Date: Sun, 3 May 2009 22:11:52 -0700
From: Wallace Kaufman
Subject: citizen power
Maybe I should have sent this post from Hugh Moore Liss, given how many people on the Chat List took seriously a post from Anna Lyst. Among the most disturbing and humorless responses I read something reminiscent of the old segregationist days in Chatham that I remember well. The sentence was: “As responsible citizens, we don?t have to allow anything to happen to our county that we don?t like.”
That sounds like something the county’s Ku Klux Klanners used to say about hippies (meaning anyone with long hair) moving in and black people running for office and integrating the schools.
Have people such as this brought the county full circle?