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In reply to the discussion: I've always thought that people are basically good mostly everywhere [View all]Jamastiene
(38,206 posts)24. They already have found photos with the woman who bragged about it
and the sheriff. It's being covered up.
Back in the 90s, they covered up the racism that caused the Imperial Foods fire that killed 25 people, cooked them alive. The reason they padlocked those doors was because they were afraid the local black neighborhoods in Hamlet (which is in one county south from Moore County) would steal their precious chicken.
That's how they do it in this area. While mainstream media is staying on them, they will cover up and stall and lie and talk about how holier than thou religious they are, then when the news cycle moves onto something else, they go back to business as usual.
The people in this area never change.
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Our current crop of republicans are exceptions to that. They've shown that they tolerate...
brush
Dec 2022
#3
I live in an area where they just shot up the power substations to stop a drag show
Jamastiene
Dec 2022
#5
I get the feeling that the motive was stopping the drag show and it's being covered up
Walleye
Dec 2022
#16
:) You've hit on a basic difference between liberal and conservative personality.
Hortensis
Dec 2022
#17
I'm liberal, and I'm afraid I've never believed that most people are basically good.
shrike3
Dec 2022
#26