The best cigars and Red Skelton at the Colony
By Tim Colliver - tcolliver@aimmediamidwest.com
Editor’s note We’re continuing our tradition of taking a look back each Saturday at some of the important, interesting or even odd events as they were reported during the same week throughout the years, along with interesting advertising features from back in the day.
This week in 1886, the Hillsborough Gazette reported that J.M. Jones had a small tobacco shop at 28 S. High St. in Hillsboro, and advertised he had “the best two-for-a-nickel cigars in town.” Next door at Quinn’s Drug Store, coal could be had for $2 per wagon load.
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Since their parents died in a car crash, Rashad and Anton have been living with their Uncle George, or maybe he s been living with them, since it was their parents house. Rashad is 17, a high school senior, working part time to save money for his kid brother to make it out of here out of their poor black neighborhood in Atlanta. Anton, known as Ant, sees a faster route, standing on a corner selling drugs for a local dealer.
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that must change. now there is a responsibility on the community side and on the side of our society. but in our own communities, there is a notion that says, if you train up the child in a way that they shall go. when that child is old, it will not depart from the way that it is been trained. but the government certainly is not addressing its responsibility appropriately also. justice is for everybody, because the system is for the black, brown, and the poor whites. . he is going to make sure advanced placement classes are available for students in the urban areas as much as they are in the rural areas as much as they are in urban areas. he raises the programs to have a disproportionately positive impact on african americans and other latino and london teenagers who want to go to college. low-income teenagers who want to go to college. i would not think it was artful to call it a black agenda. interpreting it as a positive, as having as having directly positive impac
it takes organized groups working in putting pressure on the political system. we have a question from twitter. i hear this a lot. how come there is very little discussion of obama as biracial, not black. because he calls himself black. did you hear that on twitter? another question that we have from chicago, is there a double standard in which we repudiate white people that make racial statements but not blacks? while they not repudiated by the black community? tom, you are from the community. a lot of racism goes on called all the time uncalled all the time. i hear things i would not dare utter in a room of people here. i call people out on it. most people do not, right? i do not think that jesse jackson and al sharpton are getting a pass. they re not what could be considered racist to begin with. anything that they do say that could cross the line becomes fodder for news commentary, for behind the scenes, talk-show commentary. so there is no double standard
exposure. it helps you to understand other cultures and except people are different and we don t understand the culture, even though we are a very interesting nation. we could become a better nation. when you think about the fact, this has something to do with the discussion today, but we are a nation because we have been so blessed with an incredible economy and yet we don t understand the value enough that all of our children should speak other languages. . . michael lomax and i served on the board of commissioners in fulton county, basically atlanta. i was honored to serve with him as chair during the time i was there. one of the things i hated to do, we had to stand up and go to this brand new jail and cut a ribbon and honor while there is a place for jail. some people perhaps need to be in jail, but the tragedy is that jail is probably 98% african-american. now, that s not in fulton county in atlanta. that is those numbers are high. there s something inherently wrong w