‘Say No To Hate’ Community, Diversity
Sunday September 30, 2018 11:59 PM EDT
A Q & A of Atlanta locals regarding Civil Rights and current political climes.
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Say No to Hate: Sara T. Cushing Community
Thursday August 30, 2018 08:59 AM EDT
I think the most important problem is the splintering of people into different tribes and factions, aided and abetted by actors (domestic and foreign) for whom it is profitable to emphasize and encourage this trend. This includes corporations, the media, and government — not all, of course, but when...
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Say No to Hate: Michelle Malone Community
Thursday August 30, 2018 08:51 AM EDT
People getting sucked in by drama and taking the bait that created the division in the first place. It causes people to focus on our differences instead of our commonalities. We are so much bigger than affiliations. We have so much more in common than not. Regardless, we should show respect and love...
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Say No to Hate: L. Edward Phillips Community
Thursday August 30, 2018 08:44 AM EDT
The biggest problem, in the U.S. overall and in Atlanta, may be the relative lack of significant, meaningful communities where we engage personally with people across racial, social, gender, and ideological differences. We have never had a time in U.S. history when we have as a society really promot...
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Say No to Hate: Kevn Kinney Community
Thursday August 30, 2018 07:55 AM EDT
We are divided. Always have been. The civil rights fight is on going; the civil rights fight is ever growing. The color of America is constantly changing. There is color in America. Just because Sesame Street is color blind and integrated doesn’t mean Main Street is … We have made progress as a comm...
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Say No to Hate: Ruwa Romman Community
Thursday August 30, 2018 07:29 AM EDT
We believe that one of the most significant problems facing Americans today is the risk that our nation will regress to a time when we were divided, both legally and socially, based on race, religion, and ethnicity. These divisions have always existed in America, but in recent decades, it seemed tho...
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Say No to Hate: PD Scullin Community
Wednesday August 29, 2018 06:40 PM EDT
The search for truth is the most crucial problem in America today. Trump has a base of 35-40% support, over 90% among Republicans. The GOP has gone all-in on this cult of personality in return for tax cuts, deregulation, and conservative court appointments with the long game of overturning Roe v Wad...
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Say No to Hate: Our Revolution Georgia Community
Wednesday August 29, 2018 06:27 PM EDT
(Inter)Nationally, the most important problem facing Americans is income and wealth inequality. In Atlanta, segregation is the most pressing issue.
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Say No to Hate: Henry H. Owings Community
Wednesday August 29, 2018 06:14 PM EDT
Rampant greed and hiding behind increased property values. White privilege. Entitlement. Spoiled bitches. Career politicians. Condos. Bro culture. Okay, bro culture isn’t an important problem, I just hate it. I think class war is at the foundation of all of this. Gentrification. I moved to Atlanta b...
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Say No to Hate: Victor Mariachi Community
Wednesday August 29, 2018 05:45 PM EDT
The lack of self-awareness as a nation. Our unhealthy lifestyles and how we conduct ourselves on a day-to-day basis. This constant tug of war of who is right and who is wrong is a never-ending cycle that adds more fuel to the fire. It doesn’t help when the main purpose on people’s minds is to obtain...
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Say No to Hate: Betty Blondeau Community
Wednesday August 29, 2018 05:31 PM EDT
The most important problem facing us today is the threat to our democratic system. That threat is probably based in the racist, sexist politics espoused by Donald Trump and embraced by his ardent base. His positions, frequently tweeted, have allowed many to come out of the closet in expressing their...
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Say No to Hate: Saira Raza Community
Wednesday August 29, 2018 04:40 PM EDT
The list is long and it’s all really important. But most of the things on that list have a root cause, and I think it’s greed. People’s desire for power and wealth outweighs their humanity and their ability to see humanity in others.
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Say No to Hate: Nathaniel Smith Community
Wednesday August 29, 2018 04:14 PM EDT
One of the most important problems facing America is the widening income inequality/economic mobility gap. For many, the “American Dream” is just that, a dream they will never realize. Many of the social and political challenges we are dealing with today stem from this problem.
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Say No to Hate: Donna J. Trump Community
Wednesday August 29, 2018 03:52 PM EDT
How to get people to follow The Real Donna J. Trump instead of Donald J. Trump. This is true throughout the world.
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Say No to Hate: Sara Webb Phillips Community
Wednesday August 29, 2018 03:23 PM EDT
The rise of white supremacy.
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Say No to Hate: Jack Turner Community
Wednesday August 29, 2018 03:12 PM EDT
The most urgent problem facing not just Atlanta, but all of humanity, is the fact the U.S. is now ruled by a fascist regime (Trump/Pence) set on reshaping society in a way that will be catastrophic for humanity and the planet.
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Say No to Hate: Josh McLaurin Community
Wednesday August 29, 2018 02:45 PM EDT
A decline in trust. We’re losing opportunities to get to know each other. We spend all kinds of time and money creating our own private, secluded spaces, both in the physical world and online, where we don’t have to encounter people who look or think differently than we do.
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Say No to Hate: Frank Glass Community
Wednesday August 29, 2018 09:21 AM EDT
“The most important problem facing Americans today” is that we have so many problems that rotate in and out of first place that we cannot choose and therefore cannot answer the question. The second part of the question is easier (for me). Atlanta’s most important problem is a subset of a national pr...
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Say No to Hate: Elizabeth Corrie Community
Wednesday August 29, 2018 08:53 AM EDT
The most important problem facing Americans today is the pervasive ideology of white settler colonialism. By this I mean that we live with a way of thinking brought over to America that goes back as far as the English Reformation in the 16th century — the belief that God has ordained a select group ...
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Say No to Hate: Randy Blazak Community
Wednesday August 29, 2018 08:40 AM EDT
The most important problem is the denial of the problem. Most white people have been lulled into the myth of a “post-racial” America. Research on implicit bias and the persistence of numerous forms of institutional racism, including in the criminal justice system, demonstrate the reality of racism i...
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Say No to Hate: Priscilla Smith Community
Wednesday August 29, 2018 08:25 AM EDT
Greed. The only consistent measure of success is wealth. If you’re so good, so smart, so talented, why aren’t you rich? Why should anybody listen to you? You’re accomplished, but if you’re poor, you haven’t “succeeded.” Rich, therefore smart. Rich, therefore good. There’s a paucity of everything, so...
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Say No to Hate: Rev. Fahed AbuAkel Community
Wednesday August 29, 2018 08:05 AM EDT
The greatest problem facing USA citizens today, is how to become a global citizen without having an imperialist or colonial mentality. The greatest problem facing Atlanta today is how to move from the white and black mentality to become a multicultural city in action and not in words only.
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Say No to Hate: Ray Dafrico Community
Tuesday August 28, 2018 05:24 PM EDT
The most serious issue for all Americans is the very real risk of our democracy being taken away, which is happening on a daily basis. There are so many issues: racism, human rights, climate change denial, guns, income equality, lack of a universal heathcare system, police brutality, tearing refugee...
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Say No to Hate: Glenn Phillips Community
Tuesday August 28, 2018 05:06 PM EDT
The most important problem facing all of us is our increasing inability to work with and get along with those who don’t share our views. I know it’s a cliché, but “United we stand, divided we fall.”
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Say No to Hate: Christopher Hollis Community
Tuesday August 28, 2018 04:50 PM EDT
Atlanta and America have never participated in reparations for its genocide, land theft, and displacement of indigenous peoples, its kidnapping and enslavement of African peoples, or its destabilization, colonization and assassinations in other nations. So, in 2018, what we are still faced with is t...
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