Yeah, yeah. People are tired of hearing about how white elected officials in the South are still racists. Southerners wants the federal government to just leave the South alone to take care of its own laws on voting rights.
But, I’m not hawking a candidate or a party. Just trying to get the facts out from time to time on how and why racism remains an institutional problem for the south. Maybe good Southerners will see why the South will be ’supervised’ for another 25 years for civil rights for all citizens.
I actually hate this piece of news. So let’s give the non-apology first.
“Barbee, who is white, said he regretted the message became public and that it didn’t reflect his official position as an authority member.
“I’m terribly sorry a poorly worded, private e-mail concerning issues that have been brought forth before was disseminated through the public as an official statement when it’s not,'’ he said.
Then, the most harmful part of the email:
““We will be making the downtown Whiter with moving 200 whites in and moving 500 blacks out!'’ he wrote.”
It would seem at first that a better Augusta would be a whiter Augusta.
“‘Barbee wrote that development of new property in the area “is high income folks who will tend to be White and now we are closing GM (Gilbert Manor housing project) and moving Black folks out.'’”
The story is from the Associated Press and has been picked up by several Georgia newspapers, including the Rome News Tribune on 9-5-2007.
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