Well. A reason to give thanks. To me, the video of Ahmaud Arbery being chased down by three white men in Georgia was worse than the murder of George Floyd, as terrible as that was. What happened to Ahmaud Arbery was the kind of thing you expected to see in the state of Georgia in 1950, not 2020.
YES! Growing up in Lower Alabama, I shared your low expectations AND high hopes, given the sordid history. What a relief! AND that the DA is being held accountable is astounding. There is hope, after all, when there is video...
As we saw when Stacey Abrams started the movement and Pres Biden carried the state and Senators Warnock and Ossoff were elected, the face of Georgia changes. The people of Georgia are not having the nonsense and the tyranny anymore.
And we win.
Thank you TC for bringing the news hot off the griddle. Sizzling!
I worked a contract job in Brunswick, GA. for the Glynn County Schools, back in the '90s. I was very impressed with the gentle enlightenment of the folks I met there. Those with whom I had contact, were mostly white, of course, but there were a few blacks as well, who, seemed to me to be treated with fairness and respect. Of course, I was (and still am) white, so I may have been oblivious to a darker undercurrent, but I don't think so. It was a Christian community in the best sense of the term. They all went to church and Sunday school, and many also, I believe, attended Bible study on Wednesday night. They discussed the meaning of what they had learned in the odd moments where it would seem natural to discuss sports scores, or the odd social event. It was a Mayberry RFD kind of place. As with any community, I suppose there must be an unenlightened element, but given my experience there, it doesn't surprise me that the good folks of Glynn County would not hesitate to convict those three villains for their unspeakable actions.
Yes, a great reason to give thanks!! And we need this day to focus on gratitude. Thank you, TC, for your writing, your honesty, your truth telling, your sense of history and for sharing your most interesting life experiences.
I was surprised by the verdict. It was the right decision. Having spent 15 years living in Georgia, the residents of that state often get politics and religion very, very wrong. Thanks for getting it right this one time. I hope that bodes well for the future.
I had almost given up hope. The Rittenhorsea$$ debacle left me sick. Hallelujah that the DA is going down too! Couldn't happen to a more deserving and despicable group of racists.
Great news!! And I read it here first. Thank you TC for this current story and all your other history posts.
Also a huge THANK YOU to Substack. I know very little abought it other than the unfiltered news and commentary together with footnotes and sources by way of links have made my information journey a much more efficient, interesting and satisfying pursuit. Is this the future of news?
This is such great news. This article describes the difference between malice murder and felony murder, but I still don't know what the consequences for being found guilty of felony murder are? https://www.11alive.com/article/news/crime/ahmaud-arbery/malice-murder-felony-murder-difference-ahmaud-arbery-death-trial/85-d13db692-cff9-4b4d-be73-5eba5ae22054
And does anyone see the irony of a guilty verdict coming from a southern state and a not-guilty verdict coming from a northern state?
YES! Growing up in Lower Alabama, I shared your low expectations AND high hopes, given the sordid history. What a relief! AND that the DA is being held accountable is astounding. There is hope, after all, when there is video...
“Georgia on my mind….”
As we saw when Stacey Abrams started the movement and Pres Biden carried the state and Senators Warnock and Ossoff were elected, the face of Georgia changes. The people of Georgia are not having the nonsense and the tyranny anymore.
And we win.
Thank you TC for bringing the news hot off the griddle. Sizzling!
I worked a contract job in Brunswick, GA. for the Glynn County Schools, back in the '90s. I was very impressed with the gentle enlightenment of the folks I met there. Those with whom I had contact, were mostly white, of course, but there were a few blacks as well, who, seemed to me to be treated with fairness and respect. Of course, I was (and still am) white, so I may have been oblivious to a darker undercurrent, but I don't think so. It was a Christian community in the best sense of the term. They all went to church and Sunday school, and many also, I believe, attended Bible study on Wednesday night. They discussed the meaning of what they had learned in the odd moments where it would seem natural to discuss sports scores, or the odd social event. It was a Mayberry RFD kind of place. As with any community, I suppose there must be an unenlightened element, but given my experience there, it doesn't surprise me that the good folks of Glynn County would not hesitate to convict those three villains for their unspeakable actions.
That's nice to know, Pete.
Yes, a great reason to give thanks!! And we need this day to focus on gratitude. Thank you, TC, for your writing, your honesty, your truth telling, your sense of history and for sharing your most interesting life experiences.
I was surprised by the verdict. It was the right decision. Having spent 15 years living in Georgia, the residents of that state often get politics and religion very, very wrong. Thanks for getting it right this one time. I hope that bodes well for the future.
'Nuff said and said very well. Thanksgiving indeed.
I had almost given up hope. The Rittenhorsea$$ debacle left me sick. Hallelujah that the DA is going down too! Couldn't happen to a more deserving and despicable group of racists.
Be nice if a certain Wisconsin judge would go down too
Great news!! And I read it here first. Thank you TC for this current story and all your other history posts.
Also a huge THANK YOU to Substack. I know very little abought it other than the unfiltered news and commentary together with footnotes and sources by way of links have made my information journey a much more efficient, interesting and satisfying pursuit. Is this the future of news?
My Substack news subscriptions are very satisfying sources of information and discussion opportunities.
It’s one future.