Posted on 03/29/2011 4:47:17 PM PDT by mandaladon
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports:
The Georgia Legislative Black Caucus filed a lawsuit Monday against the state of Georgia seeking to dissolve the city charters of Dunwoody, Sandy Springs, Johns Creek, Milton and Chattahoochee Hills. Further, the lawmakers, joined by civil rights leader the Rev. Joseph Lowery, aim to dash any hopes of a Milton County. The lawsuit, filed in a North Georgia U.S. District Court Monday, claims that the state circumvented the normal legislative process and set aside its own criteria when creating the “super-majority white ” cities within Fulton and DeKalb counties. The result, it argues, is to dilute minority votes in those areas, violating the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution….
Lead attorney Jerome Lee, of Taylor Lee & Associates, said the suit is novel.
“The Voting Rights Act forbids a state from doing anything that affects the voting rights of minorities, except with a permissible purpose,” he said, citing the redistricting that takes place when the census documents population shifts. “In this case, it’s different because the state actually went outside the normal redistricting process and created these cities that have no meaningful state purpose.” According to the 2010 census, Fulton County is 44.5 percent white and 44.1 percent black. About 54 percent of DeKalb County residents are black, and 33.3 percent are white.
Sandy Springs, created in 2005, is 65 percent white and 20 percent black. Milton, formed a year later, is 76.6 percent white and 9 percent black. Johns Creek, also formed that year, is 63.5 percent white and 9.2 percent black. Chattahoochee Hills, formed in 2007, is 68.6 percent white and 28 percent black, while Dunwoody, created in 2008, is 69.8 percent white and 12.6 percent black.
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“...I guess we have to have a certain percentage of blacks in each city. “
So whites will be tapped to pay to move enough to make a super majority of blacks. They will, in turn, vote to force the whites out leaving their homes for even more blacks. Doncha jus’ love it?
Balderdash, won’t go anywhere.
Let's start with Detroit, Baltimore, New Orleans and Atlanta.
Hey, what's good for the goose is good for the gander
The city in which I spent 40 years had less than 2% blacks.
A bastion of limousine liberals,of course.
Dear Atlanta Politicians,
Get Bent.
Hoping you are well,
Citizens of Georgia
Will the complaining ever stop?
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Dunwoody is my hometown. I miss it.
I recently learned an old girl friend lived in “Johns Creek”, Georgia. I thought I knew GA pretty well but had never heard of it.
I am guessing it is one of those North Atlanta suburbs.
Move all the blacks in these counties to East St. Louis. Then they will no longer be in the minority.
It’s Duluth’s neighbor to the east of the Chatahoochee river. When I joined the forum all those years ago I did live in Marietta, now Duluth. It seems were now majority Korean.
Do you really want Detroit?
Thank you again Lyndon Johnson - you destroyed our Country!
No thanks. Who wants those places?
Amen!
We’re still paying off LBJ’s debts.
John’s Creek used to be part of Alpharetta.
Just what the heck is wrong with these nitwit, dimwit racist fools? You would think they would win a Darwin award along the way given their judgement is so bad. Losers.
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