George B. Rhynes (229-251-8645) 25 January 2004
5004 Oak Drive
Valdosta, Georgia 31605
“GUEST COLUMN,” WHERE APPLICABLE, THIS IS A REAL WORLD PROBLEM IN THIS
SOUTH GEORGIA TOWN.
The New South may not be so new after all! Here in Valdosta, Georgia
approximately 240 miles south of Atlanta, Rev. Floyd Rose, President of
the People’s Tribunal a local Civil Rights organization addressed the
Valdosta-Lowndes County Conference Center and Tourism Authority on
behalf of concerned citizens on 20 Jan 2004:
“Of the more than thirty (30) employees only one full time positions is
held by an African American all other blacks compose the “Clean-up,”
crew. None of them have health or retirement benefits---this is
unacceptable to all people of good will,”
The attorney for the authority stated that, “they are following the
law, and cannot discriminate against anyone. Moreover, that they will
continue hiring the best qualified, and experienced applicants.”
Rev. Rose’s main objective seemed to be one of diversity, and fairness.
“We are not asking you to terminate or remove Whites who are currently
employed to make room for Blacks. However, we are suggesting that as
vacancies appear they be filled with qualified blacks until such time
they reflect the racial make-up of your clientele.”
The Center reemphasized its position that they were following the law
and could not discriminate against anyone.
Rev. Rose said, “Our concerns are both morale and legitimate. We are
prepared to (1), conduct public demonstrations (informational
picketing), (2) pursue legal actions, and (3), lead a boycott, until African
American are equally respected at every level of your employ.”
As an applicant I reminded the board that Blacks were well qualified a
few decades ago, to use the restaurants, bathrooms, motels, and other
public facilities but was denied---by those following the law.
However, people of good will stood up on Christian, Jewish, and Islamic
principles and changed America’s laws for the better---in the eyes of
the world.
However in South Georgia, the question remains---has the Old South
really changed? Peace!
George Rhynes
A concerned citizen, community organizer, Minister, Retired U.S Air
Force Veteran, Single Parent, Business Owner for 14 years, Author of
several writings, and believes totally in free speech, and freedom of the
press!
Sunday, January 25, 2004
Letters
Dear Editor
My intake and observations of the Valdosta-Lowndes County Conference Center Monthly Meeting on 20 January 2004 – was in contrast to what has been reported by our local news media.
The Rev. Floyd Rose President of the People’s Tribunal made his concerns clear “Of the more than thirty (30) employees only one full-time position is held by an African American at the center and all other Blacks compose the “clean-up,” crews.” None of them have health or retirement benefits---which is unacceptable---to all people of good will.”
Therefore, it appears that local media has focused on boycotts, and picketing instead of focusing on what appears to be unfair hiring practices.
The Rev. Rose main objective was diversity, and fairness, “we are not asking you to terminate or remove whites who are currently employed to make room for blacks. However, we are suggesting that as vacancies appear they be filled with qualified blacks until such time they reflect the racial make-up of your clientele.”
Attorney William Moore for the center stated that “they are following the law, and can not discriminate against anyone. Moreover, that they will continue hiring the best qualified, and experienced applicants.”
I reminded the Board that blacks were over qualified a few decades ago to use the restaurants, bathroom, motels, and other public facilities, but was denied---by those following the law.
However, people of good will stood-up on Christian principles, and changed America in the eyes of the world. Peace!
George R
My intake and observations of the Valdosta-Lowndes County Conference Center Monthly Meeting on 20 January 2004 – was in contrast to what has been reported by our local news media.
The Rev. Floyd Rose President of the People’s Tribunal made his concerns clear “Of the more than thirty (30) employees only one full-time position is held by an African American at the center and all other Blacks compose the “clean-up,” crews.” None of them have health or retirement benefits---which is unacceptable---to all people of good will.”
Therefore, it appears that local media has focused on boycotts, and picketing instead of focusing on what appears to be unfair hiring practices.
The Rev. Rose main objective was diversity, and fairness, “we are not asking you to terminate or remove whites who are currently employed to make room for blacks. However, we are suggesting that as vacancies appear they be filled with qualified blacks until such time they reflect the racial make-up of your clientele.”
Attorney William Moore for the center stated that “they are following the law, and can not discriminate against anyone. Moreover, that they will continue hiring the best qualified, and experienced applicants.”
I reminded the Board that blacks were over qualified a few decades ago to use the restaurants, bathroom, motels, and other public facilities, but was denied---by those following the law.
However, people of good will stood-up on Christian principles, and changed America in the eyes of the world. Peace!
George R
Monday, January 19, 2004
Letters
Dear Editor
King’s example: Keeping freedom alive
As we celebrate the accomplishments and legacy of the Rev. Martin
Luther King Jr., let’s remember in whose footsteps he stood. He preached
nonviolence in the church, in the streets, and beyond. He committed his
life to changing an Old World Order into a New World Order. Moreover,
because of his efforts, he redefined the meaning of Truth, Love,
Freedom, Justice, Liberation and the methods we used to achieve them.
Dr. King saw the war in Vietnam as a cruel, unjust and costly
war—fueled by the arrogance of leaders who used our tax dollars to kill innocent
peasants in Southeast Asia. He stood in defiance of his government
because he stood on principles and chose the morale high ground as Jesus
stood before King Herod and Pilate.
Dr. King refused to bend his knees and buckle from criticism. In
addition, history records him as being one of America’s finest patriots
because he showed us a true picture of ourselves as a nation. His
nonviolent methods align him with the Messiah Jesus (Matt 2:2): “the government
was upon his shoulders,” and as they conspired to silence Jesus, J.
Edgar Hoover of the FBI sought to silence Dr. King, for no other reason
than that he followed the principles of Jesus.
Therefore, today Christians, Muslims, Jews, Hindus and others cannot
hide behind their denominations and keep silent concerning war with Iraq.
We must follow the martyrs who dressed themselves in the robe of one
blood, one love and one humanity.
So just attending a ceremony in memory of Dr. King—but failing to stand
up for what he gave his life for on a daily bases—is to make mockery of
both Dr. King and Jesus. America must unite by blood, love, kinship,
and citizenship in order to keep the fight for freedom alive in America
and beyond.
George B. Rhynes, Valdosta, Georgia
More
Dear Editor
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., was a great humanitarian, and winner of
the Noble Peace Prize. He gave the world a universal message of love.
His message went beyond the Halls of Congress, Christianity, Judaism,
Islam, the Commander-in-Chief of the United States, and is applicable to
the war on terror of today:
“We’re not going to win this battle of hate and terror by hating other
folks. Hate doesn’t help the hater, and it doesn’t help the person who
hates. There is something about hate that hurts the hater. Somebody
must have the power to transform through love. You just hate somebody
and you are as uncomfortable and as frustrated as the person you are
hating.
There is something about hate that keeps you from walking straight,
something about hate that keeps you from standing up straight.
And when you hate you can’t see straight. When you hate, you lose your
power of objectivity. When you hate somebody, you can’t see them.
When you hate strong enough, the ugly becomes beautiful and the beautiful
becomes ugly. A good speech becomes a bad speech, and a bad speech
becomes a good speech. When you hate strong enough, hair pins begin to
sell for $1,000 and diamond rings for five cents, because that’s a wrong
price tag on things. Something about hate, that does something to the
hater and so our way must be a way of love.”
Hate is a weapon of mass destruction---so don’t participate in it, and
it will destroy itself. [GBR]
George B. Rhynes, Valdosta Georgia
More
Dear Editor,
There should be no arguments as to where the Ten Commandments should be
displayed. However, there is a strange dilemma sweeping the landscape
across America. Today it seems that Gold, Oil, and Diamonds (GOD) have
become America’s deity.
Too many Americans in my opinion look to these resources to get them
out of their modern day Egypt. We kill our foreign neighbors because
they want to be free and respected, as we ourselves want to be
respected.
Our foreign neighbors whant to control their own natural resources,
diamond, gold, uranium, pearls etc., as America used her
natural resources in the past.
We not only cover our neighbors wife, but we are covering our sons and
daughters because of an unjustified war with Iraq. In addition, words
engraved on stone should be left along, but their principles should be
stamped in the human heart.
If America is to survive, she must look into the mirror at herself.
She terrorized Blacks, in the land of the free, and the home of the
brave. They could not own land, a business, assemble in groups of more
than five, forced to obey dictators, called three fifths of a human
being, worked without being paid by-law, and never received an
apology.
For over 250 years, they were not allowed to be educated equally. In
1857, the
Supreme Court said that no black person had rights that a white man had
to respect. Therefore, Black African Americans were terrorized for
centuries in America. Where were the Ten Commandments, and the
Christian Institutions? Peace, and God bless everybody!
King’s example: Keeping freedom alive
As we celebrate the accomplishments and legacy of the Rev. Martin
Luther King Jr., let’s remember in whose footsteps he stood. He preached
nonviolence in the church, in the streets, and beyond. He committed his
life to changing an Old World Order into a New World Order. Moreover,
because of his efforts, he redefined the meaning of Truth, Love,
Freedom, Justice, Liberation and the methods we used to achieve them.
Dr. King saw the war in Vietnam as a cruel, unjust and costly
war—fueled by the arrogance of leaders who used our tax dollars to kill innocent
peasants in Southeast Asia. He stood in defiance of his government
because he stood on principles and chose the morale high ground as Jesus
stood before King Herod and Pilate.
Dr. King refused to bend his knees and buckle from criticism. In
addition, history records him as being one of America’s finest patriots
because he showed us a true picture of ourselves as a nation. His
nonviolent methods align him with the Messiah Jesus (Matt 2:2): “the government
was upon his shoulders,” and as they conspired to silence Jesus, J.
Edgar Hoover of the FBI sought to silence Dr. King, for no other reason
than that he followed the principles of Jesus.
Therefore, today Christians, Muslims, Jews, Hindus and others cannot
hide behind their denominations and keep silent concerning war with Iraq.
We must follow the martyrs who dressed themselves in the robe of one
blood, one love and one humanity.
So just attending a ceremony in memory of Dr. King—but failing to stand
up for what he gave his life for on a daily bases—is to make mockery of
both Dr. King and Jesus. America must unite by blood, love, kinship,
and citizenship in order to keep the fight for freedom alive in America
and beyond.
George B. Rhynes, Valdosta, Georgia
More
Dear Editor
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., was a great humanitarian, and winner of
the Noble Peace Prize. He gave the world a universal message of love.
His message went beyond the Halls of Congress, Christianity, Judaism,
Islam, the Commander-in-Chief of the United States, and is applicable to
the war on terror of today:
“We’re not going to win this battle of hate and terror by hating other
folks. Hate doesn’t help the hater, and it doesn’t help the person who
hates. There is something about hate that hurts the hater. Somebody
must have the power to transform through love. You just hate somebody
and you are as uncomfortable and as frustrated as the person you are
hating.
There is something about hate that keeps you from walking straight,
something about hate that keeps you from standing up straight.
And when you hate you can’t see straight. When you hate, you lose your
power of objectivity. When you hate somebody, you can’t see them.
When you hate strong enough, the ugly becomes beautiful and the beautiful
becomes ugly. A good speech becomes a bad speech, and a bad speech
becomes a good speech. When you hate strong enough, hair pins begin to
sell for $1,000 and diamond rings for five cents, because that’s a wrong
price tag on things. Something about hate, that does something to the
hater and so our way must be a way of love.”
Hate is a weapon of mass destruction---so don’t participate in it, and
it will destroy itself. [GBR]
George B. Rhynes, Valdosta Georgia
More
Dear Editor,
There should be no arguments as to where the Ten Commandments should be
displayed. However, there is a strange dilemma sweeping the landscape
across America. Today it seems that Gold, Oil, and Diamonds (GOD) have
become America’s deity.
Too many Americans in my opinion look to these resources to get them
out of their modern day Egypt. We kill our foreign neighbors because
they want to be free and respected, as we ourselves want to be
respected.
Our foreign neighbors whant to control their own natural resources,
diamond, gold, uranium, pearls etc., as America used her
natural resources in the past.
We not only cover our neighbors wife, but we are covering our sons and
daughters because of an unjustified war with Iraq. In addition, words
engraved on stone should be left along, but their principles should be
stamped in the human heart.
If America is to survive, she must look into the mirror at herself.
She terrorized Blacks, in the land of the free, and the home of the
brave. They could not own land, a business, assemble in groups of more
than five, forced to obey dictators, called three fifths of a human
being, worked without being paid by-law, and never received an
apology.
For over 250 years, they were not allowed to be educated equally. In
1857, the
Supreme Court said that no black person had rights that a white man had
to respect. Therefore, Black African Americans were terrorized for
centuries in America. Where were the Ten Commandments, and the
Christian Institutions? Peace, and God bless everybody!
Saturday, January 17, 2004
Save Marcus!
This is happening in the NE part of Georgia.
There is an 18 year old African American honor student -- Marcus Dixon -- in Rome, Georgia who is spending ten years in prison for having consensual sex with a white classmate who was just three months shy of 16 yrs old at the time they had sex. Although a jury acquitted Marcus of rape and three other counts of violent acts, the prosecutor also charged him with "aggravated child molestation." Consensual sex with a virgin fits into the technical reading of this Georgia statute. The statute has never been applied to consensual sex between two teenagers with less than three years age difference, until now.
There is an 18 year old African American honor student -- Marcus Dixon -- in Rome, Georgia who is spending ten years in prison for having consensual sex with a white classmate who was just three months shy of 16 yrs old at the time they had sex. Although a jury acquitted Marcus of rape and three other counts of violent acts, the prosecutor also charged him with "aggravated child molestation." Consensual sex with a virgin fits into the technical reading of this Georgia statute. The statute has never been applied to consensual sex between two teenagers with less than three years age difference, until now.
Tuesday, January 13, 2004
Letters and comments
George B. Rhynes (229-251-8645) 11 Jan 2004
5004 Oak Drive
Valdosta, Georgia 31605
Dear Editor,
After watching 60 minutes on 11 Jan 2004, it appears that President
Bush own cabinet member finally revealed that President Bush had
decided
to go to war with Iraq prior to 911, and before taking office.
Therefore, it appears that Cynthia Mckinney, a representative from
the State of Georgia was correct---after all. This bold, courageous
black female politician reported what the white, male, dominated
controlled mass media in America refused to report to the American
people.
Everyday throughout America a group of whites strategically select
stories, editorials, and opinions that will maintain the status quo,
keep their jobs secure, disregard freedom of the press, and keep the
American people in the White!
AmericaÂ’s mass media is a powerful tool with the ability to start and
stop wars---as in Vietnam. I am convinced that Americas media refused
to report the truth concerning war with Iraq, eliminating weapons of
mass destruction, and liberating the people of Iraq.
It is not the president or political leaders whose children are dying
on daily bases in Iraq---in a war that could have been avoided.
Our sons and daughters are being killedeverydayy in Iraq, and
casualties may never be known. While the foreign press seems to be our
best source of information.
Moreover, the American people may never know the actual number of
deaths, until their children fail to return home.
Therefore, all politicians who failed to represent the American
peopleÂ’s interest are as much to blame for this war---as the president
of the United States.
This government was intended to be of the people, by the people, and
for the people. Therefore, AmericaÂ’s media should not be controlled
nor censored, and politicians should not just go along to get along.
Thanks to 60 minutes for reporting that our President had decided to go
to war with Iraq prior to 911, and before taking office. Peace!
5004 Oak Drive
Valdosta, Georgia 31605
Dear Editor,
After watching 60 minutes on 11 Jan 2004, it appears that President
Bush own cabinet member finally revealed that President Bush had
decided
to go to war with Iraq prior to 911, and before taking office.
Therefore, it appears that Cynthia Mckinney, a representative from
the State of Georgia was correct---after all. This bold, courageous
black female politician reported what the white, male, dominated
controlled mass media in America refused to report to the American
people.
Everyday throughout America a group of whites strategically select
stories, editorials, and opinions that will maintain the status quo,
keep their jobs secure, disregard freedom of the press, and keep the
American people in the White!
AmericaÂ’s mass media is a powerful tool with the ability to start and
stop wars---as in Vietnam. I am convinced that Americas media refused
to report the truth concerning war with Iraq, eliminating weapons of
mass destruction, and liberating the people of Iraq.
It is not the president or political leaders whose children are dying
on daily bases in Iraq---in a war that could have been avoided.
Our sons and daughters are being killedeverydayy in Iraq, and
casualties may never be known. While the foreign press seems to be our
best source of information.
Moreover, the American people may never know the actual number of
deaths, until their children fail to return home.
Therefore, all politicians who failed to represent the American
peopleÂ’s interest are as much to blame for this war---as the president
of the United States.
This government was intended to be of the people, by the people, and
for the people. Therefore, AmericaÂ’s media should not be controlled
nor censored, and politicians should not just go along to get along.
Thanks to 60 minutes for reporting that our President had decided to go
to war with Iraq prior to 911, and before taking office. Peace!
Friday, January 09, 2004
Never was any WMD's
This was produced by an independent think-tank. The bottom line is that we were lied to about the need to attack Iraq.
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