Trashy TV show is not accurate - and more letters to the editors

Trashy TV show is not accurate

It should be stated explicitly to the world that the women and men who promote the "Southern Women Channel" (featured in the Times Free Press last week) are not representative of all Southerners.

Also, this paper should make this clear. Anyone, men and women, who participate in this blasphemous, filthy, obscene lifestyle clearly reveal that they do not represent the South, but only reveal their own totally trashy background.

When Julia Fowler said, of the depraved language, "that's how we talk," she should have said that's how she and her cohorts talk. It is not how Southern ladies talk.

The behavior exhibited by these women, including Julia Fowler, do not pay "homage to the South" nor is it "a love letter to the South." It only gives the wrong impression of the South to the world. It is similar to portraying all Southerners as hating Jewish people and African-Americans, and loving war and hunting.

If anyone is going to promote this lifestyle, please do not indicate that our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, is a part of it.

BARBARA FINNEY SWYGART, Sewanee, Tenn.


Resolve Black Creek dispute honorably

The disagreement over the Black Creek road can be solved by Southern values. Currently, the developers and their attorneys are not working in the best interests of all taxpayers.

The mountaintop, resort-style golfing community will have a road subsidized by government financing -- corporate welfare -- using TIF legislation, not meant to underwrite projects for the wealthy. With TIF, Chattanooga taxpayers will spend $9 million and 5 1/2 percent interest to underwrite this road. Without TIF, this money can be used for necessary, unfunded projects.

This problem can be rectified.

The attorneys can suggest to Black Creek developers and the IDB that TIF money be better used. The developers can model John Thornton, who is constructing his road to the Jasper Highlands without TIF monies. If this seems too simple, maybe even revolutionary, consider that the American Revolution was simply begun to ask that American Colonies' tax dollars be used for taxpayers herein, not those an ocean -- or a mountaintop -- away.

The Black Creek developers and attorneys involved are competent, responsible people. They can do something we in the South have been taught all our lives: "Love thy neighbor, as thyself."

FRANKLIN McCALLIE

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