Gold Level sponsors are First Data Resources and Bank of America. Our other sponsors are too numerous to list but our heartfelt thanks go to them as well. Since the City Council and the mayor determined the chief deserved a minimum pay raise of 20 percent the people of Macon have to assume that means the rest of the police force will also receive a 20 percent raise across the board. I can't even fathom that the mayor or City Council would consider raising the chief's salary without equitable adjustment to the men and women actually doing the police work. A doctrine or teaching, without scientific support, that claims to find racial differences in character, intelligence, etc., that asserts the superiority of one race over another or others, and that seeks to maintain the supposed purity of a race or races.
Racism is more than a word, it is a sickness, even a sin.
We have been brought up in a culture that equates race with skin color. A person about to receive a tissue or organ transplant or a blood transfusion will not ask questions about the donor's intelligence quotient, age, gender, occupation, physical appearance, skin color or anything else. Racism can never by cured by legislation and demonstrations. Lady Laura goes on television and urges mothers and children in a doctor's office setting to read. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, King George has slashed federal funding for public libraries and completely eliminated funding for one of the most successful children's reading programs ever, Reading Is Fundamental, that was projected to provide free books to nearly 5 million children next year.