Interesting response from a great communicator and perfect intellect!
Petition to Ban Confederate Flag from Walton County Courthouse
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Be brave and tell us your name and what you have done for equality of mankind.
Discussions should be about ideas and not personalities. I've never said anything on a message board that I wouldn't say in person, but I'm not about to reveal personal information online to just anyone who comes along begging for it. I file those people as "suspect".
Yeah well... That's cool. I'm not afraid. Except maybe on Facebook where the whole world of crazies exist.
Twitter and Instagram are all fake weird names.
But in a forum, people get to know one another and the members have this community in common. Some of you may be axe murderers in your spare time. But you've always been nice otherwise. Lol.
mputnal, I am not sure about the rest, but in jdarg's case that is an abbreviation of her real name. Just want to keep this fair. I choose to use my real name because there is accountability when people know who you are. Some people who post here cannot use their real name due to their job.
I understand. I was just wondering.
I appreciated the personal history and believe that you want to remove the flag for all the RIGHT reasons. I am just not yet sure about the others that I mentioned.
I am assuming that these other posters who I mentioned live in Sowal and so it is a legitimate question since they have insulted me over and over. I understand about not taking it personal but come on. They are hiding behind a false name while the rest of us are not. That means something. Is it just a coincidence that they do not answer the question about equality and do not give us their name?
I wonder what the real reasons are for the lack of African Americans in Sowal. Put yourself in my shoes. Wouldn't you be asking this question?
Okay. I still believe I should be able to ask a person their name if they are going to insult with almost every post.
I think you are hiding your name from us because you are scared of something. Maybe that is the reason you post such inflammatory statements because of fear of the boogeyman.
PCB has some minority population. Destin and SoWal have their Mexican minorities. Walton County has few minorities in general. SoWal schools are filled with families from every economic level, with growing minorities but still very small number. We have so many kids served by CVHN for medical and dental care, and food for thought for food needs when not at school. Our charities here are excellent and busy. So please don't talk about SoWal families as if you know how they live or think. You would be very surprised to know the real picture overall.
I do see more and more minorities vacationing here.
I think it's a place yet to be discovered, even though people are moving here to build lives, work, and raise a family. It's a great place for families.
I think there isn't a lot of work opportunity for people to move here. Except hospitality and then that's not year round. And affordable housing is nonexistent.
Many families moving here are continuing their current jobs, travel for work, or starting new businesses here. There is a lot of room for new business. We're still a baby town. A lot of opportunity here. But we don't have a government body overseeing economic growth and development, or anything really. So, it's going to happen very slowly. Which is good because we have no city or govt to oversee infrastructure or growth either.
We are a wonderful town of people moving in from all over the country. Yes, some with money. But some without and willing to work their butts off to make a living here in a place they love, like many of us. This is our diversity for now.
Who cares? You can ignore, hide posts, overlook, etc. But you also need a little bit of a thick skin to participate in a controversial topic here or anywhere.