An Honest Look at DeKalb County: America's Second Best County for Black People...

st LEquipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science. ~Edwin Powell Hubble, The Nature of Science, 1954

A visualization of the Black Hole in the Black Mecca

Watching the steady implosion of the Black Mecca offers a glimpse of what will soon transpire across the entire nation. Property value is plummeting in  metro Atlanta after years of Black migration from other parts of the nation to the promised land of public jobs and preferential contract work with the city of Atlanta, Fulton County, and Fortune 100 companies with offices (and aggressive affirmative action hiring programs) there.

 As the metro Atlanta counties become "Blacker" (i.e., greater percentage of Blacks than other racial groups), the tax-base shrinks. Clayton County offers the best glimpse of what happens to a once thriving county when the Blacks take over.

DeKalb County is the Prince Georges County of metro Atlanta for Blacks (54 percent Black and 33 percent white), considered by many to be the best place in the Black Mecca to call home (if you are Black -- just ask former CEO of DeKalb County Vernon Jones, who tried to remake the city government in a Black image). Look at this quote from USA Today in 2001, where The Blacks talk about the glory of segregated communities:

"Segregation doesn't necessarily speak to bias and discrimination in all cases," says William Boone, political science professor at Clark Atlanta University. "Sometimes, people make a rational choice."


Choice is what created many black suburban enclaves around Atlanta. Some of them are among the most affluent black neighborhoods in the country. In DeKalb County, subdivisions of million-dollar homes are being developed by blacks for blacks.


"People say in code when they come, 'I want to go where people look like me,' " says Pamela Holmes, a real estate agent and chief of staff for DeKalb County's chief executive. "In Atlanta, they can get a $200,000 or $300,000 home or million-dollar home and still be with people who look like them. And that's an asset."


Holmes and her husband, Benjamin, live in the suburbs. Their subdivision in Stone Mountain, which has 175 homes, was built in 1994. They were the third black family to move in. "We had no idea which way it would go," she says. The subdivision is now 85% black, 10% Hispanic and 5% Asian. The Holmes' neighbors are athletes, doctors, teachers and executives.


Boone, who is black, also lives in a predominantly black suburb. He says that as blacks gain financial and political clout, the need to integrate decreases. In the past, blacks had to move to white neighborhoods to find good homes, good schools, low crime and better public services, he says.


Now, blacks are more influential and can get the same types of services in black neighborhoods. "We have to rethink this whole question of who wants integration and why we want integration," Boone says.

If it's such a great place to live (and a wonderful, affluent place for Black people), why is there such a huge budget deficit for the DeKalb school system. In particular, one that is 71 percent Black - K-12 - and where nearly 64% of the students are eligible for free or reduced lunches.

DeKalb County saw 18,000 of its residents foreclosed upon in 2010, the third-highest number in Georgia, which contributed to the county seeing a drop in tax digest in early May of this year.

Now, reports CBS Atlanta, the situation is getting dire for what is touted as one of the best counties in all of America for Black people:

The DeKalb County School system faces a $73 million shortfall for the upcoming school year, and they said much that deficit can be blamed on falling property values in the county.  About 40 percent of the school district's revenue comes from property tax revenues, according to school district spokesman Walter Woods.

Those property values fell 6 percent last year, he said, when the district was only expecting them to fall 4 percent.

"You've seen this around the metro area," Woods said. "You've seen other metro counties face this - Gwinnett, Cobb, Fulton, Atlanta Public Schools all face declining property values. That's our chief source of income."

 No one wants to mention the correlation between race and property value (in many cases - such as Fayette and Forsyth County - property value is tied to K-12 school system performance, which is directly tied to the race of the students enrolled), so it falls on SBPDL to point out that the halcyon days of unlimited growth in the Black Mecca are done.

DeKalb County test scores (on the CRCT Test) indicate that those affluent Black parents didn't exactly earn their jobs on merit:

The DeKalb County School System is one of the lowest performing systems in metro Atlanta in several subjects and other school systems are improving faster than DeKalb’s according to 2011 CRCT results.

When compared with other systems such as Atlanta Public Schools, Clayton County Public Schools and Fulton County Schools, DeKalb, although making slight improvements, is still improving more slowly than the systems surrounding it.

 It's time to call metro Atlanta for what it is: the Black Hole of America.

Fernbank Science Center in Actual Black-Run DeKalb County: A relic of white people

Already, graduation rates are abysmal in a school system that is nearly 3/4ths Black. Black scores on the NAEP tests were... bad, when compared to the standard set by white students (a dwindling percentage of all school systems in America; whose going to be able to do anything - and pay taxes - in this future America?).

The USA Today in May 2012 reported that American test scores on the science portion of the NAEP are slumping (does no one dare point out the correlation to race and the fact that more and more of American K-12 students are non-white?), which could easily have been foretold from the a simple data set available in DeKalb County: the decline of Fernbank Science Center.

The Atlanta Journal Constitution reports:

In 1967, the Fernbank Science Center opened with the goal of building science literacy through exhibits, instruction and other experiences. Visitors can view a range of taxidermy including birds and animals native to Georgia. Pythons and boa constrictors slither in display cases. Honeybees buzz around a hive. Part of the Apollo 6 space shuttle sits just across from a pictorial display of the Tuskegee Airmen. The forest serves as a living laboratory for visitors to examine flora and fauna, while the observatory is reported to have the largest telescope in the southeast. Experts in fields ranging from biology to astronomy teach DeKalb school children everything from sex education to space missions.

As one of 13 centers built in a national pilot program, the Fernbank Science Center is the only one that still exists, said a Science Center spokesperson.  Other than a nominal fee for the planetarium, entry to Fernbank Science Center is free. At its height, the center reportedly hosted more than 800,000 visitors per year. Recent estimates are closer to 160,000. Staffing has been dramatically reduced and the $4.7 million in funding is the same as it was in 2004.

Why does this matter? Science is obviously of the Stuff that Black People Don't Like, so why not cut this museum out of DeKalb's budget?:

Each year, about 160,000 people, many of them schoolchildren, learn about frogs, snakes, bugs and other animals and plants during visits to Fernbank Science Center. 

The decades-old institution, owned and operated by the DeKalb County public school district, has offered a hands-on education to students and other visitors from across metro Atlanta and elsewhere. However, it might close, under a recommendation Thursday by the school board’s budget committee. Fernbank Science Center, which includes a planetarium, is near the Fernbank Museum of Natural History, which is operated by a separate nonprofit. 

At an annual cost of $4.7 million, the building and its 56 full-time employees now are looking like a luxury to school officials. They are struggling with a $73 million deficit, and may have to cut teachers and school days to balance the budget.

 No, Mr. Hubble, it's only the white man that dares explore the universe. Within 40 years of assuming political power in the city of Atlanta, and creating this most radical affirmative action programs and minority contracting regulations in America (thereby inviting all Black professionals to flock to the metro area as part of the Black Gold Rush), Black people are on the verge of crippling an entire region.

DeKalb County, on paper one of the top counties for Black people in America. But when you actually try and read that paper, it crumbles like sand in your hand.

Just like Prince Georges County.

Detroit and Kool-Aid: What Could Go Wrong?

We already know that Stuff Black People Don't Like includes Unprepared Kool-Aid (#48). Now, in 90 percent Black Detroit, two Black friends have answered that burning question of "who makes a better glass of Kool-Aid" by reaching for their guns in the first documented case of a 'Kool-Aid Standoff'.

90 percent Black Detroit and Kool-Aid: What could go wrong?

From Andrea Isom at MyFoxDetroit:

DETROIT (WJBK) - Witnesses say two men in the Brightmoor neighborhood were so passionate about the way they make Kool-Aid, they started arguing with each other over who does it better.


Sadly, that fight took a horrifying turn when they both pulled out guns and started firing at each other. Again, this was over Kool-Aid.


They didn't hit each other, but two innocent bystanders suffered gunshot wounds in the soft drink shooting. Police call it utterly ridiculous, but they've seen worse. Fox 2's Andrea Isom has the story.

And people wonder why the book was called Escape from Detroit:The Collapse of America's Black Metropolis. This never happens to white kids in cities controlled by Democrat mayors (and that are majority white).

This is all a dream, isn't it? A comedian or script writer trying to come up with the most perverse Black stereotypes to create a joke or scene in an absurd film couldn't conjure up a story like the one Andrea Isom broke for MyFoxDetroit.

90 percent Black Detroit... they shouldn't put sterilants in the water there (as Detroit News writer Nolan Finley suggested); the Water Authority should pump packages of Kool-Aid into the water supply.

Maybe then Black people would stop killing one another and making Detroit the most violent and unsafe city in America.

Oh yeah!

Zebra 2.0: 365 Days of Terror in Barack Obama's America

What can be said of the events that were chronicled last year at SBPDL, which clearly illustrate more than just random occurrences (as Lawrence Auster notes).

The first pick for the SBPDL Book Club

Black Pack Attack violence against primarily white people (most of the time individual whites, though increasingly Asians are being targeted as well); a media refusing to acknowledge anything; a political class dedicated to enacting laws that protect those who partake in Black Pack Attacks and promote those who cover for Organized Blackness in every level of society (all three branches of government, academic, military, corporate, and both private and public sectors jobs).

The book Zebra: The True Account Of The 179 Days Of Terror In San Francisco is what one must read to understand why we live in this society, for the domestic horror that is unfolding across the nation was confined to San Francisco during 1973 and 1974. The lessons: completely forgotten.

Since Barack Obama was inaugurated as the first Black President of the United States (POTUS), the belief "that this is a Black world!" has taken hold. It would difficult to argue against the existence of Death Angels still operating in the United States, when you consider that virtually no white-on-Black attacks are occurring in America.

Wait, CNN did find one to harp on last year.

Let's do something different. Pick up a copy of Zebra: The True Account Of The 179 Days Of Terror In San Francisco. Starting on June 10, we'll have the first collaborative book club discussion in the history of the Internet: we will discuss Zebra.

More importantly, we will do the slow build toward Zebra 2.0: 365Black Days of Terror in Barack Obama's America.

A lot of people look at South Africa and warn: "We can't let it come to that in America," or, "People will wake up... they have too!"

No. We are already deep in the cannibal's pot (with apologies to Ilana Mercer's Into the Cannibal's Pot: Lessons for America from Post-Apartheid South Africa).

Join us on June 10 for the first ever SBPDL Book Club Discussion. Pick up Zebra and let's start the real conversation about race.

This Little Piggy Went to the Market...

PK Note: Yeah, this story is a few days old. So what? It's hilarious, and cuts to the heart of why universal suffrage and democracy are headed for the ash heap of history.

Odds are good: She's on EBT/Food Stamps

For those who served in the armed forces - or who still serve - remember that 26-year-old Lonneshia Shafaye Appling represents, no, epitomizes, all that you defend. She is the pure embodiment of freedom and the story of her one-woman war with Piggly Wiggly in Athens says more about the sacrifices of tens of millions of soldiers than any victory in any war America has ever waged. Courtesy of the Athens Banner Herald:

A woman who punched and pepper-sprayed employees who caught her shoplifting at the Lexington Road Piggly Wiggly last week also spat on one of the workers and claimed she had HIV.


She asked the arresting officer to write his report in a way that is would be “more interesting so that her arrest would make the police blotter” in the local newspaper.


Those are among details of last Wednesday’s assault included in a police report that wasn’t publicly available until Friday.


Additionally, 26-year-old Lonneshia Shafaye Appling challenged officers to charge her with as many crimes as possible because she claimed she’d get a plea bargain in which half the charges would be dropped, according to the report.


Appling is a career shoplifter, and at the time of her arrest was wanted for thefts in Athens-Clarke, Oconee and Fulton counties, police said.


She wreaked havoc inside Piggly Wiggly last week after a customer saw her hide items in a large canvas bad in her shopping cart, then pay for just one item at the checkout counter, police said.


The customer alerted an employee, who tried to stop Appling at the exit, police said.


That’s when the woman pulled out a can of pepper spray and shot a burst of the blinding mist into the employee’s face, police said.


When other employees tried to help, Appling dispersed the spray all around her then ran out a side door, according to police.


As employees closed the distance between the 340-pound woman outside, they saw her dropping cans of beer she’d hidden in her purse, police said. As they followed her, Appling punched one of the workers, then spit in his face.


She also offered the employees money if they would stop following her, according to police.


The employees still were following Appling as police arrived. The officers found that in addition to the cans of Coors Light, the woman tried to steal vegetable oil, five packs of cheese, five packs of bacon and two packs of chicken wings, police said.


Appling, of 115 Sena Drive, was charged with felony theft by shoplifting not because of the value of the items she tried to steal — $88.27 — but because she had more than three previous shoplifting convictions, police said.


At the Clarke County Jail, and as officers figured the various charges she would be booked on, Appling spoke about the plea bargain she’d get in court and mentioned she was mentally ill, a claim officers didn’t buy, according to the police report.


“She seemed to know what was going on,” Senior Police Officer Nate Franco wrote in his report.


Appling “also commented that store personnel shouldn’t chase people like that because they could get themselves hurt,” the officer wrote.


Franco knew that one charge on Appling would be aggravated assault because of the blast of pepper spray she gave to the Piggly Wiggly employee’s face.


“From personal experience, I know that pepper spray has the ability to completely incapacitate a person,” the officer wrote in his report. “Being pepper-sprayed is the most pain I have ever felt in my life, and I consider it a violent assault.”


Franco wrote that he needed to confirm Appling’s claims she had the AIDS virus because “additional charges could be added based on her having HIV and spitting on another.”


Appling has a flair for the spectacular, as evidenced by a performance she gave when arrested in January for shoplifting at an Ingles in Madison County.


The Madison County Journal reported that when the officer tried to take Appling into custody, she began taking her clothes off and told the officer to lick her because she had AIDS.


As the officer struggled to cuff the large woman, the Journal reported, Appling continued to strip until she was completely naked. She broke free from the officer, who subdued her with a Taser.


For the Piggly Wiggly incident, in addition to felony shoplifting and aggravated assault, Appling was charged with simple battery, disorderly conduct and obstruction of a law enforcement officer.


She was still held without bail as of Monday evening.

 On Memorial Day 2012, this story made me smile. Freedom Failed.

Epiphany

I've been reading a couple of books: Tamar Jacoby's Someone Else's House: America's Unfinished Struggle For Integration and Clark Howard's Zebra :The True Account of the 179 Days of Terror in San Francisco.

The former is a book that documents the absolute failures of the post-Civil Rights movement, and yet the thesis of the book is that we must work even harder to bring about full integration (despite the quadrillions of dollars - in both real capital and opportunity costs - wasted in the process).

The latter deals with the Black Muslim war on white people (the infamous Zebra killings that happened in San Francisco -- and throughout California - in the early 1970s, where Black Muslims attempted to earn their "Death Angel" status by killing white women, men, and children).

Jacoby's book touches upon the Atlanta Child Murders of the early 1980s (one of the more sensational moments in American history), where Black children were being abducted and turning up dead. Turns out, a Black man named Wayne Williams was committing the murders -- a Black serial killer of Black children.

The media hysteria over this event -- the New York Times devoted daily coverage to the story, while Black and white entertainers and elected officials alike united, promising every resource to bring the serial killer to justice -- was only rivaled by the OJ Simpson case almost a score later.

The Zebra killings? The news of this event was confined largely to San Francisco and the state of California.

It is on p.375 of Jacoby's defense of the failure of the Civil Right's movement legacy (if we keep clapping our hands, it might work out!) that we learn this:

By the time police zeroed in on black suspect Wayne Williams in June 1981, it has been the nation's biggest and most sophisticated homicide manhunt. The clues that led to Williams were anything but vague: he was stopped for questioning just moments after he threw the boy of his last victim into the Chattahoochee River. But even William's trial - and his conviction by a largely black jury - had little effect on the deepest levels of black paranoia. Once it turned out that the suspect was not white, black interest in the case visibly plummeted. Journalists covering the trial filled their stories with praise for the city's racial calm, but wondered among themselves why so few blacks seemed interested in attending. The south side parents' group maintained throughout the trial that the "fat boy" mayor [the corpulent Maynard Jackson] and his white supporters were using Williams as a scapegoat, covering up for the real, white killer. Instead of rejoicing at the cessation of the murders - and the did stop the day Williams was apprehended - many blacks across the country seemed angry or defeated. "They win," one Atlantan told James Baldwin, meaning whites. "They got us."

A reporter who visited south side housing projects on the day of the verdict could find almost no on e who felt that justice had been done, not even on a block that had lost three children. "I don't believe he's guilty," said the sister of one victim."

It should be known that south Atlanta (South Fulton County) is almost 95 percent Black, and relies on the redistribution of wealth from largely white tax payers in North Fulton County to, well, subsist.

After 179 days, and 23 victims, the police in San Francisco finally decided to get tough. It was known that the people committing the murders (15 whites were dead, eight seriously injured) were Black.  Mayor Joseph Alito said, "Police will begin stopping large numbers of black citizens throughout the city for questioning in the search for a suspect in the wave of random street killings... we are going to be stopping people who resemble these sketches and descriptions - which means we're going to be stopping a lot people."

The ACLU, NAACP, and other progressive groups protested, as the NAACP sought an injunction with the courts to stop this police tactic because it threatened "constitutional guarantees of personal freedom."

But is on p. 345 of Howard's book that we learn this (after five days of the crackdown):

By the weekend, more than five hundred young black men had been stopped and searched by the Zebra units partolling (sic) the streets of San Francisco at night. The operation had turned up no leads to the Zebra killer - but it had reduced major crimes in the city by nearly a third. Major crimes - homicide, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny over fifty dollars, and auto theft - had been cut back 30.7 percent. Because of saturation by police officers in the large areas considered primary Zebra operation sectors, which comprised some five hundred city blocks, many crimes which might have been committed, were not.

Despite the drop in the general crime index, however, the stop-and-search operation was continuing to generate criticism and protests throughout the city. The NAACP suit filed in federal court... Dr. Carlton Goodlett, publisher of the small Sun Reporter newspaper, said that Mayor Alioto had begun a "drive against the black people of the community."

 Never mind that major crime was dropping (most of which was perpetrated by Blacks, who preyed upon the Black community) in San Francisco; Never mind that Black people had their children targeted by a Black serial killer, which didn't fit their preconceived notions of justice in the case of Wayne Williams.

The lessons from these two anecdotes are, moving forward, important to consider.

You want to stop crime in America? Create a police state that profiles and targets Black people - law abiding or not.

More importantly, despite all evidence to the contrary, Black people will always defend Black people, even if it is a Black person who preyed upon the Black community -- killing their sons and daughters.

Happy Memorial Day!

Know Your Role and Shut Your Mouth: The Coming End Of BRA

The Key to the White North Fulton battle with Black South Fulton: Buckhead

It will never end. No matter how many concessions one makes; no matter how many attempts to rectify racial inequities from the past (largely made-up or exaggerated); there will always be an “And Then?”

Case in point in Fulton County, Georgia (home to Atlanta), where 56 percent of the residents are non-Black – 44 percent being white. At 44 percent of the population, Black people will not tolerate any reduction in the public workforce that negative impacts their seat at the position of power:

A coalition of civil rights and attorney groups says African-American judges are being replaced by white appointees in one of Georgia's most heavily populated black counties and called Thursday for Georgia's governor to fill vacancies with judges who reflect their communities' diversity.

The coalition, led by the Rev. Joseph Lowery, said black representation on the bench has decreased from 44 percent in 2002 to 30 percent. They say every African-American judge who has resigned or retired from Fulton County Superior Court replaced by gubernatorial appointment since 2002 has been replaced by a white appointee.

Fulton County is 44 percent African-American, according to the latest Census figures.

"We need fairness," said Lowery, head of the Georgia Coalition for the People's Agenda, as he stood on the steps of the courthouse. "Do the right thing. We're not here to ask them for favors. We're asking them for justice."

Fairness? What percentage of Fulton County public employees is non-Black? Does anyone have that information? What about City of Atlanta public employees? MARTA?  Are these numbers available? What about employees over at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport?

It wouldn’t be surprising to learn that of the aforementioned public entities,  75 percent or more of the employees of each are Black.

Fairness. These words only apply to Black people in Black-Run America (BRA). Just look at this article from Ebony in 1989, written by Renee Turner:

AIR travelers to Atlanta witness a spectacle that bolsters the city's image as the jewel of the New South and a showcase of Black achievement. Airplanes fly over fields of emerald pines that encircle a bustling metropolis run by Black politicians. They glide over some of the $300,000 homes of the Black elite, and land on runways built by Black firms before depositing passengers at a high-tech airport that some call America's greatest monument to affirmative action.

A quarter-century after the signing of the Civil Rights Act, the city that was the setting for Margaret Mitchell's famed Civil War novel, Gone With The Wind, is a city that the book's heroine, Scarlett O'Hara, would not recognize. Gone with the winds of change are the Jim Crow-era "Whites Only" signs, segregated lunch counters, and laws that prevented Blacks from voting.

Today, Atlanta is the benchmark of Black political and economic success--a mecca for Blacks seeking and often finding fulfillment of the American dream. Blacks and Whites exercise and network at the Downtown Athletic Club. Everything from T-shirts to coffee mugs bearing the logo of Underground Atlanta, the city's new downtown $142 million retail and entertainment attraction, are produced by a Black-owned firm, the Logo Depot. The city of nearly a half-million people is run by its second Black mayor. In fact, African-Americans, who comprise almost 70 percent of the city's residents, hold the majority of city council and county commission seats.

 Fairness.

How many of those glittering homes that belong to a manufactured Black elite – all due to the pernicious machinations of radical affirmative action – are now in foreclosure? Judging by the fact that a Section 8 Riot erupted in South Fulton County when 30,000 Black people overwhelmed an event to sign forms for housing vouchers that won’t be valid for years, it should be obvious that the Black Mecca is more like… Africa.

With great power, comes great responsibility, right? In the PBS Documentary Eyes on the Prize, there is an episode called Keys to the Kingdom that profiles Mayor Jackson and what happened in Atlanta after his election in 1973.  Political power, in his eyes, was about redistributing wealth – and jobs – to his community, in a move that would benefit Black people and Black people alone:

First of all, start with exaggerated black expectations, that overnight Valhalla will be found, heaven will come on earth and it's all because the black mayor's been elected. And things just don't work that way. The obligation that I felt was to try with everything in my power and every legal and ethical way that I could to move things as quickly as possible in that direction.

 To Black people, the only responsibility of government –and elected officials – is how will your actions improve my life? More importantly, every action, every bill, and every legal decision must be made to improve the quality of life of Black people only, even if it is to detriment of white people (and increasingly, a non-white, non-Black population).

The Blacks have abused the power that Connected Capitalism ceded to them in 1973. Atlanta is on threshold of a battle that will forever alter the landscape of America, if the predominately white North Fulton cites of Sandy Springs, Milton, Johns Creek, Chattahoochee Hills, and Dunwoody (potentially even Buckhead) were to push for secession, instantly predominately Black South Fulton turns into Detroit.

Overnight. The ability to create a Black middle class – based on redistributing wealth to Blacks via public jobs and contracts that stipulate unfair quotas toward Black firms – would end.

You see, in Detroit, white people fled Wayne County. Though many white people fled to other metro Atlanta counties, enough wealth stayed in Fulton County since 1973 to keep the whole unfair system chugging along.

But now, that is ending. The Atlanta Journal Constitution reported this on May 17; House GOP leader: ‘My goal is to end Fulton County’:

When the Legislature passed new maps for the state House and Senate last year, Republicans gave themselves extra slices of certain counties.

Earlier this month, House Speaker pro tem Jan Jones of Milton bluntly explained the merits of the tactic to a group of north Fulton voters. From Neighbor Newspapers:

In January, according to Jones, there will be a north Fulton majority in both the House delegation and the Senate delegation.

Which means, “we can cut Fulton County down to size until we get Milton County,” she said.

“My goal is that we reduce the thumbprint … of Fulton County on your lives and your pocketbooks such that in a very few years, Atlanta and south Fulton will not fight us on recreating Milton County because Fulton County will be insignificant,” she said. “We will begin that process next year.”

Jones said she actually thinks splitting Fulton into three counties would be in the best interest of all citizens.

“My goal is not to re-create Milton County. My goal is to end Fulton County and bring government closer to the people,” she said. “But it will take convincing.”

Jones’ comments, reported last week, are only now circulating within the city of Atlanta. They explain the motives behind HB 1052, which would have given the power to appoint two of three Fulton County representatives on the MARTA board to municipalities in north Fulton, said state Rep. Rashad Taylor, D-Atlanta.

This means the end of Actual Black Run America (ABRA) Fulton County and Atlanta. 

It was in a discussion on a proposed MARTA Bill that we begin to learn that when given great power, The Blacks will do everything possible to keep it:

Vice Chair Emma Darnell said the bill would disenfranchise the Southside. She also brought up the forming of new north Fulton cities, which she called "segregation based upon race and income."

Since 2005, three communities north of Atlanta voted to incorporate, a backlash against a perception of lackluster services and poor representation by the county government. One effect has been a higher tax rate on unincorporated south Fulton, the only area still under direct county governance.

"In my district, from Bankhead to Buckhead, we have no intention of going back [to segregation]," Darnell said. "There's too much blood back there."

There is a lot of Blood in South Fulton, but it isn’t from the era of Jim Crow and segregation. Just read this piece from Jim Goad at Takimag called Blight of the Living Dead.

South Fulton is one of the most violent places in America. Consequently, it’s almost all Black.

For too long white people in America have been told to know their role and shut their mouth. Pay taxes that go directly to fund the proliferation of a people whose only contribution to Atlanta (and America) has been crime, increased poverty, and the degradation of formerly great cities like Memphis, Birmingham, Baltimore, and Detroit.

Now, rumblings are being heard in The City too Busy to Hate. A fissure is developing of catastrophic potential.

With great power came the belief that the Blacks would forever play the race card and never expect “blowback” for race-based policies that require high taxation of the private sector (white people) to pay for an almost all-Black public sector.

With great power, comes great responsibility.

The Blacks have reneged on this in Atlanta. Though it might not seem that obvious yet, the coming political war in Fulton County is the start of a series of clashes around the nation, as white people begin to slowly understand the burden of high taxation goes directly to pay for public jobs and services that go toward their dispossession.

It might seem like a tax revolt, but it’s the start of something much more important: the repudiation of whites knowing their role, and keeping their mouths shut.  

The Black Gold Rush in The Black Mecca Ends; More than 50 percent of Metro Atlanta Mortgages Underwater

Gold rushes end once the resource that attracted people to the area has been exhausted. Infrastructure that was quickly built to accommodate the influx of people instantly loses value once the economy that momentarily was based upon intense speculation collapses.

The Black Gold Rush into the Black Mecca has finally dried up

Once all of the gold has been successfully procured during a “rush,” the once booming town brimming with those hoping to strike it rich dies overnight. The primary engine for driving economic activity has ceased to produce, leaving ghost town where prosperity once seemed endless.

Bodie, California represents one of these ghost towns, a city where all economic activity and growth was connected to mining for gold; once the gold was gone, the city died.

The Black Mecca of Atlanta has represented a Black “gold rush” since 1973, when Maynard Jackson was elected mayor of the city and implemented massive affirmative action policies to enrich Black entrepreneurs who were required – by city law- to get 35 percent of city contracts.

It was Mayor Jackson, who in an article for Ebony published in December 1980 (The Airport that Maynard Built: Blacks reap bonanza at world’s biggest airport, by Bill Berry) bragged that he held a figurative gun to the white business community over the exclusion of Black involvement with the construction of what would become the world’s busiest airport:

So when Mayor Maynard Jackson had the audacity to insist that he would let crab grass grow on the site selected for the airport unless Blacks were given a “fair” share of the mammoth project, some of his critics began to wonder if he were in control of himself.

“You know, I never said anything publicly, but I thought Mayor Jackson was asking for too much,” confesses one Black Atlanta businessman who eventually reaped nearly $1 million from the airport project because of the mayor’s refusal to back down. “I mean, here Maynard was telling these white people – I mean, big industries and financial giants like Hertz and the airlines – that if Blacks didn’t get at least 25 percent of the action, there would be no airport, or they (the big businesses) would not be permitted to be a part of it. Let’s face it, you hear about affirmative action and all that stuff, but whoever heard of it working? Who ever heard of anyone trying to make it work? I was prepared to settle for whatever I could get, to make about $60,000 or $70,000, but thanks to the mayor I ended up with much more.”

(Mayor Jackson. “The word minority should not mean women. Women are an oppressed group, but they are not a minority; they are over 51 percent of the population. Minorities and women, as separate oppressed groups, must have affirmative action. But the word minority, by definition, design and inclination, cannot include White women. When I insisted on minority participation, I meant the inclusion of Afro-Americans. And I wasn’t talking about excluding anyone; my objective was to include everyone because it’s the right thing to do.”

Not exactly free, uninihibted markets? Government manipulation of the bidding process to ensure equality instead favored Black businesses owners and minority-majority owned firms started with the construction of Hartsfield International Airport, but in continued in every facet of contracting with the city of Atlanta (and Fulton County).

More to the point, public jobs in Atlanta (both Fulton County, the city of Atlanta, and MARTA) became almost entirely Black, with every department funded by tax-dollars headed and staffed – from the water board, sanitation, the courts, and voting boards – by Black people.

Whites need not apply for these jobs – or other non-Blacks – as a vice, a stranglehold has been placed upon public employment in the Black Mecca, the surest way to create a semblance of a Black middle class (just look at Prince George’s County for further evidence) in Atlanta.

But it’s all artificial. The wealth of the Black middle class is nothing more than an illusion, manifested by hyper affirmative action in government contracting and a reliance on public employment that the private sector (not even companies like Coca-Cola can employ enough Blacks) can’t replicate.

The Atlanta Paradox, edited by David Sjoquist, reports on p. 204 this about Black reliance on the public sector for employment:

Along with the denial that African Americans exhibit ethnic solidarity, it is popular to deny that the government sector can serve as a valid economic asset for creating business linkages. The public sector is seen as siphoning off black talent that could have gone toward business development or achieved influence in private-sector labor markets. However, first, the public sector clearly has been the source of the greatest accumulation of saving among African Americans which could be invested in business development… African American presence as mayors and significant city administrators was a major factor in increased ability of African American owned businesses to become large enough no longer to be classified as primarily self-employment. The importance oft eh use of municipal political power to engender large-scale stable employment among other American ethnic groups is well documented.

We already know that Black reliance on government jobs to create a middle class is not just relegated to Atlanta, but standard operating procedure by federal, state, and local governments nationwide. 

As evidenced by the almost non-existent Black entrepreneurship or small business ownership (economic activity of any legitimate kind) in once thriving Rockdale and Clayton Counties, the Visible Black Hand of Economics is beginning to catch up with The City too busy to Hate.

NPR noted in 2011 that the Black middle class in Atlanta was drying up, with government contracting eroding that Blacks had come to rely on so heavily because the odds were stacked in their favor (as opposed to unencumbered free markets that weren’t manipulated by Black-controlled government to favor Blacks):

Atlanta is a city where civil rights leaders are the namesakes of thoroughfares the way presidents and signers of the Declaration of Independence are in most other cities. There are boulevards named not just for Martin Luther King Jr. and former Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young, but also for civil rights leaders Joseph Lowery and Ralph David Abernathy. Last year, Raymond Street was renamed SNCC Way, after the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.

But no place in Atlanta embodies the progression from the civil rights movement to political empowerment to economic development quite like the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. The airport is named after the city's first African-American mayor, Maynard Jackson, who negotiated a unique deal for its construction.

That airport was constructed with a mandate of having at least 25 percent of all of the subcontracting opportunities going to minorities and women," says Thomas "Danny" Boston, a Georgia Tech economist who studies minority businesses. "First time anything like that happened in the country."

It was a kind of New Deal for blacks in Atlanta, and it grew into many other deals, including mandated set-asides for African-American and other minority contractors and subcontractors.

But the deals also made minority business disproportionately dependent on public sector work. Now, the shrinking of the public sector is having a disastrous effect on many African-American business owners, including electrical subcontractor Melvin Griffin.

Griffin's business depended heavily on public contracts for things like installing stoplights with red-light cameras. Now he gets less work and, in turn, he gives less work.

"Employees are down quite a bit," he says. "Right now, I'm only working about three people. Couple guys, I just told them don't worry about calling me because I really got no work for them."

So what do we mean by Black Gold Rush? Blacks have been flocking to the Black Mecca since Mayor Jackson established unprecedented statues that favored Black people in garnering city contracts. The Wall Street Journal reported that this trend has only increased since the dawn of the new millennium.

USA Today reported that the suburban population of metro Atlanta is exploding, fueled by Black migration to the once pure Whitopia’s surrounding The City too Busy to Hate:

Atlanta itself has actually grown whiter in the past decade while its suburbs have gotten blacker, according to Frey's analysis. Atlanta's population in 1990 was 67% black and 30% white; the suburbs were 71% white and 25% African American. By the end of the decade, non-Hispanic whites made up 39% of the city and 53% of the suburbs while blacks were 51% of the city and 31% of the suburbs.

No, the airport Mayor Jackson extorted

What does all of this mean? That the Black Gold Rush is over. Ghost towns are coming to metro Atlanta. The Atlanta Journal Constitution reports that half of metro Atlanta mortgages are now underwater (worth less than what is owed):

More than half of homeowners with a mortgage in metro Atlanta owe more than the house is worth, a new report says.

Their negative equity will slow a real estate recovery as some homeowners who would like to sell and move are "trapped in their homes," because they cannot afford to sell at a loss, said Zillow's chief economist Stan Humphries. It also makes foreclosure more likely if the mortgagee loses a job or hits other economic shocks, he said.

Zillow, the online real estate data and search firm, analyzed 35 million mortgages, including 778,870 in 22 metro Atlanta counties, to conclude 55 percent of mortgages here were in the negative range. That far exceeds the national average of 31 percent. Humphries pointed out that despite the high numbers, only 8 percent of metro Atlantans were delinquent on paying.

Employed homeowners who plan to stay in their homes long-term are not bothered as much by the "paper losses," he said, which makes the situation less dire.

Property valuations are directly tied to the standard of living created and sustained in a community. As metro Atlanta gets Blacker, each community is negatively affected with higher crime rates, business closings, and a drop in the quality of the schools (directly correlated to the majority race of the students enrolled in the school system).

Black property values are significantly less than white (or other race) in Atlanta – and nationwide.

With metro Atlanta getting Blacker – the allure of the Black Mecca and being part of the Black middle class that was 100 percent a manipulation of the free market by Black elected officials and Black cronyism – and property values falling counties that go majority Black (Clayton and DeKalb County), tax revenue begins to drop dramatically, immediately requiring austerity measures to be implemented:

Fiscal 2011, which starts July 1, is already a rotten apple on the teacher’s desk.

The avalanche began when DeKalb County school officials said last month that the system would be short $88 million in its 2011 budget. Since then, so many other shoes have dropped, it’s starting to look like a Rack Room out there.

On Thursday, Cobb County schools said their shortfall would approach $100 million. On Friday, Gwinnett County schools gave the same report: $100 million short. Clayton County said it will be nearly $63 million in the hole; and Atlanta, $47 million. Fulton County has said its shortfall could reach $120 million.

DeKalb now says its gap could hit $115 million. Those systems alone are facing total cuts of more than a half-billion dollars.

Fayette County, Gwinnett, DeKalb, Clayton… as each metro Atlanta county sees an increase in its Black population, the ability for each county to raise tax revenues to pay for teachers and improve infrastructure declines.

The Black Mecca is Underwater. The manipulation of the free market by Black radicals – and by a compliant Connected Capitalism of the Disingenuous White Liberal establishment in Atlanta – has created an unstable system --- a Black Hole from which no matter will be able to escape.

The Gold Rush is over. Ghost towns will now start popping up all over the metro Atlanta area, with Black people unable to create or sustain any of the local economies they take over as white residents flee the encroaching Black Undertow.

The white citizens of metro Atlanta have two choices, 1. Move to North Fulton (Alpharetta) and secede from Fulton County and immediately become of the richest counties in all of America  - or forever be taxed to support the lecherous South Fulton area of predominately Black residents who reside on tax dollars and public employment to subsist; or, 2. Leave Atlanta and never look back.

Regardless of what choice is made, a substantial part of metro Atlanta will eventually look like Bodie, California (go to Union Station Mall in Union City to see the truth of this statement), a reminder that the free market can’t be manipulated without devastating consequences.

A reminder that the Visible Black Hand of Economics will always appear. 

Because policies were enacted that attracted largely Black people (whose labor couldn't demand the same salaries in city's they left) to the Black Mecca to strike it rich - based solely on their race - the whole region is now in serious financial trouble. Atlanta was overwhelmed. The burden of employment of these Black people fell directly on the sustaining of Affirmative Action policies that run counter the laws of economics. 

Black Mecca Down: The Fall of The City too Busy to Hate is upon us.