The Georgia flag displayed in the photo, with the silly little miniature flags across the bottom, is no longer the official one (2001 - 2003). The current one references the Confederate national flag, rather than the more familiar battle flag.
The 2001 flag did achieve a measure of fame: "In a 2001 survey on state and provincial flags in North America conducted by the North American Vexillological Association, the redesigned Georgia flag was ranked the worst by a wide margin. The group stated that the flag “violates all the principles of good flag design” per Wikipedia.
So these folks need to resign before they hand even more of their town’s budget to someone who is never going to bother with holding a job there. I’m guessing right now they get away with somewhere around a year’s salary.
If we tried to run our company like this Georgia town we would be sued. More importantly we wouldn’t have a very diverse workforce. Fortunately we don’t and my company is much better for it. What the racist mayor probably doesn’t realize is we are all better off when we select the best qualified candidate regardless of race, religion, sex, nation of birth, or sexual orientation.
“I’m a Christian and MY Christian beliefs are you don’t do interracial marriage. That’s the way I was brought up and that’s the way I believe,” he said.
OK Mr. Holier-than-thou, show me in the Bible where Jesus states that Interracial Marriage is bad.
I’ll wait…
You’ve Got to be Carefully Taught: “South Pacific” - 1949
[Verse 1]
You’ve got to be taught to hate and fear
You’ve got to be taught from year to year
It’s got to be drummed in your dear little ear
You’ve got to be carefully taught
[Verse 2]
You’ve got to be taught to be afraid
Of people whose eyes are oddly made
And people whose skin is a diff’rent shade
You’ve got to be carefully taught
[Verse 3]
You’ve got to be taught before it’s too late
Before you are six or seven or eight
To hate all the people your relatives hate
You’ve got to be carefully taught
Well now. His whole point is that choosing to hire someone simply because they are black is not racism - heck, it’s practically proof that that there’s not racism in America anymore! It’s just a religious, a cultural, thing, the way he was raised in segregated Georgia, where folks knew their places.
And I’m willing to bet he’s 100% certain the Supreme Court will back him up on that assertion.
Everyone forgets plantation owners loved their slaves like they were family. They had food, shelter, a job, all things many free people struggled to achieve and attain.
Trump has drawn a lot of racism out to the surface, that is for certain. Honestly, given where views seem to stand today, I wonder how civil rights legislation ever passed in the first place 50+ years ago.
