Clayton.Talk

By It Is What It Is

December 29, 2008 12:41 PM | Link to this

Good Afternoon Kimberly,

I regret to inform you of this fact but sad to say that Clayton County is the absolute county in the state of Georgia.

There is virtually no hope for Clayton County’s eventual recovery.

The negative, trashy, filthy, and criminally-minded Section 8 people from all of the dangerous, dirty, and crime infested housing projects and ghettos of Atlanta, Georgia along with the other trash from other counties have moved to Clayton County and are the main reason along with virtually all of the corrupt, untrustworthy, crooked, and noncaring elected officials and politicians both past and present that Clayton County is the worst, dirtiest, crime and gang filled, crime and gang ridden, crime and gang infested filthiest, nastiest, county in the state of Georgia.

Clayton County is on a very serious, fast, and downward free-fall and spiral with no hope of ever becoming a respectable, clean, appealing, and attractive county where right, upstanding, law abiding, morally upright, and caring families of all races, creed, and middle to high socioeconomic status and standing would ever come to live, work, play, and raise a family.

By It Is What It Is

December 29, 2008 12:45 PM | Link to this

Clayton County is the absolute worst county to live in the state of Georgia.

By Oh please

December 29, 2008 12:52 PM | Link to this

Thank you so much, Ms. Kimberely.

It is nice to know that optimism is still appreciated. There is hope for this county. If only we could rid ourselves of those who desire to destroy it!

By SA

December 29, 2008 1:01 PM | Link to this

I too have optimism for Clayton County. We’ve made great progress this last election. However, getting SACS accreditation back is essential or we will see many more problems arise.

We must remember that over the course of the entire project relocation process of the last decade or more in Atlanta, fewer than 300 families have actually made it to Clayton County. Most have stayed in Atlanta. We can’t blame it on them. We must blame those already living here for not holding those newcomers to higher standards.

By Taxpayer and citizen

December 29, 2008 1:39 PM | Link to this

Kimberly,

Newly elected officials are not the answer citizens have to hold them accountable. Starting with the new school board. They all pledged to get our accreditation back. We must hold them to their campaign promises. the first step to turning Clayton around is to get our accreditation reinstated and revive the search for superintendent. Even Ray Charles can see that.

By John Stewart

December 29, 2008 2:00 PM | Link to this

Kimberly thanks so much for this blog.

I as well as others have optimism for Clayton County. I think that there are some great things going on in the county that aren’t promoted. Unfortunately good news doesn’t sell the news.

Clayco got it right with the election of Sheriff Kimbrough, DA Graham-Lawson and Solicitor General Mosely. I believe those 3 will be the harbingers of the great things to come in the county. I know that we will finally have all law enforcement entities working together in synergy and harmony.

As far as the naysayers and hate mongers that remain in the county I say get on board or get left. We don’t have time for your hate or negative comments as they are just that.

Clayco its time to work together.

Obstacles are rulers of the weak but, weapons of the wise.

By Just Stating The Obvious

December 29, 2008 2:12 PM | Link to this

It is very good to have optimism about Clayton County and what it could be and be positive about its future but the facts remain is that Clayton County continues to get dirtier, nastier, and filthier each and every day.

Look very hard as you travel down Clayton County’s main streets, roads, and thoroughfares such as Tara Boulevard, Mount Zion Road, Battlecreek Road, Old Dixie Highway, Flint River Road, State Road 85, State Road 138, State Road 139, State Road 54, State Road 42, Upper Riverdale Road, Frontage Road, Valley Hill Road, East Fayetteville Road, Webb Road, Pointe South Parkway, and other lesser known Clayton County roads and you will see firsthand and for yourself the dirty, nasty, dingy, filthy, and cluttered apartment homes, town homes, extended stay hotels and motels, gas stations, run down convenient stores, strip retail malls, trailer home and mobile home parks and even the Walmart stores, and grocery stores such as Publix, Kroger, and other stores in Clayton County are nasty and filthy as opposed to their counterpart stores in other counties such as Fayette, Henry, Spalding, Coweta, etc. which are clean, well maintained, neat, and well stocked.

The fact of the matter is that for every one citizen who truly cares about this county and goes regularly to the Clayton County Board Of Commissioners meetings and speaks out during the Public Comment Section to urge the Clayton County Board Of Commissioners and its Chairman to supervise the departments that are in charge of enforcing our County Code Ordinances, Rules, and Regulations and order the other departments to do their jobs, there are hundreds of citizens who move to this county who just do not care and do harm to this county by bringing their criminally minded ways, their lazy, sorry, apathetic, and pathetic ways, behaviors, and actions to this county and not only undo the positive and productive actions of a few, but set this county back.

The fact is that Clayton County is now a county with more renters (presently at 65 percent and growing) than homeowners.

The fact is that Clayton County is now and has been for the last ten-to-fifteen years a dumping ground for all of the city of Atlanta, Georgia’s Section 8 and other low class, housing projects and ghetto living people and this is why people of all races, creed, and middle-to-high socioeconomic status and standing are moving back to the city of Atlanta, Georgia while virtually all of the city of Atlanta, Georgia’s losers, ghetto living, ghetto minded, low class, lazy, sorry, pathetic living people, and youths, young adults, and teen-agers with crime, gang, thuggish, violent, drug dealing ways, behaviors, and activities are quickly moving to Clayton County to set up “shop” and continue their criminal ways.

The fact is that Clayton County’s crime rate has skyrocketed with Burglaries and Robberies leading the way.

The fact is that the Clayton County cities of Riverdale and College Park are the most dangerous and crime filled cities in Clayton County as well as the unincorporated areas of Clayton County mainly because they have the most apartment homes, and are the dumping ground of the city of Atlanta, Georgia’s Section 8 population.

The fact is that virtually all of Clayton County’s past white elected commissioners(Crandle Bray, Charlie Griswell, Gerald Matthews) as well as their present black elected commissioners (Eldrin Bell, Wole Ralph, Sonna Singleton, Virginia Gray, as well as the lone white commissioner Michael Edmondson have not pass any laws, ordinances, rules, and regulations that have worked for the best interest of the citizens of Clayton County nor the County itself.

The fact is that Clayton County both past white population and its present black population have also been apathetic, indifferent, noncaring, and do not hold the people who they elected into political office accountable, answerable, and responsible for the decisions that they make that for the most part have hurt, harm, and damage this county beyond repair.

It is good to be optimistic, and be positive, and want to see good in Clayton County but the facts about Clayton County are the facts, it is what it is in Clayton County, all that I have stated in this blog is getting more worse each and every day, the truth is the truth, and the sad truth is that Clayton County is rapidly becoming a third world, low class, ghetto looking, dingy looking, nasty, filthy, unclean, deteriorating, blighted, crime, gang, and drug infested, crime, gang, and drug ridden, crime, gang and drug filled county that looks like the worst housing projects of the city of Atlanta, Georgia where every day as you drive down Tara Boulevard, Mount Zion Road, and Upper Riverdale Road, you will see thuggish and criminal looking youths, young adults, and teen-agers with sagging pants and criminal intent on their minds.

By Wake Up

December 29, 2008 2:14 PM | Link to this

Clayton County will recover once the current crop of politicians are ousted. Look at the school board, all members had to be replaced before the healing process could begin. Same with the commissioners. They should all be replaced with those who want to serve instead of self serve. The problem is not with section 8 low income renters, it’s with the leadership of our county. There are more good people in Clayton County than bad people. The giant must awaken. The silent majority of Clayton County is not engaged and until they fih=gure out that their quality of life is directly related to the local election, they will continue to ignore the obvious.

By taxpayer and citizen

December 29, 2008 2:26 PM | Link to this

Mr. Stewart,

Kimbrough, Graham-Lawson and Mosley can not get our accreditation reinstated. They represent law enforcement. Let us not get confused. The mark of a forward moving and progressive county is not based on the sheriff, attorney general and solicitor general. They are not the leadership of the county.

Our children need the leadership of our elected officials who are responsible for their education to do their jobs effectively. Their first test is our accrediation. The actions of the school board members will determine whether or not we can attract other middle class families to Clayton.

By Oh please

December 29, 2008 2:27 PM | Link to this

I have requested that KEITH’s comments be removed. I urge all other bloggers who care about this forum to do the same.

By Oh please

December 29, 2008 2:33 PM | Link to this

Do you just like hearing yourself talk? Or, seeing your words in type? Your negativity is only a symptom of your real disease. You are just as bad if not worse for this county than the people you describe. Who are you to look at someone on the street and judge them to be a criminal just because of the way they are dressed? I also want to add that your ignorance is apparent in your writing. Take a course in English, and at least then, your blogs will have the illusion of intelligence.

By Rusty

December 29, 2008 3:05 PM | Link to this

Keith, I know you’re just trying to be funny,but really dude you are embarressing yer sef.

By Hard Time 4 Crime

December 29, 2008 3:07 PM | Link to this

WAKE UP!!!

Clayton County will never improve until we (in this order):

If you have the balls, that is…..

ITS TIME FOR CHANGE

By The Facts Are The Facts

December 29, 2008 3:26 PM | Link to this

Being optimistic and positive does not cover up or change the facts about Clayton County and what has already happen to Clayton County.

Clayton County has a very serious gang problem with the main gangs in Clayton being Hispanic Gangs with the Black Gangs a close second.

Clayton County Police Department Chief Of Police Jeffrey Turner, Deputy Chief Greg Porter who is over the Gang, Drugs, and Narcotic Division Unit of the Clayton County Police Department as well as Deputy Chief Tim Robinson who is over all of the Uniform Police Patrol Division of the Clayton County Police Department will confirm these facts also.

Clayton County has been overrun with gangs ever since 1996 when the housing project population of the City of Atlanta, Georgia started to move to Clayton County when they began to close up their dangerous crime, drug, and gang infested housing projects like Techwood Homes, East Lake Meadows, etc.

Every one who lived in Clayton County in 2005 remembered the fatal shooting of the child in Riverdale in the park that now bears his name. This fatal shooting was done by rival black gang members shooting at each other in the park and this child and his grandmother got caught in the crossfire.

Any police officer will tell you to be extremely cautious and careful when you see a group of youths, young adults, and teen-agers wearing same colored clothing, baggy pants that show their undergarments, long oversized tee-shirts of the same color, long oversized thick jackets, sweaters, or coats, and big and large hoods that cover their entire head and face.

This type of clothing can conceal very dangerous weapons, guns, knifes, switchblades, etc. that they can use to rob, steal, carjack, or do one bodily harm.

The truth of the matter is that these criminally minded youths, young adults, and teen-agers who are members of gangs wear these clothing and they walk in large numbers up and down Tara Boulevard, Flint River Road, Upper Riverdale Road, Mount Zion Road, Battlecreek Road, and all around the low class, dirty, nasty, and filthy apartment homes that line not only the mentioned above streets but State Road 138, State Road 139, State Road 85 etc.

Some of these youths, young adults, and teen-agers openly sell their illegal drugs and narotics at the gas stations that line the above streets and the apartment homes boldly for all to see without fear of the Clayton County Police Department or the Police Departments in the cities where they reside.

This is the ugly, raw, blunt, direct truth of the youths, young adults, and teen-agers that have come from the housing projects and ghettos of Clayton County and this is how Clayton County looks now, will look even worst in 2009 and way beyond until all of the apartments homes, town homes, mobile home parks, and extended stay motels and hotels that are blighted, in disrepair and deteriorating are condemned, demolished, and destroyed and all of these people are kicked out of Clayton County just like they were kicked out of the housing projects and ghettos of Atlanta, Georgia when they cleaned up their projects and now they have nice, upscale, and luxurious mixed use work-live-play communities.

Read today’s article in the Metro Section of The Atlanta Journal And Constitution Newspaper entitled “Centennial Place’s Renewed Purpose that is in today’s newspaper Monday December 29, 2008 and read the facts for yourself

By Oh please

December 29, 2008 3:40 PM | Link to this

We can’t expect to raise our county up if we condemn people on nothing more than their appearances. Your diatribes aren’t improving anything, and they fall just short of racial profiling and hatred. Not to mention, you rant on and on endlessly about the same things. You remind me of Attn: Clayton Parents and his ravings about discipline in the schools. You want to bring us all down with the “facts,” but offer nothing to improve the situation. What is the motivation behind your useless spewing of negative dialogue? It seems to me that it is just a desperate attempt to get some attention.

By Oh please

December 29, 2008 4:03 PM | Link to this

Useless Negative Diatribe Guy - Dr. John Trotter

KEITH/SHANIKA - Dr. Dowell, or then again, it could be Dr. Trotter since we all know he suffers from disassociative disorder. I geuss he got bored with his other personalities.

By Oh please

December 29, 2008 4:21 PM | Link to this

Actually, I’m the woman. C’mon, Dr. Trotter. We’ve been here before. Can’t you geuss who I am?

By Praise Thompson and the new board

December 29, 2008 4:49 PM | Link to this

If we can be grateful for anything in Clayton, it’s John Thompson and the wonderful new school board. The change Thompson has brought about in a few short months is nothing short of amazing.

You simply can’t underestimate the admiration that students and staff have for Thompson. It’s no wonder that Thompson has been called Clayton’s very own Obama, such is the respect students and teachers have for him.

Nowhere is this more evident than in student behavior. The behaviors that teachers have complained about are a thing of the past. Students fell in line quickly, very quickly, when they saw Thompson’s commanding presence and realized he was here for them.

Because Thompson has completely backed his teachers, the reverence that students have for Thompson has been translated into total respect for teachers.

Where hallways were once total chaos, especially in the middle and high schools, they are now quiet and orderly. Walk into any high school and you’ll think you’ve walked into an exclusive private school. Gone is the cursing and disrespect that was once common; students now routinely address teachers with yes sir, and no sir, something thought impossible until Thompson and this wonderful new board came along.

Turns out the naysayers were totally wrong about Clayton County schools. All that was needed to turn things around was a world class superintendent and a first class board. There is no doubt that Clayton has both. Walk into any school, into any classroom for that matter, and you’ll see a transformation that many thought not possible in our lifetimes.

The thanks, and the credit, go to Thompson and the new board that has now been assembled around him. With a world class superintendent and a first rate board, no doubt that the words world class, and first rate will soon become synonymous with Clayton County schools.

By The Facts Are The Facts

December 29, 2008 4:57 PM | Link to this

The comments written by Hard Time 4 Crime at 3:07 P.M. are so true and right on target.

By Michael

December 29, 2008 5:06 PM | Link to this

I really believe that Clayton County can come back. I believe it will come back and be an even better place to live than ever before.

Unfortunately, I don’t think it will happen in 2009. It will take more than a few years to undo the damage that has been wrought in this county.

We must first eliminate the total lack of respect for one another that is so obvious in the form of racial bias or hatred that took less than two dozen posts to rear its ugly head on this blog.

Once we the people of Clayton County have overcome that, we will begin making progress towards bringing the county out of the gutter.

By raja

December 29, 2008 5:26 PM | Link to this

Praise Thompson and the new board

You’re one stupid a* if you think I’m drinking that kool-aid you just post about Thompson.

Teachers despise Thompson.

By John Stewart

December 29, 2008 5:31 PM | Link to this

To Taxpayer & Citizen

Thank you for your comments. I am in wholehearted agreement with you. I however look at things from a holistic view. We need all forms of our local gov’t to our school board to work together to turn the county around. Let’s be honest, at this point we need the hand of the law to be heavy in the county. This will show parents to students to criminals that we mean business in the county and won’t tolerate mess.

You made a great point in stating that we need to hold our School board members accountable. Well we need to be on our job to do so. Let’s make sure our voices are heard at the board meetings. Let’s make sure we are informed of board and county happenings. Trust me their our information venues via the web that will give you tremendous insight as to what goes on in the county. I am very optimistic that the board will regain its accreditation come April. I am also confident that the incoming board members have a heart to work and get the job done. What I will say is that we need to keep our eyes on board members that have ties back to Trotter, Scotts & certain members of Riverdale gov’t (it’s not hard to find out who they are and unfortunately may draw them out of the shadows with this comment)

We didn’t get in the mess overnight and won’t get out of it overnight. If we have a commitment and a passion to work together we will change the County!!

By John Stewart

December 29, 2008 5:37 PM | Link to this

Hard Time 4 Crime you are Spot On!!!

By CHEESE EATER

December 29, 2008 6:31 PM | Link to this

Oh, look at those sad destitute pale folks crying on this blog. They’ve had 43 pale presidents but they were too dumb to grow and prosper like the upper 10% of the pale folks. Now they are reduced to coming on this blog and scream obscenities about the poor little downtrodden Negro.

These pale folks have had all the advantages all their lives because of skin color “Alone” but couldn’t make it; now they are reduced to living in Clayton with poor little downtrodden Negro. Then they’d cry about what the poor little downtrodden Negro didn’t achieve in the 40 years since Equal/Civil Rights Act in 1968.

You’ve had over 600 years in this country to make it and couldn’t. Man, what a sad group of people. The Negro has achieved a lot in those 40 years. Of course a lot has fallen between the cranks.

Due to discrimination, racism and institutionalization; but with FAITH the size of a mustard seed the poor little downtrodden Negro will overcome—join hands with them, we’ll bring you though too!!!! Happy New Years.

By You Created the Situation/Deal with it

December 29, 2008 6:40 PM | Link to this

Here’s some more facts, you say demographic change—I say progress in some cases. You are an idiot if you think things in Clayton suppose to stay the same as they were 30, 20 or even 10 years ago when Clayton was a Mayberry of the old TV show the Clayton you grew up in.

Then you say gang shootings—every shooting is not “Gang” shootings no matter how your folks will label them—seek truth there, there are plenty idiots with guns, you even host “Gun Shows” monthly. The murder and crime rates are a sign of the times; you rich folk took all the jobs- what did you expect? Clayton is just “Mirroring” the larger society; look at crime rate within the metro, they all have increased.

Then your simple-minded butt will scream about the 2000 & 2004 election. Clown, you created the worse “Monster” nationally with Bush twice, then you’ll talk about qualifications and competences—Pleasssse! The 2000 & 2004 elections locally slated some good officials; however, you managed to smear and tarnish their images on the newspapers and TV because you didn’t like their color.

Then you said, on January 20 we are going to have a president of color, damn a black man through staying in school, applying himself, working hard, has achieved the most powerful position on the planet. How did he do that with all the cards stacked against him? Believe me, it wasn’t “EASY” Barack is like all blacks who have succeed against odds and with you viciously staking the deck—its called perseverance. The main thing rickman and Hummm, need to remember is 400 years of oppression is not going to be overcome in the last 40 years of so-called “Equal—Civil Rights. That’s unrealistic—maybe in about 4 more generations. It’s called “Patience”. You created the “Monster” you deal with it!!!!!

By Mustard,,,^..^,,,Seed

December 29, 2008 6:43 PM | Link to this

The definition of success—To laugh much; to win respect of intelligent persons and the affections of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to give one’s self; to leave the world a little better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition.; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm, and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived—this is to have succeeded.

By The Facts Are The Facts

December 29, 2008 7:30 PM | Link to this

The main problem in Clayton County is that over 65 percent of the residents who live are renters that are mostly from the housing projects and ghettos from the city of Atlanta, Georgia who do not care about living right, maintaining the property where they stay, and are only committed to being lazy, worthless, trashing up, and tearing down Clayton County with their ghetto, criminally minded, and thug-gangster-criminal mentality and way of living.

These renters are using their Section 8 housing vouchers to move to the numerous, glut, and proliferation of apartment homes, town homes, mobile homes, and extended stay motels and hotels but because of the severe drop in home prices in Clayton County and the massive increase in the number of foreclosed homes in Clayton County and the other homes that the owners are putting up for rent because they cannot sale their homes with many of these homes in very nice neighborhoods, the ghetto housing project people from the city of Atlanta, Georgia use their Section 8 Vouchers and move into these homes which are in nice, stable, clean, and well-kept neighborhoods, communities, and subdivisions.

Instead of adding to the community, these Section 8 housing project ghetto families bring their negative, ghetto, low class, noncaring, lazy, and apathetic attitudes, behaviors, and actions to the community, and in a very short time, their property becomes full of trash, litter, clutter, with overgrown grass, weeds, and dirty, unkept landscaping.

In time, their home becomes run downed, decayed, blighted, and deteriorated because they do not make the simple, quick, and neccessary minor repairs and maintainence to the homes that they either rent or buy.

Eventually, the community and subdivision in which they live becomes over time a blighted, decayed, deteriorated, nasty, filthy, and dirty subdivision because as more of their kind moves in, the other people who care about their house and property and maintained it and kept it clean will move out and away from the ghetto, low class, lowlife, lazy, shiftless, worthless people that come from the city of Atlanta, Georgia’s ghetto housing projects.

This is what is happening all throughout Clayton County and one can be optimistic, positive, hopeful, and confident that Clayton County will become better in 2009 but until these Section 8 renters that are from the city of Atlanta, Georgia’s housing projects and ghettos stop moving into the county and the ones that are already here move out and we get more of the right, professional, highly educated, upstanding, and high upper middle people and families of all races, creed, nationalities, who bring solid right values, morals, and strong work ethics moving into this county, Clayton County will continue to be the extremely, rapidly, and free falling county that is on a downward spiral to the cesspool of crime, gang and drug infested, crime, gang and drug ridden, crime, gang and drug infected haven for all of the city of Atlanta, Georgia’s housing project ghetto trash that have already moved here in great numbers with this county already being the most dirtiest, nastiest, filthiest, unclean, unlivable, corrupt, crooked, seedy, run-down, ghettorized, gangster, thuggish, third world county that it already is.

There is virtually no hope for Clayton County’s eventual reserval, turnaround, or recovery in the new year of 2009 or beyond.

By realism hurts

December 29, 2008 8:17 PM | Link to this

I wish I could agree with “Praise Thompson and the new board”. All I see is the same type of improvement Atlanta Public Schools has done- a great PR job with no substance behind it. I do not know of any teacher or student who has any better opinion of Thompson than any previous leadership.

Thompson is all smoke and mirrors, with no substance. There is much to hope for with the new Board. Their first big test will be the decision about whether to re-new Thompson or not.

What am I going to do this year? Not give up on Clayton County. Also, not be a part of any sugarcoating of what is going on, because I know things can be better than they are now. Anyone who participates in painting any better picture than what is really going on is part of the problem and tries to make us satisfied with how things are and has no vision.

One last comment- Clayton is going to get worse before it gets better, just like the rest of the nation. We have not bottomed out on the economy. We have not bottomed out on the state of public education. We have not bottomed out on crome or any of the other problems we have. We need to bottom out because that is the only way we will regain the common will to improve things. Until people do not just move to Henry to escape, and see a need to improve things where they are, nothing will get better.

By The Facts Are The Facts

December 30, 2008 8:26 AM | Link to this

The Clayton County School System mirrors exactly the type and class of people that are coming to live in Clayton County in that approximately 75 percent of the students are at poverty levels in that they get reduced or free lunches.

When the school officials along with other elected officials met with the Clayton County Legistative Delegation which consist of Clayton County’s elected officials to the State of Georgia’s House Of Representatives and Senate, they admitted that the school system needs more money due to the loss of over three thousand students because of the loss of accrediation and how the school system numbers should increase and rise again with the influx of students from the city of Atlanta, Georgia’s housing projects that are closed and the other projects that are in the process of closing such as Bowen Homes, Jonesboro North and South, Thomasville Heights, etc. and how they come with special needs.

The over three thousand students that left the Clayton County School System had parents who had the money, means, and connections to take their children out of the school system and either put them in private schools or have them move in with relatives who live in Fayette County or Henry County and attend their school system.

Clayton County High Schools have always had truancy issues and problems which will be confirmed for all to know when the audited attendance records report that SACS are forcing the Clayton County School System to do are finalized and released.

The Clayton County Police Department High Ranking Officials can also confirmed that the Clayton County School System has a very high truancy rate and these middle and high school’s youths, young adults, and teen-agers do not go to school, do not care about school, and get together with their other buddies and others of their kind which are virtually all of the Section 8 housing projects and ghetto youths from the city of Atlanta, Georgia and commit juvenile crimes such as robbery, burglaries, vandalisms, etc.

This is a true fact which can be easily confirmed if you take the time to get crime statistics from the Clayton County Police Department.

Clayton County is a safe haven and now is home to the massive amount of youths, young adults, teen-agers, and adults from the Section 8 housing projects and ghettos from Atlanta, Georgia.

All elected officials from Clayton County and the city of Atlanta know this.

They all know that the Jonesboro Housing Authority which controls the Section 8 program in Clayton County is allowing all of this to happen and do not, will not, and will probably never enforce the rules, regulations, laws, and federal government guidelines governing the Section 8 program.

Just in today’s The Atlanta Journal And Constitution Newspaper on the headlines of the paper Tuesday December 30, 2008 in the article entitled “When Home Prices Fall, Taxes Can” it talks about how the real estate and foreclosure crises have played havoc with property values in Atlanta and how wide areas in North Clayton have so many bank-owned properties that have flooded the market and how home values have plummeted across whole neighborhoods.

These are some of the blunt, sad, direct, truths about the severe problems in Clayton County that will not change but only worsen in the year of 2009 where the only people living in Clayton County are the Section 8 housing projects and ghetto youths, young adults, teen-agers and families who are renters and who will bring more of their negative lifestyles, values, attitudes, laziness, noncaring, destructive, vandalistic, criminal, crime committing, drug dealing and distributing, gang activity, and immoral actions while the upstanding, morally upright, caring, concerned, Clayton County citizens and families who do the right thing and live the right way will be greatly outnumbered and overwhelmed by these negative lowlifes and low-class people along with virtually all of the crooked, corrupt, devious, untrustworthy, unethical, thieving, dishonest, and double dealing white as well as black elected officials of Clayton County who caused and are allowing all of this to happen and occur which has caused Clayton County to become the run-down, dilapidated, neglected, blighted, deteriorated, decayed, crime, gang, and drug infested county that it is and is the laughingstock, bane, and embarrasement of counties in the state of Georgia.

By The Facts Are The Facts

December 30, 2008 8:46 AM | Link to this

Unless the good citizens of Clayton County that are left stop being apathetic and noncaring and stop looking away and accept the real truth as to what is going on in Clayton County and become outraged at the extreme, extensive, widespread, and far-reaching corruption, mess, dishonesty, insincerity, lack of integrity, lack of ethics and morals, lack of character, deceitfulness, untrustworthiness, and untruthfulness of virtually all of Clayton County Elected Officials and take direct and forceful actions and hold all of their “feet to the fire” and hold them all accountable, answerable, responsible, liable, and culpable, Clayton County will never be the county that it could and should be and will continue to be a county that is severly look down upon, disrespected, and will continue to be the laughingstock, riducle, bane, and embarrasement that it is right now, will be in 2009 and beyond and will be a county as it is right now where no respectable, sane, hardworking, educated, decent, caring, and well-to-do families or other people of all races, creed, and nationalities would ever want to come and move to live, work, play, have fun, shop, and set down “roots” and raise their children.

By Oh please

December 30, 2008 8:47 AM | Link to this

The Facts are the Facts - Being long-winded doesn’t give your posts validity. Yes, much of what you say is true, but repeating yourself day in and day out isn’t going to change anything. Rather than wagging fingers and blaming an entire race of people for the condition of our municipality, why don’t you try inspiring a young, black youth to become better than the stereotype you insist on projecting on them? The real truth is the downfall of our society, as a whole, is complacency. Parents, teachers, and other would-be role models do not care about those youths so their values become askew. Voters and citizens do not care enough about their homes and property to elect officials that are capable of dealing with the growing crime problem related to youth growing up without morals or values. In the end, the only real way to solve this problem is to care enough to take action, and not harp on and on about a problem that seems to overwhelming to deal with.

By StopTheRenters

December 30, 2008 9:43 AM | Link to this

Stop the influx of renters. Take down every “for rent ” sign you can find in your neighborhood.

By SA

December 30, 2008 9:56 AM | Link to this

Looks like “Praise Thompson and the new board” started their New Years Eve drinking a little early. Thompson having their support couldn’t be further from the truth. Teachers also are very concerned that the School District will force them to sign contracts early this year again without knowing how accreditation will turn out. Only this time, many are prepared to walk if this happens.

By High Schools That Work is Holding Me Hostage

December 30, 2008 12:00 PM | Link to this

CCPS is going to lose even more good teachers if the system can not show respect for workdays and give us the workday that was planned in the schedule for Monday, January 5, 2009!

Stealing time from teachers for a stupid “High Schools that Work” seminar is NOT the way to get on our good side. I don’t see the middle schools and elementary school teachers having their work day taken away. Do not hold high school teachers hostage, let us have our workday back!

I would think CCPS would be trying to keep the competent teachers instead of running us off. You have angered every teacher that I know and it is little things like this that make us wonder if we are truly appreciated by the system. Moves like this make me contemplate moving to another system more and more. I’m not like your poor TAPP teachers, that have to stay for three years or pay to get away.

Don’t think waiting until the Monday before the holidays made this any more palatable. I was COUNTING on that workday to actually get work done. To not be able to work in my classroom and get things ready for a new semester makes me wonder, does anyone really work in the Central Office? Whose BRILLANT idea was it to take a workday, force high school teachers to travel other schools and still in classrooms for a workday? To make it fair, it should have been all the teachers that suffered, not just the high school teachers, but hey, we’re expendable.

Good luck with your “High Schools That Work” thing, because I plan on doing absolutely nothing with the “training” you are forcing me to go to. Wait, I take that back, I plan on remembering this and the next time someone asks me to do something extra, or give extra time, I’ll just remember this waste of a day and say “No, I’m sorry, I can’t!”

By hmmmmm

December 30, 2008 12:59 PM | Link to this

I wish you all would quit blaming section 8 dwellers- you need to blame these wanna be thugs in the 200k houses and their lazy parents who rather buy rims instead of educating their children and cutting their lawns. Ignorance has no color because now we have whites and hispanics imitating the same bad decisions. We bring out the worse in our community because we refuse to do what’s right and instead we cosign the wrong. We uphold bad behvaior, anything else is acting white. You know damn well the issue is us and until we address our community we cannot comment on others perceptions of us. Now white folks have a evil side but for the most part we all want the same things in life - the only difference is we still think we are entitled to the dream. The founders promised the “pursuit” not the dream and anything else is up to you. I am responisble for my family not anyone else and until you so call activists realize this— we will continue to stay in these conditions. I dare you to ask my background because your feelings will get hurt.

By Concerned Citizens Unite!

December 30, 2008 1:10 PM | Link to this

Want Change?

Stop b*** and get in the fight!

www.socialnetwork.meetup.com/981

Only you can bring about change in Clayton County!

By Mr Charlie

December 30, 2008 5:41 PM | Link to this

hmmmm RIGHT ON!

The statement “We uphold bad behavior, anything else is acting white” says it all.

Game, Set, Match.

By Praise Thompson and the new board

December 30, 2008 6:06 PM | Link to this

Thompson has been the key to the dramatic turnaround in the schools. He’s really energized the students and the teachers with his compassionate, yet take charge attitude.

I would think the first order of business for the new board is to make sure Thompson stays. It might require a major boost in pay to retain his services, but I think this new board is strong enough to ignore the naysayers and do what is needed to keep Thompson, considering all that he’s accomplished in such a short time.

By SA

December 30, 2008 6:22 PM | Link to this

Praise Thompson,

And I wish Victor and Jewel were here too! NOT. Thompson has his clown wardrobe but has yet to do anything yet. We shall see in April. I believe the Board will be strong enough to conduct a National search and make him apply for it.

By realism hurts

December 30, 2008 6:38 PM | Link to this

What has Thompson specifically done to be the “key to the dramatic turnaround in the schools”? Please be more specific. What are the indicators of a major turnaround that can be specifically attributed to Thompson? What are examples of his “compassion”? What has he accomplished other than “energized the students and the teachers”, which I dispute as a fact. Energized them to do what?

I am not saying that he has done absolutely nothing. He has done a few things, such as recognized the lack of experience in the administrative leadership of CCPS. I am not aware of anything he has done to address the problem, but at least in this one instance he has not tried to hide the problem.

And how can anyone argue for a “major boost in pay to retain his services”? Even if he were doing an exemplary job, how could anyone make this argument at a time of such major budget problems (most of which are not his fault and are beyond his control) while he is already compensated waaaaay beyond anyone else in the area?

What kind of leadership would that be for Thompson to ask for greater compensation at this time? Sounds like the bonuses given to the Wall Street sharks even after the government bailouts began.

To renew Thompson’s contract would be to agree with the aggressive attitude against SACS by Thompson and his unjustified statements of succes that have prolonged this problem even more. That would not be a sign of strength for this new Board. A sign of strength would be to open up the process, let Thompson apply and compete with any others who apply, and ensure that the best person be in place next year. If the above poster is right, that person may very well be Thompson. Anyone who feels Thompson should remain should not be afraid of an open, competitive process.

By Double Take

December 30, 2008 6:44 PM | Link to this

Oh, look at those sad destitute white folks crying on this blog. They’ve had 43 white presidents but they were too dumb to grow and prosper like the upper 10% of the pale folks. Now they are reduced to coming on this blog and scream obscenities about the poor little downtrodden Negro.

These white folks have had all the advantages to get ahead all their lives because of skin color “Alone” but couldn’t make it; now they are reduced to living in Clayton with poor little downtrodden Negro. Then they’d cry about what the poor little downtrodden Negro didn’t achieve in the 40 years since Equal/Civil Rights Act in 1968.

You’ve had over 600 years in this country to make it and couldn’t. Man, what a sad group of people. Look at what the Negro has achieved in those 40 years. Of course a lot has fallen between the cranks; due to discrimination, racism and institutionalization.

But with FAITH the size of a mustard seed the poor little downtrodden Negro will overcome; the whites have conditions us to make it against all odds—join hands with them, they’ll bring you though too!!!! Happy New Years.

By You're Depressing/get some OPTO

December 30, 2008 6:59 PM | Link to this

Facts are Fact, you are so disillusioned, downtrodden, dishearten and is a lost cause. You have no hope. You’re broke and can’t move away from the blacks and Clayton, so here’s an idea, go to your son and daughter’s trailer park and get some Crystal Meth and OD and take yourself out or go walk down the street in Clayton County’s main streets, roads, and thoroughfares such as Tara Boulevard, Mount Zion Road, Battlecreek Road, Old Dixie Highway, Flint River Road, State Road 85, State Road 138, State Road 139, State Road 54, State Road 42, Upper Riverdale Road, Frontage Road, Valley Hill Road, East Fayetteville Road, Webb Road, Pointe South Parkway, with $20.00 hanging out your purse or pocket and a Hommie will take you out for it. Good Luck!!!

By MEDIA TRUTH

December 30, 2008 7:15 PM | Link to this

SA, Rick and Hummm, John Stewart, Oh please, you say how much of the school board is blacks verses whites—that’s not the “Issue” that got accreditation taken/stolen. The “Issue” is how whites ran up the SACS Elgart’s office screaming the black board members were taking their money by stopping the no-bid contracts they enjoyed for decades. It wasn’t about “Secret Meetings” or “Ethics”. It was and still is about white folks and money. We blacks know that. Hell it even took the Feds to get Chick-fil-A hand out the school system cookie jar!!! How deep do you think the Chamber’s hands are in?

By The Facts Are The Facts

December 30, 2008 8:33 PM | Link to this

Read today’s Clayton Neighbor Newspaper which is dated Wednesday December 31, 2008 entitled “Clayton Jobless Rate Tops 8.5 percent” which states in the very first paragraph “Clayton County has suffered an “avalanche” of factors contributing to its unemployment rate which not only is the highest in the Atlanta metro region but tops the entire state of Georgia.”

In the last paragraph of the article, it states and I quote: Another contributing factor to the county’s unemployment, Ms. Seay believes is Clayton’s high transient population. “Clayton has a glut of apartments, which do not produce the tax revenue as property owners do,” she said.

As I have stated in the previous blogs, all of Clayton County’s Elected Officials, the Clayton County Board Of Commissioners, the Clayton County School Board Of Education, and other people in high places in Clayton County know the ugly, real, blunt, direct, and dismal truth about Clayton County in that Clayton County is now a home and refuge place for the all of the Section 8 low income housing project people that continue to bring down this county.

As I have stated many times in this blog, they know the truth in what the Atlanta Housing Authority under the leadership of Renee Glover is doing in sending all of these housing project people to Clayton County and the corrupt, crooked, unqualified, incompetent, incapable, and useless Jonesboro Housing Authority which controls the Section 8 housing program in Clayton County has opened the door wide and big for all to come because they do not, will not, and do not care to enforce the laws, rules, regulations, and government guidelines and protocols that govern and run the Section 8 programs nationwide.

You can have all of the hope you choose to have. You can think positive about the turnaround for the better of Clayton County. You can be in a serious state of denial, ignorance, and refuse to acknowledge and accept the present and right now truth about Clayton County and its deplorable, dismal, awful, disgraceful, sad, wretched, and miserable state, appearance, and condition.

The truth, facts, and reality are that Clayton County is a county filled with a rental and transient, and fly-by-night population of people who do not care about living the right way and keeping our county clean and only bring their negative and destructive lifestyles and way of living to this county.

The truth, facts, and reality is that Clayton County is filled with corrupt, crooked, incompetent, incapable, thieving, unfit, unqualified, and unsuitable elected officials both past and present, white and black who are self-serving, and only look out for their own interests and how they can line and pad their pockets and do not care about the interests of the Clayton County.

Until the good citizens of Clayton County who are left and there are only a few stop being in a serious state of denial,apathetic, indifferent, disinterested, dispassionate, detached, uninterested, removed, unconcerned, blase, unemotional, and ignorant about what is going on and happening in Clayton County which is not good and start to care, become outraged, displeased, and infuriated, and put all of these feelings into direct, forceful, powerful, energized, potent, and mighty action and hold all of Clayton County’s corrupt, crooked, deceitful, insincere, lying, double-dealing, two-faced, hypocritical, dishonest, underhanded, unprincipled, and treacherous elected officials accountable, answerable, responsible, liable, and culpable, only then will you see a positive change for the better in Clayton County.

By WTF?

December 31, 2008 8:26 AM | Link to this

Where is Bob?

By steve

December 31, 2008 9:33 AM | Link to this

How do you expect to “sell” a home in a subdivision filled with rental property?You have potential buyers driving around neighborhoods to to check out these homes only to see run down rental homes with ghetto looking kids hanging out on the streets.Even during school hours you also will see this.Where is the parent?Like I said,parent and not parents.Ask a real estate agent(if any left)and they will tell you the very same story.The only option left for someone trying to sell there home is to rent it out.I myself had to make that option.

By Here We Go Again!

December 31, 2008 10:03 AM | Link to this

Well the cat is out the bag! Ole John Trotter has his hands on the school board again! Jessie Goree is Trotter’s pawn. It has been confirmed! Also, Trinia Garret is with Trotter. People call your school board representatives and demand an ethics investigation into the two Trotter girls. They will keep CCPS from regaining accreditation! SACS has stated that the main reason it was revoked was because of outside influence from the MACE organization. John Trotter is the Executive Director of MACE. The community must be proactive at this point or it will take 5 to 7 years before accreditation is restored, ACT NOW!

By Mr Charlie

December 31, 2008 10:40 AM | Link to this

C’mon, we have all seen this coming for a long time, it is what you guys do.

I have traveled the world, and the more blacks there are, the more screwed up it is. That is just a fact.

You can say it for Clayton, Detroit, Somali, or Zimbabwe you all use the same logic, and are all on the same path.

Hell, you blame the white man and slavery, but in your home countries slavery is still legal today, what a bunch of hypocrites.

As a matter of fact, you outta kiss the white mans feet, otherwise you might be slaves yourself in your “mother” countries.

We freed you, educated you, raised and fed your children, and offered opportunity.

Some gratitude would be nice. However, you will continue to tear up your communities until they resemble a Kenya village, like I said, it is what you do.

By Mr Charlie

December 31, 2008 11:04 AM | Link to this

Double Take, think of the irony.

You type your comments on your computer with internet access, in a heated home with a stocked cupboard, (or are you one of the “staving” 400 pounders we see daily in Atlanta).

You probably have rims, a cell phone, big screen TV, the latest Air Jordans, the $150 jeans that hang on your knees, a $20 doo rage under your strategically angled official NFL cap with a non-traditional bill, all courtasy of the white man.

Yet we are absolute failures.

However, if we did not bring your relatives here 300 years ago, you would probably still be a slave in your “lovely” country, living in an disease invested village, in a mud hut, wearing an “Atlanta Falcons 1998 superbowl champs” T shirt.

And you call the White man a failure.

By Oh please

December 31, 2008 12:01 PM | Link to this

MEDIA TRUTH - As I recall, it was Rod Johnson who went screaming to Mark Elgart. You people who want to keep the focus on racism are the ones who are really destroying this county. Whether you are white person stereotyping blacks or a black person seeking a white conspiracy, all of it is absolute HOGWASH! Grow up and get a life!

By Da Truth

December 31, 2008 2:42 PM | Link to this

It’s gotten too dark in Clayton County for anything good to come of it. The darker a town/county becomes, the worse it gets. If Clayton wants to improve, a 70/30 ratio of white to black population is needed and there must be plans to attract white upper middle class families. Show me a prosperous town with good schools, high scores, low crime, clean kept and I’ll show you a town that is mostly white. Show me a majority black county and I’ll show you failure and a ghetto. It is what it is.

By Sara Palin 2012

December 31, 2008 3:01 PM | Link to this

Negros lack the mental capacity of the non-colored people. This is why Africa is in such misery. The truth is here in America, the black on black crime is just an extension of tribal warfare back in the African motherland. Back in Africa the coloreds adorn themselves with chicken feathers, boars teeth and diffrent colored mud. Here in America they do the same thing with bling, fake gold teeth and knock off designer clothing. The pecking order is based upon who has the most goats and chickens, here it’s based upon who has the flyest ride. Of course they have as many wives as they want over there and this is why they breed as they do without attempting to be a parent. So get off the back of the black man. They can’t help themselves. It will be up to us clean, god-fearing, white, christian people to further bring them to christ and civilization. They are a curious people and they are easily trained. We taught them how pick cotton and afros all in one day!

By Who pushed Rod to SACS?

December 31, 2008 3:30 PM | Link to this

Do we think Rod Johnson acted alone? Do we think Rod Johnson didn’t have any connections at all in the county, connections that might have been exposed? Connections that could have pushed Rod to do it; connections that have connections to Elgart?

By Mr Charlie

December 31, 2008 3:38 PM | Link to this

Who pushed Rod to Sacs. Of course it had to be a white person who pushed Rod, otherwise it would mean blacks taking responsibility, and we know that can’t ever happen.

By Oh please

December 31, 2008 3:58 PM | Link to this

You know, I honestly believe the last four posts are one and the same person. Someone who can benefit most from chaos in this county: John Trotter!!

By rickman

December 31, 2008 4:01 PM | Link to this

I see y’all have swallowed the bait and sunken to the LCD, it is NOT about race. It is about culture. We have a majority of good and decent folks of all colors, then we have the loud mouthed racist bigots who were raised by uneducated simple minded bigots looking up from the gutter trying to keep the racial thing stirred up, when in fact it is the culture one is raised in that defines them not thier color, one only need to look at this blog to see who wants to try and make things work and who wants to continue the practice of diarreah of the mouth. With the vitrol seen here it’s apparent there are alot of single branch family trees around here.

By I remember ...

December 31, 2008 4:11 PM | Link to this

Yep Rod Johnson sure did run crying to SACS and it backfired on his azz big time. remember, Rod Johnson is the same one who also resigned several times and only stayed gone to avoid testifying in front of a judge.

Does it matter who drove Rod Johnson to SACS? Bottom line, he drew a salary off of us, helped to tank our school system (when his kids don’t even attend CCPS) & left the entire mess behind with zero accountability or retribution. this is definitely a case where God will have to take care of him for what he’s done to this county & CCPS - don’t get me wrong either, Rod ain’t the only one to blame but he was a major contributor.

By realism hurts

December 31, 2008 4:12 PM | Link to this

Trotter is taking over this blog like he did to the News Daily… Want to improve Clayton? Figure out a way for blocking him from here so only people who really want to improve things are left. Anyone reading this, please be aware that 99% percent of the people in Clayton are not the hateful/ ignorant people Trotter is trying to portray here.

By rickman

December 31, 2008 4:21 PM | Link to this

To You Created the Situation/Deal with it, You are a Moron, but thats cool. You fit the pattern of generalization & stereotyping..it all white peoples fault, now thats really a conversation starter. But here’s a fact for you..I really don’t care. My home is paid for, we send our grandchildren to private schools out of the county and we don’t spend a single penny on commerce in Clayton County, we shop in Fayette and Henry the only money Clayton gets from me is my property taxes. So muck it up or make it better no never mind to me, in my little corner of the county we are doing just fine.

By Trotter is back

December 31, 2008 4:58 PM | Link to this

Did you forget that Rod Johnson and Ericka Davis were reciving kickbacks from school constrution bids. Sandra Scott was just plain ignorant and the rest of the board had no clue. Norrese was living in Cobb county with his gay lover and John Trotter was the force behind them all.

It got so bad the Governor of the State of Georgia had to remove them from office! Go back five years ago when the School System was first placed on probation. Remember Nedra, Connie, Latoya,Linda etc. They were kicked out of office by the voters for the school board that was removed by the Governor. The common denominator is John Trotter and MACE.

Now John Trotter is back! His dummies Jesse Goree, Trinia Garret and Michael King are at it again. Have you noticed those three always vote together?

Trotter only surrounds himself with ignorant blacks. King is so dumb he is suing the school board while he sits on the school board! I can see him now, “I vote to accept the pending litigation aainst us”. How dumb can one get? Jessie Goree is micromanaging the school system. Hey Goree, People at the central office are talking! Is this not what got our accreditation yanked? Rumor is someone in central office has her on tape. If so, get it out! Then there is Ms. Garrett. At the next board meeting, go up to her and smell her. She will be drunk!. Ms. Garrett, The are AA meetings all around the county. Get in one. What do the three have in common? John Trotter!

Can we leave anything to chance? Accreditation is gone but they can get it back if they work together and keep John off the gravy train

By John Stewart

December 31, 2008 5:02 PM | Link to this

To Media Truth

You said this - SA, Rick and Hummm, John Stewart, Oh please, you say how much of the school board is blacks verses whites—that’s not the “Issue” that got accreditation taken/stolen. The “Issue” is how whites ran up the SACS Elgart’s office screaming the black board members were taking their money by stopping the no-bid contracts they enjoyed for decades.

Get your truth straight first of all. It was a black man Rod Johnson that ran to SACS like a little beyotch cause the heat was on him. I have never claimed this was a black vs white issue. Greed has no color and in this case fell on both sides of the ethnic spectrum!!

Trotter give it a break with this race baiting. All I will say is Karma is a b**ch and I would not want to be you come the new year. Those on the board that are associating with Trotter and you know who you are; my advice would be to sever ties with him now before you go down. Let Hill & Scotts be your example.

End of 2nd qtr 2009 is gonna be good!!!!

By Marinemom

December 31, 2008 5:05 PM | Link to this

When you’ve hit the bottom - as was posted earlier, you have no where to go but up. That’s usually spoken about on a personal level. So many have already hit bottom and figure they’ll stay there because it doesn’t take any action on their part to be accountable for their actions.

Who, exactly, is in charge of Clayton County? The sheriff, the commissioner, the school board, the fire department, police department…who is in charge? When all of the new members of the board of education, the commissioners office, district attorney’s office, sheriff’s office were voted in, what did they do to improve what was left to them? If the former members of any of these organizations left their positions in shambles, what did the new guy do to fix and improve the position they are in, in order to gain control of their office, respect of their peers and members of the community? What did any of them do to improve the quality of life for the Citizens of Clayton County? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. They picked up where the others left off because it was in such poor shape to begin with - it would have taken imagination, many hours of man power, research, meetings…it was too much to handle. Clayton County needs a big renovation - but who is responsible? The person who actually owns the property, or the folks just renting it for a few months or so…when a citizen of this county has a problem, whether it be crime in their neighborhood, vandalism, truancy, any type of illegal activity, or someone that keeps cars up on blocks in their front yards, doesn’t cut their grass, won’t fix broken windows, etc…who do you go to? You call one place, they tell you to call another, then they say call another and eventually you end up where you started…no one wants to take responsibility.

I really want to know, who is in charge? Who is responsible for running Clayton County?

By 2009 Ethical Dilemna

December 31, 2008 5:11 PM | Link to this

Well the cat is out the bag! Ole Sid Chapman has his hands on the school board again! Mary Baker is Chapman’s pawn. It has been confirmed! Also, Pam Anderson is with Chapman. People call your school board representatives and demand an ethics investigation into the two Chapman girls. They will keep CCPS from regaining accreditation! SACS has stated that the main reason it was revoked was because of outside influence from the CCEA & GAE organization. Chapman is the President of CCEA. The community must be proactive at this point or it will take 5 to 7 years before accreditation is restored, ACT NOW!

By TrotterHater

December 31, 2008 5:19 PM | Link to this

John Trotter is hot on the school board for sure. He is fighting for his financial future, not for anyone else. I mean after all, his organization is a “for profit organization”. That tells you you what he is after. The little wort Trotter needs to be removed from Clayton County School system for good. The other drunk board members should be removed immediately, and arrested if they show up drunk. (Give them an alcohol test)

By Chemical Spill

December 31, 2008 5:21 PM | Link to this

SA, Rick and Hummm, John Stewart, Oh please, you say how much of the school board is blacks verses whites—that’s not the “Issue” that got accreditation taken/stolen. The “Issue” is how many whites ran up the SACS Elgart’s office screaming the black board members were taking their money by stopping the no-bid contracts they enjoyed for decades (read the SACS report). Yep that Uncle Tom Rod Johnson also ran to SACS, however he was paid by the whites to do it. It wasn’t about “Secret Meetings” or “Ethics”. Accreditation Loss was and still is about white folks and money. We blacks know that. Hell it even took the Feds to get Chick-fil-A hand out the school system cookie jar!!! How deep do you think the Chamber’s hands are in?

By Laughing,,,^..^,,,At ya

December 31, 2008 5:32 PM | Link to this

Clowns like Mr. Charlie ,John Stewart ,richman, Da Truth, all broke white folks. Oh, look at those sad destitute white folks crying on this blog. They were too dumb to grow and prosper like the upper 10% of the white folks. Now they are reduced to coming on this blog and scream obscenities about the poor little downtrodden Negro.

These pale folks have had all the advantages all their lives because of skin color “Alone” but couldn’t make it; now they are reduced to living in Clayton with poor little downtrodden Negro. Then they’d cry about what the poor little downtrodden Negro didn’t achieve in the 40 years since Equal/Civil Rights Act in 1968.

You’ve had over 600 years in this country to make it and couldn’t. Man, what a sad group of people. The Negro has achieved a lot in those 40 years. Of course a lot has fallen between the cracks. Due to discrimination, racism and institutionalization; but with FAITH the size of a mustard seed the poor little downtrodden Negro will overcome—join hands with them, we’ll bring you though too!

Note: You can tell these white folk are “Broke”, that why their “Broke A$$ still live in Clayton.

Happy New Years.

By BOOMARING MAAN

December 31, 2008 5:36 PM | Link to this

The Facts Are The Facts, you are so disillusioned, downtrodden, dishearten and is a lost cause. You have no hope. You’re broke and can’t move away from the blacks and Clayton, so here’s an idea, go to your son and daughter’s trailer park and get some Crystal Meth and OD and take yourself out or go walk down the street in Clayton County’s main streets, roads, and thoroughfares such as Tara Boulevard, Mount Zion Road, Battlecreek Road, Old Dixie Highway, Flint River Road, State Road 85, State Road 138, State Road 139, State Road 54, State Road 42, Upper Riverdale Road, Frontage Road, Valley Hill Road, East Fayetteville Road, Webb Road, Pointe South Parkway, with $20.00 hanging out your purse or pocket and a Hommie will take your A$$ out for a Dub!! Good Luck!!!

By Nospin

December 31, 2008 5:39 PM | Link to this

John Trotter is a coward. He uses so many fake names here, even he can’t keep track. Unfortunately, allot of people fall for his racists posts. CONGRATS! You are being manipulated, if you fall for his posts! You will notice he never posts where he can be held accountable. Why? Because he knows he can go to jail if he is caught manipulating the school board. Nospin posted this message, and it can be verified at: http://www.give-em-the-boot.com/

By ZIPPERHEAD

December 31, 2008 5:41 PM | Link to this

Ole white boy, Sid Chapman has his hands on the school board again! Mary Baker is Chapman’s pawn. It has been confirmed! Also, Pam Anderson is with Chapman. People call your school board representatives and demand an ethics investigation into the two Chapman girls. They will keep CCPS from regaining accreditation! SACS has stated that the main reason it was revoked was because of outside influence from the CCEA & GAE organization. Chapman is the President of CCEA. The community must be proactive at this point or it will take 5 to 7 years before accreditation is restored, ACT NOW!

By Happy Man

December 31, 2008 5:51 PM | Link to this

Sara Palin 2012, you’re a poooor destitute swine living in Clayton clinging to yo grandpa ole rushy 22. If you haven’t gotten ahead by now, you’re also ignorant. I saw you in front of the line at the Food Stamp Office using your “Trailer Park Address”. LOOOOSER!!!

By Not likely

December 31, 2008 5:56 PM | Link to this

I don’t believe for a minute these posts about Sid Chapman somehow influencing board members. GAE is a statewide organization, with a good reputation. There’s no way the heads of GAE at the state level would put up with this, dragging their reputation into the accreditation situation like this. All rumor, no evidence.

By 1st and 10

December 31, 2008 6:02 PM | Link to this

Seems like Trotter is one up on Sid. Three for trotter and Two for Sid. The remaining four board members will be the deciding factor. The fact remains it is Trotter’s faction that breeds chaos. This may be a lesson for Trotter. Follow Sid’s lead and learn how to play the game son!

By Mr Charlie

December 31, 2008 6:09 PM | Link to this

Most white people living in the country’s family emigrated during this century. However most blacks have been here for hundreds of years.

Funny how ethinic groups can come in, be the low rung on the ladder, and the next generation excels past the negro while the next ethnic group comes in while the negro languishes on the bottom.

It has nothing to do with skin color/appearance, the south americans are doing it right now, the came here and immediately passed the black on the social scale by working hard and getting educations.

Hell, we even have a black president, but of course he was raised and educated by whites.

You can harp all you want about the mexicans in the Clayton trailer parks, but I assure you, their kids will grow up and move out, while the black mans kids will never venture further than 20 miles away from Tara Blvd their entire life.

By Lil Man

December 31, 2008 6:15 PM | Link to this

We know GAE is legit. MACE is the problem.

Rest assured MACE is on it’s last leg! Word is there has been a major outflow of members and new recriuts are far and few. Seems like Trotter is a victim of his own success. MACE is bad news! And beside a few hardcore flunkies holding up homemade banners in font of schools what do they offer the members of MACE? Pension, collective barganing, credit union? They don’t even get props from other educators! If you are a member of MACE do yourself a favor and terminate your membership now! You have worked too hard to earn your degree just to throw it all away! School Board members Goree and Garrett, Shame on you! The eyes of the county are on you. Your missdeeds and affiliations will be your downfall. EVERY school board member in bed with Trotter has had a tragic ending! No one lives happily ever after!

By Da Truth

December 31, 2008 6:18 PM | Link to this

I can’t vote because of my record, but if I could I would vote that there Thompson out of office.

By Sarah Palin 2012

December 31, 2008 6:20 PM | Link to this

Happy Man

I got a good job. I work at a pawn shop! What about you? Where do you work? I don’t get food stamps so your a liar

By WTF?

December 31, 2008 6:23 PM | Link to this

Kimberly wrote about MACE a few months ago and regular posters will notice Attn Clyaton parents a/k/a TROTTER stopped posting after that, probably because he didn’t like the comments that followed.

I would bet money that 99% of the NEGATIVITY and RACIST POSTS here come directly from Trotter, Dowdell and their flunky blind followers because as another poster said this is unmonitored. Michael King is a joke and Trina Garrett is a drunk so I’m not surprised if they follow Trotter. Congrats to those who live in those districts for such fine representation (NOT!).

wishing you all a wonderful 2009. Will everything get solved next year? Of couse not because it took longer than a year to create the problems. But if we make a little progress every year we can get back to being someplace people actually want to live and visit and stay off of WSBTV news. that’d be nice.

By School law

December 31, 2008 6:30 PM | Link to this

I don’t think any organization out there is offering teachers collective bargining. By state law, collective bargining is illegal for teachers. Our lawmakers are afraid to give teachers that kind of power, they just want to blame them when things go wrong. A major reason we are in the mess we are in, is that teachers don’t have a voice. Those states where teachers do have a voice, and collective bargining power to back it up, are running circles around Georgia in education.

By Mr Charlie

December 31, 2008 6:31 PM | Link to this

I’m Charlie Griswell and I’m still in charge. So bow down and kiss the ring, fools.

By Not likely

December 31, 2008 7:03 PM | Link to this

GAE is a legit organization with a good reputation. I know CCEA represents teachers in Clayton, but that’s all. It’s not like there’s anyone from GAE at the state level that is involved with Clayton or involved in any way with the school board. They wouldn’t damage their reputation that way.

By Nospin

December 31, 2008 7:21 PM | Link to this

HAPPY NEW YEARS! cONGRATS TO

By Nospin

December 31, 2008 7:26 PM | Link to this

HAPPY NEW YEARS! Congrats to the new office holders! Sheriff Kimbrough,District Attorney Graham,and Solicitor Mosely By the way! Who is Victor Hill,and Jewel Scott? Never heard of them!

By 2009 Political Bombshell

January 1, 2009 12:44 PM | Link to this

The Republican white minority in Clayton was not happy with the 2000,2002,2004,2006 local elections, so they decided to do something about it in 2008. They all met in their churches and decided to unseat as many blacks as they could, but on their own, with their own vote they couldn’t do it. So, they recruited some Unscrupulous, unwitting, “Uncle Toms” Blacks to help them.

They paid these Unscrupulous, unwitting, “Uncle Toms” Blacks to run for offices; they knew they couldn’t win to dilute the black vote. Then they had own white republicans change parties to have a chance to win an election in a mostly Democratic County. In some cases they won, in some they lose. These whites pulled out all the stops; they spent over a million dollars to smear, degrade, lied about black elected officials using the Mass Media, Newspapers, TV and internet.

There was also concern about the Clayton county elections office corruption. However, in less than two year these Republicans “True Colors” will show and they’ll be “Voted Out”. The Blacks of the county has already “Black Balled” the Unscrupulous, unwitting, “Uncle Toms” Blacks. Now you know. Live and Learn. Happy New Year!!!!!

By NotAnotherOne

January 1, 2009 1:16 PM | Link to this

2009 Political Bombshell Are you really that stupid? Come on now! There are people that stupid still around? I have a suggestion. Why not crawl back into the hole you crawled out of? You are a dinosaur. You HAVE to be John Trotter, or that idiot Dowell. No one else could come up with such stupid stuff! LOL! Entertain us some more! Its funny as hell. I can’t wait!

By SA

January 1, 2009 1:56 PM | Link to this

2009 Political Bombshell,

Sucks to be you, doesn’t it. Yes, the small number of whites here talked the thousands of AA’s in the county to vote their way. Now why would so many listen to the white man instead of those of their own race? I’ll tell you - they didn’t. They have minds of their own and saw what thousands of voters in this county saw - failure. And they needed to do something about it.

Get over yourself, Trotterite and his long lost brother, Dowell. It’s a shame you feel educated, successful, self-respecting, law-abiding AA’s in this county don’t know what’s best for them, their communities, or this county. You silly clown. Who’s going to listen to you now? Take off the big red nose, makeup, and those large shoes. It’s time for an extreme makeover and we’re starting with you. If you won’t, that’s OK. Join our party in 2009 anyways. We’re celebrating, champaign is flowing, confetti is falling from the heavens, and velvet ropes are parting. We need some entertainment. We could use a clown.

By DROP MACE IN 2009

January 1, 2009 3:16 PM | Link to this

If you are an educator working in any of the school districs in Georgia tell your friends and anyone who will listen to not destroy their career by joining MACE. Tell them to run from MACE. MACE is a sinking ship and they don’t want to go down with the ship. Tell them they can join a real teachers association and get more for less. Why does MACE charge so much anyhow? Tell them to avoid MACE at all cost. I along with many of my friends have left MACE because it’s nothing more than a pyramid scheme! 1. Email teachers in your school 2. Post flyers in teachers break areas 3. Recruit for any union other than MACE 4. Expose the truth about MACE

By SNEEK PEEK 2009

January 1, 2009 3:33 PM | Link to this

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left. Clayton Whites often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agent in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike. However, now they have Pam Anderson and Mary Baker.

Now the whites is on another mission to run Thompson off and replace him with a “White Boy”. The whites in this county can’t stand a “Black Man” receiving that kind of salary. The white boy will instantly get accreditation back without doing anything, because there is “NOTHING” to do!

Whites keep your feet on the the “Black Children Necks” by holding their accreditation—their parents will see it your way, sooner or later!

The whole thing will be to hoodwink and bamboozle the black folk into having more Faith in the Whites and their politics. “Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”

By SA

January 1, 2009 3:53 PM | Link to this

Come join the party, Sneek Peek 2009! The food is fresh, music is good, and everyone’s on the dance floor. You’re missing it! Help us celebrate the positive change coming over Clayton County in 2009! Many have been shown the door and Trotter’s been handed his coat and was asked to leave. You should have seen it! He isn’t very happy. Not many following him these days. Things are looking bright. C’mon, join in on the fun. You’ll be left behind if not. But maybe you already knew that considering how things turned out for ya.

By SoFunny

January 1, 2009 4:53 PM | Link to this

SNEEK PEEK 2009 2009 Political Bombshell ZIPPERHEAD Etc,Etc,Etc

True Trotter style! He feeds on this stuff! That’s how he panders to blacks to get MACE members.He quit using caps, but its him. He is as arrogant as his grandfather, whom someone had enough of, and promptly shot. MACE is dying quickly. Only a fool would want his name associated with MACE.

By Master Visionary

January 1, 2009 5:16 PM | Link to this

SA and his bunch is getting ready to spend upwards of $500,000 to ouster Dr. Thompson because they don’t like his color. Watch the MEDIA BLITZ. All of us Blacks see this coming. I am having a pretty good New Year, eating good, drinking good, watch good football; things are great.

It’s amazing how some people can see right through the “whitewash by the white folk”. However, these folks who put these new folk in office will be soon disappointed because they won’t be led around by the “Nose” by the County’s Elite, the “Rich and So-called powerful”.

2009 will bring about “Change” and that will “Shock SA and his Bunch”, because they’re “Not Good” for this county, their conservative republicans—that means keep things as they are—keep the Negro down. That’s why they’re strangling Black children by “Raping their accreditation. Racism, Discrimination and Destitution will not be “Tolerated” in this county as well as in this country!!

EYES ON YA!!!!!

By SAP SUCKER

January 1, 2009 5:34 PM | Link to this

Blacks don’t need Trotter, we all have our own minds! Trotter is white just like SA, So Funny, WTF and NotAnotherOne. We all have history of dealing with the southern swine; and that history is not good. Better Times in 09!!!!!!

By laughingSoHard

January 1, 2009 6:12 PM | Link to this

Keep posting fool! We are busting up laughing over here. I wouldn’t miss this for the world. *Please don’t stop. *Tell us more!

By Current History

January 1, 2009 6:20 PM | Link to this

Yep, you can look at (Recent History) how the whites treated the Blacks in New Orleans during Katrina, how they treated a “Dog” better than a Negro (Vick) and a 2008 conviction and sentenced of OJ for a 1994 Acquittal by a black jury. No!NoNo!NoNo!No BEWARE the white logic haven’t changed.

By Fool me once!

January 1, 2009 6:33 PM | Link to this

To Master Visionary,

Where is the vision? If we continue to do the same things we get the same results! We can not just again take Thompson’s word that the mandates are satisfied. Remember his “buckets” of evidence last time which resulted in only one mandate being satisfied - rescidency- and he had nothing to do with that!

Thompson was hired to save accreditation and not seek the office on a permanent basis. He did not save our accredication. NOw he is still trying to make himself permanent when he has not proven he is worthy. He instead blamed it on race. Now that may work for some Blacks, but the majority will not be bamboozled by this race card he is trying to pull. Race does not have a damn thing to do with satisfying the mandates. He needs to focus on that and stop trying to fool us into keeping him on the job.

Now the new board needs to do what each of them claimed they would. Save Our Accrediation. We expect them to do that or ge there bags packed in two and four years from now. Or maybe we will have to do another recall.

The task before the board and Thompson is clear - satisfy the mandates. We need to make sure that SACS validates any progress Thompson and the Board claim to have made. If we do not do this, we will be faced with Thompson saying we lost our accreditation because we are Black. Just like he said this time!

By Embarrassed

January 1, 2009 6:33 PM | Link to this

Current History, Thinking like yours is what made Clayton County what it is today. It is people like you that make the black folks look bad. Your post summed it up nicely!

By Summed Up Nicely

January 1, 2009 7:05 PM | Link to this

Fool me once, Dr. Thompson couldn’t have kept accreditation if he could have turned himself “White”. The white of Clayton had bought and paid for accreditation Loss by then.

Embarrassed, I’m “Embarrassed” for you, you’re the kind of “Gullible” people they like. I have a “Casino” downtown Atlanta I’ll sale you on the “Cheap”!!!!

Besides, Black folk only look bad in the “White Folk Eyes; and who gives a DAMN about a SWINE!!!

By Here We Go Again

January 2, 2009 7:10 AM | Link to this

John Trotter is knee deep in the new school board. If you think accreditation will be saved think again. Here are the facts Michael King board member is the Mace legal council, Darryl Jordan (State Rep) who sits on the BOE ethics commission is the Henry County President of MACE and a long time MACE member. Jessie Goree and Trina Garrett are MACE members and under control of John Trotter. If you think Trotter is gone, think again. If we fail to regain accreditation, they will be the reason why. If you recall, SACS pulled accreditation because of “outside Influences” they were speaking of John Trotter’s fake teachers union MACE.

By Jborodawg

January 2, 2009 8:02 AM | Link to this

First, I’d like to point out that most Section 8 people are elderly.

We have very low voter turn out. That proves there’s apathy in Clayco; which therefore leads to ineptness in our elected officials. Our schools are what they are because of lack of parental involvement; apathy. If we aren’t involved in our kids’ schools, much less in the BOE, we will reap what we sow. If we don’t care about the appearance of our roadways and businesses, we will reap what we sow.

We must take responsibility for our county on a personal level. Therefore, “The problems are mine in ‘09” seems like an apt phrase to adopt.

New faces in the sheriffs’ department and the courts are a start. Stronger leadership is needed at the county commission level and, as someone stated, a “professional” search needs to be under way now for a professional, caring superintendent of schools. J.Thompson is interim and should not be considered.

By SNEAK PEEK 2009

January 2, 2009 9:50 AM | Link to this

SNEAK PEEK told you on yesterday, The White Folk, boy Sheriff Kem did the same thing Victor did on the first day on the job. However, you won’t see any whites crying this time—because the victims may be Black.

Of course the white folk told Kem to fire the Blacks. What an “Uncle Tom”.

By SNEAK PEEK 2009

January 2, 2009 10:04 AM | Link to this

Here We Go Again, you and your white friend are so “RACIST”. You would take the accreditation of 52,000 Black Kid because of so-called affiliation with one white man John Trotter. What does the 52,000 Black Kid have to do with John Trotter. It just like “Moniker” been saying on this blog for month.

The “Accreditation Loss” is all about “White Folks and Money”.

See Kimberly, if Clayton School System was “White “. The Whites wouldn’t daring let “One” white man affect their children education. What do you say now Dumba$$ Bob.

By LoveJoy

January 2, 2009 10:11 AM | Link to this

@SNEAK PEEK

I fugured a moron like you would say that. Victor fired people because he felt like it..he wanted his own team..no other reason. Kem fired those people because soe had criminal records..some didn’t apply for the position and some failed background checks. There is nothign racist in what he did. He is getting rid of the peopel who got jobs because of “hook ups” and not because of merit.

I respect what Victor did by clsoing those massage parlors..however, he got too arogant in other areas and this reflected poorly on the county. Kem will give this county’s law enforcement more respect in the public eye.

Lastly…CC is damn near 100% black there aren’t any white people left to pull strings. The BOE consists of some ignorant blacks…..the fools in these gangs are ignorant and 99.9% black and hispanic…….Black people cause muc of their own trouble….I’m black and i can admit that. We need people to have some self respect, ambition, ownership and good sense. The race card/blame game is TIRED and played out

By RAW DOG 2009

January 2, 2009 10:13 AM | Link to this

Jborodawg, Here We Go Again you pink pork head swine!!

The Whites of Clayton County and Mark Elgart will not the Black Children accreditation back until the Blacks unite and “RUN” Dr. Thompson out off town; and replace him with a “White” Superintendent. That the “Bottom Line Up Front.”

By LoveJoy

January 2, 2009 10:35 AM | Link to this

ACCREDITATION

Accreditation was lost because we had a ghetto board of fools who belonged on Jerry Springer or the Bad Girls Club.

FYI the 52,000 kids who lost accreditation were not all black you azzclowns……therefore any white kids in the school system suffered also.

Diversity is good…the reason thigs are so bad on CC is because its ran by ALL blacks……..no matter how dumb, corrupt or incompetent they are. Look at Fayette, Henry..why are there school systems and counties for that matter so much better? Blacks attend there schools and so do whites…but its not a one sided HOT GHETTO MESS like CC is becoming

Who do you blame for the black and hispanic gamg members? I suppose the whites initiated them in right?

In you opinion…why should any family move to CC as opposed to another county…whats is their incentive?

By fool me once

January 2, 2009 10:53 AM | Link to this

Raw Dog and others the citizens of Clayton County have enough sense to know that satisfying the mandates is not a black and white thing. Thompson rode in here claiming to be the one to save our accreditation and when he failed he blamed it on the white people. Now I can see he is setting us up to give us the same racist nonsense for an excuse. Pitting blacks against whites will not satisfy the mandates. Now as for the new board they have the responsibility to make sure the mandates are completed with or without Thompson.

By WTF?

January 2, 2009 11:14 AM | Link to this

Hey LoveJoy … don’t fool yourself, white folks still own the majority of property in clayton (who do you think owns the land where all these trailer parks and apartment buildings sit on?). They are pulling strings behind the scenes on their puppets who are the black elected officials we vote into office becasue of their skin color and because we think they’re gonna look out for us when in reality they’re still looking out for the white folks, like Crandall Bray and Charlie Griswell. Same game, they just got somebody that looks like you doing the dirty work now.

By History Repeats Itself

January 2, 2009 11:57 AM | Link to this

Talk about shooting yourself in the foot on the first day of the job. Dosen’t matter if the firings were justified or not, it gives the appearance of being nothing more than political retaliation and more business as usual.

If these firings were justified, all he’s done is given them a victim status they don’t deserve, with more hearings and more possible lawsuits on the way.

How much smarter it would have been to just announce that all Sheriff’s employees will have criminal background checks, as well as an evaluation of their performance and qualifications. Those who fail criminal background checks you can then fire with no controversy; the rest you put on a probation period to shape up or ship out. If they don’t shape up, at least you gave them a chance.

Now all you’ve done is look like you acted out of petty vindictiveness, even if you didn’t. In short, no pun intended, you look like Victor Hill.

By Leonard

January 2, 2009 12:07 PM | Link to this

There are Black and White people in Clayton County who really do get it. Black and White people who understand that loss of accreditation will have a far reaching negative impact on the entire county.

There are ignorant Blacks and Whites who are small minded, mean spirited and ignorant in Clayton who are creating this racial divide.

By No History Here

January 2, 2009 12:09 PM | Link to this

To anyone with a brain, they see two very distictive differences between what Hill did and what Kimbrough has done. To those without one, who cares what they think.

By Oh please

January 2, 2009 12:10 PM | Link to this

Here we go again!! I could’ve sworn Kembrough promised that his first day in office would be uneventful and he would not be firing anyone. He could have took a couple of weeks to weed out the garbage. A venter made mention of the cycle being complete once Victor is evicted from his house and arrested for misuse of county funds. Seems to me the cycle is just starting all over again. I met Kim personally on several occasions and always left feeling dirty. Kembrough is just as slimy as Hill!! Way to go, Clayton. You did it again!

By History Repeats Itself

January 2, 2009 12:16 PM | Link to this

As if anyone claim there weren’t distinct differences between the two firings. Please. But what he’s done, is create a perception that there might not be. What he’s done is given these employees a platform they don’t deserve.

If you don’t understand that how things are perceived can be as important as how things are in politics, then you don’t have a brain.

Even if one lawsuit is generated out of this, even if it’s tossed out of court, that’s still money, resources, and time spent that wouldn’t have had to be spent.

By Victor Hills Thugs Falling

January 2, 2009 12:29 PM | Link to this

Victor Hill’s hired thugs, intimidators, illegal appointee’s, regulators et al that has terrorized good citizens of Clayton County the past four years are either being invited to leave or are resigning. AJC reports 14 were dismissed on the first day; Martin (having been improperly hired outside of the civil service system) and Hobbs (criminal history). Thug Neely and Harget are reported to have resigned of their own volition today.

Good riddance. There is a real Sheriff in Clayton County now. One that upholds the ideal of “accountability”. Soon the actions of these misfits will come to light. Soon the criminality of the Hill regime will be fully exposed on top of the multi-million dollar lawsuits pending against the morally and finacial bankrupt Victor Hill.

Let it be known far and wide that the Clayton County Sheriff’s office, the outstanding deputies and staff are back to serve the citizenry of Clayton County and uphold the best in Law Enforcement tradition!

By History Repeats Itself

January 2, 2009 1:45 PM | Link to this

Even if this Hobbs guy is as bad as everyone claims, there’s a big difference in having been arrested and having been convicted. By stating that you fired this guy because of a criminal history, if in fact he has no convictions, you’ve just given this guy Hobbs a right to legitimately claim he was wrongfully terminated.

Plus if you were on the record as saying it would be an uneventful first day, with no mass firings, at the very least you’ve proven that you aren’t a man of your word.

Not the best first impression.

By catlady

January 2, 2009 2:08 PM | Link to this

Megan Mettucci (AJC) on Nov. 6 quotes the incoming sheriff as saying his first day in office will be boring. I sure hope he was correct in his assessment of these employees. Clay Co cannot afford any more c*.

Hopefull V. Hill will be in some sort of debtor’s prison so he can “work off” his debt to the citizens.

By SA

January 2, 2009 2:22 PM | Link to this

I’m almost sure the C4 post is done by an imposter using the website and name to further divide the county.

LOL. You both (and you know who I’m talking about) are not that bright.

By C4

January 2, 2009 2:40 PM | Link to this

Here We Go Again!

The new Sheriff of Clayton County Mr. Kimbrough walks into the sheriff’s office on the first day and we have drama, Jackass! Now, I have read that this brother was a well educated man, a family man, and reportedly a pretty good Christian Brother. What’s the deal? Apparently no warning was given to the employees! Oops up side your head and 14 people have lost their job. It will be interesting to see it Mr. Kimbrough has been tainted by that Clayton County stench, lapse of insanity, called stupidity and let’s see if he fired all black folks! I notice in the news paper article he said “Victor Hill hired outcasts, thugs and rejects from every agency,” Now how in the hell does he know that? The Sheriff is already using those code words most of us know like, thugs, outcast, and rejects! What’s wrong with this fool, does he not understand that those code words are often what people have associated to define black folks and he’s black or is he? If you don’t know your history you’re bound to repeat it! The big question in my mind whose definition he was relying on to make these determinations about these people character. If these people were hire in a legal fashion, and if that is true…, would not these individuals he fired have a right to the grievance system before they were fired? Like them red necks say “something about this dog…, just want hunt!” If this is true the brother should be recalled! This tic for tack BS should not be tolerated by him and no one else. Will there be an out rage in the county by those people who called for justice and the American way when Victor Hill had his lapse into insanity? Mr. Kimbrough doesn’t know what the rest of us have known for years? Do one stupid thing brother and they will call you forever stupid! Now are you Mr. Kimbrough that brother who defines himself to be part of that ancient group of people called “The master’s Super Negroes that can do no wrong!” I think you need to refer to Mr. Eldrin Bell to school you on the protocol for that group, he has been a long time chartered member! Birds of a feather flock together!

The people of Clayton County! How can your voices, be heard if you keep your mouths shut?

Holla Back! www.c4citizens.blogspot.com

By Gillman

January 2, 2009 2:48 PM | Link to this

Dumb move Kimbrough! The tone for your administration has been set. Anyway you dice it, it stinks. Why give the people a stick to beat you with. You’s integrity is at stake because you said your 1st day would be quite.

By Sammy Ojean

January 2, 2009 2:51 PM | Link to this

Well here we go again with this Clayton County School Board again with “Skunk Oil Peddler for all his Elected Official cronies ” John Trotter and ” MACE “.

Please goto page 28 (1999 The Teachers Advocate ), at the botton of Page you will see the Mace Staff listing, and you will see that Michael B. King the School Board Member is MACE Staff Attorney, then you goto page 29 and you see a AD that is place to Adverise Michael B. King’s Law Office….

So it looks like John Trotter has another Trotter flankie to do his biding on the Clayton County School Board hummmmm looks like the same ole same ole of the Old Clayton County School Board of nothing but self serving Clowns……..

http://www.theteachersadvocate.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/1999ta.pdf

By Dats Right

January 2, 2009 2:55 PM | Link to this

The C4 post is done by an imposter using the website and name to further divide the county.

LOL. You both (and you know who I’m talking about) are not that bright.

By RIP THE SHOCKER 2009

January 2, 2009 3:02 PM | Link to this

Here We Go Again, you and your white friend are so “RACIST”. You would take the accreditation of 52,000 mostly Black Kid because of so-called affiliation with “One White Man” John Trotter. What does the 52,000 Black Kid have to do with John Trotter. It just like “Moniker” been saying on this blog for month. The “Accreditation Loss” is all about “White Folks and Money”. There are no nine mandates to satisfy ONLY ONE Get RID of all Black Board Also, get of the Black Superintendent and Replace with White Superintendent

See Kimberly, if Clayton School System was “White “. The Whites wouldn’t daring let “One” white man affect their children education. Love Joy, no Black will listen to you, you’re a “BACKWARD NEGRO**

By RIP THE SHOCKER 2009

January 2, 2009 3:12 PM | Link to this

Hey LoveJoy and fool me once

YOU THE FOOL There are no nine mandates to satisfy ONLY ONE Get RID of all Black Board, Also, get of the Black Superintendent and Replace with White Superintendent

By DISCRIMINATION 2008 & 2009

January 2, 2009 3:18 PM | Link to this

The Whites of Clayton County and Mark Elgart will not give the Black Children accreditation back until the Blacks unite and “RUN” Dr. Thompson out off town; and replace him with a “White” Superintendent. That the “Bottom Line Up Front.”

By Here We Go Again

January 2, 2009 3:20 PM | Link to this

Well Trotter is it true? This is your newsletter. Is King your puppett? His ignorant actions pass the trotter smell test. I clicked on the link and saw for myself. Good job destroying the school system.

As far as all that black, white, uncle tom BS, It’s tired! The white folks in this county ain’t running jack and you know it. If you have some inside knowledge and specifics spill it otherwise the people of Clayton County see right thru you. If Goree and Garrett are under your spell also we are in for another round of SACS intervention. Your so blind as to what really is going on.

By Stop Worrying

January 2, 2009 3:21 PM | Link to this

If there is one thing not to worry about in 2009 it’s accreditation. Word is, Elgart and SACS have already decided to restore it. No the board didn’t suddenly meet it’s mandates over the holidays. It’s just that yanking it has served it’s purpose. If Elgart doesn’t restore it, people will stop looking at how the board conducts business and start looking at how Elgart conducts business, a can of worms that neither Elgart or Sonny want opened up.

Rest easy, the decisions already been made, it just hasn’t been announced. They have to keep up the appearence that the board has done something to meet the mandates after all. But the mandates were written so subjectively, Elgart won’t have a problem saying they met them, regardless of what the board does. Plus word is Elgart is having too much fun watching Thompson and the board do tricks for him like his own personal circus animals.

By this time next year, no one will be talking about accreditation.

By Uncle Tom Haters Inc.

January 2, 2009 3:28 PM | Link to this

The White Folk CHOICE, that boy, Sheriff Kem did the same thing Victor did on the first day on the job.

However, you won’t see any whites crying this time—because the victims may be Black.

Now the white folks will support him—Kem says Damn them Negroes

By Here We Go Again

January 2, 2009 3:31 PM | Link to this

Here is current school boards member Jesse Goree, Mace member and Trotterite with disgraced ex school board member Noresse Haynes (who was led out the meeting because he lived in Cobb county), Mace member Janice Scott (Who lost her bid for State House Dist. 76 against Mike Glanton) and ex-school board member Linda Crummy inside the MACE headquarters. John Trotter took the picture!

http://webhosting.web.com/imagelib/sitebuilder/misc/showimage.html?linkedwidth=actual&linkpath=http://www.theteachersadvocate.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/noresew3womenjanic.jpg&target=tlxpiczcr7

Sorry Goree, Garrett and King. You guys are the official target of an entire community.

By More flunkies

January 2, 2009 3:38 PM | Link to this

Don’t forget Sid Chapman of MACE also gave money to Mary Baker’s campaign, so that’s another one to watch.

By Here We Go Again

January 2, 2009 3:42 PM | Link to this

http://www.give-em-the-boot.com/smf/index.php?topic=2310.msg24085#new

WOW!!!!

By Leonard

January 2, 2009 3:52 PM | Link to this

The person who had the nerve to compare Thompson to Obama is crazy and either on crack or up someones butt! Thompson could not even stand in the same company as Obama. This PR effort is sick and the citizens of Clayton need to make sure that Thompson gets his walking papers when the contract is up.

By Still Pro Kem

January 2, 2009 4:04 PM | Link to this

I think you people should allow the Sheriff to do his job and stop allowing the media to define how you view what is going on in our county. You said you wanted him to clean up Clayton…but now you want to recall him because he had to let some employees with questionable files and criminal histories go. I watched the news all day yesterday and the 12 o’clock segment was all positive and kudos for Kem. Then at 5 and 6, Fox 5 decided to go seek out the folks who were fired to start some drama and of course they found 2 suckers who fell for it. If you were just fired, what would you say/do? At 11 on WSB, Kem simply explained why he had to let those folks go. Based on insiders and news coverage from yesterday, all of those who were fired were handled professionally with dignity and respect. Furthermore, all newly elected sheriffs demote, promote and terminate on their first day prior to swearing in. They have to to ensure they are able to implement the plans that they campaigned on. Our sheriffs firings made the news because of what our last idiot sheriff did. Kem said on the 12 o’clock segment that all of the employees can reapply once they were up to snuff. He always used the words integrity, accountability, and honor. Again, you are comparing him to Victor because that is what the media wanted you to do because they referred to Victor in every segment. I’m glad that he is wasting no time deweeding the department. I am feeling safer already. Please stop drawing conclusions without ALL of the facts. Kem, thanks for doing what’s right instead of what’s percieved as right.

By No not again

January 2, 2009 4:05 PM | Link to this

To here we go again.

No we will not go there again. and we will not allow you and those ignorant bloggers to send us there again. Stop your lies about King, Garrett and Goree. Readers of this blog, please show up at the meetings so that you do not get false information from the haters.

By Watcher

January 2, 2009 4:06 PM | Link to this

Here is what I found from another blogging site by another blogger that seems to know the Law more than most of us on here.

Hobbs was arrested and charged with domestic violence and placed on probation, which means he was convicted. He’s was driving Victor around and also carring a gun. Victor knowingly let a subject who was violated federal law carry a weapon. Victor needs to be arrested for that.

Possession of Firearm After Conviction of Misdemeanor Crime of Domestic Violence, 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(9) As of September 30, 1996, it is illegal to possess a firearm after conviction of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence. This prohibition applies to persons convicted of such misdemeanors at any time, even if the conviction occurred prior to the new law’s effective date. A qualifying misdemeanor domestic violence crime must have as an element the use or attempted use of physical force or the threatened use of a deadly weapon. For example, a conviction for a misdemeanor violation of a protection order will not qualify, even if the violation was committed by a violent act, if the statute does not require the use or attempted use of physical force or the threatened use of a deadly weapon. The U. S. Attorney’s Office can determine which misdemeanor convictions qualify.

By Missing the point pro Kem

January 2, 2009 4:12 PM | Link to this

The point is, by doing it on the first day, after saying it would be an uneventful first day, is that he couldn’t help but draw comparisons to Walking Small.

If he doesn’t get that, and doesn’t get the role of perception in building the public trust, that’s not a good sign.

Doesn’t mean he’s Walking Small, but right now he’s Walking Controversy when he could have been Walking Tall.

By Stop lying to the people

January 2, 2009 4:22 PM | Link to this

Kem has done like his predecessor and thrown Clayton County under the bus. I do hope that we will not suffer another law suit. He went in and fired and demoted those persons he felt to be aligned with Hill. Stupid move on his part. I really thought that he would be more of a professional. Word has it that he will rehire the majority of the people that were fired by Hill. Lets keep our eyes open. Right now from where I sit he is one of those Negros put in place by the white status quo. Hopefully, he will get some _s and not let them control him. Time will reveal whether he cares about the citizens or those who backed his campaign.

By GOD

January 2, 2009 4:33 PM | Link to this

Calvin T; Give it a break you moron!

By John Stewart

January 2, 2009 5:23 PM | Link to this

To No Not Again

You stated - No we will not go there again. and we will not allow you and those ignorant bloggers to send us there again. Stop your lies about King, Garrett and Goree.

Let’s stick to FACTS!! Did you even go to the link provided that showed that King was staff attorney for Mace? Do we also have to show links back to Scotts? Do we have to go back and show ethics violations? How about we post pictures of other board members and their affiliations with Mace?

Please don’t make us go there.

The truth of the matter is Trotter comes here flipping the race baiting card pretending to be either a racist white person or a racist black person. So again I say to those board members affiliated with Mace its not going to be pretty come end of 2nd quarter. Bail now. Work as a unit on the board and get the accreditation back.

By TrotterSpotter

January 2, 2009 5:37 PM | Link to this

Stop lying to the people

You are a stupid honky TROTTER! Trotter, we will run you out of Clayton County before this year is over. Get ready! Your squinty eyed, no neck, fat face better get packing.

By Victorhater

January 2, 2009 5:43 PM | Link to this

Victor Hill needs to be in jail. He is nothing but a common criminal. He was fired from Charleston,SC police for theft. He stole money as sheriff here. He broke any law hew wanted to. He made the statement I am god in Clayton County”. His time is coming. A jail cell will be his soon. I hope they fire every thug he had working with him. Of course half this county is convicted criminals, so that won’t set good with some folks.

By HS Teacher

January 2, 2009 6:13 PM | Link to this

The person who posted that teachers love Thompson sure told a lie. He is causing more problems than he ever could solve. The sooner he leaves, the better the moral of our school system. Let’s see what happens Jan 05 at the HS.

Just watch as this BOE (which is as bad as the last) extends his contract at the Jan BOE meeting. Kiss Accreditation good bye because that does not meet the requirements.

Do we really have a functioning BOE when we have all those Trotter people again?

I am also a taxpayer and voter, and am very disappointed in what is going on in the school system.

The comment about seeing young men all dressed in the same color and all that posting about gangs. That could be most any teacher HS classroom. Look for your self if you don’t believe it.
We had around 58,000 students at the end of 2007-2008 school year and have really dropped.

By Jack Daniels

January 2, 2009 6:25 PM | Link to this

I suggest to do an alcohol breathalyzer on BOE members prior to any public or executive BOE meeting.

Two members would certainly be arrested weekly for public intoxication.

Looks like they were elected to reflect the values of their constituents!

By Victorhater

January 2, 2009 6:51 PM | Link to this

Did you see the inmates celebrating when Victor was gone? They are treated with respect now. Victor treated them like subhumans. VICTOR HILL SHOULD BE SENT TO JAIL He is a common thug who cost this county millions. Sure he even fooled some of the old folks by running out the w*******, and the strip club blockade. That was his style. Get them on his side, then throw them under the bus. Now where are all the missing guns, and county property? VICTOR KNOWS Prosecute his azz!

By Red Neck Willie

January 2, 2009 6:51 PM | Link to this

* There is no sure thing as a NINE MANDATES* it’s a do what I tell you—Negroes to do. Mark Elgart and Clayton Rich Whites Fabricated a NINE MANDATES scheme to Hoodwink, Bamboozle and mislead you Negroes into thinking you were worse off and worse governed than the rest of this State, which is Last in the NATION in education in the first place.

To get your accreditation back you MUST allow/vote more whites on the school board—DONE. Now, you Blacks MUST get RID of Dr. Thompson and Hire a “White Man. Then and only, then will you receive accreditation back. Where in the hell do you **Negroes think you live— this is Georgia in the Dirty South have we ever gave you Negroes anything.

Of course, this accreditation issue is about White Folk & Money

By **Georgia Repubilcian Stronghold**

January 2, 2009 7:01 PM | Link to this

The White Folk CHOICE, that boy, Sheriff Kem did the same thing Victor did on the first day on the job.

However, you won’t see any whites crying this time—because the victims may be Black.

Now the white folks will support him—Kem says Damn them Negroes

By LowLeroy

January 2, 2009 7:04 PM | Link to this

Don’t listen to that honky Trotta. all he want is your money. He like play like he got a union! Its a bizness. Tats all! make money fo him! No good honky! MACE be a sham!

By MARTINLUTHERKING FROM EAST ATL

January 5, 2009 11:15 AM | Link to this

YOU DUMBA$$ BLACK FOLKS IN CLAYTON COUNTY GOT THE MAN OUT OF OFFICE WHO WAS TRYING TO CLEAN UP THE COUNTY IN VICTOR HILL AND RE-ELECTED CUT THROAT ELGIN BELL THATS WHY HE SHOT HIS SELF,THE LIGHT SKIN BLACK MAN COME IN AND DO THE SAME THING THAT VICTOR HILL DID AND NOTHING WAS SAID.

IM FROM THE SIDE THAT GAVE YALL MARTINLUTHERKING AND IM GLAD THAT ALL THAT NO RESPECT FOR BLACK LIFE AND TRASH KIDS NOT IN SCHOOL LANDSCAPING IS NASTY AND TRASHY,GET YOUR $HIT TOGETHER CLAY-CO AS YOU SAY, GLAD THAT YOU ARE NOT APART OF THE ATL CLAY-CO.