Diddy and Kasim Reed, back in the day
These days, Kasim Reed is busy preparing to become Atlanta’s mayor. Years ago at Howard University, he had his hands full keeping Sean Combs out of trouble.
“In college I was known for being extra wild,” the artist, known these days as Diddy, told Buzz during a Thursday afternoon interview. “Kasim was one of the guys who said, come here. That’s the way he always was in school.”
Diddy, whose latest project, “Last Train to Paris,” will be released next year, was reminiscing from a 12th floor suite at the downtown W on stop to promote Ciroc vodka (we found a recipe online for the “Ciroc Diddy,” a cocktail made with one and a half parts Ciroc and three parts lemonade. Here’s a photo of the libation, from allrecipes.com).
Thursday evening Diddy and Reed and about 15 associates retired to the private dining room at BLT Steak, enjoying short ribs and NY strip steaks.
In the days before this month’s run-off between Reed and Mary Norwood (who’s called for a recount following the very close results) Diddy repeatedly tweeted support for Reed. As tight as they are, the artist said his old college buddy never traded on their friendship.
“It was personal for me,” Diddy said. “He really knows me, but he never asked for my help.”
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Ryan
December 4th, 2009
11:56 am
First
Shaun
December 4th, 2009
12:00 pm
good to see 2 Howard Alums doing their thing…… Go Bisons……
Elizabeth
December 4th, 2009
12:00 pm
Nice to see Atlanta turning into a nightclub. Way to go Kasim!!!!
Elliot Garcia
December 4th, 2009
12:02 pm
Dirty south!
Mel
December 4th, 2009
12:03 pm
@ Elizabeth – ?????
purple crayon
December 4th, 2009
12:06 pm
i remember when i was reminiscing when nobody cared about this crap
Adam
December 4th, 2009
12:07 pm
Wow…part Ciroc and part lemonade…must have taken hours to develop that special blend….
pb
December 4th, 2009
12:07 pm
Enter your comments here
angela
December 4th, 2009
12:09 pm
@elizabeth….what the heck are u talking about?
pb
December 4th, 2009
12:09 pm
Isn’t it wonderful to know that our next mayor has supporters ilke P Diddy? That’s why I would vote for him!!!( Not really.)
Rod
December 4th, 2009
12:12 pm
Lol Elizabeth is just mad lol. If you don’t like it Elizabeth leave lol. She is just a southern bell who wants to trade and her birth right. Well tough lol
Lady T
December 4th, 2009
12:13 pm
To All The Haters: If you don’t like living in Atlanta Delta has a flights leaving every 15 minutes. Hit it!
Jon
December 4th, 2009
12:14 pm
Maybe at his inauguration, Lil’ Wayne, Lil’ BowWow, and Lil’ whoever else can rap and jump around the stage, and make the ATL look even more ghetto. How proud we all will be.
Sensible Thought
December 4th, 2009
12:15 pm
I’m gonna go out on a limb here and say being friends with a guy in college who turned out to be a rap mogul doesn’t disqualify you from being mayor of a city hundreds of miles away.
Melissa
December 4th, 2009
12:16 pm
@ Elizabeth if you dont like what Atlanta is becoming your are more than welcome to leave. Since it seems you might not be that bright let me give you directions, you can use either I-20, I-75, or even I-85. But please dont use I-285 its just one big circle that will just keep you here in CLUB ATLANTA as you call it.
Miss Hip hop
December 4th, 2009
12:17 pm
I think that Diddy ciroc is a nice drink. It is very smooth. I have to try the new blend with lemonade. As far as him giving Kasim Reed the congrats on Mayor that is WONDERFUL. Two college buddies doing Great things in life.
JiMiFLiX!
December 4th, 2009
12:17 pm
…Nightclub? well, it’s about time! better than that sterility we’ve had to endure for the past couple of years!
2 Elizabeth
December 4th, 2009
12:18 pm
Party over Here ! Hooo Hoooo! Flick ya lighter!! lmaooooo . . .
why do you care about atlanta, anyway? everybody knows the rest of georgia don’t care about atlanta; why you care so much!!
Throw yo hands in the air and wave them like you just don’t care
go Kasim, Go kasim . . . get your Mayor on!
Had enough!!?? lololololol I can go on!
Ain’t no party like
a Kasim Reed party
and a Kasim Reed party
dont STOPPPPP!!!
HAHHAHAHAHAAHA ELIZABETH!!
John
December 4th, 2009
12:19 pm
Just what we need, more talk about political figures and their ties to celebrities. Who cares about this crap? Do something while you have the office Kasim.
Atl Resident
December 4th, 2009
12:20 pm
Well, Kasim knows Sean Combs, with issues going on, just another example of who you know to get to where to trying to go. Maybe Norwood really could learn from him cause right now he’s getting last laugh.
Watchman
December 4th, 2009
12:21 pm
It is apparent by these posts that we have not learned anything from the past. Neither side wins when we divide, so try this if it helps. Every morning remember the way you felt, when you heard the news the towers had fell, remember the way you loved all Americans of all colors. Most of all rememeber how you cried and sang ” God bless America”. Look at you now, Zion what’s the matter with you now?
Mary
December 4th, 2009
12:23 pm
I predicted 6 months ago, when everyone was saying Ms. Norwood was in the lead, that she would never, ever win. A white person will never, ever, never, ever be elected mayor in Atlanta. She could have been running against Michael Vick, and Vick would have won. That’s just the plain and simple truth.
Upward Battle
December 4th, 2009
12:25 pm
There are some who are proud of the accomplishments of our esteemed black men, Successful,Intelligent and Black now that’s a role model for our youth…..Welcome to Atlanta!!!!
Grant Parker
December 4th, 2009
12:25 pm
Mean folks, chill. The guys were friends in college. Nothing is wrong with that.
blackhollywood
December 4th, 2009
12:26 pm
Yeah the black leadeship has done wonders for this city. Why just look at our wondeful sewer system that was left to rot away. I really enjoy paying 100 bucks a month for the repairs the BLACK LEADERSHIP couldnt keep up. Its the beggining of the end for black hollywood. I cant wait unitl they rename the airport to only the only name it deserves, Hartsfeild.
sizzle
December 4th, 2009
12:29 pm
Wow. He was one of those guys who said “come here”..? Oooh…a spine-tingling, yet comical endorsement.
I like living in Atlanta. I just don’t like the legacy of local government mismanagement. Think I’ll stick around and hate on that all I want….that is until the local taxes become so ridiculous that you can’t afford to live in a cardboard box in the city limits. Not implying norwood would’ve been any better.
Kiana
December 4th, 2009
12:34 pm
It just gets worse and worse. I am expecting nothing less than a [sex] scandal in the mayor’s office in the coming four years.
Zeitlan Kozan
December 4th, 2009
12:35 pm
I hate to say this, but a white woman with a peronality could have won in a landslide in Atlanta. Same way the white boy won in East St. Louis
lt
December 4th, 2009
12:36 pm
again, it is too bad that atl is not on the gulf coast
Clark Williams
December 4th, 2009
12:36 pm
Ignorant Blacks… Wow sounds kind of harsh their Mr. Hunt that would make you ignorant and what….. The article specifically stated their friendship never crossed into the political endorsement/entertainment arena… You can read correct.. or is it you look at the Pretty pictures and cast “ignorant judgement”. I guess if it aint a Bush it aint white.. I mean right!!!
Rich
December 4th, 2009
12:36 pm
Maybe Diddy can give Kasim a loan to pay his taxes for the last twelve years.
tina
December 4th, 2009
12:37 pm
It is sad how the success of black folks brings out the true hearts of white people. Puffy has accomplished more in the last 6 months than most of you guys have accomplished in your whole miserable hating lives. Stop being so jealous and maybe try and emulate kasim or sean combs.
Haters
December 4th, 2009
12:40 pm
All of you poor pitiful haters on this page! CONGRATULATIONS KASEEM REED! IT’S OBVIOUS THAT YOU ALL ARE WHITE TRASHY PEOPLE!!! I BET YOU ALL ARE THE CHERRY ON YOUR SISTER/MOTHERS PIE AREN’T YOU??? HOW SAD IS THAT???
Haters
December 4th, 2009
12:41 pm
I agree with you 100% Tina!
blackhollywood
December 4th, 2009
12:41 pm
@tina um are you stupid? do you think diddy made all of that money off of black people liking his music? Sports, Music they are areas where black folks do ok. Government…. not so much. oh wait there is that one country that is run by black people that is really succesful. Whats the name? oh yeah, there isn’t one.
Zeitlan Kozan
December 4th, 2009
12:43 pm
Lemme see…who endorsed Glen Richardson? Arnold Swartzenegger? Mark Foley? The dude who was tapping his toes in the airport bathroom? Teddy Kennedy? Eliot Spitzer? Sen. Stevens
Skee Wee90
December 4th, 2009
12:43 pm
Mike Hunt you are ignorant for your statement. Why must we always play the race card? Who ever the Mayor of Atlanta is I just hope they address the issues of all the crime and get these gangs off the street so we all can be safe Blacks and Whites you idiot
D-nice
December 4th, 2009
12:45 pm
I have a major problem with some of you on here saying the city is going to be ghetto because kareem is the mayor. We are no longer living in the days when you all can have things your way.You either live with whats going on or get the hell out.If you people wouldn’t be paying these rappers millions of dollars to keep rapping and downgrading my people then we wouldn’t have this problem.So anything that is happening now is your fault.I wish you well Mr.Reed!
Bemused OTP'er
December 4th, 2009
12:45 pm
Congratulations, Atlanta. Four years of Bill Campbell-lite.
Rich
December 4th, 2009
12:45 pm
Let’s face it, in a few decades Atlanta will be all Black. It’s called White Flight. Look how well Detroit turned out.
Zeitlan Kozan
December 4th, 2009
12:45 pm
Newsflash: America’s run by Black people! O B A M A
@ RICH
December 4th, 2009
12:45 pm
Maybe Diddy could give YOU a loan because clearly your name belies your actual economic status. Dad get mad–Get gone!!!!!!!!!!!!!
black/palehollywood
December 4th, 2009
12:46 pm
You are such a FOOL!!! Just as ignorant as a hott summers day!
blackhollywood
December 4th, 2009
12:48 pm
Zeitlend let me lay knowledge fo ya ignant ass. obama is only one man and he’s 1/2 white jackass. want to try that again? learnt yo self sumthin.
tina
December 4th, 2009
12:50 pm
@Blackhollywood: Are YOU stupid–or just blind–or just plain jealous? Seems to me that you overlooked at least one place where blacks are doing extremely well in Politics–ATLANTA–you loathsome racist moron!!!! And by the way, white folks run most world economies–how is that working out for you?
Atlanta deserves who it elects
December 4th, 2009
12:51 pm
Voting on the issues would require some reading and critical thinking skills. Why do that when you can vote strictly along racial lines? I’m glad I only work in Atlanta. You couldn’t pay me to live there.
Mo Lew
December 4th, 2009
12:51 pm
@Jon December 4th, 2009, 12:14 pm
We all call for Entertainers to be more aware, responsible, etc. So why is it such a problem that Diddy endorse Mayor- elect Reed? Maybe if the article had a little more depth then it would “more acceptable”. And Diddy does enough business in The A that he OUGHT to know what’s going on out here. P.S…we HBCU Alumni MUST stick together!! H O L L E R
DIDDY 4 REED 4 ATLANTA 4 CHANGE
Keeper1911
December 4th, 2009
12:54 pm
BH you wouldnt happen to be “Calablasian would yah” It is really nice to see Old Jim Crow alive in kickin in the New South days away from 2010. Turd, BH, Beth, White Mike, and the rest of you “True Atlantans” why dont you take off the modern day sheets (the Internet) and spread your wholly gospel thru the Streets of your beloved City.. Would love to catch that on the News @ 5!!!!
blackhollywood
December 4th, 2009
12:55 pm
@tina doing really well in atlanta? is bill campbell out of jail yet? ahahahahahahahah thats the whole point, hense my name dummy.
Brown Girl Next Door » Blog Archive » Diddy and Kasim Reed
December 4th, 2009
12:57 pm
[...] As I read and reread Diddy’s tweets over the last month, I struggled to figure out his connection to Atlanta’s soon to be new Mayor, Kasim Reed. I wondered if it was because he had a business in Atlanta, or if he was just political enough to follow all Mayoral races??? To find out the connection- See the AJC.com [...]
Keith
December 4th, 2009
12:57 pm
@Rich: Whatever, fool. That is why the city’s population is at an all-time high and has increased its percentage of white residents over the last decade.
Face it, the first credible white candidate in 36 years (the last was Sam Massell in 1973) and she nearly won. That says a lot right there about how Atlanta has swung back in the other direction from an “all black” city.
mstwig
December 4th, 2009
1:01 pm
Wow, its really sad to see how far we have come to see how much further we have to go. It doesn’t matter who won what matters is how do we clean up the city. We all have fallen short and none of of is perfect. Let’s stand behind the winner and give our support.
@ RICH
December 4th, 2009
1:02 pm
@black hollywood, it is clear that you are the DUMMY because you have refused (or simply unable) to address the real issue, so I will state it in a different way. As you said, America is one place, and Obama just got into office–yet the WORLD economy has gone down the drain. If white folks who, again, run the WORLD economy are so damn smart and know how to run governments so well, why all the economic turmoil. Answer that SMARTY PANTS WHITE MAN. I have an idea–maybe if YOU ran the government, everything would be ok.
@ RICH
December 4th, 2009
1:12 pm
No, Rich, it is only the po’ whites that HAVE to leave Atlanta because they can no longer financially afford it. You live in Canton or Norcross or Lawrenceville or where ever because you simply cannot afford to be closer to the city. It takes serious cash to live Downtown, Buckhead, and places just outside Atlanta like Sandy Springs, Brookhaven, and the Perimeter Area–cash you clearly do not have. Recession got you down? And actually white folks’ numbers have increased in Atlanta, not the other way around.
Chris
December 4th, 2009
1:13 pm
Oh wait, now i get it. We are about to pay for another million dollar Atlanta theme song to listen to while on hold for 911.
ChippersLoveChild
December 4th, 2009
1:14 pm
“Newsflash: America’s run by Black people! O B A M A”
Obama maybe president, but you’re fooling yourself if you believe this statement. America is run by money, and white men still run America and all of it’s corporations. I don’t mean this statement to be taken in a racist tone, but educate yourself on what really runs America, it’s M-O-N-E-Y, and nothing else.
ChippersLoveChild
December 4th, 2009
1:14 pm
“Newsflash: America’s run by Black people! O B A M A”
Obama may be president, but you’re fooling yourself if you believe this statement. America is run by money, and white men still run America and all of it’s corporations. I don’t mean this statement to be taken in a racist tone, but educate yourself on what really runs America, it’s M-O-N-E-Y, and nothing else.
blackhollywood
December 4th, 2009
1:16 pm
SMARTY PANTS WHITE MAN? Is your daughter helping you write these replies. But i digress. It isn’t possible to succinctly address the spectrum of issues that caused the current world wide turmoil. It is beyond the scope of the comments on this blog. However, the issues aren’t long racial lines. Tina brought up the world economy as a weak retort to my statement that there isn’t a successful all black governments anywhere. That is an an issue entirely separate from the current credit crisis overhang. But answer me this: why isn’t there a single successful country in Africa? The possible examples you can provide for success will be only in comparison to the utter failures elsewhere on the continent. And don’t bring up colonialism. Why wasn’t the technology or knowledge available for Africa to conquer to Europe? Because it was tribes fighting tribes. So peep dat ya heard?
@ RICH
December 4th, 2009
1:17 pm
@ CHIPPERSLOVE CHILD: That is my point exactly. White folks run it, and it is still screwed up–at least for white working class trash like RICH. Of course black folks like me are STRAIGHT!!!
John
December 4th, 2009
1:20 pm
Complete ignorance, this entire discussion. Blaming the “white man” for the economic problems of the world? I can’t believe the total ignorance of some of you.
@Mo Lew……”DIDDY 4 REED 4 ATLANTA 4 CHANGE”. This is the kind of BS that got Obama elected and why you voted for Obama because Oprah loved Obama. Diddy knows nothing about politics and I could care less about his restaurant and business ventures he has in Atlanta. Talk to the CEO of Coke, maybe UPS, maybe the board of directors at Home Depot. Maybe then you can get the opinions of true business leaders in this city and they can tell you who the right fit for mayor should be.
ChippersLoveChild
December 4th, 2009
1:21 pm
It’d be screwed up either way… people in power will take care of themselves before they take care of anyone else. Changes aren’t happening anytime soon no matter what race, creed, or gender those in power are… so congrats to Mr. Reed, I’m sure you’ll make a change for the better just like every other politician before you.. fingers crossed.
Huh?
December 4th, 2009
1:23 pm
“Kasim was one of the guys who said, come here. That’s the way he always was in school.” WTF is he talking about? What an Idiot.
Just makes me think it will be the same old B.S. from Shirley Franklin, Jr. Yay, four more years.
'Nilla Wafer
December 4th, 2009
1:28 pm
It’s going to be more of the same with Kasim. City of Atlanta will still be a sewer. When are the citizens of Atlanta going to wise up?
gloria taylor
December 4th, 2009
1:28 pm
Just a bunch of racist FOOLS! LMAO!
gloria taylor
December 4th, 2009
1:29 pm
BLACK POWER!
Turd Ferguson
December 4th, 2009
1:31 pm
LOL…black power…LOL.
*POOT* <<———smell dat one!
Leigh
December 4th, 2009
1:31 pm
Maybe he didn’t want diddy’s “help”. I can tell you it would not have impressed me.
Lee
December 4th, 2009
1:33 pm
Why does the AJC waste everyone’s time about rap/hip hop stars? Don’t you think they have done enough damage to Atlanta’s reputation ? I am willing to bet this is one reason readership has sunken.
Ms Reign
December 4th, 2009
1:33 pm
I’ll say this, and back off. So many times, all that happens on this board is a bunch of discussion about race. Whether the conversation is about dalmatians, doctors or donuts, SOMEBODY finds a way to bring “this town is too black”, “America is run by whitey” or “black people are the problem” into the mix. Good grief!!! If race is bothering you so badly, don’t even bother to live. More so, why, oh, why did you bring your racist, can’t-live-with-anyone-but-”your kind” self to THE SOUTH?!?!? Make the most out of this life, and if something’s broken in it, it’s not all the government/White man’s/some random institution’s fault. At a certain age, WE are accountable for ourselves. With that, I’m signing off to handle my business and practice what I preach.
In the end, Kasim Reed is still mayor of Atlanta, you still live here, and this article was about two old friends having dinner together. BREATHE.
Val
December 4th, 2009
1:33 pm
White Black or whatever Mary Norwood just did not strike me as being a very intelligent person she was almost as funny as Sarah Palin when she would debate and those eyes shifting everywhere, to me thats a person that either dosn’t know what she’s talking about OR a person that can’t be trusted. She played with the LGBT community making them believe she really believe in marriage for LGBT communty, I would not believe that if my life depended on it, she wanted to fool them like Sonny did with that racist flag and then flip the scrip when he was voted back in.
@ RICH
December 4th, 2009
1:34 pm
@blackhollywood: Oh, I see–when white folks are screwing up the whole world, then it is all complicated and inexplicable. But when it is black folks screwing up one continent it is simple: Stupid black people. And by the way, whether you want me to mention it or not–white folks are partly to blame in messing up Africa, although those Africans share some of the blame for letting them come in the first place and being corrupt after they were gone. That is why the economy in places like Botswana (that’s in Africa) have done so well–they got rid of white folks. Please understand that you are not capable of winning a war of words with me because I will verbally crush you everytime because you are not bright enough or quick enough–SMARTY PANTS WHITE MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And hurry up and respond because I have to go to my OB/GYN to check on the progress of my daughter who is still in the womb–so you see, there is no way she could be helping me set you straight. But the appointment is right here near my office in Buckhead and my home in Sandy Springs where my WHITE husband and I have lived for the past 20 years. Sorry you live like 5 hours from your silly JOB–you silly ham and egger! Good luck on the parking lot you call 75 North on the way to your BIG CHEAP house with the brick front in Canton. LOL
Honky
December 4th, 2009
1:35 pm
Yo my peeps! Schnizzle my swizzle.
Why do the citizens of Atlanta keep making the same mistake over and over again?
Lee
December 4th, 2009
1:40 pm
Who really cares about this stupid article ? Way to go AJC … keep losing readers.
Jst_Sayin
December 4th, 2009
1:41 pm
I don’t understand why in a city with a population of over 500,000, only 84,000 votes were cast in the mayoral race? Sad.
TC
December 4th, 2009
1:42 pm
Sweet. I’ll give Kasim Reed about 18 months before he goes the way of Kwame Kilpatrick – and likely for the same thing.
Got to keep it real.
Sean
December 4th, 2009
1:42 pm
LMAO!! Its some upset people on this blog!! You all are trippin!!
blackhollywood
December 4th, 2009
1:42 pm
complicated and inexplicable? thats not what i wrote or implied. you does read right? Ilike how you assume I live outside atlanta. Please explain how im paying atlanta sewer bills with my 5 hour commute? Also, Mrs, sandy springs why are in the discussion since your not an atlanta resident. I am and have been for 10 years. I pay those property taxes every year dumbass. And the duaghter comment was making fun of your stupid smarty white pants. “3rd grade clled, they want there trash talking abilitieas back. Now its time for you to reply and say you’re not in 3rd grade. dumbass.
Jst_Sayin
December 4th, 2009
1:43 pm
Whoever assumes leadership of this city will need to woo businesses and Fortune 500 companies back into the city. With those companies come jobs and philanthropic support. Without them, Atlanta will continue to flounder and a significant property tax increase inevitable.
Rich
December 4th, 2009
1:43 pm
Funny you mention Brookhaven……that’s exactly where my big fat house is.
Atlanta Suburb Housewife
December 4th, 2009
1:43 pm
A black man appears to have won the election and folks crawl out of the woodwork slamming him based on nothing more than his skin color. If this is how you are going to react, don’t tell black people that racism is dead and to ’stop playin the race card’.
There are deadbeat politicians of every race. Stop acting like any black person elected is going to be the next ‘Bill Campbell’.
Also, stop complaining about the problems in the city without noting that repairs and services cost money that the citizens and city council were not willing to put up. Police/Firefighter salaries and sewer repairs aren’t free. You want the bills paid, put up, or shut up when the furloughs come.
Keisha
December 4th, 2009
1:43 pm
Maybe when Buckhead secedes from the city, P Diddy can step in and fill the tax coffers. Right, Kasim?
Mark
December 4th, 2009
1:44 pm
These hip hop and rap artists will be the downfall of Atlanta, not to mention the continuation of the Political Machine.
@ RICH
December 4th, 2009
1:46 pm
To the less Fortunate: My HUSBAND is actually WHITE. We live in Sandy Springs. I have an Office in Buckhead. DO you know what all this means? It means we have loads of cash, you working stiff. My husband has never ever been in jail–unlike you and YOUR tooth less white trash cousins. LOL
Skee Wee90
December 4th, 2009
1:46 pm
Could you all be upset that them JIM CROWS LAWS ARE OVER!!!!!!
Black President, Black Mayor, Just get over it!!!!! Its a new day and time so all them racist comment, which I am sure are from uneducated white trash, Its not our fault your trashy ass didnt go to college and make some thing out of your self besides living in trailors and marrying your cousins!!!!
Ebony
December 4th, 2009
1:47 pm
@ Mark:
AMEN!!!!!!
Atlanta Suburb Housewife
December 4th, 2009
1:51 pm
@ MuJumbo – What about the white people who voted for him? If all black are gangbangers, hoods and thugs, how were there enough of them registered to vote to elect him?
D-
December 4th, 2009
1:52 pm
Hate to say – Mike Hunt has it right – black people don’t vote on issues, they vote along racial lines, and if a black celebrity endorses a candidate, that is the individual they will vote for hands down. Standing in line for the presidential election, I could hear the person’s phone conversation in front of me – she had never voted in her life, and why ? The candidates were almost always white. The reason she voted in this election ? Because a black person was running for president, to quote the woman . . . Stop candycoating things – in the end it is a racial issue, especially in Atlanta. If Sean Combs endorsed Norwood, it wouldn’t surprise me to see the vote swing in that direction. College buddies aside, Sean Combs doesn’t reside in Atlanta on such a continual basis that he actually knows what it is like to LIVE in Atlanta, to know the true issues this city faces. When he is here, his existence is a priveleged and private one – he’s not running around the corner to Publix like everyman. His point of view will naturally be a very different one from yours or mine. I am continually disappointed with Atlanta’s choice of mayor since the days of Andrew Young or Maynard Jackson – these men were mayors Atlantans could be, and were, proud of. Kasim Reed, I am afraid, will complete the job Shirley Franklin began of completely ruining this city. Previous mayors brought unity and hope; Shirley began a culture of racial division that I believe Reed will continue to nuture.
joe joe
December 4th, 2009
1:53 pm
How’s that post-racial hope & change working for everyone. I looked at the voting maps.
The whites voted for both Reed & Norwood. The blacks voted for Reed only.
Don’t get emotional on me because these are the facts so there is no wiggle room.
@ RICH
December 4th, 2009
1:53 pm
I almost didn’t mention Brookhaven but I did because certain parts are close to the City and you’re not sitting in traffic all day when traveling from your JOB. Brookhaven is kind of questionable because I was thinking of moving there and my brother in law, who had lived there at one time, said don’t do it because the school system sucks–I am sure if you ever had any kids they would go to PUBLIC SCHOOL. Also, it is not exactly the safest place. But I guess it’s saving grace is that it is right around the corner from where I live in Sandy Springs. But don’t get any ideas about packing up and moving here. Thanks.