When You Find Yourself in a Hole, Stop Digging

Dear Commissioner Hunter:

When you find yourself in a hole, please stop digging.

Some months back I penned a piece about my new home county becoming ground zero for the Post-Trump era.  Unfortunately I find the saga of Commissioner Tommy Hunter continues this morning as I read the Atlanta Journal & Constitution.  The AJC has brought to light the grating words of my commissioner’s attorney in a request for an evasion of an Ethics Panel.  The particularly troubling part is the misappropriation of terms referring to “political lynching”.  Lynching has a long and sordid history here, God help us, as my home rests in the same town that once was the home of the Grand Dragon of the KKK.  The spate of images the term lynching brings up does not lend any help to a man who referred to a Civil Rights icon as a “racist pig”.  Generally one wishes to avoid those images being associated with their name, but in the post-Trump era, now white, property-owning men are now the victims of racism.

Language is a strange and powerful thing, is it not? Continue reading “When You Find Yourself in a Hole, Stop Digging”

Gwinnett, the New Ground Zero Post-Trump

Most people do not pay any attention to their local political scene.  They vote every four years in a Presidential election and they pat themselves on the back for check off that mental box of participation in the political process.  As of late though, the Gwinnett County Commission has become a more embroiled entity.  The good Lord KNOWS Commission Chairman Charlotte Nash is trying her hardest to smooth things over like every Southern woman has done for one foolish man or another in her circle.  But we all know there aren’t enough hand written notes IN THE WORLD that can smooth this one over!  This hits close to home for me because it literally IS my home now.  And it is of particular interest to me now that my last home (Atlanta) has become involved in Gwinnett County Commission dealings via a letter from Mayor Kasim Reed to Commissioner Tommy Hunter’s employer, United Consulting.  You can find the text of the letter and coverage by Adrianne Haney and Duffie Dixon of WXIA here. Continue reading “Gwinnett, the New Ground Zero Post-Trump”