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Georgia’s Republican governor won’t endorse town’s first racially integrated prom

Yeah, but you know, nobody was asking him to do much. All he had to do was say "I think an interracial prom is a good idea." One sentence, no story.

All I can say is that his political people must be idiots that they can't see that politics is 90% perception. Instead of a one sentence statement that makes it a non-story, they launch into a diatribe about "leftists."

Except that one sentence is too much so far as I'm concerned. It's the town's issue, not a state issue. Therefore he had no place commenting on it. Principles, folks. Check them out.
 
Saying that would have pissed somebody off, rest assured. There are a lot of people out there with a hate on just waiting for someone to stick it to. It wasn't his issue. Saying nothing about it was the way to go. Kind of like here, eventually we figure out not to feed the trolls. Goodbye. ;)

Politics is perception. By not saying anything, he's created the impression that he may be secretly harboring racist thought. A 2 sentence press release would have fixed it. Instead they went on a diatribe about "leftists."

I mean seriously, any idiot should know that was a bad move. Kudos to his staff for being idiots.
 
Except that one sentence is too much so far as I'm concerned. It's the town's issue, not a state issue. Therefore he had no place commenting on it. Principles, folks. Check them out.

How was this a principled stand? Nobody asked him to violate his principles, unless he actually is a racist. If you don't like commenting on issues, maybe politics isn't the right career choice.
 
How was this a principled stand? Nobody asked him to violate his principles, unless he actually is a racist. If you don't like commenting on issues, maybe politics isn't the right career choice.

The Principled Stance was not commenting on things that are not under the purview of his office.
 
I can understand folks bellyaching over him saying " no comment"... but it seem to me that you are saying the government should have a say in who you allow to attend your privately hosted party.

While racially segregated proms are reprehensible, I don't think it's the governor's business to decide one way or the other. That is for the courts to decide, and I think the governor gets that, even though he is taking flak. Here is the deal - Whatever the governor decides is going to piss somebody off. By taking this "hands off" approach, he is still pissing people off, but he is doing the constitutionally proper thing. But, in the end, it isn't going to take the courts to end racism. Some outstanding Georgia citizens are doing an excellent job of ending segregation at proms all by themselves. I say leave them alone, and let them do what they are doing. Racism dies hard, but in the end, it is going to die, without the government's help. Kudos to the citizens of this Georgia school district.
 
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