Saturday, January 27, 2007

Fulton Co. GA Racist?

Earlier this week I read in the news that northern Fulton Co. in Georgia is trying to split from the rest of the county to reform Milton Co. which was defunct during the Depression because of financial problems. The argument arises in that "Milton Co." contains the more upper class citizens and only comprises 29 percent of Fulton Co. but pay a majority of the taxes. That is one of the reasons they want to split because they want more of their tax dollars to make an impact locally instead of being spread throughout poorer southern Fulton Co. Is this a racist move? In my opinion, yes. They can sugarcoat everything all they want to but it is just a fact that they would rather use their money, influence, etc. to benefit themselves. What is the big problem with helping the poorer communities. It is done all over the country but some bookwork found a loophole and now all these "good-ol' boys" are trying to take advantage. I'm sure their are counties everywhere that merged for one reason or another but you don't see them almost a century later claiming some limp-dick excuse the leave the rest of the county. This is just proof that the spirit of the Confederacy is alive and well in the South.

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