JONESBORO, Georgia (AP) -- On his first day on the job, the new sheriff called 27 employees into his office, stripped them of their badges, fired them, and had rooftop snipers stand guard as they were escorted out the door The firings had a racial overtone. Hill was among a spate of black candidates elected last year in the county once dominated by rural whites. The county seat was the setting for the fictional plantation Tara in "Gone With The Wind." The fired employees included four of the highest-ranking officers, all of them white. Hill told the newspaper their replacements would be black. http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/01/04/sheriff.firings.ap/index.html
but who is the racist? If you want to change the way an organization operates, you must change the people. Since people do not change, they must be replaced. Nobody likes to get fired, but then nobody likes getting fired upon either. It is hard to take sides from so far away.
Re: but who is the racist? Obviously the new Sheriff is the racist. Stating that he planned to replace fired white officers with blacks. If race doesn't matter, why make a point of the color of the replacements? BTW, the Derwin Brown story was a very big scandal in DeKalb County about 5 years ago. Derwin Brown, black, was elected to office replacing Sidney(sp?) Dorsey, black, who was running a corrupt office. Brown announced plans to fire corrupt Officers, mostly black, in an effort to clean up the Department. Brown was murdered. Dorsey and several DeKalb Officers, all black, were convicted of his murder. Nothing racist there, just crooked cops who thought they were above the law.
