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I wondered what the “safety concerns” might be, and decided maybe they felt their jobs weren’t safe now that someone might take issue with all the racist comments, jokes, and images they’ve stupidly shared for years on their work-provided computers and phones. Bit of a mystery otherwise. Call me a cynic, everyone else does. : )
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…the city computers had been cleared.
Yeah. This sounds suspicious and ominous. I wonder how many computers and which ones?
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If people really want to honor those who fought for civil rights in the 1960s, voting is the way to do it.
Cast your ballot and influence the way your government works.
This is a vivid example of citizens taking control and challenging the status quo.
I say Hurray.
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If they’re the kind of people who would resign because the town just got a black female mayor, then they didn’t have any business being in public service in the first place. Good riddance.
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Former Mayor Randall Ramsey told KFVS that in addition to the five police officers, the city’s attorney, clerk and water treatment plant supervisor resigned due to “safety concerns.”
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I used to be the part time city attorney for a town of 750. I don’t know how the town could afford 6 police officers and the rest of a city government unless it is running a speed trap.
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New mayor busted up a 47 year good old boy network. Can you just imagine how comfortable these guys were; meeting for breakfast, covering for each other during “personal business”, getting a head start on the weekend, etc. Even in Mayberry R.F.D. the rules eventually change.
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♫♪ When the walls came tumbling down,
When the walls came tumbling, tumbling,
Everybody ran as they screamed at the sound… ♫♪
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I’ll withhold judgement until more facts come out - such as what exactly was scrubbed from those computers. It may be that it has less to do with her race and/or gender than with turning over the rocks covering a corrupt 30 year establishment.
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Excellent point, and in addition to the five officers you have three other municipal employees or consultants abruptly resigning, including the attorney, who presumably has at least some understanding of how communications can become public. Serious smell-test problems there that, like you say, suggest problems with money. Naughty naughty!
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I am a little tired of this, and I am not even African American. Notwithstanding the FOX and Talk-Radio corrosion of race relations in the United States, relations among races have improved significantly.
The problems ARE severe, but they must be placed in context, and with most of the social discourse dominated by Dixie, hillbillies, the elderly, xenophobes, other assorted Baggers that the MSM has a hard-on for, the relatively more open (but politically dis-engaged) younger people simply do not have a ghost of a chance in influencing this narrative.
Here is some research using the Bogardus Social Distance Scale.
Where 1 = "would accept a minority category as family member by marriage
2 = “would accept a minority category as a close friend”
3 = “would accept a minority category as neighbor”
Here are some of the ratings of various groups (some of whom are “minorities”), for the year 2001
Americans…1.07
Italians…1.15
Britsh…1.23
Irish…1.24
French…1.28
Germans…1.33
African Americans…1.34
American Indians…1.40
Koreans…1.54
Mexicans…1.55
The average score in all categories in 2001 was 1.44
IN 1956, THE AVERAGE SCORE WAS 2.08!!!
FOR EVERYBODY.
Hate sells…even at TPM
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The town has a municipal water treatment plant. It probably supplies water to other communities. That is a source of revenue. I would start looking in the water treatment plant books.
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Indeed. I can’t imagine this town could have 6 police officers. The town looks to be just a bedroom community. The center of town is a ghost town.
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Not sure why you conclude that “Hate sells, even at TPM” Are you saying that TPM shouldn’t call attention to racial issues? Are you saying that, statistically, the problem is “solved?”
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That’s certainly possible, especially since it’s been the same mayor for nearly 4 decades.
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Well, certainly, I think everyone understands that much. And the fact that so much progress has been made is one of the things that fuels the Fox-world’s incomprehension, fear, and rage. But there are still lots of places and groups where the old attitudes are baked in, or persist as a kind of reflexive stupidity among the less broad-minded. The progress serves as a foil to that, I think. And what we have here is something unusual—eight officials of a small town, including more than 80 percent of its strangely large police force, abruptly resigning for reasons we can only guess at. TPM makes money on clicks, yes, but that would be a news story in any town across the country.
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Of course not. As a Mexican, I have countenanced more slurs and insults imaginable. That is why I said CONTEXT. Any military commander is aware of the Mission and the Progress Made.
We have just started on race relations, in my opinion. If we were further along, we would not be using these ridiculous binary terms like “black” and “white”, since most people living in the U.S. happen to be American citizens. However, I will not discount progress made, nor will I refuse to even look at MASSIVE numbers of example of cooperation between and among people of different origins in the United States.
The entire picture must be looked at, just as Eisenhower was aware of the progress that even put him in a POSITION to lead Overlord in 1944, even as the Nazis were still murdering people in Death Camps.
Wow. No one should be mayor for 37 years.
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Who else is betting that the “wiped clean” computers have full Recycle Bins? If not, I’m sure a request to the State police, and/or the local high school’s Alpha Geek, can recover the lost data.
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