OK - Douglasville, GA - Protest Called for at the City Council Meeting Thursday at 7!! Be there! City Council Membe McLain posts derogatory comments on his Facebook Page - Defended it, and then Finally Five Days Later Apologizes - Anti-Black, Anti-Gay - and he is a Douglas County School Bus Driver to boot! And I thought this was sad, as well: Councilman Samuel Davis, who is black, hasn’t visited McLain’s Facebook page. But he has been told about what’s posted there. “I didn’t go there because I didn’t want to know,” Davis said. “I just want to take a person at face value. Once ...you know a person at face value. It’s fine. Nothing ever changes. But when you start digging and find other things that people do, it changes and I don’t want to change my perception of nobody. I want to look at a person as who they are.” While he has declined to view the Facebook page himself, he stressed the importance of elected officials to be careful of what they say. “That’s why I carry myself professionally,” Davis said. “I watch what I say. I watch what I do on my Facebook. … When you’re a public official, you cannot do certain things at home or out from the home because it will (become) public. Everything is public record. … You ought to have common sense that certain things you just don’t do.” Wilford “Will” Smith, who is a member of the Douglas County Democratic Party’s executive board and also black, has seen McLain’s Facebook postings. “It’s very difficult to really comment on the posting because at some point you’re not sure if this is the man’s heart or if this is (just) the man’s off-kilter comments,” Smith said. He acknowledge that written words can be misinterpreted. “It’s not the same thing as the spoken word,” Smith said. “If I say something to you that hurts your feelings or strike you the wrong way, I can immediately from your expression kind of explain it or maybe even apologize ... so with it coming just on the written word like that, it’s very difficult to try to get a feed on exactly where he was going.”
Posted on: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 23:38:31 +0000
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