice. But I also know that my chances of living like a millionaire without a lucky draw of the lottery is unlikely BUT there is my faith so who knows!
RAMZAD
October 27th, 2011
10:53 am
Nonsense:
You want to forget. But you will not allow black people to forget. Slavery could be a distant memory
if more whites would stop believing that the only place black people are worth anything is on the plantation.
ASB
October 27th, 2011
10:53 am
itamazesme, I trusted the process the company had in place much to my chagrin. i contacted EEOC but the deadline to file had passed.
(ir)Rational
October 27th, 2011
10:54 am
RAMZAD – You should have paid better attention in English class. Then maybe, just maybe, you could form coherent sentences that made sense, and use something approaching proper grammar and spelling. Also, I’m laughing quietly to myself at the ignorance you’ve displayed in your “knowledge” of the troubles and hardships Asians have had to deal with to get to where they are today. Just because they weren’t here going through the Civil Rights Movement in the 50s and 60s means they obviously didn’t have any problems right? Like in India where you can be super smart, but from the wrong group/family, so you’ll never be given the opportunity to go to school because you’re “untouchable?” But then again, I’m sure that I’m just making stuff up, and you have it harder. My bad for trying to think.
RAMZAD
October 27th, 2011
10:55 am
Fool:
Chinese building railroads was yesterday. Everybody know that picture. Bull Conner was yesterday too.
RAMZAD
October 27th, 2011
10:57 am
Rational:
I see you are reading my sentences and commenting on the sense they make. It seems that you also learned magic at Georgia Tech.
Butch Cassidy
October 27th, 2011
11:01 am
ASB – “Now, I have received a layoff notice while he laughs at getting away with harassment”
” i contacted EEOC but the deadline to file had passed.”
That doesn’t make any sense. The EEOC allows an employee up to 18 months to file a claim of retaliation. According to your post, you referred to your layoff notice as “now” which indicates that it is current. If what you say is true, then you should be well within the EEOC deadline for filing.
RAMZAD
October 27th, 2011
11:01 am
Rational:
We are not talking about India. I am also not discounting the effect of Black on Black crime- to make an analogy to the Indian on Indian racism.
However, Indians are a recent phenomena recent in America. Massa was long cracking negro in Augusta heads before the Raj woke up.
nonsense
October 27th, 2011
11:01 am
Ramzad, dude, you are an angry black man that’s just grasping for anything. No, Sharpton and Jackson won’t let black people forget and keep stirring the pot. Maybe, just maybe, black people wouldn’t have such a negative stereotype if one could watch the evening news and not see that the majority of crime is committed by the poor black man.
Whether it be yesterday or 40 years ago, it is the past. Drop it and move on.
Undeserving
October 27th, 2011
11:02 am
Typical AJC “non story” full of racist comments. I like to read the comments so I can see all the “Christians” that I live amongst. Hopefully the rude racist people are just a small sliver of the community, but lately I doubt it.
I am one sale away from loosing my job. So I may soon know how it feels to be unemployed. So according to most of the comments – I will go from being a productive member of society to a worthless piece of garbage with no job. Very “Christian” of you guys. May I be as lucky as you all in life and keep existing in my perfect bubble.
ASB
October 27th, 2011
11:03 am
Thanks Butch Cassidy!
(ir)Rational
October 27th, 2011
11:04 am
RAMZAD – Once again, you’re comments make no sense. Want to try again and have a rational conversation?
Do us all a favor part 2 – I don’t think there are a lot of people anywhere that look down on one particular group and think “well, you’re poor because you’re _____” (fill in whatever group you want there). A lot of people look down on the poor, and don’t care what they look like, but they might think they’ve made better choices, and worked harder than them. I don’t consider it my “luck” that I have what I have, and none of it was given to me either. I’ve made some poor choices in life, and I’m sure I’ll make plenty more, but I’ve also made some good decisions, and have benefited from those just as I’ve had problems because of the poor decisions I’ve made. I take personal responsibility for where I am today, and I’ll take personal responsibility for where I am tomorrow. No matter where that is. Better or worse, it was my decisions/actions that got me here, and it will be my decisions/actions that get me to where ever I end up. Hopefully, I will end up rich, and my children will be better off than I was, but isn’t that what everyone wants for their children?
RAMZAD
October 27th, 2011
11:06 am
Nonsense:
Not angry, just amazed to see that you believe that everything about race relations in America is just fine, and if the poor black people would just forget about slavery and find a new plantation everything would go back to just the way they were.
itamazesme
October 27th, 2011
11:07 am
ASB – We recently had someone come in from the EEOC to speak with us. Something that the rep stressed was that when a person goes to HR and they fail to do something about it, then the company becomes a party to the situation. Try one more time, let them know the reason you took as long as you did about coming to them was because you trusted that the company was handling the process. With your explanation, it seems they would open case for you, unless it has been too much time between the incident and now. Best of luck to you.
Butch Cassidy
October 27th, 2011
11:07 am
ASB – “Thanks Butch Cassidy!”
No problem. I just re-read my post and realized that I had made an error.The EEOC allows 180 DAYs to file. Sorry, but if you just got laid off, I’m sure you can still file.
(ir)Rational
October 27th, 2011
11:07 am
But we were talking about it, or at least nonsense and I were. How they have the attitude that it is a good thing if you go and get an education and make money for yourself and your family. But then you said they didn’t have to deal with the same problems you did, so I was just pointing out that they have issues of their own.
Ed
October 27th, 2011
11:08 am
Let me leave you with one bit of history that is not taught in the government schools. (1) It was a Republican, Abe Lincoln who emancipated the slaves 148 years ago. Thousands of blacks have used the 148 years since then to take advantage of their individual worth and become good citizens who contribute to the betterment of mankind. (2) It was the Dixiecrats, splinters of the DEMOCRAT PARTY who championed the separate but equal practices of old. It was the Democrats who fought bitterly against equal rights and integration. It was the Democrats who created the federal plantation to which a majority of blacks are now enslaved. Blacks were conditioned to drink the poison from the welfare cup. To abandon their individualism to the welfare state created by the Democrats. After all these years a majority of blacks still march in lock step with their Democrat masters . Figger that out and you’ll begin to understand why the world is passing you by.
(ir)Rational
October 27th, 2011
11:10 am
Ed – Don’t go quoting actual facts/history here. It doesn’t fit the narrative.
RAMZAD
October 27th, 2011
11:11 am
Ed:
Golly!
We have something. May be Democrats are racists too. Astounding! We know the Republican Tea Party is not.
(ir)Rational
October 27th, 2011
11:14 am
RAMZAD – The Tea Party actually isn’t. But, once again, don’t let the facts get in the way of a good emotional argument. The news has a habit of going out and finding the craziest person they can at any type of rally, cause that makes the best news story, and then portraying an entire movement based off the opinions of that one person. However, if you truly believe the Tea Part is racist, let’s see some actual proof.
RAMZAD
October 27th, 2011
11:15 am
Rational:
You are deluded in your own little perfect world. Just wait the the poor and the black and the Latinos – some all three in one- start coming over your compound fence by the dozens and your world start coming apart. We will see how much things are just fine.
(ir)Rational
October 27th, 2011
11:17 am
So no rational discussion? Okay, so I guess I’ll go ahead and leave since you don’t want to have a real discussion.
(ir)Rational
October 27th, 2011
11:18 am
Oh, FYI, I don’t live in a compound, and anyone that tries to come into my house will be met with 00 Buckshot from my 12 gauge. Just sayin.
nonsense
October 27th, 2011
11:18 am
Ramzad, there are 2 kinds of people in this world:
1) those that go out and better themselves no matter what their past situation may be; and
2) those that cry about how their lives suck and blame everyone except themselves.
I’ll go out on a limb and say you, my friend, are in the second boat.
Do us all a favor part 2
October 27th, 2011
11:21 am
@ M’Karyl – yes indeed!!!! You are speaking the truth!
Occutard
October 27th, 2011
11:23 am
I thoroughly enjoyed reading this article and the following comments from my 12.5k sq ft home on W. Paces Ferry Road. It is such a blessing and a privilege to be able to sit in my designer decorated home, staring out the window at my exotic foreign mode of transportation and being fortunate enough to be living off my multitude of wealth courtesy of the 99%. Please accept my gratitude and thanks go to those at the IRS for only taxing my capital gains at a mere 15%. Have a blessed day my minions.
Do us all a favor part 2
October 27th, 2011
11:24 am
Thanks Ed! Main reason why I don’t participate in the politics! Why advocate for a system dead bent on keeping me enslaved…whether it be pyhsical or mental…the mental slavery is at an all time high these days!
Do us all a favor part 2
October 27th, 2011
11:25 am
@ Occtutard…..you can jump at any moment now
Occutard
October 27th, 2011
11:32 am
Actually Duaafp2, you should be doing the jumping and asking me “How high?”
Do us all a favor part 2
October 27th, 2011
11:35 am
You make good points Irrational BUT do a hypothectical that is really someone’s reality with me for one second….Little girl Ashley was born and raised in the foster care system….she ceases upon the limited opportunities available to her. She transitioned from foster family to foster family until reaching her 17th b-day and is no longer a ward of the state. Little Ashley decided to go to college, she decided to get a job. She loses her job and ultimately her home. Within 6months she is living below poverty with the aid from the goverment. You tell me if you think Little Ashley’s situation could’ve been prevented by Little Ashley or if there were factors in her past beyond her control. She became a productive member of society, she used her skills and talents to gain meaningful employment. But I wonder if Little Ashley had a well-to-do family (not rich but just average) if her outcome would be the same. The only reason why I never had to stand in a line or enter a shelter is because I have family. That is the only reason. Some people no matter how hard they work don’t have that so when they fall…they fall alone! And are bundled together with a group of people that society looks down upon because income or the lack of it.
Student of Life
October 27th, 2011
11:36 am
“I’ll go out on a limb and say you, my friend, are in the second boat.”
In what boat is someone who comments on AJC blogs all day instead of working?
Do us all a favor part 2
October 27th, 2011
11:36 am
@ Occutard…..I’m too busy asking the enemy how high…sorry, wait in line.
bemebpme
October 27th, 2011
11:37 am
Sweet I’m rich. and broke a the same time.
nonsense
October 27th, 2011
11:40 am
Student of Life, that person is in the same boat as the one who comes into the blog to ask that question.
Student of Life
October 27th, 2011
11:49 am
@nonsense
I’ve been on here 15 minutes; you’ve been on here two hours. Very different boats.
nonsense
October 27th, 2011
11:51 am
Sorry, I didn’t realize the blog police was out and keeping tabs on people.
ASB
October 27th, 2011
11:52 am
itamazesme, thank you!
lapedro
October 27th, 2011
11:56 am
hey lets do away with lending standards so everyone can own the american dream and of course they can just take out a lyar loan and we will give them a mortgage, yea thats the ticket, oh sorry thats already been tried by the democrat socialist party, oh well, lets do away with paying back student loans oh thats right the democrat socialist have already done that too, well lets plant more of those trees that money grows on and everyone can be rich
yuzeyurbrane
October 27th, 2011
11:57 am
Probably a big surprise to those who live in gated communities and scoot to work in HOT Lanes.
lapedro
October 27th, 2011
11:58 am
yea lets just plant trees that money grows on and then when we have a forest we will all be happy and live together in harmony
lapedro
October 27th, 2011
12:00 pm
dousallafavorpart2, your kid needs his diaper changed, you’ve been on here preaching for 2 hours
lapedro
October 27th, 2011
12:02 pm
right on ED right on
lapedro
October 27th, 2011
12:04 pm
illegals are steamrolling over the “been done wrongs” but but but squaaaash
Chip
October 27th, 2011
12:07 pm
Sorry, the poor that I know work 2-3 jobs, 7 days a week and are the hardest working people around.
To correct an early ignorant comment what can be purchased with food stamps is very limited and regulated! You think poor people don’t want a job? put out a help wanted sign and see how many people come or just watch the news when theirs a job fair and the people are lined up around the block for hours.
For those making disparaging comments I know many $100K + salaried professional men 45+ who after 1-2 years of being out of work are poor and taking physical labor jobs for $17-23K, they will tell you how hard they work!
Remember we all are just two words from joining the poor! “YOUR FIRED!”
Do us all a favor part 2
October 27th, 2011
12:28 pm
@ Chip….my thoughts exactly!!!!
GHOTART
October 27th, 2011
12:31 pm
Let just be honest…Everyone can’t be rich. Someone, some group or class, must flip burgers…pick tomatoes..clean public restrooms and do all of the other things that make being rich worth-while, if not, there is no advantage in wealth. The poor are just as much a component of wealth as is any tangible asset. The poor (as a group) have an intrinsic value that has a direct effect upon the value that is attributed to the wealth of the rich. So please…. stop bashing the poor. Because…( God Bless’em ) without them there is no us ! ! !
Do us all a favor part 2
October 27th, 2011
12:32 pm
@ lapedro…interesting….there sure is enough of it to make everyone rich. I wonder why that idea never got passed…I know why, the top 1% would have a fit. Money is backed by nothing yet people have to kill each other just to get their hands on it. Crazy world we live in….
Oh BTW – my child is in school and how long I choose to vent has absolutely nothing to do with your and your coins….
A.S.Mathew
October 27th, 2011
12:51 pm
Economic catastrophe of the U.S. has turned like a disabled ship
1000 miles away from the land. Now the economic situation drastically
turned as a class war in between the rich and the poor. The poor and the middle class are in the same boat and the rich are standing on the
other side. This seems like a long term problem because the economy
is not showing any positive sign.
ashamed
October 27th, 2011
12:57 pm
ramzad-
Please… get a job. I am ashamed of you. Redirect your anger at the true source of your problems, the only element that is consistent in any situation in which you have been wronged…YOU. Be a strong human and work to achieve a positive result, quit bringing our country down with yor racism!
ashamed
October 27th, 2011
1:03 pm
type-o “your” rather than “yor”
Benjamin Check
October 27th, 2011
1:26 pm
I love all these people who keep saying that they see people in new escalades buying nail polish and hair products with food stamps. First of all, you cannot buy those items with an EBT card, so STFU please. Secondly, if you are busy paying attention to what form of payment someone else is using and analyzing their purchases, you really need to find something to do with your life. THIRD, if you are in an area where the majority of people are paying with foodstamps/EBT then I’m sorry to reveal this to you, but YOU’RE AS BROKE AS THEY ARE; and have no business trying to look down your nose at someone who is your neighbor. and FOURTH…all you do is show that you yourself have never bought anything requiring what is called a CREDIT CHECK; from a cellphone, to a vehicle. Swiping an EBT card at the car dealership and waving your section 8 voucher will get you nothing but laughed at and a firm escort out of the building. And then to this idiot Quantavius… My sister in law is a tutor, she tutors rich kids who get scholarships. Poor kids have the HARDEST time going to school for free; usually come from a “difficult” background where the parents are less educated, and therefore less knowledgeable about scholarships, tuition costs, grants etc. When they cut the hope loans and raised the GPA the people who benefit are the upper middle class, and upper class parents who have money to spend on tutors for the SAT, ACT, and AP exams. Their kids go to school on scholarship, well deserved, but their family can certainly afford tuition.
Another question is this….how did the illegals get here in the first place? When I was in high school (94-98), Industrious high school kids (like myself) mowed lawns in our suburb communities and made a pretty penny. We worked as dishwashers, made pizzas, worked in foot locker, subway, fast food. Fast Forward to 2008. White suburbanites now pay illegals to mow their lawns, nanny their kids, staff their kitchens, as cheap under the table labor when they are doing their section 8 slumlord thing and taking advantage of targeted real estate fraud designed to keep an area depressed until the gentrification arrives and those “in the know” can flip and make money. Who paid all these illegals? White people! I’m a real estate investor myself; I’ve never gone to home depot and gathered up a crew of illegals, but I have sure seen a MILLION white guys pick up a truckload. Anti-obama sticker in the window, but paying illegals as fast as you can, instead of another American. Then they cry “taxes”……STFU.
keith
October 27th, 2011
1:26 pm
I work 6 days a week to get by because I like spending money.
Benjamin Check
October 27th, 2011
1:44 pm
This goes out to Ed and all the people who say Abraham lincoln and MLK were republicans, like blacks should owe republicans. I will type this in caps so you idiots understand this.
AFTER AND DURING THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT, RACIST REPUBLICANS WHO WERE AGAINST IT JOINED FORCES WITH THE RACIST DIXIECRATS AND FORMED “THE NEW REPUBLICAN PARTY”; SOLIDIFIED IN 1970 WHEN NIXON USED THE “SOUTHERN STRATEGY” TO UNITE RACIST ELEMENTS IN NORTH AND SOUTH. THAT IS WHEN BLACK PEOPLE AND MINORITIES BEGAN TO MAKE THEIR TRANSITION TO THE DEMOCRATS. Keep bringing up abraham lincoln to black people like we owe abe something. Lincoln cared not ONE IOTA about slavery; slaves were freed to disrupt the southern war effort and the cotton and tobacco trade with England which financed it. Slaves were freed to scare racist coward rebel soldiers into thinking that now that massa isn’t home, the slaves will run wild raping white women and killing old white folks who couldn’t go fight. It had NOTHING to do with SLAVERY itself. ZIP, ZERO. Freedom was a byproduct of the civil war, not the reason as so many whites like to pretend. Isn’t this supposed to be YOUR country? Why don’t you know your own history? Or do you just tell yourselves these lies to make yourselves feel superior; like the word “cracker” has anything to do with a whip or the sound it makes. It means LIAR. Cracker means LIAR.
As early as the 1760s, this term was in use by the upper class planters in the British North American colonies to refer to Scots-Irish and English settlers in the south. The vast majority of whom were descendants of English bond servants. A letter to the Earl of Dartmouth reads:
“I should explain to your Lordship what is meant by Crackers; a name they have got from being great boasters; they are a lawless set of rascalls on the frontiers of Virginia, Maryland, the Carolinas, and Georgia, who often change their places of abode.” That was written in 1760.
Stop trying to rewrite history, your revisionist attempts are futile and only effective on the already stupid and mis-educated.
just saying
October 27th, 2011
2:43 pm
I’m telling you. Atlanta cannot let go of the race issue .
Eric Aslakson
October 27th, 2011
2:50 pm
The solution is not complicated at all.
Stop rich multinationals from shipping all our good jobs overseas and you’ll start to reduce income disparity.
Start making the rich pay their fair share of taxes and you’ll start to reduce income disparity.
To do both of these will require kicking GA’s current senators out of office – at a minimum – they are against both of the above.
Jomozall
October 27th, 2011
4:03 pm
Mo Bieber. Must have mo Bieber.
Dave Francis
October 27th, 2011
4:26 pm
Take your complaints to the doors of the Congress, as regards to illegal aliens stealing jobs, by way of collusion of dishonest business owners. Don’t moan about the policies of Sanctuary Cities, Dream Acts or the 6 small amnesties since covertly passed since 1986, unless you are ready to speak up. Then again, if you are incensed about the 20 million foreigners settled in America unlawfully, you can do something now. These migrants and immigrants are depleting the US federal and state treasuries and taxpayers pockets and then make your voice known. Tell the Senators and House Republicans you want Rep. Lamar Smith’s mandatory “Legal Workforce Act as bill H.R. 2885 brought urgently to the House floor. It will reduce illegal immigration nationwide, including your states. Stop the clogged classroom full of children of aliens and sever free health care of these families and empty prisons and jails. The $113 Billion dollars a year, should be going back into your bank account.
ALL AMERICANS AND LEGAL RESIDENTS SHOULD ACQUIRE THEIR CONGRESSIONAL REPRESENTATIVE TO PASS THIS LAW, WHETHER YOU’RE BLACK, WHITE, HISPANIC, ASIAN OR ANY OTHER RACIAL GENDRE. JOIN THE TEA PARTY AND GET THE ‘LEGAL WORKFORCE ACT’ PASSED.
There is no credence in LEGAL IMMIGRANTS being arrested, as this sort of outright lie is generated from the Liberal and Democratic media. Those with a legal right to be here is completely free from any harassment. Any citizen or legal immigrant is welcome to the TEA PARTY membership, no matter the rhetoric and propaganda from the leftist morons.
ELECTED TEA PARTY FRESHMEN WHO DOESN’T VOTE FOR MANDATORY E-VERIFY IS BEING CAREFULLY WATCHED BY THOUSANDS OF TEA PARTY BRANCHES, THROUGHOUT OUR COUNTRY. THEY WILL NOT BE FORGOTTEN IN FUTURE ELECTIONS? THEY HAVE BEEN WARNED!
Our freshman Congressman has done nothing so far this year to advance the cause of E-Verify and driving illegal aliens out of U.S. jobs to open them up for unemployed Americans. This fax tries to focus your Congressman on the most important thing he/she can do right now to fight illegal immigration — co-sponsor the Legal Workforce Act (H.R. 2885).
WE NEED YOUR U.S. REP SIGNED ONTO H.R. 2885 THIS WEEK
Millions of patriotic Americans getting this Alert have freshman Representatives who supposedly ran for office to do things differently. Many are members of the TEA PARTY and the TENS OF MILLIONS IN THE TEA PARTY REVOLUTION, must urge these individuals to sign on to H.R. 2885.
But until they sign onto the bill and moved out of Judiciary, there is little chance that the House Republican leaders will bring it to the floor for a vote. That means millions of Americans will stay unemployed instead of having a chance at the jobs that will be opened up when this bill throws millions of illegal aliens out of their construction, manufacturing, transportation, service and hospitality jobs.
You can also send a free fax, by going to NumbersUSA or call 202-224-3121 and ask for your U.S. House Representative’s office to urge action in this next session in Congress. The TEA PARTY will not tolerate Sanctuary cities, Dream Acts, another Amnesty or any Immigration Reform that circumvents the law. As far too long the politicians have placed the interests of illegal aliens before its citizens and permanent residents. In additionally we must harass the both parties to build the REAL 2006 SECURE FENCE, an act already passed with no exceptions.
Entering America unlawfully must be prosecuted as a Felony, as currently it’s not even a Criminal offense. Then we will see some radical changes to this impossible plague.
NO COPYRIGHT EVER! DISTRIBUTE TO EVERYBODY TO SAVE AMERICA.
Get Off Your High Horse
October 27th, 2011
5:53 pm
Oh Please! I’ll have all of you know that I graduated with a degree in Public Relations, but graduated in 2008 so couldn’t find a job. I had to take a minimum wage job watching kids in a daycare. Not my dream job but I did it so that I could live. Furthermore, I went back and got my master’s in education, but because education is being cut in Georgia, I haven’t had any luck finding a job as a teacher either. So before you call anyone “lazy” or accuse someone of being playing the “victim”. Why don’t you look at the person taking care of your kids in daycare? They probably have a degree, can’t find a job and sure as hell don’t want to spend their lives changing diapers all day while not being paid worth a crap. I’ve done everything that was required of me, and I will always work my hardest, whether I’m getting paid minimum wage or salary. I don’t expect a handout and neither do most people. Get off your high horses! Just because someone wants a better quality of life and a livable wage doesn’t mean they want the government to do it for them!
tlmack
October 27th, 2011
6:16 pm
Thank God that the wealth of the WICKED is laid up for the JUST!!!!
ATLANTA TO SEATTLE IN2016
October 27th, 2011
6:25 pm
too many poor non educated thugs and hood rats moved here from Detroit,New orleans ,New jersey,New york,Cleveland St louis..ruining Atlanta raising crime,and ruining what was once a brave,progressive,beautiful city turning it into carbon copies of the cities mentioned..thats what wrong with Atlanta its been ghettorized!!
tlmack
October 27th, 2011
6:50 pm
JIM CROW IS STILL ALIVE AND WELL IN MOST WHITE HOMES TODAY. YOU ARE TELLING ME THAT A PERSON OF COLOR IS AFFORDED THE SAME POSITION AS A WHITE MAN WITH THE SAME PAY? ARE YOU REALLY SAYING WE HAVE THE SAME OPPORTUNITIES BECAUSE OF ABE LINCOLN FREED THE SALVES 148 YRS AGO. STOP THE MADDNESS. BLACKS WERE FREED AND FOUGHT ON THE FRONT LINES TO WIN THE WAR, LIKE WE WIN EVERYTHING ELSE. YOU DONT HAVE TO GIVE US ANYTHING, OPEN THE DOOR, ILL GET IT MYSELF. CIVIL RIGHTS, JAMES BROWN!!!!! WHITE AMERICA IS AFRAID OF US. WE DONT HAVE THE SAME OPPORTUNITY BECAUSE YOU KNOW DEEP IN YOUR HEART WE WOULD AND COULD RUN THIS COUNTRY. THATS WHY YOURE SO AFRAID OF OBAMA, HE WILL WIN AGAIN,BECAUSE WHO GOD ORDAIN TO BE IIN POWER, YOU HAVE NO CHOICE. TRY AN KILL THIS ONE, YOU WILL SEE THE TRUE POWER!!!
Lone Lost Soldier
October 27th, 2011
8:29 pm
This is so epic; it shows how far we have come as a civilized nation. The United States as it currently stands is very far behind in trying to get people to reason with each other, understand each other and appreciate the essence of living as one race. The two most important words that should be placed upon every individual lips should be the words:
Communication and Compromise
Not the words, Blacks, Whites, Mexicans or whatever race. Creating harmony for all should be the most important thing in this world today. For all the racial comments that exist in people who are in fact truly racist, you can only pray for them as they will surely have their day. People are born every day and people die every day, your day will surely come. There is no if’s and buts’ about it, it happens, there is no way around that. I would just like to know one thing, why these individuals think that the United States was meant solely for them. That tells me that these individuals lack something in the brain. How any normal person who is white would could claim the United States as their original home. They were sent here as outcasts from England (criminals; as a matter of fact very bad criminals); they had no clue of North America (this is why it is such a shame to have Columbus Day as a holiday and thanksgiving) I won’t even go there (massacre of the Indians); what the hell did he do? That wasn’t already done before-hand. History as it is told in its current format is not true, and those who wish to believe in that are truly out of touch. It is so amazing that history isn’t told the way it should be, that the Native Americans Indians (who are still mistreated) and Mexican Americans (who are still mistreated) were in fact the very first ones here in North America. To those racists who wish to declare the United States for themselves, let’s go back into history and begin with how the United States became as it is today.
First off, let mention to the individuals who think that this country is theirs and theirs only, answer this question:
Who was here first?
Native Americans
Mexicans or
The Superior race (White People)
If one paid any attention to the question and the format, they will come up with the answer and present it to the AJC. It is very upsetting that after leaving the State of Georgia as a young man to discover answers from around the world (20 something years ago) to see that this type of attitude still exist in Georgia and other surrounding Cities. It is very unfortunately as we approach year 2012 that such racism still exist in this country and in this world. Taking a piece from Michael Jackson (RIP)….we should all take a look into the mirror…..and if you don’t like what you see……and if you wish to make the world a better place…….then you got to make that change (White, Black or whatever color you may be). It has to happen NOW!! Forget all this hate, all this crime against each other, it is not important. Believe in yourself, you will feel so much better ……CHANGE!!
STOP HATE
STOP CRIME
LOVE ONE ANOTHER, IT DOESN’T MATTER WHAT COLOR YOU ARE
MY BLOOD IS RED
WHAT COLOR IS YOUR BLOOD?
COMMUNICATE/COMPROMISE
IT IS THE THING TO DO, NOW. NOT TOMMORROW, BUT NOW. STOP HATING; LOVE ONE ANOTHER PEOPLE….PLEASE…..PRETTY PLEASE!!!!!!
A story from a lone lost soldier, who wish to return to the State of Georgia, without the hate that exist among its people (White, Black, Mexican) we are all people.
RG
#1!!
October 27th, 2011
11:20 pm
YeS!!! Atlanta’s number 1 in something!! Break out the champagne and light up the strong stuff!!!! We made it!!!
Terri
October 28th, 2011
7:58 am
It never fails, on every GA blog the racist show their ugly little heads. The blog could simply be about a cooking recipe and true to GA form, someone will spin the topic into minorities this minorities that. GTF up folks, their are real people hurting out there, placed in a position that they would never imagined they would be in, of course we have the blood suckers too, and of course we have the greedy busienesses, just stop! There is plenty of room for blame, but why waste that time, let’s find fair solutions
mac240
October 28th, 2011
8:32 pm
Atlanta will look like Detroit in ten years!