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State moves to dismiss discrimination suit over new cities
For the first time since Reconstruction the state of Georgia has all Republicans in its top elected positions. The recent move by the first Republican Attorney General intents to remind Black Progressives that there is a new sheriff in town.
Georgia Attorney General Sam Olens has filed a motion seeking to dismiss the lawsuit filed a few months ago by Civil Rights Pharisee Rev Joseph E Lowery. Lowery and others saw that White people in Fulton County and Dekalb County were forming cities because they were not happy with the way their respective counties were being governed. Particularly when it came to the financial resources.
In the view of the Civil Rights Pharisees - these White folks saw an array of Progressive Democrats (mostly Black but not all) raising their county-level taxes and shifting these funds to "underserved" areas of their respective counties and providing more social services than most other counties chose to provide. In seeing "Black people receiving uplift" - these "racist Whites" chose to form cities that have their own power to collect property taxes - thus creating a shortfall in the county.
In the view of the (majority) White folks and their "Leave All Least Of These Behind" plan - they realized that with INDEPENDENCE comes RESPONSIBILITY. While they were not happy with having high taxes and shoddy government services (again - their view) they also realized that in creating their own city they would need to have to pay and responsibly govern their own police forces, fire services and other functions they had been receiving from the county.
The truth is that all the while that Joseph Lowery focuses on what the WHTIE FOLKS ARE DOING and assuming "nefarious intent" - he can't vouch for what the people who he has most impact upon in the "Mission Accomplished" core of the county. The sad truth is that when it comes to ORGANIC COMPETENCY DEVELOPMENT that would allow the masses to make it through the changing demographic and political boundaries in the counties.
I have reported on the "Equal Black Ballot Harvesting Zones". The next time you visit Atlanta - get in your car and drive the length of "Joseph E Lowery Blvd". Make some turns westward off of this main street and look at the neighborhoods in the area. These communities are the handiwork of the Civil Rights Pharisees. Despite the newsworthy violence of a Street Pirate Attack - the people have settled into a relatively stagnant way of life.
In the mind of the Civil Rights Pharisees the benefit of the array of transfer payments into these 'Equal Black Ballot Harvesting Fields" is the present PEACE. They are often heard transacting Black Inferiority saying "IF you make cuts to these Social Justice Services that we have lined up - YOU will have blood on your hands (White folks) when they turn to riots out of frustration".
This choice is compelling for the White Liberal Snarling Fox because it sets up the conditions in which the EQUAL BLACK BALLOT is invested in the machine which they seek to place into power together. The transaction involves TWO of the key points of value that these "Least Of These Blacks" hold:
- Their Equal Black Votes
- Their "Black Community Consciousness Loyalties"
The one thing that they cannot point to in this arrangement is how the necessary internal systems for productivity increase are responsible for this uplift. Let alone a strategy in which the balance will be tipped in the future toward this end.
Instead the Civil Rights Pharisees are all about SYMBOLISM which they believe will act as "racial gravitational pull" in which our pride and dignity will move us forward:
- The favorable Black Machine full of elected Black Progressives in power ("WE run things now")
- The Confederate street signs removed and now "OUR" heroes names adorn the street signs
- The coalitions at the state-level with right thinking White Progressives who "Speak Truth To Power" and fight against the "Republican Southern Strategy" and thus advance the interests of Black people
The challenge in detailing the COSTS TO BLACK PEOPLE of this strategy is that few of the "embedded confidence men" are willing to make note of the CONTINUING PROBLEMS and resist their own ideological inclinations to blame RACISM as seen in the WHITE FOLKS seeking to craft a zone of their own where they live and die based upon their aggregate choices. Such a situation forced upon "The Vulnerable Masses" causes great fear and trepidation with Rev Joseph Lowery and others who have been marketing "Black Inferiority" in the cover of "Social Justice" for years.
I TOLD YOU than, upon Kennedy's death, they were heard calling us "The Least Of These" - this was not a term of endearment but a heartfelt view of the competencies of Black people who followed the tune on their "pied pipe".
From The Article
The Georgia Attorney General's Office filed a motion late Friday to dismiss a case seeking to dissolve the city charters of Chattahoochee Hills, Dunwoody, Johns Creek, Milton and Sandy Springs.
Attorneys for the state said incorporation of the new cities "does not diminish anyone’s existing right to vote and did not violate the Voting Rights Act."
The action comes in response to a lawsuit, filed April 11 against Gov. Nathan Deal in North Georgia U.S. District Court, by the Legislative Black Caucus. The suit alleges the state skirted the normal legislative process and set aside its own criteria when creating the “super-majority white” cities within DeKalb and Fulton counties. In so doing, the suit argues, it diluted minority votes in those areas, violating the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution.
Sandy Springs incorporated in December 2005. The other cities followed in the next three years.
The Rev. Joseph Lowery, who is among the plaintiffs who filed the suit, said late Friday that he would let attorneys make an official response. But the civil rights leader said he thinks the original charges are correct.
The state's motion to dismiss argues that incorporation of the cities created new governmental bodies, not a redistricting of existing governmental bodies. They do not diminish anyone’s existing right to vote and did not violate the Voting Rights Act, it says.
"Nor did the creation of these municipalities discriminate on the basis of race [or any suspect class, for that matter] and does not violate equal protection," the state's motion states. "Indeed, anyone -- including the plaintiffs -- is free to live inside or outside of one of the municipalities as they may choose."
Finally, the state argues the plaintiffs sued the wrong party. The governor did not create the cities and cannot grant relief, the motion states, even if the claims are valid.
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