Posted on 11/01/2007 5:07:35 PM PDT by a real Sheila
Some Macon City Council members are scolding one of their colleagues for passing along to the administration a constituent's suggestion they say is racially insensitive.
Tuesday morning, a Macon man e-mailed Councilwoman Nancy White in response to Mayor Jack Ellis' pledge to spend "whatever it costs" to refurbish the City Auditorium in advance of Oprah Winfrey's Nov. 17 visit. The resident asked the city to use existing contracts to get inmates from Central State Prison to do the work, because he said it would be cheaper for taxpayers.
"A phone call from Jack the mayor to the Commissioner of Corrections, a black retired army general and I'm sure the city could get all the manpower with security to paint the auditorium," the man wrote to White. "Whether at night or during the day, inmates are available to work on public property, feed them some chicken, catfish, coke and biscuits and they'll be happy."
White forwarded the e-mail to the city's customer service coordinator asking that it be sent to relevant department heads. The customer service coordinator, Denise Mercer, complied. Then Mercer sent the e-mail to the City Council office, where it was distributed to the entire council. A few members lambasted
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Dang, sign me up for some chicken, catfish, coke and biscuits any time.
What??? No watermelon????
No wonder black folks were upset at the suggestion.
Pretty regular southern fare...and I'm sure they'd be happy to get it - heck, you could get plenty of plain regular folk of any color down for a good feed in return for some work..
Good Grief - SOME one's gonna have to publish a list of words, phrases we can no longer utter!
'Seems to me it's mostly a case of, like beauty and the eye of the beholder, "an offense isn't an offense until someone who's oversensitive thinks it is." - or, "Anything said by a white republican is automatically offensive..."
This has got to stop...
Macon, a city I know well, is a cesspool thanks to the ignorant idiots that vote for anyone as long as they “stick to the man” and “speak truth to power.”
The so called mayor is an ass. He, if you recall, recently became a mooslimb and declared some day Hugo Chavez day. All this instead of actually doing some work like fixing the streets or improving the city’s prospects.
I have lived there and Macon has always been a weird little town, but this mayor and the current bunch of socialist should spell the end of anything decent in that town. My parent’s taxes are as high if not higher than mine here in one of the nicest parts of Atlanta.
Not sure I see the problem.
If he had listed Watermelon and Grape Soda he would deserve to be fired.
Imagine going through life worried that someone is going to offer you “chicken, catfish, coke and biscuits”.
That would just make a person weary.
Heck, all this article did was to make me hungry...Except I'd substitute a Pepsi for the Coke (actually I'd go with my non-HFC cola, but I digress...).
Al Fecal Sharpton says it OK.
What! No Moon Pies? That’s just wrong...
Some people are so thin skinned it’s a wonder that their organs don’t fall out.
After institutional prison food? You bet!
Imagine that every meal you ate for the last (mumble mumble) years came out of your high school cafeteria.
Now imagine they won't let you have salt, pepper, ketchup, mustard, butter, or even forks...
That would require RC Cola, not Coke...
I live in Houston County and I am LMAO!!!! What about the white inmates??? Can’t they love chicken and catfish too?????
Macon is more than just a weird little town, or shall i say less than a weird little town. It’s pretentious and dirty and Ellis has drug it even further down than it was.
This is too funny, you can’t even offer inmates chicken and catfish, because it’s not politically correct!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
There is NOTHING black about catfish, chicken, biscuits, and coke.
Right. Peanuts with Coke
“Pretty regular southern fare...”
I ate it all the time in the little deli that was in the basement of our office building when I worked in Jackson, MS. Catfish every Friday. The fried chicken and catfish was so good, I would take lunch early on those days to get it fresh out of the fryer.
Funny how the guy’s statement makes me think of that but makes someone else think of racism. Weird.
My favorite comment below the article:
Lets not worry about unemployed black men standing on every corner or sitting on every porch, lets not worry about unwed black teenage mothers, AIDS, Drugs, crime in the city, welfare, black on black crime. No,lets worry about catfish and chicken and coke. You people are so stupid.
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