So nice…cheap shots directed at a perfectly nice AND diverse town for the sake of comedy. Yeah…that was funny.

I have lived in peachtree city for 5 years and I love it!! It is a safe and beautiful place to raise my two children. It has been voted the 8th best place in america to live again. You say there is no black people here maybe that is why there is no murders or violet crimes here. I grew up in macon, ga. and it is mostly black. I had to deal with my car broken into 3 times, my g-parents car stolen and never recovered, my mother, brother, sister and g-parents house broken into with witnesses or fingerprints proving young black males. I had to go to school with mostly black people and it was horrible. I saw and heard on a daily basis black students misbehave and disrespect white teachers and blame it on the color of their skin if they dared to try and punish them. Those same students go into a black teachers room and were perfect angels. I could go on about growing up as a white minority in a black city, but I'm going to do a little sterotyping of my own. Where would you want to live, a safe crime free beautiful city of white people, a violent crime filled black city or maybe hollywood full of alcoholic, drug addicted Betty Ford patient celebrities with sexually transmitted diseases??

Hi Anne,

Thanks for reading! (I'm assuming you aren't here just to get on a soapbox on this particular post.)

I am white and grew up attending public schools in Buckhead that were predominantly black for elementary, middle and highschool. Through my experiences both at these schools and in Buckhead and the rest of Atlanta city proper, I learned tolerance and respect for others regardless of race, religion or age.

I would have to look up the source to give you accurate numbers, but white men actually take the cake on sexually transmitted diseases despite urban legend. Since we're discussing in relation to grade school, the *greater majority* of friends and classmates that acquired an STD were white girls at Pace, Woodward Academy, Galloway, Paideia, etc. These are the cream of the crop institutions for education in the City of Atlanta in wealthy neighborhoods with well-to-do students and families. And they were the ones perpetuating these diseases?

1. Don't stereotype.
2. Be well-informed before publicly making such a bold statement, especially one that will offend others. Only being partially informed is a form of ignorance.
3. Be smart and aware. It will increase your safety in any situation.

Hi Tessa,
I think you missunderstood my comment. I was trying to say that all celebrities must have sexually transmitted diseases because they are constantly changing partners. The interview was sterotyping all southern white people as stupid and racist, so I was sterotyping too. I am glad you commented on the whole tolerant thing. I was raised to love everyone no matter the color of their skin or their religion. My parents made sure I was in church everytime the doors were opened and I never heard and ugly word toward anyother race of people. My first best friend was a black girl and we spent everyday together from kindergarden to high school, but she started getting picked on by other blacks for being a white girl’s friend. When a black teacher told her, right in front of me, that she needed to “hang with her own kind” she stop being my friend. I thought only whites are suppose to be racist, right?? Why is it that only whites are told they have to be tolerant? Did this interview sound like they were being tolerant? They called white people from the south stupid and racist. Then they picked on Carrie Prejean and call her horrible because she dares to believe that marriage is between a man and a woman. That must mean that Obama, Biden and Hillary are horrible because they believe the same thing, right? Well, I think they are horrible, but for many other reasons. They wouldn’t dare go after their messiah so they go after a white christian girl instead. I don’t know about you but I find it harder and harder everyday to be tolerant!!!

‘the violet crimes’ is a great name for a band.

Wow! Totally agreed. Yoink! It’s mine now, you hear! Mine!

Listen to yourself.

If black people are the problem, than why are most of the most notorious, sick, and twisted serial killers white males? Ted Bundy, Charles Manson, John Wayne Gacy. And what was the name of the man who blew up a building in Oklahoma City killing inncent people including children- Oh that’s right, Timothy Mcveigh, a white man. And the man who brutally murdered 17 people with acts including “rape, torture, dismemberment, necrophilia and cannibalism”? I believe that was a white man named Jeffrey Dahmer.

The fact that you seem to actually believe what you say, it makes me want to throw up repeatedly. You cannot make an assumption on an entire race based on your obviously limited exposure. Educate yourself. It would be easy for me to assume that you are just some dumb southern bigot and racist, but I choose to give you the benefit of the doubt, let me say though, you’re not giving me much hope.

I’m sorry, are you a follower of Hitler? I bet you think he did a great thing huh? People are individuals, and regardless of what one person of a particular gender, race, nationality, or else does, you cannot make that the basis for your entire view. If that were true than every priest I met would be a pedophile and rapist and every white male would be a serial killer.

Margaret Cho is a comedian, she was making her own observations about a town that does not have a signifigant African American or LGBT presence. You cannot deny that, I’ve been to Peachtree City. She’s right when she says they are in the cities and counties surrounding Peachtree City. I worked a neighborhood right outside of Peachtree City when I worked for the AJC in sales. There was a signifigant population of African American families in this particular neighborhood, as well as many other non-white families. The neighborhood was quiet, clean, affluent and everyone was friendly, even to go so far as to offer me food and water. Let’s just say that NEVER happens in the affluent white neighborhoods. The next day I worked two neighborhoods inside Peachtree City that were predominantly white. These neighborhoods were trashed, people were rude and crass. That was MY experience. You don’t see me making generalizations do you?

How about you stop using this blog to spread your bigotry and hate. That’s the last thing this world, this city, or this country needs.

A couple of news flashes for Manita:

1. About that whole gay thing – You are entitled to your opinion, but you might also consider that everyone else might not bow to a God who would cast a man into an eternal pit of hellfire because he like to put he balls on another man's chin. I'm not a Christian, nor am I an atheist – I prefer to believe that God is omnipotent enough to know a good, kind person when he/she sees one – regardless of whether or not said person enjoys fucking other dudes in the cornhole.
2. About the race thing – you're right, black people suck. But, as many of these posts prove…white people fucking suck too. Guess what – we're all dicks. I pride myself in being an equal opportunity hater – I hate all materialistic, judgmental, inconsiderate fuckers, regardless of skin color or propensity towards gay sex.
3. In the south, we are bombarded with black-on-white racism in the urban areas and white-on-black racism in the 'burbs. I can honestly understand why southern blacks and whites can't get along – most of them are assholes, on both sides.
4. What about all the Mexican and Asian dickheads we have here? You don't have a problem with them? Seriously, let's spread the hate around here, folks.
5. I live in Edgewood. That's the fucking goddamn ghetto. Three shootings, half-dozen break-ins, and a dead suicide victim in the park…all in the past 2 weeks. I fucking hate it and want to move. But sadly, I can't think of a single decent place in this country that won't have any black thugs or white redneck cunts. I just can't move to the burbs and be surrounded by redneck racists who think that a night of “culture” is hitting up the local Chili's. And I'm sorry, but I've been to East Macon, and it is a goddamn resort compared to where I live. So get off your high horse. Oh, and as a matter of fact, Gabi drove me home one night last week, and she knows full well what kind of cracktown I live in. And she was perfectly at ease – not out of naivety, but rather out of the practiced vigilance that comes from living in these types of 'hoods.
6. God, I could just bitch about this all day.
7. I wish I could move to the country somewhere too. Not to escape the blacks OR to escape the whites – but rather to escape from judgmental douchebags. Like you.

You’re funny.

You see, the difference between me and you is that you judge people based on group traits – religion, sexuality, race, color. I judge people on their individual assholiness. I guess I’d just rather hang out with a well-educated and tolerant lesbian than an ignorant intolerant heterosexual. And I’m not saying that all white people or all suburbanites are ignorant or intolerant – it just seems like most of the ones who have internet access are.

And I’m afraid you have a bit of a misunderstanding regarding tax distribution – you’re a bit off if you think that all of the things you mentioned are paid for by state tax revenue… And I have lived in the burbs – in fact, the first house that I owned was in Gwinnett County. Gotta tell ya though, that squeaky-clean white paradise was just a bit too lame for me – there’s only so many times one can visit the Mall of Georgia without feeling like there might be something more out there…

I honestly feel sorry for you – we have different belief systems, and that is totally cool by me. I’m just sad that you would judge me so harshly and closemindedly when I feel that you are free to believe whatever you want without fear of judgment. I would never judge a Christian for their beliefs – UNLESS they tell me that my alternate beliefs are wrong. Then I will instantly judge them for the intolerant self-righteous ass that they have thus been proven.

Ooooh oooh – here’s something that will REALLY chap your virgin asshole: I used to live in San Francisco! I nearly turned gay just from being around so many of them!!! I’ve never felt so safe as I did when I lived there though – their crime rate is teeny compared to Atlanta. Oooh, that brings up an interesting quagmire though – would you rather live in San Francisco where there is hardly any crime but you’d be surrounded by gays? Or in say, Detroit – where there is silly high crime but far fewer gays? Hmmmm….

Newsflash for you;
All of us that live in the Atlanta proper and make an honest living, pay those taxes too. I bet a good bit of the people in the “burbs” skip out on their taxes, probably just as many as anywhere else in the GODDAMN country.

As for the “burbs” being decent;

Growing up in a VERY affluent area of Marietta I can tell you that the drug use, promiscuity, crime, and general bad behavior, not to mention so many abortions you could populate a town with them, were mainly from the richest, most christian, bible thumping children.

Your viewpoint is so narrow-minded it isn’t even worth trying to talk to you. I at least take the time to get to know people, situations, and facts, before I make a judgment on a situation. I am by NO MEANS narrowing my viewpoint to say that everyone in the city is awesome and everyone in the burbs sucks, people are individuals, and that is the point you fail to see. NO MATTER what issue you are speaking of, nothing can ever be so black and white, pardon the pun, to blame on a particular race or set of people.

Newsflash for you . Yes! I am entitled to my opinion and God is entitled to His judgment. He sent his only son to die that men might stop living like the filth you described so ably. Man isn't capable of being “good” and “kind” enough on his own.Good and kind won't cover a multitude of sins. I feel so sorry for you obviously surrounded by and caught up in the filth you described. Until you have lived in the “burbs”and worked hard to create a decent lifestyle you need to stop judging those that do. What makes you any better than any other bigot? Those in the burbs provide the rest with tax dollars that build all the things that they appreciate so much they spend time tearing them down like city parks. They build your roads, pave your sidewalks, pay your medicaid bills, provide police and fire protection, give food to the hungry, provide jobs, educate your children, and I could go on and on. Talk about bitching. You don't know where to start .

Dude – I totally get what you’re saying. Crime is shitty, and it is definitely on the rise. I also agree that poverty (read: housing projects) breeds crime and destitution. I agree completely that I don’t feel as safe as I once did in Atlanta, either in the perimeter or out. I also understand how easy it is to draw spurious conclusions based on what you see with your own eyes.

Where I disagree however is in your assertion that its all the fault of black people. The sad fact is that due to many factors there are more poor black people in Atlanta than poor whites; I daresay that the opposite is likely true for the more rural areas, but I have no stats to back that up. I think it is a cop-out to point at race as the reason for the rise in crime, that’s all. If there were not a single black person in Atlanta, there would still be poor people – and there would still be crime. You may disagree, but black people are not biologically predisposed to be criminals – they are products of their upbringing just like everyone else.

Looking at crime in metro Atlanta and then drawing the conclusion that black people are criminals – that’s like going to southern Alabama and concluding that white people are all illiterate.

I think we agree on a good many things – but I just get irritated when people place blame for bad shit in the wrong place. Its not because of skin color that crimes get committed – its because of a myriad of socioeconomic factors. It is indeed unfortunate that it becomes easier and easier all the time to make broad generalizations based upon the vicious circle of action-media-public perception-action that we all have crammed down our throats every day. Let’s blame our shitball society, politicians, greed, moral decay, etc for all the bad shit – not one race of people.

what a hilarious interview, she’s pretty funny!! I like her character a lot on the show.