But in Atlanta, there is a strong and genuine alliance between black and white business communities. But they couldn't do away with Confederate symbols entirely. Gov. Zell Miller has tried to get the stars and bars down before the Olympics. He sent historians around the state explaining to people that we could fly an earlier Georgia flag. But the stars and bars are going to fly over the Olympics.
People just feel that is their identity.
I think of my birth mother, I feel numb. I can only focus on the woman who was my real mother, my great-grandmother who raised me. I love you Mama for deciding I would be your child. You fed me when I cried. You dealt with my toddler years and those incessant questions.