Our city commissioners sure made a wrong-headed decision when they decided to phase out the Human Relations Commission next year.
With the incident at the Cherry Tree Crossing neighborhood, and with jobs disappearing and bus routes cancelled, racial tension is sure to mount over the next few years.
As a member of the Blue Ribbon branch of the commission, I have seen first-hand how such an alliance of distinguished leaders such as the Rev. Paulwyn Bolick and Professor Mallory Millender has mounted a concerted effort to investigate the underlying causes of racism.
In open meetings with corporate heads, with the sheriff, with the school superintendent, with commissioners, with media people such as Austin Rhodes, and representatives of The Augusta Chronicle , the Blue Ribbon Committee has been able to better understand and suggest ways to combat this serious threat to undermining the goals for our city growth.
Perhaps the Cherry Tree explosion of people versus the law enforcement arm of our city is a wake-up call to our city commissioners that human relations is a vital part of the second-largest city in Georgia, and that destroying the commission is the last thing we need to help resolve the problems of individuals and government agencies where race is concerned.
Lowell Greenbaum
Augusta
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Dang, Lowell. All of those words and not one comment of meaning. Quit trying to be so politically correct that you don't say anything. Are you implying that by ignoring the root cause of the unrest of the subsidized entitlement crowd you can treat enough symptoms to solve their problems? And that the taxpayer should foot the bill for this concept?
Could someone explain what the incident at Cherry Tree Crossing had to do with race? Do you think the deputies, after an attempt to get smashed with an SUV said.....:Wow, that was close, better let them go....oh wait, I think they are black! On second thought, better shoot them!"
Lowell is merely doing his job. As the waterboy for the Democrat Party in RC, he is supposed to say a lot of pretty words about these types of situations and do nothing. One of the previous Dem Chairpersons had a sign made for his lawn that said "Please don't tell my mom that I am the Democratic Chairperson for Richmond County, she thinks I'm a piano player in a house of prostitution and I don't want to disappoint her.
Underlying causes to racism would have to be one group trying to get away with any and everything no matter who gets hurt in the process..Lowell take your meaningless comments and put them in the nearest septic facility...Mob mentality is a learned process...To protect them is senseless and racist...
I think erasing Frank Thomas and his outdated racial prejudices, is a good sign of progress. Let's move forward people, not backwards.
Frank Thomas is similar to the UAW. There was a time in past years he was needed, but it's time now to move aside and let progress happen. Merry Christmas!
Lowell read this please : http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200807/memphis-crime
Drug testing and close monitoring of the people who move into neighbourhoods through section 8 would be much more helpful than a human relations commission.
What do you think about this idea?
The residenst of Cherry Tree Crossing are just a sample of the same mentality scattered in Augusta through the project culture then through section 8 rentals: http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200807/memphis-crime
You can't require drug testing for government assistance......that would be deemed racist.
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