The battle for two seats on the DeKalb Superior Court are shaping up as the hot races for the May 22 primary and nonpartisan elections. Through March 8, five candidates - Tunde Akinyele, Gina Bernard, Roderick Bridges, LaTisha Dear Jackson and Nicholas Smith - had qualified for the race to succeed Judge Daniel Coursey, who is retiring on Dec. 31. Johnson, who had been silent on Hopewell's challenge, said this week that she was "excited to announce" her campaign for re-election.
Many blacks and their white liberal allies demand the removal of statues of Confederate generals and the Confederate battle flag, and they are working up steam to destroy the images of Gens. Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee and President Jefferson Davis from Stone Mountain in Georgia.
Does the statue of Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman qualify for removal? He once explained his reluctance to enlist former slaves, writing, "I am honest in my belief that it is not fair to our men to count negroes as equals ... [but] is not a negro as good as a white man to stop a bullet?" Many blacks and their white liberal allies demand the removal of statues of Confederate generals and the Confederate battle flag, and they are working up steam to destroy the images of Gens.