I want to thank Cal for allowing this blog and allowing the citizens of this county to say how they feel and get it off their chest. This is the best thing for this community since sliced bread!! If we don't stick together on this issue, we will be the one's to pay for it in the future. Thank you, Cal!

This King character is from Albany, Georgia and is on here hijacking our local issue to promote himself and his business. Let's get rid of him and work this issue out amongst our Fayette family.

Git Real,
I agree the King character posted some very lengthy history articles, but he has just as much right to free speech as the rest of us...it doesn't mean that we have to agree with everything he says. If our kids were getting this kind of history lesson in our schools, we might not have this problem. When was the last time Georgia History was taught in our school system? When was the last time African History was taught in our school system?

When was the last time Asian, Russian, Australian, Mexican or for that matter Middle Eastern history taught in our schools?

Mr King says, but the LAST thing I would call him is dumb!

Remember the "Jesus was a Black Man" dude several weeks ago? This King fellow is just as crazed.

Holy moly. You never can predict what might crawl out of the woodwork.

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Original Photo: Urinal, The Eagle & Child, Oxford, UK, circa 1952 (Lewis and Tolkien no doubt stood here, elbow-to-elbow and talked philosophy and literature)

Buddy, you have got to get rid of the wall toilet. People are starting to talk. I reassure them to let them know it's ok. It's just Muddle. That usually calms them down as they exclaim "it must be a philosopher thang".

Guys like that King make folks like us look pretty good wouldn't you say? Disclaimer folks....Mr. King is not one us. He is actually a member of the Taliban assigned to a cell in Albany, GA. He can be identified easily. He's the one with the wife who's wearing the burka walking quietly behind him.

The big difference in northern blacks and southern blacks is their location. In the south now there are numerous blacks trying to upgrade to better living conditions and jobs. In the north, like Detroit and DC, they hang together only and make little progress. We resent their trying here and for good reason sometimes---they push too much, too soon.

Hardtack, I'm not sure where you are from "up north", but you have had an opposite experience from mine.

I have lived in 2 different countries, and five different states. GA being the furthest south.

Up north black people work hard, and rarely play the "race card" unless it is legit. Up north black people don't waste their time hating whitey. They use their time more wisely, like on education. They are successful because they don't waste their energy crying about the past. They are thriving and thinking about the future.

In the south they are still crying in their beer, and too busy hating whitey to be successful. They have still failed to claim their victory and move on.

My paternal grandparents escaped from nazi Germany. They came to this county with almost nothing, and did not speak english very well. They moved on, and got on with the business of living. Did they become millionairs....no.....were they successful and self supporting....yes.

I heard many painful stories of how they lived, and how they escaped.

I guess I could spend my time now just hating Germans. But where would that get me?? Would it make me feel better to continue the cycle of hate?

Any racism is wrong, very wrong. This current case of reverse racism in our school is just teaching a whole new generation of kids to hate. The sad thing is it appears to have been started and encouraged by the very people our taxes pay for. The people we have wrongly trusted to educate our kids.

I am not one to generalize. I served with too many OUTSTANDING people of every race and creed to generalize, including many southerners. Maybe I look at things differently because of the foxholes and hardships shared.

I take people as individuals. I trust them until they prove themselves untrustworthy.

I believe that most people just want to have a good life, a home and a little money in the bank and make things better for their children. Those that don't are fools no matter what their backgrounds.

Of course one deals with the individual in front of them at the moment. That is tactical actions. Strategic actions are coping with the overall in order to improve it. As you say "a good life," "a home," and "a little money," are fine, but aren't those "generalities? What is a good life? What is a home? What is a little money? I think we would have about 300 million ideas here in the USA. Of course, if you aren't interested in other people's troubles, just how they comply with your rules today, then so be it. The rest of the world runs on a little different rules than the military, thank goodness. I gave the military my four years and that was enough.