Every once in a while, my little local paper generates some national news. It last happened with Evander Holyfield's home foreclosure. Before that it was Pacman Jones' trial in Fayetteville and even further back, we broke the local Chris Benoit murders/suicide.
Unfortunately, I think we're on the cusp of finding our way into broader headlines once again.
We had some church shootings down here in Fayette County, Ga. Historically African American churches were targeted. Authorities estimate that the damage was done between January 19 (M.L. King Jr. Day) and January 20 (the innauguration).
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Some genius probably thought this was the funniest thing they could double-dare their friends to do. Here's hoping they get caught, or at least wise up and knock it off.
I sure hope this is not another trend of race crimes...there are some bad, bad people out there who actually WANT to get some big race thing going...
Sad day isn't it??
Suzy, the most unique aspect of this Georgia story to me is the location. Both of these churches are in/near Peachtree City--an overwhelmingly white and fairly upscale planned community populated almost exclusively by people with roots/families outside the south who've moved to the area to work in the airline industry. PTC wasn't even around when churches were getting bombed and shot up all over the south forty and fifty years ago. These churches from the story were, but they were not attacked back then.
Here's a little more on PTC and why I generally avoid the area as much as possible
Several dozen church and government leaders attended the event, but the only media outlet in attendance was us (one of two local newspapers). I scoured the web this morning and found three other regional media outlets that have at least put something out there: the county's other newspaper, a local Atlanta fox affiliate and the Atlanta Journal Constitution.