It is not racism to try to help DeKalb students
“Though the public has an interest in its elected officials being able to serve in the offices to which they’ve been elected, there is an even greater public interest at stake here. The interest of the public in a healthy school system outweighs the interests of the board members in serving in their positions.”
Those two simple sentences, written by U.S. District Court Judge Richard Story in his ruling Monday, capture the essence of the controversy surrounding the DeKalb County School Board.
Students are more important than politicians. Not exactly rocket science, right? Yet too many members of the school board lost sight of that fact, assuming a degree of inflated self-importance that made an already difficult district impossible to govern. The fact that those members — most prominent among them Eugene Walker — continue to operate under the delusion of their own ego, even after reminders to the contrary by the state Board of Education, the governor, the DeKalb public and now a federal judge, speaks volumes.
In the wake of Monday’s ruling, the six members of the board suspended by Gov. Nathan Deal should resign, in the interest of those they supposedly serve.
Unfortunately, Walker and other board members have been encouraged in their obstinance by others who have lost track of priorities. Last week, leaders of the Georgia and DeKalb County chapters of the NAACP stood on the steps of the Capitol to condemn the governor for daring to intervene on behalf of DeKalb’s students, and went on to suggest that his actions were motivated by racism.
It is hard to understand the misplaced priorities that drive such statements, and hard to ignore the damage they can do in such a sensitive situation. Yes, racism does still exist, and it does still affect governmental policy and action, from health care to education to transportation. But crying racism as a political tactic, with no evidence that it is playing a role, cheapens the problem. It also ends up encouraging the very attitude that it supposedly condemns.
One important manifestation of racism is apathy — the malign neglect of struggling minority communities by a majority that cannot be bothered to care. If racism was the governor’s motivation, the easy thing to have done was absolutely nothing. Deal and the state Board of Education could have washed their hands of the problem and allowed events to take their course. And we all know what that course would have been:
Hamstrung by its board, the district would be stripped of its accreditation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, which had already put it on probation. Loss of accreditation would in turn have devalued property throughout the county, and more importantly it would devalue the diplomas of DeKalb graduates.
The crisis would snowball from there. With accreditation lost, the competition and distrust between communities within the district would explode. Political clamor would grow for private alternatives to the public-school model. Armed with a major crisis in the state’s third-largest school system, a conservative Republican such as Deal could have used the opportunity to open the doors further to vouchers and private charter schools.
Instead, he chose to intervene and accept a degree of ownership in the problem. For that, he is rewarded by so-called community leaders with suggestions of racism?
It’s important to note that other black elected leaders, including House Minority Leader Stacey Abrams, a Democrat and a DeKalb resident, have stood in public support of Deal’s decision. Like the governor, they have nothing to gain politically by such a step, and in fact take a risk by reaching across partisan and racial lines on such a potentially emotional issue. But they too recognize that the education of schoolchildren must take precedence.
The NAACP leaders, on the other hand, show little sign of being motivated by such concerns. Their interest was much more narrow: trying to save the positions of the six board members, five of them black, who had been suspended by the governor. Despite the noble history of their organization, they have acted as if the “P” in NAACP stood for “politicians.”
It stands for “people”.
— Jay Bookman
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Bobby
March 5th, 2013
11:21 am
Well said Jay!
Keep Up the Good Fight!
March 5th, 2013
11:23 am
A perfect example of what im talking about is when the skinny teen was stomped to death by 3 or 4 unknown men in Douglasville a year ago, who did the NAACP come out and stand behind? The perps!!
Typical kneejerk reaction showing dismal awareness of reality. Witnesses were taken by bus to the sheriff’s office which provoked a response from the NAACP. A spokesperson for the NAACP queried whether investigators followed proper procedures in questioning the witnesses and whether they were allowed to call their parents.
In other words, it appears that the NAACP may have been concerned that witnesses may have been coerced. Why I am sure we have never seen police coerce witnesses into testifying falsely or convicting the wrong people.
indigo
March 5th, 2013
11:35 am
Doggone/GA – 10:51 “promoting racial pride”
So, it’s ok for Blacks to promote their racial pride?
Then it must be ok for Whites to promote their racial pride.
And, it must be ok for Asians to promote their racial pride.
And, it must be ok for bi-racial people to promote their racial pride.
And, it must be ok for multi-racial people to promote their racial pride.
So, we have a world where EVERYONE promotes their racial pride.
Sounds fair to me. Ridiculous but fair.
Maybe we all should just carry a sign saying “Im proud to be a humam”.
RexDogma
March 5th, 2013
11:36 am
I kinda agree with Jay, however I feel that Governor Deal seems to be much more interested in this than Atlanta & Clayton so he can play the Republican Dunwoody Card. Soon they will probably have their own system and DeKalb will be resegregated. Even though some of the board members are the problem, it is very dangerous that the Governor can just appoint who he wants. This was a guy who was nearly indicted himself. We will see how many other boards he becomes interested in.
Jim
March 5th, 2013
11:38 am
The Dekalb County and previous Clayton county debacles are clear indications that we need to go to a true voucher system where students can take their tax money to any school that wants them.
Doggone/GA
March 5th, 2013
11:40 am
“Sounds fair to me. Ridiculous but fair”
Why is it ridiculous? People do it all the time. Ever seen the banner signs: “My child graduated from ???? High School”
There’s nothing wrong with promoting pride in “your team”
Dunwoody Parent
March 5th, 2013
11:40 am
I agree – Jester is not supported by all of Dunwoody and her testimony and her past behavior in my community has proven that she IS part of the problem. Jester never saw her role as one of representing ALL students in Dunwoody, much less all students in DeKalb.
Doggone/GA
March 5th, 2013
11:41 am
“where students can take their tax money to any school that wants them.”
That would be fine, if ALL they took was their PARENT’s tax money. But then what happens to the tax money of people like me, who have no children? When do *I* get to say where MY money goes?
War Eagle
March 5th, 2013
11:42 am
Great work Mr.Bookman. Hit the nail on the head! THose that are being removed are being removed b/c they cannot get the job done. NAACP jumps up and down crying racism b/c 5 or the 6 are black. Once again, NAACP does not care about facts. They are an org that needs to fade away. They are no longer useful. Listen up NAA of creating problems: These people are being removed b/c they FAILED at their jobs and the kids are failing b/c of them. Unlike your org, you can fail allyou want, as long as you are black you have a job. It does not work that way in the real world. Gov Deal is going to select the best qualified, experienced people to do this job. It does not matter if they are all white, black, purple or have three eyes. If they can find a way to educate these kids and get them to pass, then they have done their job. As for Racism, it now appears it is a black thing. DEAL with it!
driveby
March 5th, 2013
11:43 am
TBS 11:21 a.m.: I’ve posted here exactly 3 times in as many months. Jay can confirm this for you.
FYI, I am the court reporter who reported the 14-hour hearing at the SBOE and I personally placed each and every one of those “administrators” under oath. And Nancy Jester-s 45-minute rambling “testimony” damn near caused me to throw my steno machine at her head about 30 minutes into her remarks.
TBone
March 5th, 2013
11:43 am
I do not have a dog in this fight but just wanted to mention the Dow hits a record high under President Obama.
Despite Obama and his anti-business henchmen (unless of course you are one of his preferred businesses, ie, one destined to fail without government propping), the economy proves once again to be more resilient than a tool like him.
MiltonMan
March 5th, 2013
11:44 am
Gov. Deal should have stayed out of the cesspool known as DeKalb. Residents elected these bozos to the BOE & should have to live with their decisions.
NAACP blows
March 5th, 2013
11:45 am
Keep up the good fight:
Perhaps they were taken by bus because in EVERY SINGLE black city in America it is well known that “snitches get got”… and the sheriff didnt want his witness’s to have time to be intimidated.
When the NAACP becomes something other than “defender of thugs”… and becomes defender of the Indian shot to death at the gas station or liquor store, or the black woman being pimped out by her pimp, then they will earn back respect. But to me… what a useless organization. At least change your name to NAABP instead of “colored”…. because colored means mexicans, asains.. etc. And you don’t defend women, much less other races!
MiltonMan
March 5th, 2013
11:47 am
“I do not have a dog in this fight but just wanted to mention the Dow hits a record high under President Obama.”
Good grief. Libs like this clueless one never thought there would be a real estate bust either. The Dow Jones is being propped up by the Treasury issuing gobs of money by QE & keeping the interest rate very low. This will not last forever.
JamVet
March 5th, 2013
11:48 am
Maybe we all should just carry a sign saying “Im proud to be a humam”.
I like it!
(But then again…. sometimes when I see what the hell we’re doing to each other and this planet… LOL!)
I think the key is not to let the backwards looking folks slow us down too much…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbO2_077ixs
Victor Midtown
March 5th, 2013
11:48 am
Refreshing take on some important local news, JB. Even a brief cap doff for the Governor. You have potential.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
March 5th, 2013
11:51 am
Well NAACP Blows, I understand completely. You don’t know what you are talking about.
barking frog
March 5th, 2013
11:52 am
Maybe we all should just carry a sign saying “Im proud to be a humam”.
………………………………………….
any relation to an imam ?
Brosephus™
March 5th, 2013
11:55 am
TBS @ 10:57
Supporter of the Law
March 5th, 2013
11:56 am
Jay, I never thought I would say this but, I agree with you.
Jefferson
March 5th, 2013
11:57 am
Milton pretty much sums it up, he don’t care about them. I prefer ALL students get the same chances and funding and let the STATE do it. If you want different, go private. No reason the state can’t do it, other than incompetent state leaders.
JamVet
March 5th, 2013
11:58 am
The misinformation from that ignoramus at 11:45 must not go unchallenged. Further it must be called out for the racist stupidity that it is…
While primarily focused on the civil rights of African Americans in the U.S., LDF states it has “been instrumental in the formation of similar organizations that have replicated its organizational model in order to promote equality for Asian-Americans, Latinos, and women in the United States.” LDF has also been involved in “the campaign for human rights throughout the world, including in South Africa, Canada, Brazil, and elsewhere.”
And..
NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous and the Monterey County Branch of the NAACP have joined the North Monterey Chapter of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) and the Civil Rights Coalition to condemn a string of racial profiling episodes in the coastal California county.
At a December 26th press conference, the organizations decried a recent countywide anti-gang crime sweep that targeted Latino families, allegedly injuring and harassing a number of law-abiding citizens in the process. In response, LULAC filed a formal complaint with the U.S. Department of Justice, and on December 29th, the Monterey County Branch of the NAACP filed a letter of support of LULAC and asking, among other things, for an official investigation into the alleged misconduct and racial profiling.
And…
The Texas State Conference of the NAACP and the Mexican American Legislative Caucus of the Texas House of Representatives (MALC), along with the Justice Department and others, presented evidence showing the law would make it unnecessarily hard to vote — potentially disenfranchising hundreds of thousands of minority voters at a greater rate than the white electorate. The federal court agreed, finding Texas’s law violates Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act. This means Texas cannot enforce its photo ID law for the 2012 election in November.
There are many more examples.
getalife
March 5th, 2013
11:58 am
Milton,
The fed is buying up toxic assets from the banks ..
The easing is the only stimulus we can get out of congress.
It is what it is and you can’t change it unless your party votes for a job bill.
We know that will never happen.
Cheesy Grits
March 5th, 2013
11:59 am
Dow at an all time high.
Imagine where it would be if Obama werent a communist. LOL
Your welcome
Forward !!
i ususally disagree
March 5th, 2013
12:00 pm
Yes, I ususally disagree with your positions, on everything.
Because of this I had to comment simply to say: I agree with you wholeheartedly.
DannyX
March 5th, 2013
12:00 pm
“Dow at an all time high.”
BENGHAZI!!!!
Brosephus™
March 5th, 2013
12:02 pm
Perhaps they were taken by bus because in EVERY SINGLE black city in America it is well known that “snitches get got”… and the sheriff didnt want his witness’s to have time to be intimidated.
Now, there has been some dumb sh*t posted here, and there has been some really dumb sh*t posted here. I have to say that this is the dumbest of the beyond the dumb of the really dumb sh*t that’s ever been said.
Buses were used because, when you have a large crowd, taking them by radio cars would take an entire day and there’s no way to manage such a crowd and keep them under control.
getalife
March 5th, 2013
12:02 pm
“Dow at an all time high.”
Not bad for a Kenyan, Marxist, socialist, commie that hates the wealthy.
Recon 0311 2533
March 5th, 2013
12:02 pm
MiltonMan, Bernanke said he would continue Q.E. until unemployment drops to 6% and that could take a long time. At least as long as the Obama administration is still in business.
barking frog
March 5th, 2013
12:03 pm
getalife
did you put your gun money in stocks ?
Cheesy Grits
March 5th, 2013
12:03 pm
Wanna play a fun ” Where is Waldo ” game.
Try and find a link to the DOW hitting all time high on Fox News.
Its there.
Now imagine if Romney were President.
Wanna bet it would be a little easier to find.
JoJo Hicks
March 5th, 2013
12:03 pm
Jay is correct on a lot of points,however a lot of minorities(black folks in general) feel a sense of loss in the face of real world truths.The fact remains that yes,racism does exists and probably always will.The challenge now is being able to move spiritually forward and not look back.Hopefully,we all can learn from the missteps and move in a more harmonious course.
DownInAlbany
March 5th, 2013
12:04 pm
willie lynch
March 5th, 2013
11:03 am
So, you’re just painting with a broad brush. One guy (Mitch McConnell?) says it and it now is a Replican mantra!
Ivan
March 5th, 2013
12:04 pm
It’s good that so many people are starting to see the NAACP for the racist organization it is.
getalife
March 5th, 2013
12:06 pm
“did you put your gun money in stocks ?”
Not yet, prices are too high.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
March 5th, 2013
12:06 pm
Deal did the right thing by identifying a serious problem and acting to change it. Funny that the tenthers, and the anti-TSPLOSTers by and large haven’t come to the defense of the ousted school board members.
I thought that y’all were for local authority that supersedes a central executive authority.
Brosephus™
March 5th, 2013
12:15 pm
I thought that y’all were for local authority that supersedes a central executive authority.
Only when it benefits them. F’n part time tenthers.
Doggone/GA
March 5th, 2013
12:16 pm
“One guy (Mitch McConnell?) says it and it now is a Replican mantra!”
When someone in a leadership position like his says “WE” will do something, then yes, it becomes that groups mantra.
Doggone/GA
March 5th, 2013
12:16 pm
“It’s good that so many people are starting to see the NAACP for the racist organization it is.”
Only the people who don’t know what racism means
barking frog
March 5th, 2013
12:19 pm
It saddens me that the venerable National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People that has contributed and contributes
so much to freedom in this country is not given the respect that
it deserves. They have talked the talk and walked the walk
with dignity and aplomb through difficult times. Long may they abide.
Doggone/GA
March 5th, 2013
12:21 pm
“They have talked the talk and walked the walk
with dignity and aplomb through difficult times. Long may they abide”
They have. The question is, will they continue to…or will they let their “reputation” override their mission. Think “the Catholic Church” here.
Oscar
March 5th, 2013
12:23 pm
Charter schools are an alternative to school controled by the board of education. They may play an increased role in counties where the board is corrupt, incompetent and fail to function to maitain the school’s accreditation.
One can hope
March 5th, 2013
12:24 pm
They will be screaming racism as well when Obummer is removed for doing a shotty job.
barking frog
March 5th, 2013
12:24 pm
They have. The question is, will they continue to…or will they let their “reputation” override their mission. Think “the Catholic Church” here.
…………………………………………………………….
The Catholic Church has lost its way, the NAACP not so much.
Oscar
March 5th, 2013
12:25 pm
Frog = past accompishments are great. But, as they say in show biz – you are only as good as your last performance.
Brosephus™
March 5th, 2013
12:25 pm
frog
They will endure. Reactionaries, such as those present on this blog, will give them ample opportunities to rise to meet the needs of those who seek their service.
————–
On a completely different note, I think the doomsday clock has moved one minute closer to midnight for the current GOP.
House Republican centrists are furious that GOP leaders are considering abandoning their pledge not to change Medicare retirement benefits for people 55 years and older.
According to several sources, a handful of centrist GOP lawmakers attending a recent Tuesday Group luncheon erupted when Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) broke the news.
After agreeing to write a budget resolution that will balance the budget over the next decade, Ryan conceded that he might have to adjust the age to as high as 59.
Doggone/GA
March 5th, 2013
12:25 pm
“The Catholic Church has lost its way, the NAACP not so much”
“Not so much” can mean “a little bit”
Cheesy Grits
March 5th, 2013
12:27 pm
They will be screaming racism as well when Obummer is removed for doing a shotty job.
Start holding your breath.
Mr. Georgia
March 5th, 2013
12:28 pm
Hey Jay, Stop being a coward and call this for what is clear and evident! You know good and well that this would never play out in say Forsythe or Cherokee County or any other majority caucasion school board. You and many others would be calling for or already have ivestigated SACS and would be drying foul if the Gov. was black and white voters, elected officials and communities were being denied their constitutional rights. Why not just recall the elected officias, because they did not break the law or steal any money. Why not just vote them out?, because the citizens in their distric elected thema nd will do it again. Stop pretending this is not about race and grow some!! You and others who have these forums disgust me with your fantasy crap, you are afraid to tell the truth or elect to ignore the obvious. All school boards do not and will never get along and talk pleasantly to one another. If this was really about children why is their no talk about the achievement of the distric and how it is measure against other districts. Dr. Walker should continue this all the way to the Supreme Court. But wait, that might not do HIM any good since some of the justices there think that if your black and live in a region that has historically been steeped in racial intolerence and voter intimidation and disenfranchisement, your merely seeking a “racial entitlement”!! But I gues that has nothing to do with race either, right JAY!?!?
Jefferson
March 5th, 2013
12:28 pm
F paul ryan, he’s a weasle.
Granny Godzilla
March 5th, 2013
12:29 pm
Off Topic
But ‘member all the crap about Sen Bob Menendez and the hookers?
Seen the recent news?
Who Framed Bob Menendez? and why?
Doggone/GA
March 5th, 2013
12:30 pm
“F paul ryan, he’s a weasle.”
Please stop insulting weasles, at least THEY serve a good purpose in the world.
Gimme Gimme Gimme
March 5th, 2013
12:30 pm
getalif2 – ““Dow at an all time high. Not bad for a Kenyan, Marxist, socialist, commie that hates the wealthy.”
Ben Bernanke says “What?”
Normal, Plain and Simple
March 5th, 2013
12:30 pm
My apologies to Jay, but this I just had to share…
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/kincaid-soros-obama-allies-trying-pick-next-pope
Laughter IS the best medicine…
TBS
March 5th, 2013
12:31 pm
“Who Framed Bob Menendez? and why?”
And when did they know they were going to do it? (thanks Scout)
barking frog
March 5th, 2013
12:33 pm
Granny Godzilla
Who Framed Bob Menendez? and why?
………………………………………………………
seems like a case of she said-she said but unlike
the Secret Service it seems both hookers were paid.
Doggone/GA
March 5th, 2013
12:34 pm
“Who Framed Bob Menendez? and why?”
Personally, I’m keeping an open mind on it. I have to ask this question: if a hooker will lie about being paid to have sex with a certain man…why should I assume she’s telling the truth when she turns around and says she wasn’t?
Brosephus™
March 5th, 2013
12:34 pm
Please stop insulting weasles, at least THEY serve a good purpose in the world.
Doggone shoots… scores!!!! And the crowd goes wild…
moonbat betty
March 5th, 2013
12:34 pm
More than likely, these board members will wind up suing the state of Georgia for $millions$.
LaKeisha Jackson
March 5th, 2013
12:35 pm
You’re certainly right, Jay. And a lot of other things are not “racism,” either…but that’s always the knee-jerk “first reaction” because it often works.
TBS
March 5th, 2013
12:36 pm
Doggone @ 12:34
I agree.
Doggone/GA
March 5th, 2013
12:36 pm
Thanks Bro! Can you tell I’m not a fan of Ryan’s?
TBS
March 5th, 2013
12:37 pm
” Can you tell I’m not a fan of Ryan’s?”
huge fan
Kloper
March 5th, 2013
12:37 pm
“But crying racism as a political tactic, with no evidence that it is playing a role, cheapens the problem. It also ends up encouraging the very attitude that it supposedly condemns.”- Jay, I am really impressed that you would boldly speak a truth. Black or white, Atlantans-Georgians-Americans are tired of racism being used as a platform from which to launch a defense, argument, or offense. Clearly this is about children and the basic right of education in a quality environment. Thank you Jay
barking frog
March 5th, 2013
12:39 pm
I dislike Ryan so much I won’t even eat at Ryan’s
I dislike Ryan so much that my son is named Ryan and i’m changing his name.
Oscar
March 5th, 2013
12:41 pm
Medicare benefits have to be changed. Costs are well past what we can afford to pay. In ten years the forecast is very bleak if wedon’t make real changes.
Brosephus™
March 5th, 2013
12:41 pm
Doggone
There was a smidget of a clue in that post.
I’ll be glad once the media quits peddling his crap as something sensible and expose it for what it really is, rightwing social engineering. Newt’s already told them, but nobody wants to listen.
The Old Guy
March 5th, 2013
12:43 pm
Dekalb County used to have the best school system in the state.
Why caused it to drop?
Doggone/GA
March 5th, 2013
12:44 pm
“Newt’s already told them, but nobody wants to listen.”
Yeah, well he’s bound to be right about something now and then!
barking frog
March 5th, 2013
12:45 pm
Oscar
Diapers have to be changed. Medicare benefits, not so much.
Oscar
March 5th, 2013
12:45 pm
Ryan’s is a good place to eat. Not any close by so have not been to one in years. We heed one near Tucker or Decatur.
Oscar
March 5th, 2013
12:47 pm
Frog – Have you looked at the CBO’s ten year budget forecast lately. Not good news for the future unless major changes made in a number of areas. Defence and health care top the list, plus an increase in tax revenues.
Erwin's cat
March 5th, 2013
12:48 pm
Wanna play a fun ” Where is Waldo ” game.
Try and find a link to the DOW hitting all time high on Fox News.
http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2013/03/05/dow-zips-past-record-highs/?test=latestnews
Oscar
March 5th, 2013
12:48 pm
And we need to teach people to type and spell. See deficiencies in those areas.
Oscar
March 5th, 2013
12:50 pm
My daughter works for the feds. Cuts are being announced every day. Furloughs without pay this summer. Not good news for te family budget.
Cheesy Grits
March 5th, 2013
12:51 pm
Wanna play a fun ” Where is Waldo ” game.
Try and find a link to the DOW hitting all time high on Fox News.
Fox News. Not Fox business news.
barking frog
March 5th, 2013
12:51 pm
Oscar
the wars are almost over, the economy is picking up, the
stock market is booming(largely untaxed), remember 2003
(ten years ago) didn’t look like now, we’re o.k. with some tax
adjustments…..
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
March 5th, 2013
12:52 pm
Ryan’s is a good place to eat. Not any close by so have not been to one in years. We heed one near Tucker or Decatur
Well, come on up here to Cumming. Just not when I take the missus there. It gets a little dangerous then.
Welcome to the Occupation
March 5th, 2013
12:52 pm
What, Jay, no post so everyone can tut tut together at Dennis Rodman? Would be a great bipartisan spirit-building experience.
Real Scootter
March 5th, 2013
12:53 pm
Well,I don’t know about all this racial stuff but something doesn’t seem right about the Governor having the power to fire elected officials.
Erwin's cat
March 5th, 2013
12:54 pm
Fox News. Not Fox business news
http://www.foxnews.com/
you’ll find the link i linked there…
…cheap deflection
barking frog
March 5th, 2013
12:54 pm
Oscar
words are messengers, if you get the message, don’t be
too concerned about the messengers clothes….
Jefferson
March 5th, 2013
12:55 pm
Fund the program.
indigo
March 5th, 2013
12:57 pm
Doggone/GA – 11:40
There are some things, like Black pride, that sound reasonable until they’re carried to a logical conclusion.
Your answer indicates that, like so many, you’re either unable or unwilling to accept logical thinking on this issue.
Gimme Gimme Gimme
March 5th, 2013
12:57 pm
RC – “Well, come on up here to Cumming. Just not when I take the missus there. It gets a little dangerous then.”
Where is there a Ryan’s in Cumming? Thank you in advance.
Morality?
March 5th, 2013
12:58 pm
Tuesday is RACE CARD day!
Bernie
March 5th, 2013
12:59 pm
Jay, such statements are coming from One who was born, A Privileged WHITE MALE, raised and educated in the State Of Pennsylvania surrounded by a predominately White Middle Class Community your entire life.
YOU, who have the GALL, to try and lecture US, have no idea REMOTELY OR OTHERWISE OF any real and true understanding in regards to the issue of RACE and The African American Experience in America! Much less its inhumane application for centuries in the SOUTH!
You have still yet to get a full understanding and grasp of the Southern White Experience in Georgia. In which you live and embraced so lovingly. You assume in your thinkiing you and your opinion is ALWAYS RIGHT in its assertion, just because you have read it somewhere or was been told to you secondhand.
My Friend when reading your article in which you are so proud of. One feels as though they are looking at the REAR END of a MULE facing North with the Wind BLOWING SOUTH in a SNOWSTORM!
You Do NOT even have a minimum grasp of INTELLIGENCE nor UNDERSTANDING of the word
RACISM. Even less as to what that word means in the REAL LIFE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE.
YOUR scariest NIGHTMARE does not even COME CLOSE, in revealing the HORROR OF ITS PAIN!
Your benign ABSTRACT explanation is SAD in its DELIVERY. Furthermore, it is obvious you are out of your depth and scope of understanding of the subject matter. Your lack of true knowledge and understanding is BETRAYING YOU, IN YOUR OWN WORDS.
Just because you have sat and talked with a FEW AFRICAN AMERICANS for a couple of hours and had a few beers in a social setting. Does not make you in any way, an expert or mildly education or informed on the effects and social conditioning of RACISM and its applications.
You offend, my very being and millions of other African Americans in this Great Nation with such OBTUSE ARROGANCE.
Jim
March 5th, 2013
12:59 pm
Doggone — you have no say where you school tax money goes now. The only choice is too move, and that goes for all of us.
Morality?
March 5th, 2013
1:00 pm
EBONICS in politics?
Steve-USA (I don't have all the answer's, I don't even know all the questions)
March 5th, 2013
1:02 pm
Wow – Bernie’s all fired up.
stands for decibels
March 5th, 2013
1:02 pm
Yeah, Bernie @ 12.59, you’re right, Jay is wayyy worse than Hitler.
Doggone/GA
March 5th, 2013
1:02 pm
“There are some things, like Black pride, that sound reasonable until they’re carried to a logical conclusion.”
I suspect YOUR “logical conclusion” would look a LOT like a “slippery slope” to reasonable people.
stands for decibels
March 5th, 2013
1:03 pm
I’m sorry, meant to post “WAYY worse than HITLER.” apologies for the error.
Erwin's cat
March 5th, 2013
1:03 pm
You offend, my very being and millions of other African Americans in this Great Nation with such OBTUSE ARROGANCE.
I love me some good parody
Brosephus™
March 5th, 2013
1:03 pm
Oscar @ 12:50
There’s already been delays in the news from my folks.
LOS ANGELES (KABC) — Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said the massive federal spending cuts have been causing delays in customs lines at Los Angeles International Airport.
“I would say 150 to 200 percent, as long as what we would normally expect,” Napolitano said. “We will see these effects cascade over next week.”
Officials say it’s due to cuts in overtime. With furlough notices set to go out this week, it will likely only get worse.
Notice how it’s reported that Napolitano is referring to “customs” lines. To show you how people can screw up a story and mislead people, there’s this story here:
Ms Napolitano said today that major airports were seeing lines “150 to 200 per cent as long as we would normally expect” as result of the federal spending cuts that went into force on Friday.
“We’re already seeing the effects at some of the ports of entry, the big airports, for example. Some of them had very long lines this weekend,” she told a breakfast event organised by Politico.
When pressed for specifics she cited Chicago’s O’Hare, Atlanta’s Hartfield-Jackson and Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), adding: “I don’t mean to scare, I mean to inform.”
However, when contacted by The Daily Telegraph, spokespeople for both O’Hare and LAX, as well as representatives from the travel industry, denied that airports had been hit by delays.
“We haven’t had any slowdowns at all,” said Marshall Lowe, a spokesman for LAX. Mr Lowe said that he had been on duty over the weekend and received no reports of unusual security delays.
DeAllous Smith, a spokesman for Hartfield-Jackson, said: “There have been no abnormally long lines at the security checkpoint nor unusual aircraft delays at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport as a result of sequestration.”
Maybe they don’t know it over in the UK, but security lines are not “customs” lines. Customs deals specifically with international travelers making their initial entry into the US. One has to clear customs before you even sniff security.
I’ve talked to friends at different airports, and their story backs what Napolitano stated. The first thing they did was to cut overtime on March 1st. Our agency has been using overtime to fill staffing as opposed to hiring the necessary number of officers to do the job. It will be interesting to see how long the business travelers put up with this, especially with this just-in-time business model at play.
Regnad Kcin
March 5th, 2013
1:03 pm
“Is it cowardly of us to allow that in this instance the ends DOES justify the means? Probably. But I can live with that. They had to go and they sure as hell wouldn’t step down voluntarily.”
Fred & Ecat – sorry for the long gap between posts. Ecat, I agree that we’re all better of without the buffoons.
But this is a blow at democracy, with the government saying “your vote doesn’t count, because we disagree with whom you voted for.” If the eletorate didn’t want them, they could recall them.
Are American voters not allowed to make bad decisions (can anybody think of any bad decisions the electorate has mad? *sigh* )? Where are the limits to this new power of the government to invalidate your vote? Are we still a democratic republic if the government can decide they didn’t like who you voted for?
Anyway, enough ranting. I am passionate about democracy, and this seems like a move towards tyranny.
alittlecommonsense
March 5th, 2013
1:05 pm
Kyle??? Is that you writing Jay’s column today? I guess not, because if Kyle wrote the same column, all the libs would be disagreeing. When Jay writes it, they climb onboard.
Doggone/GA
March 5th, 2013
1:06 pm
“Doggone — you have no say where you school tax money goes now. The only choice is too move, and that goes for all of us”
but if parents are allowed to use THEIR tax money to pay for private schooling, then THEY DO get to say where THEIR tax money goes. I want the same right that they are asking for.
JamVet
March 5th, 2013
1:07 pm
…because if Kyle wrote the same column, all the libs would be disagreeing.
LOTS of projection going on today…
You want disagreement? Read the buffoon at 11:45…
John Buck
March 5th, 2013
1:10 pm
As much as I believe the Dekalb school board to be ineffective, the notion that a “big brother” knows better and can replace elected officials because they don’t like how business is conducted is frightening. Either the voters of Dekalb have the right to elect officials or they don’t. They deserve any success they get as well as the failures. What this move says is that Dekalb can elect anyone they want unless we don’t like them, then we’ll replace them with who we think should have been elected.
An NO…The POOOOOOR Children of Dekalb’s education does not trump the right to self govern.