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I’m still hung up on the fact that in a time with so much concern about school safety, something of this magnitude was allowed to happen. That is a fact, that it was “allowed” to happen. This situation would have made it easy for someone with ill intent to plant a gun in the school and access it later when the school was more populated. This should be a warning that we cannot allow this to happen again.
Commented: Monday, June 17th, 2024 @ 9:16 am
By: Will Simmons
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The school board has not distinguished itself in the public trust department in either the vandalism issue or the backroom deal on spending $52 million on poorly thought out school construction.
Commented: Sunday, June 16th, 2024 @ 4:22 pm
By: Bubba
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BB actually mentioned something interesting: Why was MLK shot and killed? The FBI presented a case for who and why - James Earl Ray and racism. The King family doesn't believe the FBI. I imagine we've got about as straight a story on this as we do the JFK assassination.
Concerning working to support the movement, I must be way younger than B Bob. Back to the WHS vandalism: Hood is right. Where's the transparency and accountability? The questions by JV need to be answered.
Commented: Sunday, June 16th, 2024 @ 10:47 pm
By: Van Zant
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Love the defense of MLK. I can tell most of you worked hard to support the movement- tell me again why he was shot and killed?
Commented: Sunday, June 16th, 2024 @ 10:11 am
By: Big Bob
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Richardson's concerns on this vandalism in our schools reflects the feelings of many taxpayers in our county. The level of trust in the school system is not great due to their secretiveness and lack of transparency. People want answers but the school system wants to deflect. While they may not be able to give the names of the students, that is not what people are looking for. The school system wants to keep all information behind closed doors while the citizens want government in the sunshine.
Commented: Sunday, June 16th, 2024 @ 8:19 am
By: Concerned Taxpayer
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With all due respect, Pretendinggirl is entitled to her opinion, but she also needs to recognize that the longest serving county commissioner does work for a substantial number of Beaufort County citizens.
Regarding B Bobbie: Propogandists make poor historians. 
Commented: Saturday, June 15th, 2024 @ 10:52 pm
By: Van Zant
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Learn your history, LIttle BObbie. King was accused, including by the FBI, of being a communist, not a "Marxist". Although he dabbled with some of their "social justice" concepts, King was fundamentally a Christian and therefore had no use for the atheist core tenets of communism. He actually preached sermons against it.
kinginstitute.stanford.edu What MLK was NOT was "woke", again because as a Christian he rejected homosexuality and would have rejected "transgenderism" which had not yet reared its ugly head. Dr. King's belief that people should "be judged by the content of their character, not the color of their skin" is the polar opposite of the "woke" notion of DEI.
Commented: Saturday, June 15th, 2024 @ 4:14 pm
By: Conservative Voter
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Yet he was called a Marxist and opposed by the the white establishment. The exact same attacks we see now. all documented in the old newspapers found in line and in libraries.
You will not rewrite history.
Commented: Saturday, June 15th, 2024 @ 2:00 pm
By: Big Bob
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Martin Luther King,Jr. was hardly "woke". Read some of his comments on homosexuality and it will show you he clearly wasn't. Indeed, it would not surprise me to some day see the Gaystapo going after MLK memorials just as hard as BLM gores after southern war memorials.
While Karl Marx himself never wrote anything that would promote wokeness, his followers in the following century did. Marxism is about creating divisions in sociey and Karl Marx expected wealth and class to fullfill the ideological need there. But a later Marxist ideologue changed that. Herbert Marcuse was chief of ideology for the German Communist Party in the Weimar Republic and fled when the Nazis took over. Upset that the working class did not rise up in Germany to overthrow the Nazis, Marcuse concluded that Marxists needed to create further divisions in society that they could exploit politically. He espoused what he called Critical Theory which advocated creating many divisions in society. Critical Race Theory is part of that. He came up with the term "intersectionality" to describe playing on more than one of those divisions at the same time. The "woke" movement today is straight out of the Marxist ideology of Herbert Marcuse.
Commented: Saturday, June 15th, 2024 @ 12:43 pm
By: Conservative Voter
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Prendiegirl: Commissioner Hood Richardson does 'work for the people.' I know that because I am one of his most ardent constituents. You see, I only vote for the smartest politicians, hoping they will become the smartest elected government leaders.
Hood won that round for me and my kind decades ago, and he still amazes me with his mental acuity to know the best course, which for Hood, and others like Commissioner Richardson, is just plain Governing by Common Sense.
Commented: Saturday, June 15th, 2024 @ 5:54 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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RH- I don't think any of that is true. Associating "woke" with Marxism is the exact thing that many, probably you too, tried to use against Dr. King. Back then privilege meant you got to ride at the front of the bus, get an education, drink out your own water fountain, sit in a restaurant, lynch black people with impunity etc. Now things are more subtle but correcting them wasnt Marxist then, and it's not now.
Commented: Friday, June 14th, 2024 @ 7:09 pm
By: Big Bob
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As a taxpayer, parent, WHS alumni member and concerned corporation; I still ask the following questions and will continue to do so until a satisfactory answer is given:
1. How did these young'uns get an access key? 2. How was the security system disabled? 3. Why was the security system disabled? 4. Was this a another live test/PsyOp to distract from something else being brought up? You can best believe that it were any one of us that raised some hell at the schoolhouse, they'd have Live Eye 9 out there and the SWAT team in route.
Commented: Friday, June 14th, 2024 @ 4:15 pm
By: John Valley
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ONly the woke Marxists spout this "privelege" nonsense. In much of society today, being white and straight makes one a target of the far left's cancel culture. Look at the way Caitlin Clark is being treated in professional womens basketball. It is not just that she is white but that she is straight in a lesbian dominated sport.
Commented: Friday, June 14th, 2024 @ 3:44 pm
By: Rino Hunter
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Stan, Last time I looked he works for the people. I think he has overstayed his welcome. Might be time for someone who cares about the county to take his place.
Commented: Friday, June 14th, 2024 @ 3:35 pm
By: Prendiegirl
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Prendiegirl describes a perfect example of privilege. Ask your self, would a hoard of hoodieed
black teenagers who did the exact same thing, get the same treatment? 5 bucks says no.
Commented: Friday, June 14th, 2024 @ 12:26 pm
By: Big Bob
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I will not believe restitution has been made until the School Board announces it and notations have been made in the Board meeting minutes. Until then it is just bull.
Commented: Friday, June 14th, 2024 @ 10:11 am
By: Hood Richardson
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"Prendiegirl": Here is how it works in the real world: One does not attack the senior county commissioner for inaccurate speech by using far more inaccurate speech.
Commented: Friday, June 14th, 2024 @ 9:39 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Transparency in government is important, and lack of transparency by our school system has led to a lot of concerns by citizens, questions, and bits and pieces of information. The school system should have leveled with the public much earlier about what went on and avoided a lot of the public concerns. To get this issue behind them, it is important for the school system to make as complete a report as possible as soon as possible. They have drug their feet too long Already. On a matter like this, it is essential to consult with legal counsel, but I wonder if our school board having its legal counsel out of town has the timeline of leveling with the public to have been unnecessarily lengthened.
Commented: Friday, June 14th, 2024 @ 9:04 am
By: Steven P. Rader
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First off Stan the school may cost 52 million but 42 million is coming from lottery money. Also as per FERPA laws even children over 16 are minors until they graduate. The police did not want to get involved because yes the students were stupid but most of them left when the few decided to get crazy. Restitution is being made for damages and most of the kids have offered to volunteer their time. Punishment has been given. My thoughts( I know you don’t like outside thoughts on here unless they agree with you) however my thoughts are hopefully they have learned their lessons and they or future seniors will realize it was wrong. I’m sure most of you have done stupid things in your life. Leave it to the authorities.
Commented: Friday, June 14th, 2024 @ 8:53 am
By: Prendiegirl
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HR - tell your self all you want, but if you were black, you might get away with it today, but in the 70s your act would have got you set on fire. Privilage.
Commented: Thursday, June 13th, 2024 @ 9:22 pm
By: Big Bob
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Not to gang up on the incredibly unenlightened "Prendiegirl," but the cost of the unneeded school at the lowest placement of that entire property, has always been estimated around 52 million dollars, 383.00 per square foot, providing that there are NO cost over-runs ... yeah, and when has that ever happened?
There must be another set of facts making their rounds amongst Beaufort County's lower echelon of those who traditionally do not think too much about what is real.
Commented: Friday, June 14th, 2024 @ 7:29 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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FERPA would prevent the school system from releasing the names of the perps to the media. It would NOT prevent the school system from making a police report and charging them for the crimes they committed. That should be enough leverage to motivate the perps or their families to make resitution for the damages done. Sweeping this under the rug and making the taxpayers cover the damage is just unacceptable.
Commented: Thursday, June 13th, 2024 @ 5:00 pm
By: John Steed
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Prendiegirl, All of your facts are wrong.
We all love our children and grand children. Somebody's children do 100 percent of the criminal acts. I guess we forgive all criminal behavior because somebody's child did it. We should have learned our lesson from the "Its for the children" garbage the liberals worked so well for so long.
Commented: Thursday, June 13th, 2024 @ 1:47 pm
By: Hood Richardson
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