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New Ga. cities too white lawsuit claims
Atlanta Business Chronicle ^ | March 29, 2011 | Carla Caldwell

Posted on 03/29/2011 7:50:09 AM PDT by ruination

Some Georgia cities formed over the past few years are too white, according to members of the Georgia Legislative Black Caucus who have filed a federal lawsuit calling to dissolve the city charters of Dunwoody, Chattahoochee Hills, Sandy Springs, Milton and Johns Creek, Atlanta Business Chronicle broadcast partner WXIA-TV reports.

The lawsuit filed Monday contends that Georgia lawmakers created white majority governments when they formed new cities and that black voters may have lost the ability to elect people they want to hold office.

State Representative Wendell Willard, R- Sandy Springs, denied the claims and said cities got Voting Rights Act clearance from the U.S. Justice Department before creating the new cities.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; US: Georgia
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This "diluting minority votes" claim is a red herring. It's an attempt to force whites in these towns to pay for, through taxation, the dysfunctional southern sectors of Atlanta. The black caucus hates independent, heavily white cities because they want to be able to siphon off their money for their own people and their own pet projects.
1 posted on 03/29/2011 7:50:12 AM PDT by ruination
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...they want to be able to siphon off their money for their own people and their own pet projects pockets.
2 posted on 03/29/2011 7:52:44 AM PDT by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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To: ruination

Shouldn’t these racists be happy they already turned their OWN cities into the hopeychangey ghetto they wanted?


3 posted on 03/29/2011 7:53:22 AM PDT by max americana (FUBO FKBRK)
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To: ruination

That should change soon.

Black Americans Are Moving South
John Ellis | Mar. 28, 2011,

Black Americans are leaving northern states and relocating in the south, US census data show. Blacks are not just leaving Michigan, as one would expect. They are leaving New York and Illinois and the two major cities therein: New York City and Chicago.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/black-americans-are-moving-south-2011-3#ixzz1I03q8jFo


4 posted on 03/29/2011 7:54:08 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: ruination

this sure sounds like a racist lawsuit


5 posted on 03/29/2011 7:54:55 AM PDT by dalebert
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To: ruination

How about cities that are too black. Does that work for ya? Or....are you not supposed to talk about that?


6 posted on 03/29/2011 7:56:35 AM PDT by RC2
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I don’t really get this.

If you don’t live in a city, how can your vote be diluted?


7 posted on 03/29/2011 7:56:43 AM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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Aw, give it time, and they’ll all become majority hispanic (Mexican) — problem solved.


8 posted on 03/29/2011 7:57:13 AM PDT by PENANCE
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To: ruination

Let’s see what happens when someone mentions that Atlanta is too black...


9 posted on 03/29/2011 7:57:53 AM PDT by RockinRight (C'mon people - enough with the FR circular firing squad.)
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Well maybe if blacks would not have so many abortions and actually took responsibility for the consequences of sexual relations, not do drugs, not commit criminal acts or angage in criminal activities, stay away from gangs, and not drop out of school and start not voting for ANY DEMOCRATS and actually did something productive with their lives, maybe they would not be in the situation they are in.


10 posted on 03/29/2011 7:58:08 AM PDT by scorchedearther
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Well maybe if blacks would not have so many abortions and actually took responsibility for the consequences of sexual relations, not do drugs, not commit criminal acts or engage in criminal activities, stay away from gangs, and not drop out of school and start not voting for ANY DEMOCRATS and actually did something productive with their lives, maybe they would not be in the situation they are in.


11 posted on 03/29/2011 7:58:31 AM PDT by scorchedearther
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I heard this on the radio this morning and live next to three of the new cities. The cities were formed so that central and southern Fulton County could not drain our pockets for the express benefit of those living elsewhere. We saw tons of building, named after council members families, far from our homes while our library roof fell in, roads went unrepaired and we paid the lion’s share of the taxes. Fulton was so incensed at the formation of these cities that they scrambled on section 8 and other welfare schemes to move their refuse up here among us as revenge.

Note how Cynthia McKinney’s ridiculous gerrymander never caught the ire of these idiots. F em.


12 posted on 03/29/2011 7:58:39 AM PDT by doodad
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Translation: “We want EVERYBODY to live in Detroit.”

(but the largest refugees from Detroit and other democrat party hellholes are BLACKS)


13 posted on 03/29/2011 7:58:39 AM PDT by FormerACLUmember (When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.)
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>The failure of blue social policy to create an environment which works for Blacks is the most devastating possible indictment of the 20th century liberal enterprise in the United States.<

after decades of democrat kkk liberal progressive policies of abortion, drugs, hollywood movies lionizing gangs, etc, and free money for blacks to go to college, and affirmative action...

and they cannot succeed?


14 posted on 03/29/2011 7:58:58 AM PDT by ken21 (dem taxes + regs + unions = jobs overseas.)
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Then we need to penalize New Orleans, Compton and Detroit for not being white enough, right?

The fact is that if you want a clean, safe and maintained commmunity - you are more likely to see this in a predominately WHITE community.

If you want to see a poorly maintained, trash-filled, high crime rate and dangerous community, you are more likely to find that in a Black or Mexican community.

Sorry people don’t like to see FACTS ... but there are cultural differences, and there are reasons why Mexico and Africa enjoy the lifestyle they currently enjoy; and Europe has evolved beyond that level.


15 posted on 03/29/2011 7:59:11 AM PDT by Hodar (Who needs laws .... when this "feels" so right?)
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To: max americana

It would be interesting to contrast the conditions of some cities with high minority populations to those with fewer.

Some such majority black cities would be Detroit, Gary, Indiana, East St. Louis, Illinois, Camden, New Jersey, Baltimore. If we’re going down this road, let’s look at places which have very large minority populations, where their votes are not diluted because there are critical masses there. Then, perhaps, we could have some discussion about all of this.

Then again, it’s probably racist to have a contrary viewpoint to their view on this issue. It’s probably racist to even have any questions about what they are doing, or ask how the law applies, or any of that.


16 posted on 03/29/2011 7:59:21 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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The United States is still majority white (not for long).

Will the Judges declare that the U.S. is "too white" and dissolve the Union?

Oh wait. The government is already doing that: Electing a New People.

17 posted on 03/29/2011 8:00:36 AM PDT by Regulator (Watch Out! Americans are on the March! America Forever, Mexico Never!)
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And the legal grounds for revoking the charters would be?

Mike

18 posted on 03/29/2011 8:00:53 AM PDT by MichaelP (The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools ~HS)
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Good point! Middle class blacks have fled Detroit in huge numbers. It’s not just a “white flight” phenomenon.


19 posted on 03/29/2011 8:01:07 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: KeyLargo

White Americans are also leaving northern states and relocating in the south. Check the census data.


20 posted on 03/29/2011 8:01:39 AM PDT by Chunga (Go, Sarah, GO!! - Jim Robinson)
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