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Khalfani: A Cesspool of Corruption and Incompetence!

Khalfani: A Cesspool of Corruption and Incompetence!
Posted By: Rudolph Hickman on November 02, 2011


It is the story of a city and its government. A city with a storied antebellum past that causes it to be somewhat bi-polar at times. A city that has just recently had the spirit, the courage, the compelling urge to examine its audacious past.

In looking back the city hopes to move forward.



But can it? What must it do to right the wrongs committed? Will it continue to rationalize, condone and acquiesce to what was and continues to be done here? Will it blind its eyes to the atrocities that enslaved all who participated in the buying and selling of humans and the succeeding efforts to dehumanize and return to bondage those whose freedom was secured by a massive loss of life and property?

Or, will the City on the James, atone for past wrongs by restoring to those from whom so much was taken, a full measure of economic vitality?

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