I am appalled at the comments of you bigoted whites who place everyone in the same category. You are so full of hate and ignorance that you would expose your ignorance at your own expense.

Do you think that the law abiding African American Citizens want to live in crime infested areas of the city where because of the lack of police presence there are people committing crimes without any reasonable conscious of being apprehended. Drugs that smuggled into this country by people who don’t have the means to bring large quantities of drugs here but, have been placed at the bottom of the totem pole and earning the least of amount of the profits of these illegal enterprises.

What happens when whites flee to the suburbs to hide their own crime ridden lives that are hidden and many never be seen on the five or six o’clock news because they have turned to white collar crimes and steal and bilk millions and in some cases billions of dollars from people whom have worked hard to put away their pensions and other funds for their retirement. I don’t see any African Americans in on these stories and I don’t
see the ignorant bigots like you writing letters or saying anything about these white collar slime balls. Where are you when monies are allocated to minority area schools that don’t have enough funds to hire the best teachers to teach minority children and provide them with the sub-standard materials that have already been used by white children in suburbia where your sorry behind run for cover?

What civic organizations do you belong to that contribute to your community? What have you done to do something about the problem? How many children have you been a big brother or sister to? Have you ever seen what it is to be really poor and have not the parental guidance to guide you. Have any one in your family done and community service work to improve the community that they or you live in?

I already know the answer. Like most ignorant bigots you want to hide your hatred for people behind the mask of identifying blacks with crime but, not the people who commit the crime but the entire African American race which whom you may not even know one African American on a personal basis. People like you are the same people who have changed the identity of Christ as being white as snow. Just as Mel Gibson tried to paint the people of biblical times as all being white.

Your forefathers rape, pillaged and plundered the African American Family and you have not yet began to see the payback that you are due to get. Why should you always be so comfortable in your bastion of racism?

Get a life!

First and foremost, the so called "race" that was pillaged, plundered, and raped was NOT blacks but native americans. This country was founded on the racial genocide of the indians because they, unlike blacks, would not tolerate becoming slaves.

Second, it is the fault of the black tribes of africa for your slavery.

Last point. 80% of the black population just stands around going WTF, its the remianing 20% that either screaming about how unjust slavery was and how this country owes them everything while the other half commits all the crime. Im guessing your part of that 20%.

And before i forget, christ was neither white nor black. If you look at anything in history (did you pay attention in school?) then the skin tone would be olive or more of a middle eastern appearance. Or possibly white (though unlikely) since he WAS a Jew and most African nations were pagan anyway.

I will share here an E-mail sent to a Pastor after he depicted Jesus Christ as resembling the character that was starring in the Blockbuster motion picture, The Passion of The Christ. We realized as true Scholars of the Bible and, also amature Historians that many were not very happy about Mel Gibson's picture.

Hence the contents and dialog via E-mail with Pastor Brown, whose church I will not mention in the context of this display of bigotry.

Mr. Brown:

Though you may not have intended to prove a racial superiority again, your depiction of Him is inaccurate. I have one question, which is, if the ethnicity of The Christ is not important, then why was it changed? I have asked many that are theologians and not one of them seemed to have an answer.

For those of us who believe that God manifested himself as a human and that human had to have an ethnicity, and that ethnicity was of African stock, we have been told all manner of nonsense as to why this should not be important.
Mr. Brown, maybe you personally have not used this to propagate a superior position however many Europeans have and used this information from the great depiction of David by Michelangelo to in Rome to be an European.

This was the start of the lies that have been told to the world. I believe that also the mention of Rome in the Bible is in the New Testament of the Bible. Rome is no consideration in the ethical identification of the “Bible Writers”.

As the Original African Study Bible quotes and I will share with you. “ We can now return to the question of the race of Jesus of Nazareth. His mother, Mary, was Afro-Asiatic and probably looked like a typical Yemenite, Trinidadian, of African American of today. Consider a few inescapable factors that challenge the traditional perception of the Madonna and Child. In Matt.2:15 and Hos. 11:1 we find the words, “out of Egypt, I have called my son. “ The passage is part of the notorious flight into Egypt, which describes Mary and Joseph’s attempt to hide the one that King Herod feared would displace him. Imagine the divine family as Europeans hiding in Africa! This is quite doubtful. (Egypt has always been part of Africa, despite centuries of European scholarship which has diligently sought to portray Egypt as an extension of southern Europe.)

Literally hundreds of Shrines of the Black Madonna have existed in many parts of North Africa, Europe, and Russia. These are not weather-beaten misrepresentations of some original white Madonna, but uncanny reminders of the original people who inhabited ancient Palestine at the time of Jesus of Nazareth and earlier. The “Sweet Little Jesus Boy” of the Negro spiritual was in fact quite black.

Mary, Joseph, and Jesus were neither Greek nor Roman. With the marvelous oils and watercolors of the painter’s brush, the world gradually witnessed the rebirth of Jesus, as medieval and Renaissance artist made him suitable for the portrayal of Christianity as a “European” religion. Thus there developed a brand new manger scene, with the infant Jesus and his parents reimaged. Ancient darker, and clearly more African, icons, were discarded or destroyed.

Many in the 1990’s who think of a black Jesus as an oddity or scandalous distortion of historical facts insist that Jesus was Semitic, or Middle Eastern. However, to call Jesus Semitic does not take us very far, because this nineteenth-century term refers not to a racial type, but to a time that the European academy coined the term Semitic, it also created the geographical designation called the Middle East- all in an effort to avoid talking about Africa! This academic racism sought to de-Africanize both the sacred story of the Bible and Western Civilization.

So, you see Mr. Brown there is no reason that anyone who says they they love Jesus would take the truth and try to misguide it with more lies and try to distort the birthright of the Savior of the world. White and Black Christians alike are some of the ones who have cause what the study bible calls “the injustices have caused insurmountable suffering and pain. It is the collective consensus of the translators and interpreters of this version of the Bible that this cycle of darkness must be broken, for the truth is the light, and with the truth all captives shall be set free.” In my opinion, freeing one from the nuisances of racism, bigotry, hatred, and ignorance.

Mr. Brown, I was a Buddhist for 15years and, I was touched by the word of God through the reading of a minister from Africa who wrote a book, that as I read it, I thought it was one of the most crazy writings that I had read about someone’s journey in Christ and that book believe it or not opened my mind and assisted to convert me to Christianity. Afterwards the Lord himself has put this on my heart to speak on the ethnicity of Jesus Christ because it will change the hearts of people who have some hang ups on religion and race.

I hope that I have enlighten you Mr. Brown because I come from the heart and not to be abrasive at all but men of God should know that this is important and tell the truth. Pastor Rod Parsley went have way but I don’t think that he has the heart to tell the whole truth. I hope that you will study and will tell the truth.

Respectfully Yours,
alhaji

THE BLACK JESUS
Mr. Brown:
See what I mean; You have the audacity to write to me in this manner, the manner to say “with all due respect, Jesus came from the tribe of Judah.” I do understand the term with all due respect, do you? He was from the tribe of Judah, that is just my point. Was David of the same tribe? Was Solomon from the same tribe? I hope that you know where to find the Genealogy of Jesus.

I have never attended any Seminary School and I hope for the sake of the school that you may have attended that they also, because of the bigotry and racist views, the European man cannot phantom Jesus being of African stock.

I feel sad for you because you are the leader of a flock of God’s children and you will not even investigate the fact that Jesus was of African stock. So, you will lead the people by allowing them to believe the lies that have been imparted as part of the so called word. What I will do now for you is to take you to the scriptures so that maybe in your confused and misinformed heart you will maybe read your Bible and see for yourself.
With all due respect, I will share an article written by some scholars that will run circles around you sir. I dare you to do the research. Now the reason that I continue to try to reach your heart is because I think that you can change your mind if given enough empirical proof and information, I hope for the souls that you are leading. And, sir, if you don’t change the information that you are imparting to them, Hell is somewhere you will be visiting when the time comes.
Again.
Respectfully Yours,
alhaji
Although film, books and art depict most biblical characters as blond and blue-eyed Europeans, a growing body of research indicates that Blacks or people who would be considered as Blacks today were among the major actors in the Bible, which is generally called "the greatest book of all time."

"Over the years, African-Americans have been introduced to a form of Christianity that was largely recast through the European culture," says Dr. Cain Hope Felder, a New Testament language and literature professor at the Howard University School of Divinity and the author of several books on the subject. "We are not creating something new. We are going back and recovering what was always there."

What was always there, Dr. Felder and other religious experts say, is incontrovertible evidence that noted biblical figures, such as the Queen of Sheba, Moses' Cushite wife Zipporah, Prophet Jeremiah's right-hand man Ebedmelech, and Sarah's Egyptian handmaiden Hagar, are among the many royal Black personalities mentioned in the Bible.
Although evidence on the presence of Blacks in the Bible dates back to the 18th century, only in the past 25 years have Black scholars and ministers made major breakthroughs on a subject that has been practically ignored or suppressed by White religious authorities. Modern research, however, is based on the findings of Black historians like William Leo Hansberry and W.E.B. DuBois, who identified major Black biblical characters more than 50 years ago.

Moreover, some scholars say, it has taken them just as much time to convince Black Americans of their findings.
"Black people have been duped into running from the Bible, thinking it was the White man's book," says the Rev. Walter A. McCray, pastor of the First Baptist Church in Chicago and author of two volumes titled The Black Presence in the Bible. But in fact, Rev. McCray says, "Many notable biblical personalities were Black."
Scholars base their characterizations of biblical figures on a few basic hypotheses set forth, in part, by Dr. Charles B. Copher, professor-emeritus of Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta and a leading authority the historical analysis of Blacks in the Bible. These assumptions are that 1) race was not the social and political issue that it is today, 2) most Bible activity took place in areas historically populated by people of color, such as the near Middle East and Northeast Africa; 3) "blackness" can be determined by scriptural references to skin color, Black ancestry and features characteristic of Black peoples.
Based on this criteria alone, "You'd have to say that the vast majority of peoples referred to in the Bible would have to be classified as Black," Dr. Copher says. Another school of thought holds to the view that only those people belonging to ancient Africa can be identified as Black.
In any case, Black preachers, scholars and historians are determined to establish the presence of Black kings, queens, war leaders and women of the Bible as part of missing links in Black history. "The question isn't where are the Blacks in the Bible," Dr. Felder said during a telephone interview, "but where are the Whites?"
"The information has been there for the reader all along," adds Dr. Renita J. Weems, an Old Testament assistant professor at Vanderbilt University who specializes in biblical hermeneutics. "To the extent that African-American people identify with their African heritage, I think that they can take pride in [the fact] that African people were very much embedded in the founding of the Judeo-Christian traditions."

Although there are differences of emphasis, Black scholars and an increasing of White biblical scholars agree on the eight most widely accepted Black personalities in the Bible:
* The Queen of Sheba. The queen, who visited King Solomon and marveled at his wisdom, was queen of Ethiopia and Egypt. In scripture, she is called "the queen of the South." Scriptures: I Kings 10:1; II Chronicles 9:1; St. Matthew 12:42.
* Zipporah. She was Moses' Cushite wife. It is said that Moses' siblings, Aaron and Miriam, did not like her. Some say it was because of a family spat. Others claim it's because Zipporah, daughter of Jethro, was Black. Scripture: Numbers 12:1.
* Ebed-melech. This Ethiopian eunuch saved the life of Jeremiah, the prophet. Scriptures: Jeremiah 38:7-13; 39:16.
* Ethiopian Eunuch. This unnamed eunuch received a spiritual conversion and a better understanding of the Scriptures after speaking with Philip. Scriptures: Acts 8:26-40.
* Hagar. She was Sarah's Egyptian handmaiden, and she eventually had Abraham's first son, Ishmael. Scriptures: Gen. 16:1,3; 21:9.
* Pharaoh Tirharkah. He was an Ethiopian king. II Kings 19:9.
* Asenath. She was the Egyptian wife of Joseph, given to him by the Pharaoh. Asenath and Joseph had two sons, Manessah and Ephraim. Scriptures: Gen. 41:45.
* Simon of Cyrene. He helped Jesus carry the cross. Cyrene was an ancient city in Libya, Africa. Scriptures: St. Mark 15:21.
In determining the race of biblical characters, religious scholars consider legends, languages, Bible translations and other historical manuscripts. But there is some disagreement.
Although few, if any, believe in the "curse of Ham," which was used as a justification for slavery, some experts, like Dr. McCray of Chicago, maintain that Blacks are indeed descendants of Ham, the youngest of Noah's three sons. Ham -- translated from Hebrew to mean "hot, heated or Black" -- was called the father of Canaan in the Bible.
Canaan, along with Cush (or ancient Ethiopia), Mizraim (early Egypt) and Phut are considered to be Ham's direct offspring.
If this is true, according to Dr. Copher, Dr. Felder and other scholars, at least one book of the Bible was written by a Black man, namely Zephaniah. Called the "son of Cushi," Zephaniah was counted among the minor prophets of the Bible.
In addition to agreeing that Zephaniah was Black, some read King Solomon's lyrical prose in The Songs of Solomon and conclude that he, too, was a Black man and that this song-like book was devoted to his relationship with the Queen of Sheba. In the book's first chapter Solomon's female companion proclaims, "I am black, black, but comely... look not upon me because I am black, because the sun has looked down upon me."
If Solomon, King David's son, was Black, some scholars reason that Jesus Christ himself -- according to the genealogy outlined in the first chapter of St. Matthew -- was Black. Other observers, not as convinced by this logic, just conclude that he was not White.

"Jesus was definitely a person of color. He was not Anglo or White, but that doesn't mean that he was Black either," adds Dr. Weems, who sees the benefit of dialogue on Blacks in the Bible as long as it does not lead to ethnic chauvinism.
And what about the Three Wise Men who carried gifts to Jesus? In fact, the Bible makes no reference to the number of wise men who greeted Jesus and his parents that day. It only states that the wise men were from the east -- east of Bethlehem, that is. And many scholars believe that these "wise men," magicians or the Magi as they are best known, were all from Egypt.
These arguments have whetted the interests of a growing number of Blacks and have prompted the production of several books, and even Bibles, that address the subject.
Black churches are also recognizing the power of physical religious images. Some assemblies, like the historic Abyssinian Baptist Church of Harlem, are discussing the idea of replacing their stained-glass windows and wall paintings, which depict biblical character's as Whites, with multicultural images. Other churches, like Saint Sabina Catholic Church in Chicago and Moore's Chapel A.M.E. Church in St. Petersburg, Fla., have already executed such plans. "It's the height of paradox for Black people to experience as much racism that we do during the week and then to go to our most holy place and see all of these White images of the so-called holy families," Dr. Felder adds. "We want to see more multicultural images and more Black images that are more correct."
Although there is evidence that Blacks were major contributors in ancient, biblical times, religious scholars say the major point is that the Bible depicted a multicultural world. "Whites are in the Bible as Greeks and Romans. Asia is mentioned and so is Hispana," says Howard University's Dr. Felder. "I think it's this rich mosaic of diverse people in the Bible that makes it very compelling."
Although film, books and art depict most biblical characters as blond and blue-eyed Europeans, a growing body of research indicates that Blacks or people who would be considered as Blacks today were among the major actors in the Bible, which is generally called "the greatest book of all time."
"Over the years, African-Americans have been introduced to a form of Christianity that was largely recast through the European culture," says Dr. Cain Hope Felder, a New Testament language and literature professor at the Howard University School of Divinity and the author of several books on the subject. "We are not creating something new. We are going back and recovering what was always there."
What was always there, Dr. Felder and other religious experts say, is incontrovertible evidence that noted biblical figures, such as the Queen of Sheba, Moses' Cushite wife Zipporah, Prophet Jeremiah's right-hand man Ebedmelech, and Sarah's Egyptian handmaiden Hagar, are among the many royal Black personalities mentioned in the Bible.
Although evidence on the presence of Blacks in the Bible dates back to the 18th century, only in the past 25 years have Black scholars and ministers made major breakthroughs on a subject that has been practically ignored or suppressed by White religious authorities. Modern research, however, is based on the findings of Black historians like William Leo Hansberry and W.E.B. DuBois, who identified major Black biblical characters more than 50 years ago.
Moreover, some scholars say, it has taken them just as much time to convince Black Americans of their findings.
"Black people have been duped into running from the Bible, thinking it was the White man's book," says the Rev. Walter A. McCray, pastor of the First Baptist Church in Chicago and author of two volumes titled The Black Presence in the Bible. But in fact, Rev. McCray says, "Many notable biblical personalities were Black."
Scholars base their characterizations of biblical figures on a few basic hypotheses set forth, in part, by Dr. Charles B. Copher, professor-emeritus of Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta and a leading authority the historical analysis of Blacks in the Bible. These assumptions are that 1) race was not the social and political issue that it is today, 2) most Bible activity took place in areas historically populated by people of color, such as the near Middle East and Northeast Africa; 3) "blackness" can be determined by scriptural references to skin color, Black ancestry and features characteristic of Black peoples.
Based on this criteria alone, "You'd have to say that the vast majority of peoples referred to in the Bible would have to be classified as Black," Dr. Copher says. Another school of thought holds to the view that only those people belonging to ancient Africa can be identified as Black. In any case, Black preachers, scholars and historians are determined to establish the presence of Black kings, queens, war leaders and women of the Bible as part of missing links in Black history. "The question isn't where are the Blacks in the Bible," Dr. Felder said during a telephone interview, "but where are the Whites?"
"The information has been there for the reader all along," adds Dr. Renita J. Weems, an Old Testament assistant professor at Vanderbilt University who specializes in biblical hermeneutics. "To the extent that African-American people identify with their African heritage, I think that they can take pride in [the fact] that African people were very much embedded in the founding of the Judeo-Christian traditions."
Although there are differences of emphasis, Black scholars and an increasing of White biblical scholars agree on the eight most widely accepted Black personalities in the Bible:
* The Queen of Sheba. The queen, who visited King Solomon and marveled at his wisdom, was queen of Ethiopia and Egypt. In scripture, she is called "the queen of the South." Scriptures: I Kings 10:1; II Chronicles 9:1; St. Matthew 12:42.
* Zipporah. She was Moses' Cushite wife. It is said that Moses' siblings, Aaron and Miriam, did not like her. Some say it was because of a family spat. Others claim it's because Zipporah, daughter of Jethro, was Black. Scripture: Numbers 12:1.
* Ebed-melech. This Ethiopian eunuch saved the life of Jeremiah, the prophet. Scriptures: Jeremiah 38:7-13; 39:16.

* Ethiopian Eunuch. This unnamed eunuch received a spiritual conversion and a better understanding of the Scriptures after speaking with Philip. Scriptures: Acts 8:26-40.
* Hagar. She was Sarah's Egyptian handmaiden, and she eventually had Abraham's first son, Ishmael. Scriptures: Gen. 16:1,3; 21:9.
* Pharaoh Tirharkah. He was an Ethiopian king. II Kings 19:9.
* Asenath. She was the Egyptian wife of Joseph, given to him by the Pharaoh. Asenath and Joseph had two sons, Manessah and Ephraim. Scriptures: Gen. 41:45.
* Simon of Cyrene. He helped Jesus carry the cross. Cyrene was an ancient city in Libya, Africa. Scriptures: St. Mark 15:21.
In determining the race of biblical characters, religious scholars consider legends, languages, Bible translations and other historical manuscripts. But there is some disagreement.
Although few, if any, believe in the "curse of Ham," which was used as a justification for slavery, some experts, like Dr. McCray of Chicago, maintain that Blacks are indeed descendants of Ham, the youngest of Noah's three sons. Ham -- translated from Hebrew to mean "hot, heated or Black" -- was called the father of Canaan in the Bible.
Canaan, along with Cush (or ancient Ethiopia), Mizraim (early Egypt) and Phut are considered to be Ham's direct offspring.
If this is true, according to Dr. Copher, Dr. Felder and other scholars, at least one book of the Bible was written by a Black man, namely Zephaniah. Called the "son of Cushi," Zephaniah was counted among the minor prophets of the Bible.
In addition to agreeing that Zephaniah was Black, some read King Solomon's lyrical prose in The Songs of Solomon and conclude that he, too, was a Black man and that this song-like book was devoted to his relationship with the Queen of Sheba. In the book's first chapter Solomon's female companion proclaims, "I am black, black, but comely... look not upon me because I am black, because the sun has looked down upon me."
If Solomon, King David's son, was Black, some scholars reason that Jesus Christ himself -- according to the genealogy outlined in the first chapter of St. Matthew -- was Black. Other observers, not as convinced by this logic, just conclude that he was not White.
"Jesus was definitely a person of color. He was not Anglo or White, but that doesn't mean that he was Black either," adds Dr. Weems, who sees the benefit of dialogue on Blacks in the Bible as long as it does not lead to ethnic chauvinism.
And what about the Three Wise Men who carried gifts to Jesus? In fact, the Bible makes no reference to the number of wise men who greeted Jesus and his parents that day. It only states that the wise men were from the east -- east of Bethlehem, that is. And many scholars believe that these "wise men," magicians or the Magi as they are best known, were all from Egypt.
These arguments have whetted the interests of a growing number of Blacks and have prompted the production of several books, and even Bibles, that address the subject.
Black churches are also recognizing the power of physical religious images. Some assemblies, like the historic Abyssinian Baptist Church of Harlem, are discussing the idea of replacing their stained-glass windows and wall paintings, which depict biblical character's as Whites, with multicultural images. Other churches, like Saint Sabina Catholic Church in Chicago and Moore's Chapel A.M.E. Church in St. Petersburg, Fla., have already executed such plans. "It's the height of paradox for Black people to experience as much racism that we do during the week and then to go to our most holy place and see all of these White images of the so-called holy families," Dr. Felder adds. "We want to see more multicultural images and more Black images that are more correct."
Although there is evidence that Blacks were major contributors in ancient, biblical times, religious scholars say the major point is that the Bible depicted a multicultural world. "Whites are in the Bible as Greeks and Romans. Asia is mentioned and so is Hispana," says Howard University's Dr. Felder. "I think it's this rich mosaic of diverse people in the Bible that makes it very compelling."
Although film, books and art depict most biblical characters as blond and blue-eyed Europeans, a growing body of research indicates that Blacks or people who would be considered as Blacks today were among the major actors in the Bible, which is generally called "the greatest book of all time." "Over the years, African-Americans have been introduced to a form of Christianity that was largely recast through the European culture," says Dr. Cain Hope Felder, a New Testament language and literature professor at the Howard University School of Divinity and the author of several books on the subject. "We are not creating something new. We are going back and recovering what was always there."
What was always there, Dr. Felder and other religious experts say, is incontrovertible evidence that noted biblical figures, such as the Queen of Sheba, Moses' Cushite wife Zipporah, Prophet Jeremiah's right-hand man Ebedmelech, and Sarah's Egyptian handmaiden Hagar, are among the many royal Black personalities mentioned in the Bible.
Although evidence on the presence of Blacks in the Bible dates back to the 18th century, only in the past 25 years have Black scholars and ministers made major breakthroughs on a subject that has been practically ignored or suppressed by White religious authorities. Modern research, however, is based on the findings of Black historians like William Leo Hansberry and W.E.B. DuBois, who identified major Black biblical characters more than 50 years ago.
Moreover, some scholars say, it has taken them just as much time to convince Black Americans of their findings.
"Black people have been duped into running from the Bible, thinking it was the White man's book," says the Rev. Walter A. McCray, pastor of the First Baptist Church in Chicago and author of two volumes titled The Black Presence in the Bible. But in fact, Rev. McCray says, "Many notable biblical personalities were Black."

Thanks alhaji53 for the excellent lesson on Biblical History. I urge you to continue to teach the World the truth about our misguided World and American History. Asante!

Imhotep, [The true father of medicine was a Black Man from the land of ancient Kemet or [Egypt].

Please, I won't cast pearls before swine. You just continued to show how ignorant you are. "Jesus was a Jew" So? Where do you think the original Semitic people came from?

Is this a trick question?

Mesopotamia?

http://fontes.lstc.edu/~rklein/Documents/Ur.htm

before you pop a vein in your head!
You sound just as bigoted as those you accuse... maybe you need to look in the mirror and take a deep breath before you write.

uh oh!

Where do the good black people go?

Ensure Domestic Tranquility

Why do you care? If you think Florida is insulated to problems you have another thing coming...I have friends in nice areas around Orlando who are having big problems.

I'll put Fayette's current crime ratem(last 3 months, if we could find it that current) up against most anywhere in the South...

I'm staying in PTC, thank you very much. It's not perfect, for sure, but it's better than most anywhere I've seen.

If you like PTC good. Stay there its your choice. You missed my point. Its not where you live its others who surround you where you live. I always read about areas I have left. Many friends, relatives, Church, etc still live in Georgia. I probably lived there more years than you are old. I am a native of this state. To answer your first question. Its none of your business why I care. Dont concern yourself why I live in Florida and you live in PTC.

Most normal people want to move somewhere nice and keep it nice, or make it even better.

These people seem to have a contest to see who can ruin a community the fastest.

Normal people don't think this way.

Can we get psychologist on here to explain why certain people feel a need to destroy things??

My neighborhood was good for a long time until a family bought a house in my neighborhood. It took them several years to destroy it, then came foreclosure. Now the slumlord that bought it for rental property rents to the first warm body on section 8 that crosses his path. The current crowd has been there for three months and it looks like a bomb went off. Guess what? The tenants are as white as I am!

I've only lived here for 2 and a half years. I have not seen the T-Shirts that say Fayette County next. Please tell me who is wearing them and where you've seen them. Thanks.

The FAYETTE next was around more than a year ago. Whether a joke or not it made people notice. This originally came from Riverdale. I do not care what race moves to the county. I care what people do once they move to the county. White, black, hispanic, asian or whatever the person is what matters. FAYETTE next came from people from Clayton County. No one can not deny that Clayton is not a great place to raise your children. This is why everyone that can moves to Fayette County at the start of each school year. Who can blame the people for doing this? Everyone wants to better their life which is normal. What I do not want to happen is to raise incoming residents lifestyles while lowering mine without questioning these individuals. If people want to live in Fayette County then take care of your county. Make it a better place to live. If people want to take and not give back then expect Clayton County within 15 years.

It sounds like a 'sick' joke meant to be provocative. I agree with you - and it will take vigilance of all of us to make sure that new residents in Fayette County take pride in living in the best county in Georgia.