Disrespecting Our Executive Commander-In-Chief and (ALL) Members of Our Armed Forces, including Airmen At Moody Air Force Base Georgia.. How Sad?

September 26, 2009

George Boston Rhynes
Valdosta, Georgia 

(X) Letter to the Editor across the nation, Internet and beyond

I worked vigorously to get President Barack Obama elected, and I was on ABC Nightly news with Charles Gibson 50 State Tour.  After his win many of us thought the worst criticism was over but we were wrong, and the unprecedented attacks has increased upon him, his wife Michelle, their children, friends, and will continue long after these Health Care Issues are over.

We can only imagine the impact this criticism must have on members of our military personnel, their wives, husbands, and dependent children around the nation including commissioned and non-commissioned officers stationed at Moody Air Force Base here in Valdosta Georgia.

Where local citizens watch, read, and listen to local television, newspapers, and radio stations calling their President and Executive Commander-In-Chief a racists, socialists, terrorists, ignorant, hates White people, he hates America among hundreds of other derogatory comments as their fellow soldiers are fighting and dying in Iraq and Afghanistan.

During the presidential election I registered a 92-year-old lady and she said Barack Obama was criticized more than any presidential candidate she had ever seen.  So what has President Obama done to equal the centuries of mistreatment Blacks suffered here in America? 

Blacks did not condemn the other 43 White Male Presidents even though the United States Library of Congress states that Blacks came to these shores in the year of 1555 aboard a slave ship called Jesus, captained by one Sir. John Hawkins a White European Slave Trader. 

Although Blacks were mistreated they refused to attack White presidents in contrast to Black Columnist Star Parker and other patriots bent on destroying President Obama. 

So regardless of how we feel about our Executive Commander In-Chief all commissioned and non-commissioned officers now serving in Iraq and Afghanistan must rise above the criticism and carry out the assigned mission.

Yet there are those who believe that unless their particular candidate (Democratic, Republican, or Independent) with the same religious beliefs wins the office of president.  Then it becomes their duty and responsibility to destroy that president at all cost.  We must stop this trend and stop sending politicians to Washington bent on hatred.  God bless America!

GEORGE BOSTON RHYNES, Retired United States Armed Forces Veteran

A concerned citizen and brother of humanity

Statistics Not published on TV, or in Newspaper: Published here to keep You informed!

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

The Valdosta Daily Times published an article on Sept 20, 2009 “Controversy over decision not to show President Obama Continues.” There was a photo of me on the front page; “George Boston Rhynes shares statistics Saturday about the ratio of Black students to White students in the Valdosta City School System at a community meeting concerning the omission of the President’s speech from the city schools.”

However the statistics were not published leaving citizens unaware of what I provided to the 200 people in attendance.  This was the second such meeting concerning Superintendent Bill Cason decision not to allow students to watch the live president’s speech in a school system that is 80% Black.  And was a devastating blot to the members of our armed forces serving in Iraq, Afghanistan and in other war torn areas. 

Moreover this decision was a slap in the face of the children whose mothers and fathers departed from Moody Air Force Base here in Valdosta, Georgia, not knowing if their parents would ever return home to see them again?

Although these parents Executive Commander-In-Chief placed them in harms way and to deny these children this privilege is not easily accepted and has resulted in a request for the Superintendent Bill Cason to resign.  The following statistics was provided from the Valdosta City School Superintendent for the first 10 days of school September 10, 2009:

Valdosta City School System:        

THE FOLLOWING STATISTICS REPRESENT SYSTEM WIDE ENROLLMENT FOR THE FIRST 10 DAYS OF SCHOOL: (September 10, 2009:

CITY SCHOOL BLACK WHITE OTHER GRAND TOTAL

J.L. Lomax Elementary
(Black- 617, White 11, Other 29, G. Tot. 657)

Salas-Mahone Elementary
(Black 443, White 390, Other 119, G. Tot. 952)

S.L. Mason Elementary School
(Black--629, White--189, Other--42, G. Tot.--860)

W.G. Nunn Elementary School
(Black--976, White--50, Other--52, G. Tot.--1078

Southeast Elementary School
(Black--285, White--8, Other--6, G. Tot.--299)

VECA
(Black--56, White--5, Other--4, G. Tot.--65)

Newbern Middle Elementary
(Black—482, White--9, Other--13, G/ Tot.--504)

Valdosta Middle School
(Black—620, White—251,Other—42, G. Tot.--913)

Valdosta High
(Black-1,232, White--358, Other--71, G. Tot.-- 1,661)

PLC
(Black—211, White--7, Other--5, G. Tot.--223)

Grand Total:

 Black:    5, 551  Whites:  1, 278   Other:  383 G. Total:  7,212

These figures look as if they were from the 1950s and 60s, and our local news media have a responsibility to keep the American people informed and not bury the facts.  God bless America and everybody else.



GEORGE BOSTON RHYNES
Retired United States Armed Forces Veteran
A concerned citizen and brother of humanity

Affirmatiave Action For Whites Only, Negroes Need NOT Apply!

1.DID WHITES, benefit from Affirmative Action In America First?  So why complain NOW?

2.AFFIRMATIVE ACTION FOR WHITES ONLY:  The following jobs were all set-asides and preferential treatment for Whites only, and their children Blacks need NOT apply, and this practice existed in America for CENTURIES without question:  This proves that Affirmative Action is as American as American as apple pie with no exception.  "Just keeping it real"

3.Review the HISTORICAL RECORD! All The Day Time Soaps on television, The Edge of Night, Days of Our Lives, Secret Storm, Love of Life, Addams Family, Andy Griffin Show, Avengers, Batman and Robin, Bewitched, Bat Masterson, Beverly Hillbillies, Bonanza, Car Fifty-Four Where Are You, Dick Van Dyke Show, Dick Tracy, Flipper, I love Lucy, I dream of Jennie, Gilligan’s Island, Green Acers, Have Gun Will Travel, Gun Smoke, High Chaparral, Hop Along Cassidy, Johnny Rengo, Lassie, Leave It To Beaver, Mary Tyler Moore, My Three Sons, Long Ranger, Man From Uncle, Monsters, Peter Gun, Petticoat Junction, Pop Eye, Raw Hide, Shot Gun slave, Stage Coach West, Superman, Wonder Woman, All Television News Anchors, The Rifleman, The Jet sons, The Under Dog Show, Mighty Mouse, The Brady Bunch, The Tall Man (With Billy the Kid and Pat Garret), The Bounty Hunter, The Flintstones, The Rebel, Maverick, Two Face West, The Third Man, Invaders, Make Room for Daddy, Mr. Ed, Peyton Place, Robin Hood, Route 66, Gene Autry, Death Valley Days, Judge Roy Bean, Tombstone Territory, Texan, Outlaws, Stagecoach West, Frontier Circus, Man Called Shenandoah, Laredo, Lancer, Here Come the Bribes, Virginian, Wagon Train, Wanted Dead or Alive, Wells Fargo, Wild Bill Hickok, Zorro, and many, many more were used to elevate White Privilege.

4.In addition to the above. All local, state, federal, international law enforcement jobs, and all other jobs went to White Affirmative Action Recipients. Blacks were not allowed...Yes, these jobs were reserved for "WHITES ONLY," along with bathrooms facilities, public eating establishments, 1st to be waited on at retail stores, best public and private schools tax dollars could produce, everything that was good, respectable, holy, and related to Jesus Christ, God and the hereafter, were all set-asides for Whites, their children, and their way of life.  While Blacks were denied these jobs, and other conforts of life. Blacks were NOT even permitted to serve in the United States Armed Forces. They were labeled three-fifths of a human being, lynched, murdered outright and nothing was done about these deaths. All because of the blackness of their skin and kin.

5.Even the Holy Bible was set-asides for White Pictures and not a single Black person was included in God HOLY BOOK. Even though Genesis says that the Garden of Eden was located in AFRICA. A Black person could be ten times more qualified than a white person. But because God made them of a darker color. They were never considered for the WHITE AFFIRMATIVE ACTION PROGRAM.  Moreover there were millions of supreme jobs across America. But were all set-asides for Whites, their children, and certain other four-legged beasts of the field. While the so-called BLACK AFRICAN AMERICAN NEGRO were not even considered for these casts and positions in the "Land of The Free and the Home of The Braves."

6.For centuries Whites generated revenue from these Affirmative Action Jobs and set-asides. While the blackness of the NEGRO skin made them 100% unqualified to hold these positions. As Whites used these generated funds to build better White Public Schools, send their White Children to Technical Schools, Colleges, and Universities, buy more farm land, control the political affairs of the nation, create their own business etc. While Blacks were discriminated against and White Christians for the most part did not say a word. While this, All White Affirmative Action Program, and Set-Asides--was the order of the day.

7. Therefore Affirmative Action and set-asides is as American as apple pie. It was only when the thought of treating Blacks equal to Whites has Affirmative Action become a problem for certain members of our Republic on the low side of God Theology.   While many of them clam to be Christians, but do they want Blacks to have what WHITE PEOPLE received for themselves----UNDER their excessive, Ancestral White Affirmative Action Program.   All Americans with the heart beat of real Christian Love of JESUS CHRIST, and all others who traveled that great line of divine------must over stand that truth, justice and equality will win in the end, or God will NOT open his HOLY DOORS to any of his created beings in the HEREAFTER. (Galatians 6; 7 must be made a reality in America) As it is written, so shall it be done….

By George Boston Rhynes
Copyright 1989, (1st Recipients of Affirmative Action)

Valdosta City School Statistics, Is Valdosta City Schools Segregated? See for yourself in 2009, President Obama Speech Rejected by Superintendent Bill Cason, Denied Access to Inter City School Students, Why?

September 20, 2009

George Boston Rhynes
Valdosta, Georgia

TO: Letter to the Editor, Internet, Concerned Parents, and TV Stations and beyond….

The Valdosta City Schools System provided the following statistics where Superintendent Bill Cason denied children to watch the President of the United States Back to School Speech. This information is being published to inform the general public on the realities of Valdosta School System.

These statistics are similar to the separate but unequal schools of the 1960s. Superintendent Cason decision magnetically drew 473 concerned citizens to the September Valdosta Board of Education Meeting asking that he resign. However my desire is for board members to resign who have forgotten who elected them into office.

To understand where Valdosta is along race relations, you only need to visit on line comments posted by local citizen here in Valdosta-Lowndes County Georgia on the superintendent’s resignation. Although we are a said to be Metropolitan Metropolis the comments are similar to those dating back to the 1950s.

Just five (2004) years ago this Valdosta 1860 Charter was displayed on the second floor of Valdosta City Hall leading into the Municipal Court Room of Judge Edwards that read: Article 100, Section XI, “THAT THE MAYOR AND COUNCIL SHALL PASS ALL PROPER AND NECESSARY LAWS AND ORDINANCES FOR THE CONTROL OF SLAVES AND FREE PERSONS OF COLOR IN SAID TOWN AND SUPPRESS AND ABATE ALL NUISANCES ARRIVING FROM HOGS, DOGS, HORSES, OR OTHER STOCK STRAYING AT LARGE IN SAID TOWN, OR FROM OTHER CAUSES.”

Therefore Superintendent Cason decision is in alignment with this outdated charter. His decision most certainly CONTROLLED, SUPPRESSED, and ABATED Valdosta School Children if not the President of the United States. And this just may be the peek of the pyramid of Valdosta and Lowndes County racial divide.

Blacks are 52 percent of our city, and 80% of Valdosta City School System. However Black principals, teachers, and administrators are practically all White based upon a 80% Black population.

In fact the Board of Education Office Administrators is referred to as the "Little White House because so few Blacks are employed." Many people of color and White Right people see the school system as a disgrace when it comes to fairness, expulsions, integration, respecting all children equally, and hiring of Black Educators in the school system.

The same disparity is applicable throughout all areas of the city as relating to Black Department Heads, Bank Managers, number of contracts handled by Black African Americans for whatever reason, and this disparity runs down through practically ever aspect of local city, County, state, and federal government job employments.

Perhaps the only exception is the high number of Blacks in the Valdosta and Lowndes County Jail, and janitorial jobs as in 1950s and 60s. I pray that the following information from Superintendent Cason will inform, and educate the general public in order to help reduce crime, and domestic violence that is a direct result of unfair hiring practices of qualified Black parents in our community.

There are hardware stores that will NOT employ a single Black into their store. Yet Blacks have been shopping there for DECADES. Even more importantly, it seems that our local television, newspaper and radio stations has contributed greatly to the ill state of our hidden racial divide in Title Town USA.

THE FOLLOWING STATISTICS REPRESENT SYSTEM WIDE ENROLLMENT FOR THE FIRST 10 DAYS OF SCHOOL: (September 10, 2009:

CITY SCHOOL BLACK WHITE OTHER GRAND TOTAL

J.L. Lomax Elementary
(Black- 617, White 11, Other 29, G. Tot. 657)

Salas-Mahone Elementary
(Black 443, White 390, Other 119, G. Tot. 952)

S.L. Mason Elementary School
(Black--629, White--189, Other--42, G. Tot.--860)

W.G. Nunn Elementary School
(Black--976, White--50, Other--52, G. Tot.--1078

Southeast Elementary School
(Black--285, White--8, Other--6, G. Tot.--299)

VECA
(Black--56, White--5, Other--4, G. Tot.--65)

Newbern Middle Elementary
(Black—482, White--9, Other--13, G/ Tot.--504)

Valdosta Middle School
(Black—620, White—251,Other—42, G. Tot.--913)

Valdosta High
(Black-1,232, White--358, Other--71, G. Tot.-- 1,661)

PLC
(Black—211, White--7, Other--5, G. Tot.--223)

Grand Total of Students in Valdosta City first week:

(Black 5, 551)
(White. 1, 278)
(Other 383)

(Grand Total 7, 212)

Question: Is their only 1,278 White Children living in the City Limits of Valdosta, Georgia in 2009?

Moreover it WILL be interesting to see how BLACK TEACHERS are under EMPLOYED in Valdosta, and Lowndes County School System as it relates to their EMPLOYMENT.

I intend to also publish this information for the general publice. Since our local television, and newspaper, and radio refuses to provide it to the general public. It is time for us to understand, what is recorded in the Volume of Sacred Law. That ye shall know the truth, and that the truth will make, and set you free. No more tripping out on heaven, while we allow hell to reign here on earth....We can, and we must do better towards our children and coming generations.

A fight for your soul
http://vimeo.com/3686946

Community Blog posts George
http://204.133.177.14/journal/4052

Title Town You Might Not Know
http://medianeeded.blogspot.com

A chorus of fear Video of a South Georgia Town
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3930808120854021155#

Superintendent Cason actions brought out 473, citizens at the Board Meeting, 315 citizens came out today at St. Paul A.M.E. Church along with other community and Civil Rights Leaders from outside the Valdosta area, and a meeting is scheduled for tomorrow night at 7:pm at the Church at Pine Hill on Clay Road for more input from community leaders and consideration of ideas from the general public.

We must understand that during the Civil and Human Rights Movement in the 60s, it seemed strange and mysterious how our God used Governor Lester Maddox, George Wallace, Sheriff Eugene Bull Connor, and others who underestimated our God, the God of ABRAHAM, ISAAC, and JACOB but in the end right won.

Therefore no one should think that this is all about Rev. Floyd E. Rose, or anyone else for that matter. We all are confident as in the days of OLD, that our God will act once again in his own MYSTERIOUS way and time----to create a community wherein all Gods Children will be respected, hired, educated, and treated with dignity and respect. (Galatians 6:7). Therefore, only when citizens want for their neighbor, that which they want and have for themselves,and their own family. Then, and only then can the problems in our community be resolved here in Valdosta-Lowndes County Georgia and all the people of good will say AMEN!

Lastly: Superintendent Cason will go down in history against our Executive Commander-In-Chief of our beloved nation, and against our children in Valdosta School System. Moreover the historical archives will reflect that Mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, and their neighbors children that were serving in Iraq, Afghanistan and in other war torn areas around the world were disrespected along with their children stationed at Moody Air Force Base, Georgia. Yet these soldiers placed themselves in harm way but their chidlren were NOT permitted to WATCH the man who sent their love ones in harms way on live television. How sad, in 2009. God bless all children of the world.

http://medianeeded.blogspot.com/



GEORGE BOSTON RHYNES
Retired United States Armed Forces Military Veteran
A concerned citizen and brother of humanity

Two heads may be better than one but never forget which one belongs to you. G.B.R,


Two heads may be better than one but never forget which one belongs to you. G.B.R,

http://vimeo.com/3686946

Letter to Editor: I agree with the SCLC, that Supt. Bill Cason should resign....

September 15, 2009

TO: Local Newspaper Letter to the Editor and beyond

I attended the Valdosta Board of Education Meeting with 473 other concerned parents on September 14, 2009 and I too am asking for Superintendent Bill Cason to resign, along with all board members that have forgotten the people that elected them to office. By denying the Executive Commander-In-Chief of our soldiers, sailors, marines, navy and airmen serving in Iraq, Afghanistan and in other war torn areas to address the children of members of our armed forces is cause for resignation.

In addition this denial of any child is a slap in the face but more so to our active duty and retired military veterans including the airmen stationed at Moody Air Force Base Georgia and their children. Dr. Cason cannot justify his decision by saying it was done so teachers would not lose valuable time, and that he was concerned about complying with Georgia State Performance Standards among other reasons.

Just last year our teachers sat for two hours in the gym looking at a play put together by Valdosta State University Drama Department. Our teachers lose time in fund raiser drive, Valdosta High School Band to come, and do a concert, boy scouts to recruit boys, book fair, pep rallies, school pictures, steep testing, and guided reading for lower grades implementation programs.

Our City Board of Education Members have allowed our Superintendent to set a disgraceful and dangerous precedence that could very well end up in the courts if others wish to speak to our children in Valdosta City School System.

Both principals and teachers can remember countless times when teachers lose valuable instructional time. But those who put their lives on the line for their Executive Commander-In-chief and then have their sons and daughters denied the right to watch their president twenty-one minute speech cannot be justified by any person of average intelligence.

Even during slavery, Jim Crow, segregation, during the lynching crusades in the south, or during the ugly and disgraceful civil rights movement of the 60s. Blacks did not; disrespect the office of the President of the other 43 White Male Presidents at home or abroad as some are doing to president Obama.

History records that Black African Americans never stooped so low as to condemn, criticize, question other presidents citizenship, called a lie before the world on the flow of congress, make fun of their wives, children, accused them of not being qualified to be president, placed swastikas on White presidents faces, even though many of them along with mayors, and governors did more to disrespect and harm Blacks than President Barack Obama will every do.
A fight for your soul
http://vimeo.com/3686946

Therefore a great lesson can be learned from this peaceful road that leads to the mountaintop of our creative greatness as a nation and example to other nations of the earth. God bless all children of the world.



GEORGE BOSTON RHYNES
Retired United States Armed Forces Veteran
A concerned citizen and brother of humanity

The Title Town you might NOT know (Blog)
http://medianeeded.blogspot.com/

Did Supt.Cason Act Alone? And wil it take 150 to 375 years for Valdosta to change?

I was informed that Valdosta City School Superintendent Bill Cason did NOT tell parents, or ask for approval from City Board of Education Members. He just decided HIMSELF, to NOT let Black Children along with White Right Children, and their parents WATCH the 1st Black African American President speech on taking individual responsibility for their education.

Although Valdosta City Schools are 80% Black these citizens as usual are not respected and considered as equal players in our community. We can only ask why?

So did the Old Valdosta City Charter of 1860 mentality influence Dr. Cason decision to control, suppress, and abate as was the case in 1860 in Valdosta, Georgia? It read: Article 100, Section XI: “THAT THE MAYOR AND COUNCIL SHALL PASS ALL PROPER AND NECESSARY LAWS AND ORDINANCES FOR THE CONTROL OF SLAVES AND FREE PERSONS OF COLOR IN SAID TOWN AND SUPPRESS AND ABATE ALL NUISANCES ARRIVING FROM HOGS, DOGS, HORSES, OR OTHER STOCK STRAYING AT LARGE IN SAID TOWN, OR FROM OTHER CAUSES.”

This controlling and suppress mentality seems to be reflected in the disparity in Local City, County, State, and Federal job employees. Simply look around as to who is employed in these hard economic times throughout our community. The old saying seem real "Backs are last hired, and first fired."

Many hardware stores where we spend our money have no Blacks employed whatsoever, or in management positions and this includes construction companies, bank managers etc.

How many Whites were among the 40 city employees that was terminated in June 2009? This was brought to my attention by an employee in our community.

How many department heads in both city and county are Black, and this includes all aspects of the job market in our community.

How many schools are named in honor of a Black Person in Valdosta-Lowndes County Georgia?

Look at the street named in honor of Rev. Martin L. King Jr., it consists of only seven blocks. When even the small town of Quitman, Thomasville, and many other much smaller towns have major thorough fares to honor this world Nobel Peace Prize Winner. How sad?

Valdosta television, newspaper and other media sources are the contributing factor for Valdosta being locked down without, change for the last 100 years. Seemingly to keep citizens deaf, dumb, and blind to the time by design.

However I remain 100% sure that in about 150 to 375 years Valdosta will eventually change. That is when we attract new television stations, and newspapers from an outside source. The lack of investigative reporting is what local citizens need at this time in history.

Therefore, we cannot move forward by keeping citizens deaf, dumb, and blind to the times, and unable to make intelligent decisions based on information that or media rather keep away from the eyes of the general public. (Media refuses to publish such information from public meetings)

May God Bless the founding fathers of our great nation, that believed in freedom of speech and of the press. But those days seems long gone from us forever.

However in the end Galatians 6:7 must be made a reality in our time, and as Jesus said in the Volume of Sacred Law, "love thou neighbor, as you love yourself."

So regardless of who spreads hate, mistreat, kill, or murder his brother or sister. Then in the end, the final judge must render his or her verdic, and measured by the plumb line of justice where money will not be the order of the day.


GEORGE BOSTON RHYNES
Retired United States Armed Forces Veteran
A concerned citizen and brother of all humanity---always

Memorandum from Superintendent Cason to Principals and others, and more

George Boston Rhynes
Valdosta, Georgia

To: VCS Board Chairman, All Board Members, Concerned Citizens, Internet, and beyond

The following memorandum was given to me and I believe all Americans would like to know about it. Below I have also highlighted cases wherein this valuable time the School Superintendent (Dr. Bill Casey) mentions is in question.

Therefore we must question this memorandum in relationship to time and Dr. Cason intent of such an act.

Moreover, I would like to apologize to all parents now serving in the United States Armed Forces in Iraq, Afghanistan, and in other foreign nations on behalf of our EXECUTIVE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF President Barack Obama.

Moreover I apologize because we have disrespected your children, and their parents here in Valdosta City School System. This was done by not allowing them to watch their fathers, mothers, sisters, and brothers Commander-In-Chief of our Armed Forces to speak to them live in their school system with their friends and educators and all other presidents in the history of our beloved nation.

As a Retired United States Armed Forces Military Veteran I am sorry that our Superintendent Bill Cason made the wrong decision and has set a disgraceful and dangerous precedence when it comes to who can visit our schools in the Valdosta City School System in the future without perhaps a law suit being filed.

Below is a copy of the letter sent out to Principals and others in the Valdosta City School System. There are attachments above surrounding Title Town USA that even local citizens may not be aware of. How Sad?



GEORGE BOSTON RHYNES
Retired United State Armed Forces Veteran (Vietnam Era)
A concerned citizen and brother of humanity.

[LETTER #2: HERE]

MEMORANDUM

To: Principals
From: Dr. Bill Cason
Date: September 3, 2009
Re: President Obama's Speech

As you are aware, the Valdosta School System focuses on teaching and learning. The district is mandated to follow the state's new curriculum, the Georgia Performance Standards. These standards are designed and written to insure that students reach their highest potential.

President Obama's proposed lesson plans, to be completed before, during, and after his speech, are not aligned to Georgia state standards and therefore, would not meet the district's instructional goals; nor would it help students achieve or exceed personal and educational goals. If the President's lesson plans were carried out, as written, significant instructional time would be diverted from our main goal of teaching the Georgia Performance Standards. Daily instructional time is a valuable resource, and every effort should be made to maintain its integrity. It should be noted that the speech is to occur during the time that lunch periods are scheduled.


In order to maintain our instructional focus, schools will not participate in this activity, Families have the option of watching the President's speech with their children outside the school day, as the speech will be available on both the White House (www.withhouse.gov) and CSPAN (www.c_span.org) website after the broadcast. In addition, the school district will make available copies of the president's address to be shared with parents in the event they do not have access to either website.


cc:

Gayle Golden, Assistant Superintendent for Teaching & Learning

Marty Roesch, Assistant Superintendent for Finance & Operations

Page Arnette, 6-12 Curriculum Director
Dara Holt, preK-5 Curriculum Director

[LETTER #3: HERE]

September 11, 2009

George Boston Rhynes
Valdosta, Georgia 31605

To: Valdosta Television, Newspaper Editors, Blog, Presidents Barack Obama Web Site, Concerned Citizens, Military Veterans Web Site, Internet, and Beyond….

Valdosta City School System Superintendent Bill Cason could not allow time for the President of the United Sates Barack Obama to speak to inter school children in Title Town USA. However, for the next two weeks, Valdosta City Schools will be participating in the Iowa Test of Basic Skills (ITBS) and Cogat is a cognitive abilities test (Cogat Testing). In all honesty since the Valdosta Daily Times published Dr. Cason reasons for not permitting children to watch the speech because of the Georgia Performance Standards and restraints. I would like the good superintendent to explain the following:

TEACHERS can see why they might take the Cogat test. This test helps us look at how a child's academic ability. (The child's IQ) The Iowa Test of Basic Skills is not used for anything other than to see how well the students do as compared to other students. The system spends a pretty good penny for this test. This test interrupts FOUR DAYS OF INSTRUCTION. This test is not aligned to the Georgia Performance Standards. (This VS the Presidents 21 Minute Speech of the president)

Since Valdosta Schools should NOT be wasting any instructional time, why are TEACHERS taking this test? On the other note, TEACHERS remember sitting two hours in the gym last year looking at a play that was put on by the Valdosta State University Drama Department. The play was good for lower grades but TEACHERS should not have lost instructional time looking at this play. This year alone, TEACHERS have lost time for a fund raiser drive and for students to go to the office to get ducks if they sold one item.

TEACHERS lose instructional time for students to escort grandparents on grandparent day. TEACHERS lose instructional time for the Valdosta High School Band to come and do a concert, TEACHERS lose instructional time for the Boy Scouts to recruit boys, TEACHERS lose instructional time for the book fair, TEACHERS lose instructional time for pep rallies, TEACHERS lose instructional time for school pictures, TEACHERS lose instructional time for STEEP testing that is on basic facts and the CRCT is based on problem solving, TEACHERS lose instructional time on Guided Reading and Guided Reading is a lower grades implementation program. Countless times TEACHERS lose instructional time but TEACHERS could not give the President 18 minutes.

TEACHERS lose instructional time on honor roll parties that only recognize students that make all "A's" which is so unfair for those students who need just a little incentive.

The list goes on.... What are TEACHERS teaching our children when we say that the EXECUTIVE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF of the UNITED STATES message is so unimportant that TEACHERS need not listen to it? TEACHERS remember on inauguration day, TEACHERS all turned THEIR televisions on because history was being made for a man who gets no respect from the very same people who empowered him.

Simply because he did not turn out being another "MONKEY" on a string. Simply because he utilize his brain rather than his body like so many of our other wonderful presidents. Notice, I did not capitalize presidents. So we must really understand the definition of Title Town USA.

So welcome to the “Title Town USA that you don’t know! God Bless our Children under Superintendent Bill Cason and those who maybe influenced him to make this decision. Apparently they are locked in the 1860 Valdosta Charter Mentality to control, suppress, and abate the people in Valdosta City School System. How Sad in 2009 in the history of our beloved republic?



GEORGE BOSTON RHYNES
Retired United States Armed Forces Veteran
A concerned citizen and brother of humanity

Letter to Editor, (NOT PUBLISHED IN VALDOSTA DAILY TIMES) Dr. Cason Reasons for not allowing speech...

September 13, 2009

To: Valdosta Daily Times, Other Editor, Department of Justice, Presidents Barack Obama Web Site, Citizens, Internet, and Beyond….

Superintendent Bill Cason of Valdosta City School System could not allow time for the President of the United Sates Barack Obama to speak to the inter school children in Title Town USA. However, for the next two weeks, Valdosta City Schools will be participating in the Iowa Test of Basic Skills (ITBS) and Cogat is a cognitive abilities test (Cogat Testing). In all honesty:

TEACHERS can see why they might take the Cogat test. This test helps us look at how a child's academic ability. (The child's IQ) The Iowa Test of Basic Skills is not used for anything other than to see how well the students do as compared to other students. The system spends a pretty good penny for this test. This test interrupts four days of instruction. This test is not aligned to the Georgia Performance Standards. (This VS the Presidents 21 Minute Speech)

Since we are a school who should not be wasting any instructional time, why are TEACHERS taking this test? On the other note, TEACHERS remember sitting two hours in the gym last year looking at a play that was put on by the Valdosta State University Drama Department. The play was good for lower grades but TEACHERS should not have lost instructional time looking at this play. This year alone, TEACHERS have lost time for a fund raiser drive and for students to go to the office to get ducks if they sold one item.

TEACHERS lose instructional time for students to escort grandparents on grandparent day. TEACHERS lose instructional time for the Valdosta High School Band to come and do a concert, TEACHERS lose instructional time for the Boy Scouts to recruit boys, TEACHERS lose instructional time for the book fair, TEACHERS lose instructional time for pep rallies, TEACHERS lose instructional time for school pictures, TEACHERS lose instructional time for STEEP testing that is on basic facts and the CRCT is based on problem solving, TEACHERS lose instructional time on Guided Reading and Guided Reading is a lower grades implementation program. Countless times TEACHERS lose instructional time but TEACHERS could not give the President 18 minutes. TEACHERS lose instructional time on honor roll parties that only recognize students that make all "A's" which is so unfair for those students who need just a little incentive.

The list goes on.... What are TEACHERS teaching our children when we say that the EXECUTIVE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF of the UNITED STATES message is so unimportant that TEACHERS need not listen to it? TEACHERS remember on inauguration day, TEACHERS all turned THEIR televisions on because history was being made for a man who gets no respect from the very same people who empowered him.

Simply because he did not turn out being another "MONKEY" on a string. Simply because he utilize his brain rather than his body like so many of our other wonderful presidents. Notice, I did not capitalize presidents. So we must really understand the definition of Title Town USA. Welcome to the “Title Town USA that you do not know! God Bless our Children under Superintendent Bill Cason and those forced him to make this decision. Apparently they are locked in the 1860 Valdosta Charter Mentality to control, suppress, and abate the people in Valdosta City School System. How Sad?



GEORGE BOSTON RHYNES
Retired United States Armed Forces Veteran
A concerned citizen and brother of humanity

Supt. Cason Makes History! Refuse to allow Children, and military dependents of soldiers, to watch Presidents Speech in 2009

September 12, 2009

George Boston Rhynes
Valdosta, Georgia

SUBJECT: Valdosta Makes History by Superintendent Bill Cason denying First Black African American President of the United States from speaking to Valdosta Inter City School Students on September 8, 2009.

TO: Associated Press (AP), National News Media Outlets, News papers, Internet, Blog, and Beyond

I met with Valdosta City School Superintendent Dr. Bill Cason prior to President Barack Obama address to school students across the nation. He expressed his reasons for denying children to watch the president’s speech and it made little to no sense to me. Nor did his quote published in the Valdosta Daily Times saying, “It is not that we were denying the children at all, we just chose the second alternative.”

The failure of our superintendent to consult with parents, teachers and students in a school system where Black African Students are in the majority is a total disgrace, and unacceptable. Superintendent Cason decision reminded me of the old Valdosta City Charter of 1860 to control, suppress, abate, and keep Blacks deaf, dumb, and blind to the times. This mentality is fueled and maintained by Valdosta local television, (ABC, NBC, CBS) newspaper and radio stations by not reporting information to the general public. This practice has been carried on in Valdosta-Lowndes County Georgia perhaps since 1860 without questions from those in control.

It was just five years ago (2004) when this 1860 Valdosta City Charter was removed from the wall on the second floor of Valdosta City Hall leading into the Valdosta Municipal Court Room where citizens came expecting to justice under the law in Valdosta-Lowndes County Georgia. Even our local Judicial System must be called into question because of this 1860 mentality.

Now just five years later we see our City School Superintendent aligned himself with the dictates of this outdated 1860 charter by banning President Obama message to Valdosta inter city school children. Dr. Case should have taken his example from the Lowndes County School Superintendent that deviated in some degree from this document and allowed some students attending county schools to watch the speech.

This outdated Valdosta City Charter of 1860 read, in Article 100, Section XI: “THAT THE MAYOR AND COUNCIL SHALL PASS ALL PROPER AND NECESSARY LAWS AND ORDINANCES FOR THE CONTROL OF SLAVES AND FREE PERSONS OF COLOR IN SAID TOWN AND SUPPRESS AND ABATE ALL NUISANCES ARRIVING FROM HOGS, DOGS, HORSES, OR OTHER STOCK STRAYING AT LARGE IN SAID TOWN, OR FROM OTHER CAUSES.”

After retiring from the United States Armed Forces of the United States. I was literally shocked to see Valdosta Mayor and council members conducting the people business with these despicable words displayed on the wall leading into the Valdosta Municipal Court Room of Judge Edwards in 2004.

When I asked that this despicable charter be removed from the wall in city hall. It created much controversy but was reluctantly removed but not without vigorous debate from several members on the city council. Today it seems that the spirit of this document is prevalent in the hearts of our leaders and in other areas of our community that has influenced Dr. Cason disgraceful decision concerning our children.

Moreover the memory of this document along with Dr. Cason despicable decision only fuels the on going debate that some citizens along with their children are not as good as others in Valdosta-Lowndes County. Perhaps this was best described by the words of Valdosta City Councilman Robert Yost of the 6th district who was quoted in the Valdosta Daily Times as saying, “Is Councilman Robert Yost saying that it's OK to kill a person who shoots and wounds a police officer because of cost incurred at a hospital?” The writer of the Letter to the Editor said, “Wow, what a thought process at a council meeting, “

Although the Old Valdosta City Charter of 1860 Charter was removed physically. Dr. Cason seems to have made his point clear as crystal. That a continual system exists in Valdosta-Lowndes County Georgia to control, suppress, and abate all nuisances arriving from hogs, dogs, horses, citizens being properly informed or other stock straying at large in Valdosta, or from other causes that could arrive from a Harvard Graduate (President Barack Obama) telling school children to take on individual responsibility.

In addition it is becoming apparent that our local governmental bodies, television, newspaper, radio, religious institutions and others are contributing to the longevity of the 1860 mean spirited mentality in 2009, and is not just limited to Blacks but to all who live and visit our beloved community.

This controlling and suppressing of news worthy events and the information at Valdosta Public Meetings in the State of Georgia by local ABC, NBC, CBS Television, Newspaper, and Radio Stations keeps local citizens deaf, dumb, and blind to the times and unable to make intelligent decisions based on facts.

Therefore it is imperative that Americans understand that Black African Americans endured much abuse, suffering and mistreatment in America. However Blacks never stooped so low as to spread hate filled speeches, criticism, condemnation, call a sitting president a lie before the United States Congress, the American people via satellite around the world as was done by a white Southerner from South Carolina.

copy and paste VIDEO, A FIGHT FOR YOUR SOUL:
http://vimeo.com/3686946

Not even during slavery, Jim Crow, segregation or the lynching crusades in the south did Blacks disrespect the other 43 White Male Presidents as is now being done to our 44th President of the United States of America, his wife, and children. We must understand that NEVER before in the history of our beloved nation has an American President been disrespected as President Obama and it is sad that Valdosta is on the wrong side of history in the 21st Century.

Therefore Dr. Cason has highlighted a need for all people of conscience to understand that “the fight for our soul must continue.” So how much is enough in the land of the free and the home of the braves?

So in 2009 the Old Valdosta City Charter Mentality of 1860 seems alive; and well in the most effective controlling and suppressing process. As it was on May 5, 2005 when an elected official made comments during the Valdosta City Council Meeting similar to those in the 1860 charter that resulted in fifteen law-abiding citizens being arrested because they address their elected officials concerning placing an item on the agenda to rename Barber Park. This was a public park that was located in a community that is 89 percent Black. But as it is often the case in Valdosta this arrest and the circumstances surrounding the arrest and incarceration is perhaps the best-kept hush, hush secret in our community. Thanks to our local television, newspaper, and radio controlling, and suppress machines that keep the general public ignorant.

Therefore we must not permit Dr. Cason to control and suppress information designed to inform and educate our children. He has NOW set a disgraceful white cloud, and dangerous precedence so no other American President, military recruiter, Politician, Celebrity, visitor, mark election for students, law enforcement officers, city mayor, Councilmen, county commissioner, fire chief etc., should be permitted to come into the Valdosta City School System and address our children-----without first getting approval from certain parents or a law suit should be filed immediately against the Valdosta City School System based on the superintendent actions in this case.

Seemingly the City of Valdosta made history by our superintendent denying students to watch the presidents address and saying, “It does not align to Georgia state standards, and therefore would not meet the district’s instructional goals, nor would it help students achieve or exceed personal and educational goals, use every instructional minute we have to bring these kids up to par, especially in language arts and math....and following the Georgia Performance Standards.”

Therefore Dr. Cason should consider resigning to another position or retiring so he can better serve our students and community so all children can reach their highest potential. This will better empowered our children to face the future with confidence instead of remaining deaf, dumb, and blind as a result of political arm-twisting by the few over the many.

In addition this control, suppress, and abate mentality can only lead to long-term indoctrination, and incarceration of our children instead of being properly educated by a Harvard graduate. God bless Valdosta, Lowndes County, the State of Georgia and our beloved republic.

http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/georgerhynes/CvHq/commentary



GEORGE BOSTON RHYNES
Retired United States Armed Forces Veteran
A concerned citizen and brother of humanity

Other proof of Control, suppress, abate etch

Video: A fight for your soul, http://vimeo.com/3686946

Video: A chorus of fear and the disparity of Black income VS Whites:

Part One:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3930808120854021155#

Part Two:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3930808120854021155#docid=932407478921834517

Reporter Johnna Pinholster Coverage of a public meeting.

http://jdeaths.blogspot.com/2009/09/letter-on-omissions-from-valdosta-city.html

George Boston Rhynes on Obama Site
http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/georgerhynes/CvHq/commentary

President Barack Obama Complete Speech, that Supt. Cason denied to children including the children of military stationed at Moody AFB, but living in Valdosta, Georgia. How Sad?

President Barack Obama Speech to American School Children. However Valdosta City School Superintendent Bill Cason said-- NO WAY! And so our children were NOT permitted to watch and hear the 44th President of the United States. Therefore history was made in Title Town U.S.A. How Sad?

How will those parent now serving in Iraq and Afghanistan feel bout Dr. Bill Cason denying these members sof our Armed Forces the right to hear from their Executive Commander-In-chief? Talk about disrespecting our Active Duty Personnel and Retired Military Veterans----this is it.....

PRESIDENT ADDRESS TO CHILDREN ACROSS AMERICA. BUT NOT TO VALDOSTA, GEORGIA, INTER CITY SCHOOL CHILDREN. THANKS TO SUPERINTENDENT BIL CASON.

Hello everyone - how's everybody doing today? I'm here with students at Wakefield High School in Arlington, Virginia. And we've got students tuning in from all across America, kindergarten through twelfth grade. I'm glad you all could join us today.

I know that for many of you, today is the first day of school. And for those of you in kindergarten, or starting middle or high school, it's your first day in a new school, so it's understandable if you're a little nervous. I imagine there are some seniors out there who are feeling pretty good right now, with just one more year to go. And no matter what grade you're in, some of you are probably wishing it were still summer, and you could've stayed in bed just a little longer this morning.

I know that feeling. When I was young, my family lived in Indonesia for a few years, and my mother didn't have the money to send me where all the American kids went to school. So she decided to teach me extra lessons herself, Monday through Friday - at 4:30 in the morning.

Now I wasn't too happy about getting up that early. A lot of times, I'd fall asleep right there at the kitchen table. But whenever I'd complain, my mother would just give me one of those looks and say, "This is no picnic for me either, buster."

So I know some of you are still adjusting to being back at school. But I'm here today because I have something important to discuss with you. I'm here because I want to talk with you about your education and what's expected of all of you in this new school year.

Now I've given a lot of speeches about education. And I've talked a lot about responsibility.

I've talked about your teachers' responsibility for inspiring you, and pushing you to learn.

I've talked about your parents' responsibility for making sure you stay on track, and get your homework done, and don't spend every waking hour in front of the TV or with that Xbox.

I've talked a lot about your government's responsibility for setting high standards, supporting teachers and principals, and turning around schools that aren't working where students aren't getting the opportunities they deserve.

But at the end of the day, we can have the most dedicated teachers, the most supportive parents, and the best schools in the world - and none of it will matter unless all of you fulfill your responsibilities. Unless you show up to those schools; pay attention to those teachers; listen to your parents, grandparents and other adults; and put in the hard work it takes to succeed.

And that's what I want to focus on today: the responsibility each of you has for your education. I want to start with the responsibility you have to yourself.

Every single one of you has something you're good at. Every single one of you has something to offer. And you have a responsibility to yourself to discover what that is. That's the opportunity an education can provide.
Maybe you could be a good writer - maybe even good enough to write a book or articles in a newspaper - but you might not know it until you write a paper for your English class. Maybe you could be an innovator or an inventor - maybe even good enough to come up with the next iPhone or a new medicine or vaccine - but you might not know it until you do a project for your science class. Maybe you could be a mayor or a Senator or a Supreme Court Justice, but you might not know that until you join student government or the debate team.

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And no matter what you want to do with your life - I guarantee that you'll need an education to do it. You want to be a doctor, or a teacher, or a police officer? You want to be a nurse or an architect, a lawyer or a member of our military? You're going to need a good education for every single one of those careers. You can't drop out of school and just drop into a good job. You've got to work for it and train for it and learn for it.

And this isn't just important for your own life and your own future. What you make of your education will decide nothing less than the future of this country. What you're learning in school today will determine whether we as a nation can meet our greatest challenges in the future.

You'll need the knowledge and problem-solving skills you learn in science and math to cure diseases like cancer and AIDS, and to develop new energy technologies and protect our environment. You'll need the insights and critical thinking skills you gain in history and social studies to fight poverty and homelessness, crime and discrimination, and make our nation more fair and more free. You'll need the creativity and ingenuity you develop in all your classes to build new companies that will create new jobs and boost our economy.

We need every single one of you to develop your talents, skills and intellect so you can help solve our most difficult problems. If you don't do that - if you quit on school - you're not just quitting on yourself, you're quitting on your country.

Now I know it's not always easy to do well in school. I know a lot of you have challenges in your lives right now that can make it hard to focus on your schoolwork.

I get it. I know what that's like. My father left my family when I was two years old, and I was raised by a single mother who struggled at times to pay the bills and wasn't always able to give us things the other kids had. There were times when I missed having a father in my life. There were times when I was lonely and felt like I didn't fit in.

So I wasn't always as focused as I should have been. I did some things I'm not proud of, and got in more trouble than I should have. And my life could have easily taken a turn for the worse.

But I was fortunate. I got a lot of second chances and had the opportunity to go to college, and law school, and follow my dreams. My wife, our First Lady Michelle Obama, has a similar story. Neither of her parents had gone to college, and they didn't have much. But they worked hard, and she worked hard, so that she could go to the best schools in this country.

Some of you might not have those advantages. Maybe you don't have adults in your life who give you the support that you need. Maybe someone in your family has lost their job, and there's not enough money to go around. Maybe you live in a neighborhood where you don't feel safe, or have friends who are pressuring you to do things you know aren't right.

But at the end of the day, the circumstances of your life - what you look like, where you come from, how much money you have, what you've got going on at home - that's no excuse for neglecting your homework or having a bad attitude. That's no excuse for talking back to your teacher, or cutting class, or dropping out of school. That's no excuse for not trying.

Where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up. No one's written your destiny for you. Here in America, you write your own destiny. You make your own future.

That's what young people like you are doing every day, all across America.
Young people like Jazmin Perez, from Roma, Texas. Jazmin didn't speak English when she first started school. Hardly anyone in her hometown went to college, and neither of her parents had gone either. But she worked hard, earned good grades, got a scholarship to Brown University, and is now in graduate school, studying public health, on her way to being Dr. Jazmin Perez.

I'm thinking about Andoni Schultz, from Los Altos, California, who's fought brain cancer since he was three. He's endured all sorts of treatments and surgeries, one of which affected his memory, so it took him much longer - hundreds of extra hours - to do his schoolwork. But he never fell behind, and he's headed to college this fall.

And then there's Shantell Steve, from my hometown of Chicago, Illinois. Even when bouncing from foster home to foster home in the toughest neighborhoods, she managed to get a job at a local health center; start a program to keep young people out of gangs; and she's on track to graduate high school with honors and go on to college.

Jazmin, Andoni and Shantell aren't any different from any of you. They faced challenges in their lives just like you do. But they refused to give up. They chose to take responsibility for their education and set goals for themselves. And I expect all of you to do the same.

That's why today, I'm calling on each of you to set your own goals for your education - and to do everything you can to meet them. Your goal can be something as simple as doing all your homework, paying attention in class, or spending time each day reading a book. Maybe you'll decide to get involved in an extracurricular activity, or volunteer in your community. Maybe you'll decide to stand up for kids who are being teased or bullied because of who they are or how they look, because you believe, like I do, that all kids deserve a safe environment to study and learn. Maybe you'll decide to take better care of yourself so you can be more ready to learn. And along those lines, I hope you'll all wash your hands a lot, and stay home from school when you don't feel well, so we can keep people from getting the flu this fall and winter.

Whatever you resolve to do, I want you to commit to it. I want you to really work at it.

I know that sometimes, you get the sense from TV that you can be rich and successful without any hard work -- that your ticket to success is through rapping or basketball or being a reality TV star, when chances are, you're not going to be any of those things.

But the truth is, being successful is hard. You won't love every subject you study. You won't click with every teacher. Not every homework assignment will seem completely relevant to your life right this minute. And you won't necessarily succeed at everything the first time you try.

That's OK. Some of the most successful people in the world are the ones who've had the most failures. JK Rowling's first Harry Potter book was rejected twelve times before it was finally published. Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team, and he lost hundreds of games and missed thousands of shots during his career. But he once said, "I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."

These people succeeded because they understand that you can't let your failures define you - you have to let them teach you. You have to let them show you what to do differently next time. If you get in trouble, that doesn't mean you're a troublemaker, it means you need to try harder to behave. If you get a bad grade, that doesn't mean you're stupid, it just means you need to spend more time studying.

No one's born being good at things, you become good at things through hard work. You're not a varsity athlete the first time you play a new sport. You don't hit every note the first time you sing a song. You've got to practice. It's the same with your schoolwork. You might have to do a math problem a few times before you get it right, or read something a few times before you understand it, or do a few drafts of a paper before it's good enough to hand in.

Don't be afraid to ask questions. Don't be afraid to ask for help when you need it. I do that every day.

Asking for help isn't a sign of weakness, it's a sign of strength. It shows you have the courage to admit when you don't know something, and to learn something new. So find an adult you trust - a parent, grandparent or teacher; a coach or counselor - and ask them to help you stay on track to meet your goals.

And even when you're struggling, even when you're discouraged, and you feel like other people have given up on you - don't ever give up on yourself. Because when you give up on yourself, you give up on your country.

The story of America isn't about people who quit when things got tough. It's about people who kept going, who tried harder, who loved their country too much to do anything less than their best.

It's the story of students who sat where you sit 250 years ago, and went on to wage a revolution and found this nation. Students who sat where you sit 75 years ago who overcame a Depression and won a world war; who fought for civil rights and put a man on the moon. Students who sat where you sit 20 years ago who founded Google, Twitter and Facebook and changed the way we communicate with each other.

So today, I want to ask you, what's your contribution going to be? What problems are you going to solve? What discoveries will you make? What will a president who comes here in twenty or fifty or one hundred years say about what all of you did for this country?

Your families, your teachers, and I are doing everything we can to make sure you have the education you need to answer these questions. I'm working hard to fix up your classrooms and get you the books, equipment and computers you need to learn. But you've got to do your part too. So I expect you to get serious this year. I expect you to put your best effort into everything you do. I expect great things from each of you. So don't let us down - don't let your family or your country or yourself down. Make us all proud. I know you can do it.

Thank you, God bless you, and God bless America.

Presentation to Mayor and Council on.....Supt. Cason Resignation, and is Valdosta, Television, News Paper, and Radio Stations keeping citizens deaf, dumb, and blind to the times---by NOT reporting the news?

Local Television, newspaper, and radio stations failed to keep citizens properly informed on how our 44th President is treated during a war on two fronts in foreign lands.  We can only imagine Why?

George Boston Rhynes,ADDRESS TO VALDOSTA CITY MAYOR JOHN FRETTI, COUNCIL, AND CITIZENS.  (September 10, 2009 5:30pm, in Council chambers)
 

PRESENTATION:  Mr. Mayor and Council my name is George Boston Rhynes. During Citizens to be heard portion of the meeting we are asked NOT to engage any individual council member and that you will get back with us at a latter date.  Therefore I would like to say several of my issues brought before you have not been addressed. And when my questions are not addressed it reminds me of the Old Valdosta City charter of 1860 that was removed from these walls, and I won’t get into that now.

The second item I have Mr. Mayor, Council, and fellow citizens is that our Valdosta City School Superintendent made history the other day when he denied inter city school children to listen to the 1st Black African American President, a Harvard Graduate, and the Executive-Commander-In-Chief of some mothers, and fathers now serving in Iraq, Afghanistan and in other countries around the world.

Mr. Mayor, council, and fellow citizens this is totally unacceptable to me for this to be done to our children. This is a disgrace at a time when our nation is progressing towards change, and inclusion but caught up in economic hard times.

I am a United States Armed Forces Military Veteran, I mean a Retired Militay Veteran of the United States Armed Forces living in a School System where Black Students are the majority (80%). It really hurts me, my heart bubbles, and I am standing here today because I want the people of Valdosta and Lowndes County Georgia to know. That I am not happy, by the decision made by our superintendent of Valdosta City School System. It does not please me when I reflect upon my service to this country. You know; I could have been killed while in a foreign nation defending this country. I was once on a plane over Guam we looked over the wing and saw an engine on fire, I could have died that day.

So I want to add this Mr. Mayor and council. That never before in the history of our beloved nation have a President of the United States been called a lier before the United States Congress, the American People and the world. Mr. Mayor and council---Black Folks! Black African Americans, and the reason---I use Black African Americans is because there are White African Americans that came from the continent of Africa too. But they did not go through the pain, suffering, and mistreatment as Black African American People.

So I say Black African Americans. Blacks were terrorized in this country. It was in the year of 1555, when Sir John Hawkins a European Slave Trader brought our ancestors to these shores aboard a slave ship called Jesus. Blacks were adult napped, and kid napped, murdered outright, without receiving justice, not permitted to assemble in groups of more than five at a time, not permitted to attend church without a white person being present, called three fifths of a human being, forbidden from having a family, the black woman carried half-white babies in their womb for nine months that did not look like them. Blacks were forbidden from learning how to read and write, not permitted to protect their own children, it was against the law to strike a white person even in self-defense, Blacks were stripped of their name, not allowed to speak in their mother tongue, stripped of their God, and given a White God, a White Jesus, and told that their Black skin was a curse from God. Yes the Black man was stripped of his religion, their culture, and the knowledge of self.

But through it all Blacks never criticized, condemned, threatened or called any of the other 43 White Male Presidents a lie. We never denied White Children or Black Children for that matter from listening to the other 43 White Male Presidents. Many of whom fathered Half Black Children and walked away from them for Blacks to raise and accept as their own family members without any type law in the courts to make the white man accountable for individual responsibility.

Mr. Mayor and Council; we never treated White People like they have consistently treated us; but it is a major disgrace to see what has been done in the Valdosta City School System by our superintendent, and it hurts all human beings with a conscience, it really hurts. I want to go on the record, because I want the people of Valdosta to realize, that all Black folks are not happy about Dr. Cason decision. Many of us are sadden by this despicable act. Many of us will not speak out publicly because of fear and the power of those in control. But if I have to be the voice of our people, then let the waters flow, where ever it must go. Not only that, but some Whites that are sitting among us today are not happy with the superintendent’s decision---but they too are afraid to stand up for for what they know in their heart, soul, and mind is right, and just.

So we may not like President Barack Obama because he is of a darker hew. But I ask you to think about the pain, suffering and mistreatment of Black people in this country. We fought for this country. Yet! The ones who denied us, of our God given rights, we respected them.

Yes! We did. O’ Yes, we did. We respected these undeserving White People, and we did not send NEGATIVES around the world condemning the ones who kept us under Jim Crow, under Slave Laws, and working from can’t see morning to can’t see night without an equal days pay, for the work we did. Moreover, it was written on white paper in black ink. That No Black person had rights---that a White man had to respect.

So now I am coming to a close Mr. Mayor and Council. But I just want you all to know today. That we, in Valdosta, Georgia can move forward or we can move backwards or we can follow the old 1860 Valdosta City Charter which says:

In Article 100, Section XI: “THAT THE MAYOR AND COUNCIL SHALL PASS ALL PROPER AND NECESSARY LAWS AND ORDINANCES FOR THE CONTROL OF SLAVES AND FREE PERSONS OF COLOR IN SAID TOWN AND SUPPRESS AND ABATE ALL NUISANCES ARRIVING FROM HOGS, DOGS, HORSES, OR OTHER STOCK STRAYING AT LARGE IN SAID TOWN, OR FROM OTHER CAUSES.”

So check this, we can only imagine how the Black Teachers, Black Principals, Black Parents, the Black Soldiers NOW fighting, and dying in Iraq and Afghanistan on foreign battlefields for this country---feels. When their little children were NOT permitted to listen to their EXECUTIVE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF in whose name they are willing to die for; but their own children cannot listen to a 20 minute speech about them getting a quality education. What about the mothers, fathers, sisters, and brothers of the parents of these children that our Superintendent has disrespected even cross the racial divide?

Who would have EVER believed, that “TITLE TOWN USA” would keep little children from watching their president and their parents Executive Commander-In-Chief from speaking to them in Valdosta City School System where Blacks are 80% of the students attending Valdosta City Schools. How Sad?

We can, and we must do better, or we might was well close up our BIBLES, close up the HOLY KORAN, close up the HOLY BOOK of the Native Indians, close up the HOLY TORAH BOOK of the Jews. So our children can see us, for what, and who we truly are in Valdosta-Lowndes County Georgia.

Thank you very much!

Then Councilman Sunny, District 3, was the ONLY MEMBER on the Valdosta City Council to say a single word. This includes Blacks on the Council, and James Wright, was NOT present from the meeting:

COUNCILMAN SONNY VICKERS SAID FOLLOWING MY ADDRESS:   “I agree with you 100 percent. I’m appalled at what happened in schools systems all over the country.” “I share your sentiments.”

MY RESPONSE TO MY VICKERS:  Yes Sir! Councilman Vickers, I appreciate your words. We are living in a time, when we must be reflective of the greatness of our nation, or we’re going to see the destruction of our nation. God sent us, Dr. Martin L. King Jr., and Dr. King spoke of Non-Violence, and yet he was murdered, and died violently.

MR. MAYOR AND COUNCIL:  I have said it before several times before this council, as well as at the Lowndes County Board of Commissioners. That if something else goes off in this city, I don’t believe the young people, I don’t believe anybody could control them, and I only make this comment for one reason. Many people are talking the 2nd amendment concerning guns and gun control. Well, these GUNS, these young Black boys have in their possession today, scares the heck out of ordinary people, including me.

Mayor responded to my concerns at the beginning of my address when I raised questions about several of my questions not being answered.

MAYOR FRETTI SAID: “We are working to answer (them) your questions…..” I then apologized about saying that no Black Pastor was on the Crime and Domestic Violence Panel a few weeks ago. I apologized, and said to the council that Pastor Morgan, and another pastor was scheduled to be on the panel, and attended a session of the planning of the meeting. However, they say they had previous commitments, and was no shows.

I told Mayor Fretti, and council members. That if they had informed the general public at the start of the meeting that two pastors from the Black African Community was scheduled but did not come. Then this could have been avoided and the community would not have felt left off the panel.

Again, I thanked the Mayor and Council and returned to my seat.


GEORGE BOSTON RHYNES
Retired United States Armed Forces Veteran
A concerned citizen and brother of humanity