Truth, Justice, and the American Way.
Posted on 08/25/2016 4:50:46 PM PDT by Coronal
Midland City Mayor Patsy Capshaw Skipper said she hasn’t been able to use her Facebook account for several weeks and did not post a racially charged comment about the woman who won Tuesday night’s mayoral election.
A screenshot of Skipper’s Facebook page, which was not viewable by those not on her friend’s list, showed a short exchange from Skipper’s account and another person. When asked about the results of the election, the reply on Skipper’s Facebook account included the racially charged comment.
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Truth, Justice, and the American Way.
I live five minutes from Midland City - I cannot believe that this little tiny Podunk town made it on Free Republic and I have never heard of this lady.
She must’ve done a lousy job in the estimation of White voters to have lost, because the demographics in Midland City are 70% White and just 23% Black. Black voters weren’t enough to elect a Black Mayor.
And ANOTHER reason to not mess with FB....
AND she was ‘outed’ by a ‘friend’..
Sure glad she chose that option - OR was it leaked by FB hierarchy?
Maybe it was the Russians - is she a Lib? either one?
When was the internet going to be taken over by foreign entities, again? It's started!
Skipper finished second in a three-way race for mayor. In unofficial results, JoAnn Bennett Grimsley won with 233 votes, Skipper received 148 votes and Lamar Spence received 59 votes.
Grimsley worked for 27 years as the town’s assistant city clerk, water clerk and court magistrate. Skipper’s husband, Virgil, decided not to reappoint Grimsley back to her position in 2012.
Grimsley was elected Midland City’s first African-American mayor in Tuesday’s election.
When asked about how she felt about Grimsley being elected mayor, Patsy Skipper said “I hope she does a great job for the city and I am very happy for her.”
Arlissa Minniefield, the town clerk and magistrate for the Town of Newton, who used to serve as magistrate in Midland City, shared the Facebook post and called for Skipper’s immediate resignation.
“It’s appalling,” Minniefield said Thursday when contacted by the Eagle. “As a former employee there, to know that you worked under people that had those kinds of feelings is very disheartening”
If the above cited quote is the 'offending speech', WE have had it as a nation.
Dothan! That's the wee-wee stop on the four-hour drive between Fort Benning and the beaches of Panama City, Florida.
Really.
My parents are/were from Wicksburg.
I have relatives whose graves were moved years ago for an expansion of Fort Rucker.
I have relatives who are buried at a graveyard on Eglin AFB. I recall he was born in 1791. The Air Force keeps the graveyard up as I recently saw a photo of the grave site.
Unfortunately you are required to be accompanied by two officers if you visit.
The claim was that the outgoing Mayor, when asked about the outcome of the race, she stated, “The nigger won.” If she did say that, it’s pretty classless.
Eglin is the largest (land area) military base in the world.
It was there that they did the first explosive test on the 30,000 pound (MOAB) bomb. They say, only those involved in the testing heard it. That's how big it is. On the Florida map, it looks like a county in size.
A few thoughts:
The incoming (black) mayor won over 50% of the vote in a three way race. In a town that is 70% white. Conversely the outgoing mayor was beat by long serving employee her husband fired.
Presumably, the voters in this fairly small town knew both these women. My take that they had had enough of this classless b-—h and her reaction to the loss reinforced the point.
There is nothing like small town drama.
Thanks..
I eventually did see that when I was looking up Ms Minnifield to confirm my ‘suspicion’(apparently I am on the right track).
Makes her story seem all the more correct - but it is hard to tell anymore..
That is like these idiots committing a crime and not only making a movie of it but broadcasting it to the world. Watch some slick lawyers start claiming WE had no right to see the tape because it wasn’t addressed to us....Or some such idiocy.
Sounds as good a theory as any.
Maybe my brain is slow tonight, but I looked at the link & could not find the offensive comment.
Do you remember where the graveyard was and when it was relocated?
No. I heard this from my parents who have both passed years ago.
They would speak of Sweetwater Grave yard and relatives buried but I don't know if that was it.
I was a Game Warden and road MP on Fort Rucker back in the early '70's, when it was a closed post and all the (then) cemeteries were on the Exclusive Federal Jurisdiction portion of the post.
I became quite fascinated with the history of the post and always searched out more info about some of the families that had been misplaced in the early '40's.
Many people think that the cemeteries were simply abandoned, but that wasn't the case.
The Army went to great lengths to relocate them.
You can go here: http://www.southeastsun.com/daleville/article_b93ddb94-f106-11e5-90d5-9bf8b6423298.html and perhaps you may recognize some of the family names.
It also links to another story with names that you may recognize.
I never heard of a Sweetwater Grave yard...however there was a church close to the impact area with a Baptismal pool that was referred to as "Sweet Water".
There was some discussion back in the '70's as to whether or not it was a black church.
Your post caught my attention because of my fascination with the subject...it continues to this day, although I've not been stationed on Fort Rucker since 1979.
I've sent an email to my sister on this subject, she is the family historian and genealogist. I did the Family DNA, we're R1b's, V's and U5a's.
I'll let you know something more if I learn any more. I didn't recognize any family names from that list.
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