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2018-06-25 Home Front: Culture Wars

CNN Celebrates South Fulton, Georgia's South African style governance.

South Fulton, Georgia (CNN) When LaDawn "LBJ" Jones walked into a meeting at work a couple of months ago, she was hit with a serious case of "black girl magic."

Jones, the city solicitor in South Fulton, Georgia, was meeting for the first time with the city's municipal court staff. As she entered the room, she realized she was looking at something she'd never before seen in her legal career. Everyone in the room looked like her.

"I walked into a very small conference room, and I noticed that it was all black women," Jones told CNN. "I kind of got that feeling of 'this is nice -- this is exciting.'"

South Fulton, an Atlanta suburb and one of Georgia's newest cities, has the distinction of being perhaps the first city in the nation to have its criminal justice system led entirely by black women:

Posted by Besoeker 2018-06-25 07:26|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ] Top

#1 Where's the diversity?

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2018-06-25 07:52|| 2018-06-25 07:52|| Front Page Top

#2 "Diversity" is not the goal, it never has been.

Posted by Besoeker 2018-06-25 08:04|| 2018-06-25 08:04|| Front Page Top

#3 South Fulton, Georgia municipality bankruptcy in?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-06-25 08:39|| 2018-06-25 08:39|| Front Page Top

#4 "I kind of got that feeling of 'this is nice -- this is exciting."

In other words, I found my roots or tribe.

Posted by JohnQC 2018-06-25 10:20|| 2018-06-25 10:20|| Front Page Top

#5 Let's start the bankruptcy countdown.

And oh by the way, businesses leaving South Fulton because of crazy crap legal decisions of the SJW variety.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2018-06-25 10:52|| 2018-06-25 10:52|| Front Page Top

#6 When they run it into the ground it will still be "whitey's fault..."

Posted by M. Murcek 2018-06-25 11:38|| 2018-06-25 11:38|| Front Page Top

#7 it will still be "whitey's fault..."

"But we're not ray-cist"

Posted by Mullah Richard 2018-06-25 12:22|| 2018-06-25 12:22|| Front Page Top

#8 Everyone in the room looked like her.

Yep - fat and bogus looking!

Posted by Raj 2018-06-25 14:28|| 2018-06-25 14:28|| Front Page Top

#9 Yep - fat and bogus looking!
Posted by Raj

No smile and a fractional millisecond away from an attitude.

Posted by Besoeker 2018-06-25 14:35|| 2018-06-25 14:35|| Front Page Top

#10 being perhaps the first city in the nation to have its criminal justice system led entirely by black women

Move over Baltimore

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-06-25 14:39|| 2018-06-25 14:39|| Front Page Top

#11 the mayor is a dude who wants the place run like a business (he actually said like Chick Fil A in an interview.

population about 90% black

median household income is about $50k

Posted by lord garth 2018-06-25 16:32|| 2018-06-25 16:32|| Front Page Top

#12 No smile and a fractional millisecond away from an attitude.

On about 10% of my calls to the IRS, I can tell right away if the phone rep sounds like one of these fat broads (pidgin English, simmering attitude, etc.). I just hang up on them and call back to get someone I can work with.

Posted by Raj 2018-06-25 17:05|| 2018-06-25 17:05|| Front Page Top

#13 South African style governance

So third world.

Posted by Jeasing Jeaque5937 2018-06-25 19:56|| 2018-06-25 19:56|| Front Page Top

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