"It's in north Huntsville, who cares?"

 

 School busses in the parking lot of the elementary school in Gurley Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013 in Gurley, Ala. Gurley Mountain, located in northeast Madison County, is the center of a controversy between the surrounding communities and the mining company.

"It's in north Huntsville, who cares?"  If you ever want to get the real flavor about what's happening in Huntsville, Al  all you have to do is read some of the comments on AL.com.

 Allowing blacks to get away with things like this is like negotiating with terrorists. Once you give in even one time they know you will give in and they will NEVER stop begging at the public trough and costing our country/State/City money with their endless pursuit of "free" (to them) stuff from our government (us) by playing the race card and crying "discrimination" and "racism" when it doesn't exist. Someone should educate these people that begging is not an honorable career.

HCS, enabled by the media, gave taxpayers in north Huntsville the middle finger before a standing-room-only groundbreaking ceremony inside a tent, when they broke ground on 2 black schools, illegally renamed for two black astronauts, less then half a mile from an active rock quarry, to the tune of $65 million of their tax dollars.

There is just one problem with this little standing room only....narrative....the facts don't fit.  First,  the standing room only crowd included three bus loads of students from Ed White and Davis Hills Middle Schools (the buses served double duty to block the view of protesters and the rock quarry), the Butler High School JROTC, and some band members from J.O. Johnson High School.  The rest were invited guest, the media, and assorted dignitaries, most of whom do not live, work, or send their children to school in District One. Noticeably absent were the Mayor, the City Council member who represents the district and the Madison County Commissioner who represents the district.  The name of the state rep was called, but I can't confirm her face was in the place.  If I'm wrong I'm sure someone will correct me.

Decatur-born astronaut Dr. Mae Jemison flew in from Chicago for the ceremony and challenged the schools' future students to make a difference in their city, their state, their world. Jemison became the first black woman in space when she flew aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavor in September 1992.
Children are born with an "innate energy and drive," she said, but it can be dampened by adults.
"Adults started telling you what you couldn't do," Jemison told a group of students from the four schools that will feed into the new campuses: Johnson High, Butler High, Davis Hills Middle and Ed White Middle. "We started lowering your expectations of this world that was around you. Ignore them.

"Know that you can achieve so many things."

Now you would think Huntsville City Schools leaders would want said students to hear this inspirational message wouldn't you?  You would think Wardysnski would want personally escort Dr. Mae Jemison on a tour of the schools that were be renamed in her honor.  You would think she would sign autographs and take pictures with students on the last day of Black History Month.  Yet none of this happened.  It's like she flew in to give the taxpayers in north Huntsville the middle finger(at their expense) and flew out. But that's OK, it's north Huntsville, who cares. Sigh

Psst Dr. Mae Jemison, the "adults" inside that tent with you are the ones telling parents and children what they can't do.  They are the ones lowering their expectations and ignoring them.  

As Wardynski spoke, about 20 sign-waving protesters stood across Pulaski Pike. Michelle Watkins said the group is upset that Johnson High alumni and supporters were not consulted about the name or location of the new high school. Many wanted to keep the J.O. Johnson name.

How long are elected officials and the media going to continue to ignore the valid concerns citizens have about the relocation of the new $65 million dollar school?  

Other parents contend the Jemison and McNair campus may be exposed to dangerous levels of airborne dust from a rock quarry located about half a mile away.
Danny Shea, the city's natural resources director, has said airborne fine particulate matter is actually lower at the city's Pulaski Pike measuring station near the quarry than some other spots in town.

I am not a rocket scientist, but you tell me how airborne fine particulate matter can be lower less than half a mile from an active rock quarry than at some other spots in town? 

Other elected officials speaking against the quarry were Mark Russell, president of Huntsville City Council, Madison County District 3 Commissioner Eddie Sisk, state Sen. Paul Sanford, state Sen. Shadrack McGill, state Rep. Wayne Johnson, Gurley Mayor Rob Sentell, Gurley Councilman Robert Wren.
Their concerns addressed environmental quality of Flint River and Hayes Nature Preserve, unsafe traffic with trucks crossing Norfolk Southern Railroad along a curve, heavy trucks sharing roads with school buses, air quality at two nearby schools and a lack of local governmental control of the quarry operation.

How long are the citizens in north Huntsville going to continued to be undervalued, under estimated, and marginalized?

Is this how those in positions of power and influence  really feel about the taxpayers in north Huntsville?

 I have never in my life heard a group gripe and complain more about issues that mean nothing at all than North Hsv blacks. They are merging the two schools. How about they call it Butler? You people sit around looking for something to complain about so you can cry racism and keep the false perception that blacks are the victims (rather than the perpetrators) of racism in an effort to keep your special status and benefits from the government. You are a bunch of entitled cry babies with cry baby do nothing leaders. I would think you would be more concerned about the high levels of violent crime, single parents, and unemployment in your community. But what do you decide to march about? The name of a crappy high school? Get a clue people.

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Please stay tuned for the next post about Plains Pipeline Company.  Next time, I'll discuss their assault on Mobile's Historic Africatown Community and the Mobile County Training School.

How long?  Not long.