GA judge dismisses lawsuit by Gullah-Geechee residents against officials for changing zoning laws /* GA Supreme Court sides with Gullah plaintiffs

[ORDER_66]

So then we agree the answer is to vote? Ok I'm with it now. So what if a candidate comes up and they have decent policy plans, but it's not solely directed at black people. What do I do in that situation?

No black agenda / no vote... every other group gets to vote their agendas we must do the same...

 

[Obreh Winfrey]

No black agenda / no vote... every other group gets to vote their agendas we must do the same...

Ok I see. So even if that candidate had stuff that would help several groups, black people included, we don't vote for that candidate because it's not a specific black agenda. So black people just sit things out and get nothing instead of participating and getting something?

 

[get these nets]

09/30/25

Ga. Supreme Court upholds citizens’ right to vote to repeal Sapelo zoning​

A yard sign in front of the Graball Country Store in Hogg Hummock encourages McIntosh voters to vote yes and repeal rezoning on Sapelo Island.


In a unanimous decision issued Tuesday, the Georgia Supreme Court upheld the right of McIntosh County residents to vote directly to repeal a controversial zoning decision that would allow larger houses in a traditional Gullah-Geechee enclave on Sapelo Island.

The zoning ordinance that county commissioners approved in September 2023 would allow the construction of houses of up to 3,000 square feet in the modest, 434-acre Hogg Hummock neighborhood. Long-time residents, many of them descendants of people enslaved on Georgia’s sea islands, feared the resulting gentrification and higher property taxes would drive them out of their ancestral homes and usher in wealthy developers. The county supported the larger homes to expand its tax base.

Early voting was already underway last year ahead of the scheduled Oct. 1 referendum when a Superior Court judge granted the county’s request to shut down the special election.
In Tuesday’s opinion, authored by Justice John J. Ellington, the court concluded that the lower court erred in finding that the zoning ordinance was not subject to the referendum procedure of the Home Rule Provision of the Georgia Constitution. That referendum procedure allows citizens to force a direct vote on an issue if they collect a sufficient number of signatures from registered voters in the county.

A McIntosh County petition drive had succeeded in collecting signatures, modeling its efforts on nearby Camden County’s referendum that in 2022 nixed a planned commercial spaceport that many saw as a boondoggle. The Camden referendum was also challenged by its county, though in that case after the vote was complete, and that referendum was also ultimately upheld by the Georgia Supreme Court.

In Tuesday’s opinion, the Supreme Court also upheld the decision to prevent the enforcement of the new Hogg Hummock zoning while the referendum was being litigated. A Superior Court-ordered injunction from November has held new buildings in Hogg Hammock to the old standard of 1,400 square feet.

Attorney Dana Braun, who represented the named plaintiffs in the case — Sapelo residents Barbara Bailey, Christopher Bailey, and Stanley Walker — sees Tuesday’s decision as a win for good government.
“Citizens that are concerned about an ordinance or an action of a county commission that affects them have a right of redress of this referendum process, which is not easy, but it’s there for concerned citizens to attempt to address,” Braun said.

 

[MoshpitMazi]

Ok I see. So even if that candidate had stuff that would help several groups, black people included, we don't vote for that candidate because it's not a specific black agenda. So black people just sit things out and get nothing instead of participating and getting something?

Noticed his retarded ass ain't answer

 

[ORDER_66]

Noticed his retarded ass ain't answer

 

[DonB90]

 

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[CopiousX]

By hook or by crook, by running OUR grassroots candidates at the local level... ones that are only beholden to us...Simple as that... if they have no black agenda, no fukking vote... how hard is it to understand???

Very inefficient. When you look at these other groups that's not what they do. You have to wonder how a small group of Koreans or Jewish people or arabs or Italians is consistently able to get favorable policies from black politicians when we outnumber them. The tactics they use are equally applicable to us when we're outnumbered by whites


These other groups don't care who's in charge , because they're just going to buy them off. I just don't think black people are ready to put our money where our mouth is. We'll get a thousand black people together in order to vote for a local cause because it's free. But ask these same thousand black people to throw $1000 a year at the same cause for lobbying and its crickets.

These other groups are scientific with it. They will fund and create a 6fig governing board position out of thin air, effectively creating a second salary for the elected representatives to sway that politician's vote . Or they will start pacs to suppress that politician's competitors. Or they will be more strategic and make a longterm funding commitment to move this politician to a higher office after his term. Or they will suspiciously donate to think tanks or public causes ran by these politicians.


By comparison black people are playing tic tac toe politically, against an army of chess players.
I think it's foolish to leave any of this stuff at the vote. As @Uachet mentioned earlier in this thread how do you think the vote is going to go when the population is 60% white? All they've done with this judgement is postpone the inevitable. A countywide plebiscite is the absolute worst thing that can happen