Education, not Incarceration
Organizational Meeting, Brooks County NAACP,
Quitman, Brooks County, Georgia, 18 July 2010
Videos by George Boston Rhynes for K.V.C.I.
Brooks County Juneteenth Festival. The mission is to restore, explore and
preserve African-Indian history in Brooks County Georgia. The purpose is
to honor, cherish and acknowledge the sacrifices our ancestors suffered
and endured to allow us the blessings we enjoy today. The theme is
“Honoring Our Past to Celebrate Our Future”. Anyone interested in being
on committee, participating as vendor, performer or display an exhibit
should call.
Once again, no comments or interviews from the Quitman Ten on the
alleged voter fraud charges against them. Moreover, nothing has been
published about
the Quitman Ten receiving support and recognition from
Brooks County Community Leaders,
Georgia State Senators, Representatives, President of GABEO, Chairman
of the Peoples Agenda, and other Civil and Human Rights Leaders and
organizations.
The Quitman 10 were arrested in Brooks County for alleged irregularities
with absentee ballots, the day after two of them were elected to the
Brooks County Board of Education.
Saturday (tomorrow) a statewide rally for them will be held in Macon:
When:
Saturday at 11:00pm – Sunday at 2:00am
Where:
Stewart Chapel AME Church, 887 Forsyth Street
Who:
Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sen. Robert Brown, Rep. Tyrone Brooks, Sen. Vincent Fort, Rep. David Lucas, Ms. Helen Butler
California can do it, and it turns out Brooks County can do it:
install solar hot water heaters on low-cost housing.
In Brooks County, they also installed solar electric panels.
Kevin Skeath explains the 2.03 kilowatt solar electric panels
on an apartment office, 9 solar thermal systems on the apartments,
and how you can reduce your power bill upwards of 30% just by heating
your regular hot water, and even more by using it for heating your rooms.
Continue reading →
I traveled to the Georgia State Capital February 22, 2011; in support of
the Quitman Ten. These brave, courageous freedom fightes stood and are
standing strong on behalf of Georgia Voter’s right to vote. This is a
short preview of what will be posted here as a reflection of what took
place at this meeting and historical event. As a concerned citizens
from the South Georgia, I commend the Georgia citizens that stood in
support of the Quitman Ten as they received rewards for their courage
and perhaps being forced to bring South Georgia into the 21st Century
along with other cities.
No person shall be eligible as a write-in candidate in a general
or special election if such person was a candidate for nomination or
election to the same office in the immediately preceding primary.
Now I want to say though we’ve met on what would have been my 87th birthday
may be some place of honor.
For this honor I want to thank you, and I must say to you:
unless the schools you have named for me teach children how to live
as much as how to make a living they will become little more than
battlegrounds for the frustrated individuals.
Unless the bridges that you have named for me
Approximately three hundred marchers converged onto the steps of the
Brooks County Courthouse to send a public message that voter intimidation
and voter disenfranchisement will not be tolerated.
This story has flown under the radar of the mainstream media, but the GBI
in conjunction with Republican J. David Miller, the district attorney for
the Southern Judicial District that represent majority-African-American
towns such as Thomasville, Moultrie, Valdosta and Alma, is preparing
to move forward in the targeting of ten African-American Brooks County
citizens, otherwise known as the “Quitman 10”.
In the appended post about yesterday’s events in Quitman,
George Rhynes cites the
WCTV
and
WALB
stories.
Curiously, the nearest local daily newspaper,
the Valdosta Daily Times, seems to have nothing online about this.
-jsq
At 8:30 AM, I began receiving phone calls from Quitman, Georgia
in the County of Brooks where the County
Sheriffs Office was arresting citizens at random concerning the recent
Absentee Ballot Problems.
These arrests reminded me of the alleged problems Black Voters/Citizens have
had with the GBI harassing them during their investigation before and during
the last run off election.
This included alleged actions by the GBI
Investigators that local citizens complained about intimidation before,
during and after the election. However little or no Public Media
Attention was given to alleged Black Voter intimidation by local media.
Moreover, little to nothing was published in the
FREE PRESS surrounding citizen’s fear from GBI Investigators. This was a
major point of discussion when I along with a local Pastor from Valdosta,
Georgia walked the streets to get a better understanding of what
Brooks County Voters had to go through during the last election.
The Quitman 10 started out as activists, and now they’re
taking it a step further: they hosted an
organizational meeting for an NAACP branch in Brooks County.
George Boston Rhynes was there and made this video
of students singing about
education, not incarceration:
At 8:30 AM, I began receiving phone calls from Quitman, Georgia
in the County of Brooks where the County
Sheriffs Office was arresting citizens at random concerning the recent
Absentee Ballot Problems.