| F'ville Hooters
is really freedom of choice issue
Since this Hooters controversy seems
to continue raging on, I would like to add my two wings...sorry...two
cents worth on the matter.
There were comments made by a few writers that were disturbing. First,
that with Hooters comes adult establishments.
The Hooters in Jonesboro did in fact have a massage parlor behind it,
but the parlor was there first! Also, how many Hooters are on Metropolitan
Parkway (formally Stewart Avenue)? We all know the reputation of that
area.
There is a Hooters in Panama City, Fla., the mecca for Georgia families.
On one side there is a Day’s Inn, the other side, another restaurant.
No adult entertainment there, unless you think the hotel is a front for
prostitution (the people around the pool could actually be cardboard cutouts!).
Families — mothers, fathers, and children — go in there for
the novelty of it (not to mention that the kids can run around and not
disturb other patrons like at Captain Anderson’s).
Second, the comment made that if you don’t like the type of “freedom”
that Fayetteville offers, move!
That is the same rhetoric that minorites have been listening to for years.
“If you don’t like it here, go back to your own country,”
“If you want to live here, learn our language,” “If you
don’t believe in my God, I will kill you.” And people are worried
about Hooters?
Fayette citizens have already shut down a teen center because of “dirty
dancing.” At least you knew where the kids were; now who knows where
they will go? What’s next — banning football because boys fall
on each other, and that could lead to homosexual tendencies? Better yet,
ban all sports; they do pat each other’s behind, you know. And cheer-leading
— out of here! Those skirts are a little short, aren’t they?
Sounds ridiculous doesn’t it? Remember, freedom of choice, like it
or not. Hooters being built or not will not make or break my day, but
give me that choice; I’m not dragging you with me! To paraphrase
another writer, ”If you don’t like the freedom here, move to
Cuba.”
Jimmy Coker
Fayetteville
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