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Even though MLK was murdered by an out...Anon 4:07,<br /><br />Even though MLK was murdered by an outsider, the reaction of the racist Mayor we had at the time who was the reason King was here, ruined the racial atmosphere.<br /><br />The ghost of Henry Loeb is unfortunately still with us.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12509286.post-17390151856284789182009-12-01T16:07:28.200-06:002009-12-01T16:07:28.200-06:00Actually I think MLK died here because a loon with...Actually I think MLK died here because a loon with no connection to Memphis chose to shoot him here. Memphis' race problem didn't kill him. And Memphis is hardly the only city in the world with race problems then or now. To argue that somehow Memphis' racial tensions caused the death of MLK is a hard argument to make, accurately anyway. <br />But the issue is whether it makes sense to consolidate or not. This diversion about Memphis' racial problems has little to do with the issues raised by SCM in the post.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12509286.post-67400853013884013852009-12-01T10:58:41.572-06:002009-12-01T10:58:41.572-06:00So anon; you must believe history and actions have...So anon; you must believe history and actions have no consequences, or are you so ignorant of the history of this city that you believe that black people 50 years ago were responsible for the legal 2nd class status they were in? White people DID create and uphold segregation, fool. That's a historical fact, and with such a large black population, we're dealing with the aftereffects still. to deny that requires either complete ignorance or a lack of honesty. Now go ahead and rattle on how you didn't do anything to any black people and tell us how hard you've had it. Typical.packratnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12509286.post-70597403919400241082009-12-01T08:43:44.094-06:002009-12-01T08:43:44.094-06:00"it was dependent upon a bunch of mostly segr..."it was dependent upon a bunch of mostly segregationist whites being able to see the handwriting and moving proactively to aggressively bring the black folks in this city into the mainstream."<br /><br />I KNEW IT..ITS ALL THE WHITE MENS FAULT!!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12509286.post-52561888272278162232009-12-01T08:30:42.022-06:002009-12-01T08:30:42.022-06:00Wow, that's a lot of bS arguments against cons...Wow, that's a lot of bS arguments against consolidation, but, none of them had an ounce of evidence, just a buttload of supposition surrounded by poppycock, rumor, superstition, parochial attitudes, and just plain BS.<br /> Too many vested interests in keeping money flowing into the tax structure unchecked and unsupervised.<br />RIP-OFF ALERT!!!<br /> ANY time anyone says, "it's too complicated and YOU wouldn't understand it" YOU are being hoodwinked.<br /><br />SHANGHAI CHINA, A labor town of slaves, has 7000 miles of maglev running through it for public transportation.<br /><br /> What does Memphis have?<br /><br />A lot of pissed off citizens and people saying "poo poo, to you".<br />The highest taxes in TN.<br />The highest violent crime rate in the state, almost in the whole country.<br />NO FRIKKIN PLAN TO SUCCEED.<br />BLABBER.<br />Aaron has it the closest, but, don't make excuses for sloth.<br /><br />I just heard that FEDEX IS leaving! WHAT????<br />uh oh, times is UP!Zippy the giverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07670742278387967862noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12509286.post-46333675649052765972009-11-30T17:47:17.107-06:002009-11-30T17:47:17.107-06:00There really isn't a lot of duplicated or rep...There really isn't a lot of duplicated or replicated services between Memphis and Shelby County governments. Most of the duplicated services are found when you compare services provided by Memphis to the services provided by the th six other municipalities. Services such as police, fire, engineering, planning, construction code enforcement, parks and rec, etc. are generally in most or all of the six other municipalities as well as Memphis.<br /><br />On top of all that, there is already considerable functional consolidation of services between Shelby County and Memphis (planning and code enforcement to name a couple of them).<br /><br />The idea that consolidation would eliminate a lot of duplication is really a canard absent the participation of all seven Shelby County municipalities.antisocialistnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12509286.post-10873055523881945392009-11-30T16:40:43.475-06:002009-11-30T16:40:43.475-06:00The challenges this metro area faces are formidabl...The challenges this metro area faces are formidable and many. And they are basically rooted in race, the historical aftereffects of slavery and 100 years of legal Jim Crow prejudice. Consolidation isn't going to happen, b/c people in the county believe they can still keep themselves separate from the problems of Memphis and prosper, and they can, for a short while. But inevitably, the poverty and crime demogrpahics of Memphis will overwhelm Shelby, AND the rest of the metro area. Fedex, WILL eventually re-locate, probably to Indianapolis. Then, it's lights out.<br />50 years ago, we still had s chance, but it was dependent upon a bunch of mostly segregationist whites being able to see the handwriting and moving proactively to aggressively bring the black folks in this city into the mainstream. Maybe it was too much to ask of them to see beyond themselves. Now we're reaping what they sowed. MLK getting murdered here was a SYMPTOM, not a cause of Memphis' malaise. He died here b/c we didn't have the leadership to deal equitably and fairly with the black underclass. (you know, treat them like they mattered)<br />At any rate, since people of money and means can and will move elsewhere, there isn't much hope for this area to prosper in years to come. Kind of a downer, but it's true.packratnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12509286.post-28540135555888130072009-11-30T13:24:43.167-06:002009-11-30T13:24:43.167-06:00Just because B follows A does not mean A caused B....Just because B follows A does not mean A caused B. These posts on cosolidation by SCM are always heavy on stories of cities that succeeded post consolidation without really explaining why consolidation was responsible for the success. Atlanta has numerous counties around it and several cities and it has done fine without consolidation. What we need to shake things up is not consolidation necessarily, its visionary grown up and responsible leaders. That's what the city has been missing. Wharton is a good start; the city counsel and county commission needs to be next. Where are the leaders who will put aside the arguments of the past and focus on what is important - building an attractive modern city that business wants to be associated with, and an educated populace? Until we find those, and until the voters are willing to back them, we will fail no matter how our governments are structured. After all, consolidation with Herenton at the head would have still been a failure.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12509286.post-5451513100509325642009-11-30T13:04:09.616-06:002009-11-30T13:04:09.616-06:00The reason we are not consolidated is because of r...The reason we are not consolidated is because of race. Democgraphics are different here than in Jacksonville and Nashville. Have the most honest and the most efficient city government you can and suburbanites will still say we aren't good enough. The reason? They do not want to be part of a majority black municipality.<br /><br />The only ways to achieve consolidation is to 1) convince them that a government under a good african american Mayor isn't so bad, 2) shame them into accepting consolidation, or 3) force them into it by new State laws or threats. <br /><br />Just so you'll know, I am white.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12509286.post-47363682194949611762009-11-30T10:44:37.362-06:002009-11-30T10:44:37.362-06:00I have a hard time accepting the notion that the p...I have a hard time accepting the notion that the problems we face in our community are caused by non-consolidated governments. <br /><br />The "real sell" for consolidation is outside of the city limits (what's the value proposition for them?). I don't think anyone has enough political capital to do this, except for maybe Fred Smith, only if he uses FEDEX as a hostage.Tom Guleffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15539315456809739338noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12509286.post-48819060925782004812009-11-30T09:13:54.070-06:002009-11-30T09:13:54.070-06:00This post way oversells the power of consolidation...This post way oversells the power of consolidation. Memphis has been in a freefall since 1819. Dr. King's assassination did not change our momentum or potential. A city that has systematically left behind 1/2 the population had none in the modern world. Consolidation won't fix that system. It won't make it worse, but probably will use a lot of Mayor Wharton's mental energy and political capital.<br /><br />Lots of small ideas cooperatively federated, ala Sustainable Shelby, would not shake the earth but it could bring about the same rationalization. For instance, de-duplication of services and taxation between county and Memphis (possible with Memphis majority on County Commission) and elimination of the Shelby County Mayor position (perhaps via charter vote).gatesofmemphishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00401189819920871321noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12509286.post-57257757827912803452009-11-30T08:59:38.536-06:002009-11-30T08:59:38.536-06:00consolidation?
whatsamatta, slow news day inside ...consolidation?<br /><br />whatsamatta, slow news day inside the parkways?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12509286.post-44578192456614303182009-11-30T07:14:10.957-06:002009-11-30T07:14:10.957-06:00Memphis problems are cultural.
Why would it have a...Memphis problems are cultural.<br />Why would it have a can do attitude when you are publicly and wholeheartedly engaged in slavery?<br />Doublespeak about regionalism, your shills (local news) says regionalism and your actions say Memphis First. WHY?<br />Sorry, no one but scum wants to get in bed with a liar and a cheap prostitute. They filed a movie about a Memphian in Atlanta and debuted it in NOLA! WHY?<br />The president routed the technological advancements AROUND Memphis when they could have gone through. WHY?<br />CULTURE of criminal behavior starts at home no, school, no, work. It's "all of the above".<br />We used to say "it's kids having babies", well, those babies grew up and had kids, their kids had kids while they were still kids, just like mom and dad, their kids had kids while they were kids too.<br />NO FULLY FUNCTIONING ADULTS.<br />What you have HERE is a cultivated culture with little education. A CULTIVATED condition, and a CULTURE as a response, designed to be exactly what it is, uneducated and not mentally lature in any area, including and especially conflict resolution and education, coupled.<br />Without those two things they will FOREVER BE THE SLAVES OF THE PAST. <br />It's a condition, with elements of institutionalized slavery handed down as a system, as taught by the past, economic slavery as a developed condition as the main effect, and the condition is called CULTIVATED SLAVERY.<br />In Memphis, all you had to do was live in a poor neighborhood to get your taste and going to a public school and many churches, the instruments of it's administration IN MEMPHIS, your chances of catching the disease were greatly increased. <br />This is just now beginning to see daylight.<br /> You NEED to consolidate, but, you have a history of not doing what you should do ever.<br /> I have to go ride around in circles in a trolley, in a part of town without enough police protection to guard people from assault and robbery while walking to the cleaners and grocery store that doesn't exist in that area. I'll take the bus to the hospital that will be closed once I get mugged and shot, if one shows up in time.<br /> You keep trying to save a dead city while political parasites, city council and shelby county commissioners, suck the absolute last breaths of life out of it.<br /> All talk, again.<br /> Get rid of your human ticks, and you won't look or act like such a junkyard dog to the rest of the country. You may save enough money to save the school system, the hospital, the busses, and downtown in the bargain.<br /> You want it to be more complicated than that, because you are a drama queen city, full of rumor and gossip, with no relationship to your own statistics, but, it's not complicated.Zippy the giverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07670742278387967862noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12509286.post-85537591147249893782009-11-30T06:39:35.713-06:002009-11-30T06:39:35.713-06:00Clean up the City government first so that the res...Clean up the City government first so that the rest of the County wants to consolidate with you. <br /><br />The City has lots of house cleaning to do before focusing on a much loftier goal. Or maybe work on both but don't let the consolidation distract the city from restoring the basics such as a efficient, citizen-friendly/responsive government.<br /><br />All IMHO.Aaronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00568405788081621565noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12509286.post-37165131454310620632009-11-29T23:17:36.353-06:002009-11-29T23:17:36.353-06:00If consolidation is such a good idea, the other si...If consolidation is such a good idea, the other six Shelby County municipalities will join Memphis in consolidating, right?antisocialistnoreply@blogger.com