Glynn County, Georgia is where three men chased down Ahmaud Arbery, shot and killed him in the middle of the afternoon for jogging through their neighborhood.

It is also the county where the scandal-ridden Glynn County Police declined to arrest the three men.  The County Commission (which includes a man who narrowly escaped being prosecuted for insurance fraud by letting his wife plead to the charges) is trying to protect the Glynn County Police by blaming the County Prosecutor.  The County Prosecutor recused herself because one of the men who killed Arbery had worked for the police department and also was a recently retired investigator for the prosecutor’s office.

The local newspaper, The Brunswick News, just won an award from the Georgia Press Association, but this newspaper is one of the worst local newspapers.  It publishes nothing but right-wing articles and editorials, evidently has no mechanism for spell checking its headlines, and actively contributes to the culture which produced the Arbery killing.

One example:

Richard Yarborough is called a “humor columnist.”  But, a few months after the arrest of the three men who killed Arbery, the Brunswick News published a “humorous” article in which Yarborough mocks the removal of obviously racist branding.

The hysterically funny joke is that bottles in the supermarket are talking to him.  He says that other bottles on the shelf in the grocery store are “feeling threatened by what is happening.”

According to Mrs. Butterworth, “A group of people dressed like wennies came into the store dragging a statue of some old dude on a horse behind them.  Before we knew it, they had snatched Aunt Jemima right off the shelf!  And when Uncle Ben started to protest, they grabbed him too, saying that he should be ashamed of himself for being a symbol of racial inequality by promoting he white race.”

Yarborough goes on to blame “the politically correct police.”

Mrs. Butterworth explains that they are after her because “they can’t decide if I am Black or White.”

Then Quaker Man “he is like, uh, very Caucasian.”  “That’s not a plus these days.  And then there is his religion…now we are into the question if separation of church and state.  The ACLU will be all over this…”

Yarborough concludes: “It seems that the inmates are running the asylum these days.”

This is how seriously the local newspaper is taking the issue of race.

“Talking political correctness with  a bottle of syrup.” By dick@dickyarborough.com