Georgia - 2015

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Thursday July 16, 2015 · 9:46 PM PDT

2015/07/16 · 21:46

Welcome to Georgia,
State of 159 counties (only Texas has more): 159 Sheriffs, 159 County jails, Land of modern courvee labor - no chains on these chain gangs, just Armed and armored overseers.

Land so hot that crops fry in the fields, while climate change deniers wrap themselves in Dixie colors and keep their heads firmly tucked deep in the red Georgia clay.

Land where the hallmarks of slavery are still writ large but so ingrained in the fabric of life that they go unnoticed by those who grew up with them.

White folk here claim the past forgotten. They lie. Confederate graveyard abound and in backwater 'pseudo-cities', one still sees the broken chimneys where Uncle Billy burned (but did not burn enough),

A word about Georgia's so-called cities. A group moves into an area and when enough have gathered, they petition the legislature to declare that area a 'city'. They then proceed to create ordinances, the intent of which is to drive the original residents out. After a while they put up real walls

Something white folk do in this land once owned by the Creek nations.

This also gives the new ruling group the right of any municipality to belly up to the federal trough and get whatever freebies the feds offer.
In the case of Doraville, one freebie was an armored personnel carrier, a toy the goods ol boys of the Doraville PD love to charge around in for 'training'.

Welcome to Georgia.

A fine State to be white in.

Uncle Billy did not burn nearly enough.

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