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A white woman with whom I went to nurse's training was married to a black man...... which I see nothing wrong with that...... but I was really surprised when she told me that some of the worst racist remarks she had encountered came from the black community. Personally, I have met some real racists, and they are not nice people at all. In fact, while in nurse's training, my black partner and I encountered one when we entered a room to make a patient's bed. She ordered my partner out of the room with some nasty words and names and I started to leave too. She told me I could stay and I said 'no thank you, not with that attitude.' I don't know what else she said, but she got loud as we left. I thought for sure I was going to get kicked out of school for that, but I didn't. I cannot stand to be around them, black or white, or any color! Be a prism, spreading God's light and love, not a mirror reflecting the world's hatred.
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My son works in the Fifth District which John Lewis represents. He and his wife used to live there until they bought a house in the Fourth District currently represented by Democrat Hank Johnson. He is also a black man. Both men are highly respected in their communities. Atlanta where Lewis represents was the heart of the Civil Rights Movement and my son lives less than a mile from Stone Mountain which used to be a meeting place for the Klu Klux Clan with the image of Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis craved into a mountain courtesy of The Daughters of the Confederacy. It is now a major park with a Light Show. I suppose Congressman Hank Johnson could petition to get those Confederate Battle Flags removed but it's progress that he was elect to that district in the first place. Abracadabra 
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The carving was conceived by Mrs. C. Helen Plane, a charter member of the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC). The Venable Brothers, owners of the mountain, deeded the north face of the mountain to the UDC in 1916. The UDC was given 12 years to complete a sizable Civil War monument. Gutzon Borglum was commissioned to do the carving. Borglum abandoned the project in 1925 (and later went on to begin Mount Rushmore). per gOOgle Research Abracadabra
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