Becoming Alabama? Hey, at least we're not becoming CHARLOTTE. | Eastern NC Now

The Prius-driving, low-T, latte-sipping NPR-swooning lefty-snobs at The Charlotte Observer, one of McClatchy's many failing media holdings in The Carolinas, are aghast that this state might become more like — *GASP* — Alabama.

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( September 21st, 2014 @ 9:14 am )
 
I did a paper in my Bible course at Emory about Jesus being the Suffering Servant of Isaiah's Prophecy. I did it with research in my father's massive personal library for preaching. I was so proud of it.

It came back to me with a "C". I was more than pissed UNTIL I read the note: "You did an excellent job on the side of the argument that Jesus WAS the Suffering Servant. You did little or nothing on the opposite theory that his position was viewed through the eyes of history rather than the eyes of his day and the Pharisee dismissal of such. A balanced paper with reason is what is wanted in Emory religious education. Had you done both sides and then concluded with your personal reasoned view, It could be the best paper ever turned in."

I give the political post above a big "C" on the same basis. If you can address the opposite view with as much clarity, I could THEN give your more balanced view a well-reasoned "A".

Only ONE SIDE of any argument makes one a great Propagandist!

We are divided as a nation and in politics. Some kind of more reasonable compromise is far wiser, in my view. I thank you for many points that are hard to dismiss. They stroke the "Conservative" side of my self-description.
( September 21st, 2014 @ 9:07 am )
 
Lester was a "unique" character. He owned and operated the Pickwick Restaurant in Atlanta. When blacks insisted on being served, he denied them service. He had a big ax handle to enforce it!

After that, enterprising Maddox had a basket of miniature ones for sale in his lobby!

I have a picture in my Emory yearbook of him participating in a fraternity event called the "Great Bed Race." He was the occupant as the brothers pushed against their competition. He was a sport as well.

I had an Emory classmate from Adel, GA. She was more than lovely---which was unusual for Emory coeds of "brainy" extraction. I all got far more lovely when women's lib hit the campus and they all burned their bras!

It seems many most intelligent women are endowed in proportion to their brains! Why did I have to graduate in 1967 and go to Southeastern Seminary where such things were off their radar --- as well as the radar of Capital City women by and large.

Silly me.
( September 20th, 2014 @ 11:24 am )
 
I actually met Lester Maddox in 1963 at a small country church near Adel, Georgia. I don't remember him having an ax handle with him.
( September 20th, 2014 @ 11:11 am )
 
Do you get high on hate, my brother??? If there were a sneer emoticon, you should just use it to save words!

I grew up in Atlanta. Charlotte reminds me much of that big city as it surpassed its first million residents. Now Atlanta has some 8+ million and to drive through metro Atlanta takes a good 2 hours --- 3 if you get in a traffic jam of the hour!

The problem with taxation for Atlanta was always the quick grow demands for new schools. I graduated with 63 classmates in 1963 from a little town the size of Bath. It now graduates some 400 each year. Few are white. Most are dark-skinned and from nations around the world. That part of metro Atlanta is a true melting pot of cultures. The crime of DeKalb County is high because so many stressed financially people live there now. My sister just retired early at the end of 20 years because her new student were not of the caliber as the earlier ones.

The thing you must realize about big cities is that traditions are challenged and things change fast. When I left GA for NC back in 1967, I was glad to get away before Lester Madox of ax-handle fame became its governor. I arrived in Wake Forest to tune in the news from Channel 5 Raleigh. Jesse Helms was delivering his nightly editorial and I could not help but say, "Be darned, Lester's first Cousin of Conservatism lives in NC!!!"

Lester did not ruin GA / Jesse did not ruin America while in Congress

Would it not be a most dull world if everybody thought alike ~~~ especially in a nation built on freedom of speech and the press? With the current political race I know 2 things:

(1) The media is getting rich off advertising and distortion.
(2) The wise voter looks to see which media and money is backing a particular candidate for office.

Viva la difference, Sir!!!



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