Keisha Lance Bottoms throws the mayor job in the bushes

[Blankthawtz]

She know they was on her ass she was gonna lose in blowout fashion.

That's all I read from your post.....

 

[DrBanneker]

I hear what you’re saying and I’m not mad at you because your intentions seem good but I legit hate hearing this line of thinking. I hate the “oh back in the 80s/90s was the Atlanta I used to love” nah breh. Crime was much worse around the city then it was now, you still had public housing throughout the city and despite the income inequality and gentrification we have now, you didn’t have as much wealth creation for black people in the city. I grew up in that era here and y’all makin the 80s/90s shyt sound sweet. It wasn’t. For all its imperfections Atlanta is in a better overall place than it was 20 or 30 years ago

Yeah people forget ATL had the highest homicide rate in the country in the 90s and my parents were always scared for me and my bro. I remember kids getting shot up for Starter jackets and shoes at South Dekalb and even worse. You learned to apologize for slights and keep your head down since family friends lost their lives doing otherwise.

But ATL in the 90s did have a special dynamism. Wasn't so damn crowded and it was really finding its place in the sun from the entertainment nexus like Hammer, LaFace, Goodie Mob, Evander Holyfield,etc. This helped hugely to build the ATL brand. I still remember Chris Luva Luva (aka Ludacris) with Poom Daddy on the evening segment of Hot 97.5. Atlanta Braves being the first local sports franchise worth a damn, and just the feeling of general optimism in the Black middle class community. Every time I visited relatives in Cali or up north they are like "yeah we here that's the best place for us right now".

I'll leave Freaknik out of it though.

 

[OG Talk]

YEP, on Columbia right down to the street from the old Lionel Play World near Avondale Mall (RIP). That place was hood as shyt though and I have a high tolerance.

You know it. Right next to Jazzy T’s. You right it was hood as hell but fun when we were underaged and couldn’t get into real clubs.

That parking lot was notorious on Friday nights. First time I saw kids my age really gang banging in GA.

 

[Gold]

First page is full on stupidity

Brehs really thought she would be printing passport photos and stocking pistachios

 

[George's Dilemma]

I don't blame her. Go get that corporate money. I wish it was me. Politics is a thankless job and she wasn't in a good position. Matter fact, her situation in Atlanta shows the conundrum that is being a black politician. It truly is a damned if you do and damned if you don't job. You can't please everybody.

Look at the freak show that is this message board? Black woman is literally a foot away from lunging a knife into another black woman, and folks on here were mad at the cop that shot the one getting ready to stab someone fatally. Now imagine being a black mayor navigating that kind of unreasonableness? On one hand trying to keep the peace and resect people's rights, on the other hand if you trample down on the fukkery your own people are mad at you. Fukk that. Who needs that foolishness. Go get the money. I salute Keisha Lance Bottoms and wish her well.

 

[GoAggieGo.]

Just to say one more thing. Atlanta is my favorite city in America. I been in love with that city since I was a child and would go down there in the 90s to visit family.

As a Chicago kid to see that many black folks living good and having so much of their own shyt. Plus their political power and businesses made me feel good even as a child seeing that.

Even though we had some of that in chicago but not on that level. Not at all.

So I will always root for that city and the black residents there.

Yea, it’s my favorite city as well. I remember as a kid driving from NC to see fam in MS or Louisiana, driving through the city and if I had fallen asleep on the ride, I’d tell my dad to wake me up when we got to ATL.

I came from a feeder state (Mississippi) to ATL, and ATL has provided me and mine a good life. I work around black folks, live in a black neighborhood, and I love it.

 

[get these nets]

as it should be.....

Yeah
The current CEO is an alumna of Spelman. Likely that she's on the Board of Trustees.
You can't get elected as mayor in Atlanta without the support of the power brokers.

Accomplished Black people putting accomplished Black people on. The same thing other groups do.

 

[DrBanneker]

Yeah
The current CEO is an alumna of Spelman. Likely that she's on the Board of Trustees.
You can't get elected as mayor in Atlanta without the support of the power brokers.

Accomplished Black people putting accomplished Black people on. The same thing other groups do.

She is actually the chair though they haven't updated her position from her old job yet.
Trustee Rosalind G. Brewer, C'84 | Spelman College

I hadn't realized Gwen Adams-Norton (Peter Norton's (Symantec founder) second wife) is an officer as well.

 

[Playaz Eyez]

Hopefully the next ATL mayor is black, but not a cornball

 

[AVXL]

Yeah people forget ATL had the highest homicide rate in the country in the 90s and my parents were always scared for me and my bro. I remember kids getting shot up for Starter jackets and shoes at South Dekalb and even worse. You learned to apologize for slights and keep your head down since family friends lost their lives doing otherwise.

But ATL in the 90s did have a special dynamism. Wasn't so damn crowded and it was really finding its place in the sun from the entertainment nexus like Hammer, LaFace, Goodie Mob, Evander Holyfield,etc. This helped hugely to build the ATL brand. I still remember Chris Luva Luva (aka Ludacris) with Poom Daddy on the evening segment of Hot 97.5. Atlanta Braves being the first local sports franchise worth a damn, and just the feeling of general optimism in the Black middle class community. Every time I visited relatives in Cali or up north they are like "yeah we here that's the best place for us right now".

I'll leave Freaknik out of it though.

Yea man I’m a Crawford Long baby, born on the Westside (I used to stay in Heritage Homes off Campbellton Rd) moved to the Eastside and went to Chapel Hill Elem, Chapel Hill Middle, Cedar Grove before I moved back to Cascade in HS. So I have fond memories of Atlanta and I loved the Atlanta I knew as a child and teen growing up. I love the city to the core now but sometimes people romanticize the past and are overly critical of the current situation when if you look at it objectively the city had a lot of different problems than it has now

 

[AVXL]

BTW, Mayor Bottoms just spoke an hour ago. She confirmed that she is NOT going to Walgreens so please change the title

 

[keond]

What middle school you go to? Peachtree Junior, but I lived behind McNair and went to summer camp at MLK and Crawford Long in East Point.

What HS? Dunwoody

You ever stood in line at the 559?Yea, but I was under 21 and couldn't get it

What mall you used hang out at, Shannon, Green Briar, South Dekalb? (Every transplant knows Lennox). Went South Dekalb, Quad Cinemas and Barrell of Monkeys Arcade.

What Marta bus numbers did you take as a kid? 22 Second Ave, went to East Lake.

What squad were you on at Gresham Park? Nah, we played at Exchange, ut we practice at Leslie J Steele and Bob Mathis.

What’s the last spot Hosea Williams did Thanksgiving Dinner? dunno

You ever hoop at Run and Shoot? did a midnight run with two stepfathers (not at the same time) but I got kicked for fouling

What was the booty club next to it called? I don't know, i went to it when it became Gold Rush, I went to Pleasers but it was lame by then.

How much were lap dances? I don't pay no more than $5 for no lap dance unless im in a white club.

Remember The Gate? Too Young.

What spot in Buckhead had the freakiest white hoes. Apartments behind Fresh Market had some freaky white bishes. One came into the store with a bikini once.

Chilli Pepper, Oxygen, World Bar, Makos or Bell Bottoms? Too Young

You certified


A certain somebody ducking the hell out of this thread now

 

[daemonova]

Yea man I’m a Crawford Long baby, born on the Westside (I used to stay in Heritage Homes off Campbellton Rd) moved to the Eastside and went to Chapel Hill Elem, Chapel Hill Middle, Cedar Grove before I moved back to Cascade in HS. So I have fond memories of Atlanta and I loved the Atlanta I knew as a child and teen growing up. I love the city to the core now but sometimes people romanticize the past and are overly critical of the current situation when if you look at it objectively the city had a lot of different problems than it has now

city was better 20 years ago than now, no denying that, nostagia aside.

 

[AVXL]

city was better 20 years ago than now, no denying that, nostagia aside.

Depends who you’re talking to. I disagree BTW but again depending on who you ask I understand someone saying that

 

[daemonova]

employment opportunities was better. You could tell one job to eff off and go down the street and get another. During the Olympics, I worked for AMC phipps, fell out with them, across the street Lenox Square United Artists and worked there until college started.

Chicks were cooler too. Never forget the downtown house party at a Loft where I got to second base with big tiddy light skin cuban for free on Marietta Street. Nothing like that happening now. Back then, you said you wanted i,. 6 out of 10 times you got it. Now you better hope HR don't come looking for you. White chick tried to entrapment me on the beer aisle at the Kroger on Chamblee Dunwoody, Based on everything that happened, She tried to get me fired.