Posted To the Atlanta Journal & Constitution Newspaper
in response to a forum discussion on race and hate in my old neighborhood
(this is the neighborhood that prhibited campers on landowners property!)

Where do you all draw the lines of "your" community?

Is it where the "hate starts" or where the "need starts"?

I just moved from Pine Lake because I felt (in my opinion) that property values are more important than people values. My observations/feelings no longer count... but the problems still exist. Life taught me that perfection was not designed into us humans - but if you lift you head and reach out your hand, along comes Love to make up for our blemishes.

Could these problems exit in your community also, for when one person in a community is shunned rather than accepted the "community" ceases to exist. All that is left is the "adgenda" that someone or some group has moved to the top of the priority list.

<Rant Mode>
Do please take all your heads out of the red Georgia clay and look around you and over the next hill... the world is in a real rock and a hard place. Translated; BIG TROUBLE, read the front pages over and over, and over and over till you are plum sick of it all.

And please I beg you to think of our youth... you know the ones who adorn the front pages in sheer pain.
<Rant Mode Off>

My feelings, if I get along with the neighbors who live right next to me then I've formed a "community" reguardless of where the county draws the line. Hum? when we (I'm not perfect either) can't form a community what do we have in it's place...

HELL if I know!

Randy L. Baker
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Presently living in a new community where everyone is "welcomed" rather than "legislated" to own a boat, a camper, or a recreational vehicle on property... weez some laid back folk!

Where do I go from here???? The car before you was truely Heaven sent. For a year I rode only a pedal bike for I had no car at all... after a year of patience God blessed me with two cars in one week! While look'n for a windshild for the Rambler, a huge, I mean huge auto salvage yard has given me the opportunity to do the e-commerece for them!!!!!

With a steady stream of cash a junk yard provides I'll finally be able to open up all those little community icecream and soda shops/coffee houses that the kids so much need!

Have a Blessed Day!