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Black GA Legislators Sue to Dissolve ‘Super-Majority White Cities’
The Blaze ^ | 29 Mar 2011 | Emily Esfahani Smith

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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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Extended News; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: 14thamendment; 15thamendment; blackkk; chattahoocheehills; dekalbcounty; dictatorship; discrimination; dunwoody; fifteenthamendment; fourteenthamendment; fultoncounty; ga; georgia; jeromelee; johnscreek; josephlowery; kenyanbornmuzzie; miltoncounty; obamaspeople; sandysprings; voterid; votingrightsact
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To: mandaladon

This type of absolute crap lawsuit is a wonderful reason to consider NOT gathering ethnicity data during a census.

These cities broke off from Atlanta because they were paying a heavy burden for downtown/midtown services that they did not receive.

They had no meaningful representation in the Fulton County / Atlanta governments because they were severely outnumbered by other voting blocks. The end result was every time someone needed more money, they increased property taxes, which disproportionately affected the North end.

Gawd. It makes my blood pressure skyrocket. Dude just wants the coffers filled with other people’s money again. I don’t even live in any part of Atlanta affected by these things...


21 posted on 03/29/2011 5:54:34 PM PDT by laxcoach (Government is greedy. Taxpayers who want their own money are not greedy.)
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To: mandaladon

Another thing, y’all should see the beautiful schools popping up every ten feet in these new municipalities. They pop up like mushrooms, with incredible facilities, stadiums, the works.

All that property tax data used to end up going to the people inside the perimeter.


22 posted on 03/29/2011 5:57:09 PM PDT by laxcoach (Government is greedy. Taxpayers who want their own money are not greedy.)
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To: Mom MD; Jonty30
No thanks. Who wants those places?

I just want to dissolve them and save tax payers a lot of money. No city government, employees, or "services" means no need for taxes.

The leeches will have to learn to fend for themselves.

23 posted on 03/29/2011 5:57:34 PM PDT by rllngrk33 (0bama, proof we can no longer underestimate the stupidity of the voters.)
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To: Semperfiwife

Wow, Atlanta just keeps growing. You would have to torture me to fight all that traffic.

Now I would not mind living in some of the small towns maybe fifty miles from Atlanta.


24 posted on 03/29/2011 6:04:21 PM PDT by yarddog
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To: mandaladon
The Georgia Legislative Black Caucus

Is there a Georgia Legislative White Caucus?

25 posted on 03/29/2011 6:22:17 PM PDT by NoLibZone (Impeach Obama & try him for treason / Homosexuals reject diversity / Unions finally caught for theft)
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To: mandaladon
Blacks have their own cities.
26 posted on 03/29/2011 6:25:16 PM PDT by NoLibZone (Impeach Obama & try him for treason / Homosexuals reject diversity / Unions finally caught for theft)
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To: mandaladon

So only those unincorporated areas that have black majorities can hope to be incorporated into a city? What a bunch of idiots (not to mention racists).

Oh, and the same people whining about blacks losing political clout in Fulton County (because blacks are moving away from Atlanta and into the suburbs to the east, south and west, not because of any racial animus or illegal line-drawing, but don’t confuse them with the facts) then turn around and oppose the creation of a heavily white Milton County (actually, its reorganization—the county existed a century ago before it was absorbed by Fulton County), when excising Milton County from Fulton County would allow Fulton County to have a black majority. May I suppose that DeKalb County Congressman Hank Johnson, the guy who was afraid that the island of Guam would literally tip over and capsize if too many people moved into the north part of the island?


27 posted on 03/29/2011 6:47:06 PM PDT by AuH2ORepublican (If a politician won't protect innocent babies, what makes you think that he'll protect your rights?)
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To: mandaladon

The black commie racists think they have special protection because a black commie racist is infesting the Whitehouse.

Bring it on, mau-maus.


28 posted on 03/29/2011 7:24:23 PM PDT by sergeantdave (The democrat party is a seditious organization and must be outlawed)
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To: Jacquerie

“Will the complaining ever stop?”

Nope, that’s where they get their money and power. They are professional grievance pushers.


29 posted on 03/29/2011 10:44:14 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX
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To: Pining_4_TX

My county is subject to Voting Rights Act restrictions.

I call it Reconstruction II.


30 posted on 03/30/2011 3:13:18 AM PDT by Jacquerie
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To: Popman

Atlanta? Yes. . but they won’t.


31 posted on 03/30/2011 4:24:37 AM PDT by Twinkie (WHERE'S ALL OF OBAMA'S RECORDS?)
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To: mandaladon
The Georgia Legislative Black Caucus

The 'super-majority black' caucus can go FT!

32 posted on 03/30/2011 4:29:56 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: mandaladon

Make no mistake this is about North Fulton going back to Milton County. The residents of Fulton County pay about 80% of the revenues collected by the county. The folks in South Fulton (College Park, East Point, South Atlanta...) will have to pick up the big bills racked up by the county commission.


33 posted on 03/30/2011 4:34:57 AM PDT by numberonepal (Yes We Cain! Cain is able.)
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