George on Georgia
DeKalb County has about 760,000 residents, living in about 280,000 homes, at least until the marshals come. Evictions are crude here. People with guns and badges do what they can to keep people calm. Most ...
Atlanta as the Black Mecca is a myth. But Atlanta thrives on myth making. Love and Hip Hop. Real Housewives of Atlanta. The Georgia peach on all the movies. We’re projecting an amazing image that ...
The last time you found yourself in the street at a protest, chanting “This is what democracy looks like!” I don’t think you had an election in February on your mind. Democracy is a constant ...
“In the end? Nothing ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends.” — Doctor Manhattan. My wife is calling me over to watch Donald Trump depart the White House. I don’t care. He should have been arrested ...
Last week, before the attempted coup, I asked for the president to be arrested. Today, as the National Guard and Atlanta Police gear up for madness at the Capitol, I’m thinking about people closer ...
So. Democrats won. Good. Democrats won by the skin of their teeth. Democrats won under conditions where they could have easily lost, and did: the very capable Daniel Blackman isn’t going to close the ...
J. Max Davis doesn’t like being powerless. It would be easy enough, I suppose, to dwell on Davis’ tawdry public scandals – the questions of sexual harassment while he was mayor of Brookhaven, for ...
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I met John Lewis three times. As I sit here thinking about what this horrible year has claimed, I wish it had been more. I had excuses to try to be where he was; ...
Ponce and Highland, yesterday. “Do you know where I can get a sleeping bag?” Michael found me in the parking lot of Druid Hills Presbyterian Church. He wore a ball cap with a second ...
