PDF A Note From The Publisher’s Heart
Anytime one seeks to prove racial discrimination, unfortunately because one act of racism is hard to prove in court –the victim of such harassment often times must endure a series of negative attacks in order to indicate an overt pattern.
As Chief Editor of The Fount Online News, it is our team’s desire to not make the news, but to report it by exposing such patterns that indeed exist, are verifiable on a large scale, and yet seem to have gone unnoticed by top government officials that are commissioned to remedy such situations.
To aid in the effort of recognizing, documenting and to initiate the healing process where ever it can be received, this article is the first in a series entitled “The Systematic Elimination Of Black Elected Officials”
As Jonesboro Mayor Leslie Thompson notes, no true healing can occur until there is at least the acknowledgment of a racial problem, especially here in the Deep South. When certain local publications refused to cover the results of this nation’s Presidential election in November of 2008 –the voice of the people spoke: “We need our own paper!” Thus the conception of The Fount Online News.
At a time where many people believe these types of issues are a thing of the past and don’t quite realize that racism has actually intensified in certain areas since Barack Obama was elected President, The Fount salutes each and every Prayer Warrior who is deeply entrenched in this effort to restore justice, racial harmony and dignity to their various communities. –Rev. David J. Dill
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Action!!
At the offices of Attorney Louis G. Scott (Lead Attorney of the Jena 6 case in Jena, LA) Rev. David J. Dill of The Fount Online News interviews Attorney Scott and Jonesboro Mayor Leslie Thompson regarding the overt pattern of discriminatory acts in politics at the local, state and federal levels.
Attorney Louis G. Scott, Monroe LA & Jonesboro Mayor Leslie Thompson
In the impromptu video documentary session below, Mayor Thompson says that even though racial discrimination can be difficult to prove, the emerging pattern of harassment towards Black elected officials intensified when the majority of Jonesboro citizens elected a majority Black city council this past fall of 2010.
Mayor Thompson says the changes he brought to Jonesboro during his first 4 years in office are well documented to be very positive and progressive –even more so than all the mayors before him combined; yet he has been met with extreme resistance and overall harassment. Mayor Thompson said that no true healing could occur in his rural community of Jonesboro, LA until there is at least the acknowledgment of a racial problem.
The Fight
Due to his over 30 years of experience in successfully handling such matters, Attorney Louis G. Scott of Monroe, LA is on the team of attorneys whom Mayor Thompson has sought legal assistance from. Attorney Scott commented on the overall pattern of similar racially motivated acts of discrimination against Black elected officials charged with crimes –some proven and others unproven in many areas of Louisiana, and cites a few particular cases The Fount will be covering.
Since when is a Chief of Police arrested and charged with malfeasance for simply writing a ticket? Attorney Scott mentioned how Chief of Police Jenkins in Waterproof, LA (Tensas Parish) was indicted for malfeasance in office simply for giving a person a ticket, and discussed how it appeared that the Black Council of Mayors here in Louisiana was selectively targeted by a certain Fed sting operation.
“By The People For The People”
Mayor Thompson concludes this interview by noting how the trend of racial intolerance intensified when President Barack Obama was elected in November of 2008 –especially “in the Deep South” and referred to the American Creed: this form of government is justified by those who are governed to give the power to those who are doing the governing, based upon the will of the people for the people.
“Why would the White elected officials be able to vote their conscious without any threat of lawsuit from the community, and then when its reversed that the Black Council Member says ‘yes, we’d like to do this’ and we vote that conscious, and then we find ourselves in court? These are the kinds of things that we’re talking about today, that have got to be looked at and addressed, probably at the top level.” –Mayor Leslie Thompson
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Mayor Thompson is nothing but a joke. Show me watt he has done in the past 4 years. He says he has done more than the past mayors have done
The books have to balance, no matter who’s in charge. If they don’t, somebody’s in trouble.
Since your website is by and for blacks, you are not biased are you? Oh, that’s right, blacks can’t be biased, can they? LOL What you and your poor black politicians don’t understand, is that most whites don’t care what color you are, they just don’t want people stealing from them and destroying their town. What I here from blacks that comment on these politicians is they don’t care what the politicians do, just as long as they “GET THEIRS”. I don’t think most of the black public really care about what crimes their people do, as long as the hand outs and special privileges keep coming their way. Remember the Jena 6. What a crock! Blacks celebrated having these boys attack a white boy. They made these boys into heros, for committing a crime that would have gotten a white a hate crime sentence. But not the blacks, they did not care. This is one of the major differences between blacks and whites, so that is why whites don’t want to have politicians stealing them blind and destroying their city, such as Mayor “I can do anything I want to and I don’t have to keep any damn records” Thompson. So keep producing your biased opinion and keep backing criminals. Maybe you are “GETTING YOURS” from these criminals.