SCLC, NAACP, Brothers United, and Issues Concerning Us (ICU) Valdosta Daily Times Wrong Information!

October 15, 2009


TO: Editors, Message Boards, Blog http://medianeeded.blogspot.com/
and beyond

The Valdosta Daily Times Column by the Managing Editor Kay Harris and Publisher J.H. Sanders on October 14, 2009 shows the narrow mind set, incorrect information and perhaps fueling the race issue in order to discredit the messenger and local organizations in order to blur the vision of the general public---away from the real issues.

I agree with Rev. Dr. Martin L. King Jr. quote you published saying, “I HAVE A DREAM THAT ONE DAY ON THE RED HILLS OF GEORGIA, THE SONS OF FORMER SLAVES OWNERS WILL BE ABLE TO SIT TOGETHER AT THE TABLE OF BROTHERHOOD.”

However the editor and publisher is 100% wrong in spreading venom that the (SCLC, NAACP, Brothers United, and Issues Concerning US (ICU) have distorted the work of Rev. King by saying that whites cannot educate Blacks and Blacks should only be with Blacks?

How have Kings Words been distorted and used in such a hate-filled diatribe against another race as indicated in the Times Column? Why make such FALSE accusations to the general public? Why did not the editor and publisher address the real issues and disgraceful statistics: http://medianeeded.blogspot.com/2009/10/rev-floyd-rose-asks-valdosta-city.html, at Valdosta High School that was so eloquently presented before the Valdosta City School Board? Why did you not mention the 1971 Court Order from the U.S. Justice Department and if it had been complied with since the school has received federal funds? Why omit the extremely low number of Black Teachers in employed etc. Why do the times continue to stir up confusion when there is not need for it? Why and why did you NOT ask why local television stations NOT cover this historical and controversial meetings? Why? What are you trying to do? Let us be real!

Why would you say, “Shame on those who want to turn back the clock, to undo all of the true good that has happened in the last 40 years, and to rip apart the dream of equality that so many have worked so hard to create?” How have Black and White Right people in Valdosta tarnished the dream of Dr. Martin L. King Jr. for which he lived, suffered, and was murdered for?

I ask the publisher and editor to prove their FALSE accusations against local organizations, Black and White Right people in support of Superintendent Bill Cason resignation for NOT allowing Valdosta City School Children to watch President Obama speech on live television.

Moreover, the Times are in NO position to remind anyone of Kings Dream. We are

Living the dream every day and receiving the same condemnation from the media as Dr. King did while he lived.
http://community.freespeech.org/george_boston_rhynes_address_to_valdosta_mayor%2C_council_and_beyond%21_%28city_council_meeting%2C_may_5%2C_2005%29

So please don’t play games, unless you are willing to publish the truth on the field of play. The times quoted one of Dr. King’s famous quotes but here is a few more you may want to publish in the paper;

“Rationalizations and the incessant search for scapegoats are the psychological cataracts that blind us to our sins. But the day has passed for superficial patriotism. He who lives with untruth lives in spiritual slavery. Freedom is still the bonus we receive for knowing the truth. ““…..and that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality. There comes a time when silence becomes betrayal.”

“Now it isn't easy to stand up for truth and for justice. Sometimes it means being frustrated. When you tell the truth and take a stand, sometimes it means that you will walk the streets with a burdened heart. Sometimes it means losing a job...means being abused and scorned. It may mean having a seven, eight year old child asking a daddy, "Why do you have to go to jail so much?"

Now since the times editor and publisher apparently have so much hatred and dislike for our 44th president I too will QUOTE Dr. Martin L. King Jr. “We’re not going to win this battle of hate and terror by hating other folks. Hate does not help the hater and it does not 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 hate. There is something about hate that keeps you from standing up straight. And when you hate you cannot see straight. When you hate, you lose your power of objectivity. When you hate somebody, you cannot 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 begins to sell for $1.000 and diamond rings for five cents, because that is the wrong price tag on things. Something about hate, that does something to the hater and so our way must be the way of love.” (Martin Luther King Jr.,)

Therefore it is incumbent upon every real patriotic AMERICAN to fully understand. “That hate is a weapon of mass destruction, so don’t participate, and hate will ultimately destroy itself. G.B.R.



GEORGE BOSTON RHYNES (G.B.R.)
Retired United States Armed Forces Veteran
A concerned citizen and brother of humanity