I live in Metro Atlanta my take on this is lazy Black Folk. Many more Blacks were registered yet lacked the concern to vote in the main election.
I must admit Mr.Reed ran a hell of a campiagn, despite our failings to go vote he got so many more Blacks out to vote than were un-expected. The rule here is we only vote in Presidential elections never in Mayoral or run-offs. Yet, he did the job and really shocked many in Atlanta Congrats to Kaseem Reed Atlanta’s new Mayor Elect! Ms. Norwood thought it was going to be a shoo in boy was she wrong.

I lived in Atlanta for a great portion of my life, and I love, love, love this city. I left this wonderful city only because I was “head-hunted” by a Fortune 100 corporation, and it entailed re-locating to another city.
The lifestyle that Atlanta offers Blacks is (was) incredible. Mayor Andrew Young and Maynard Jackson (both black) developed Atlanta into a world-class city, with an airport that rivaled any large metropolitan city. Commerce, arts and culture, and the quality of life were equal or better than other major metropolises. When the Olympics came to Atlanta, we served-it-up with unparalleled southern hospitality, simultaneously earmarking Atlanta as an international force to be reckoned with. This was the home of the civil rights movement. Everywhere you look, there are signs of our history, our struggle, our victory, and the victory was fought and won by African American leaders. It was a city where African Americans could live well and hold their heads up high.
After my departure, I began to hear tales of woe from friends who still lived in Atlanta. Over the past two years, Atlanta was making the news, and not in a good way. Nightline recently did a special on the Mexican drug cartels that had infiltrated Atlanta, and the Mexican gangs that accelerated felonious crimes, while exasperating economic devastation. The undoc**ented immigrant population has skyrocketed to an all-time high, draining the city’s economic system, and burdening taxpayers.
I vacationed in Atlanta this summer, and I was totally floored by the urban blithe that had consumed Black neighborhoods: neighborhoods that were once flourishing. I could not get my head around the depths and gravity of the total devastation of a city that I once loved, and a city that I planned to relocate back to one day.
I believe that many African Americans voted for Mary Norway, hoping that she would not have the same empathetic reaction to illegal immigration and Mexican drug cartels and gangs as the “politically correct” African American politicians were having. The black politicians were immobilized with fear that they might be labeled RACIST, so no measures were being taken to rid Atlanta of the illegals or gangs. The populists were left to fend for themselves. Economically sound AA neighborhoods were ravished overnight. A similar snapshot is apparent in Los Angeles. The illegal immigrants have created complete economic devastation to Los Angeles; the city has a financial deficit in the billions, and has the largest unemployment rate in the country.
If blacks want to resurrect Atlanta, which is the Mecca of Black Civil Rights and Black Economic and Political Power, they better stop turning their heads the other way – trying to be political correct. Deporting illegal immigrants is not racist. If they want to be in the country, they can do it the way everybody else had to do it – the right way. The very term “illegal immigrant” engenders exactly what it is – CRIMINAL. You cannot just cross American borders and take advantage of our economic and social system, and not pay one red cent in taxes. THIS IS ILLEGAL! As far as the drug cartels and gangs, this is criminal activity and reaction to it is color-blind. The illegal immigrants, drug cartels and gangs belong DEPORTED and/or in JAIL. Not because their Mexicans, but because they are involved in illegal activity – it is as simple as that.
Hopefully, former Senator Kasim Reed will be proactive in getting rid of these major afflictions that are devastating the city of Atlanta. If not, Atlanta will be another Los Angeles: a Lost City.

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Quiet as its kept, many “illegals” actually do a lot more to enhance local economies than they do draining them. Its a fallacy, to believe that an overwhelming majority of illegals are the causes of urban blight or depressed economies in these various municipalities. These administrations are rife with abuse, waste and fraud which is why many of these cities find themselves in the unfortunate position they are in. California has been victimized by Government mismanagement for decades so its a joke to blame that on illegals. Also, there are many communities that actually stay afloat due to the money injected to local economies by many of these illegals. I suggest you find alternative sources of information, and stop relying so much on Lou Dobbs, Bill O’Reilly and all these others blaming illegal immigrants, for failed local, state and Federal policies.

I watch EYE WITNESS NEWS; in other words: I witness the news first hand. I have seen first-hand the economic devastation and urban blight that illegal immigration have created. The bottom line is that it is ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION, which clearly indicates that it is CRIMINAL, and those engaging in this particular acitivity should be deported, or jailed.

SIDEBAR: I am sure that we are on one accord as to what should be done with the drug cartels and gangs… There can be no controversey on these latter two issues — jailed and/or deported!

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