Talk:Statesboro, Georgia
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Can someone write about the hostage standoff which is currently going on in downtown by the courthouse? It has been on all the national news outlets already.
[edit] hostage
it ended peacfully. proably the most exciting thing that has happened in this town in years. Keltik31 17:21, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] poverty
i lived in statesboro for five months. this article talks about the per capita. but let me tell all of you that there is a great deal of poverty in statesboro. the countryside is lined with single-wide two bedroom trailers and some of them are falling apart. it is really sad becaus the people are nice and the weather is good. Keltik31 16:06, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
You should go out past the country club into the boondox. There should be something about poverty in here since it is a problem and its an annoyance. There also needs to be something about the history of Statesboro.
[edit] GSU
This article seems to be more focused on GSU than the actual town. It pretty much talks about the college and anything related to college except for the demographics and basic facts like that.
this should have one of those neutrality disputed things, most of that racism stuff is bullshit, especially the 'modern' part
In 1904, Statesboro, Georgia, after lynching a pair of African Americans convicted of murdering a white couple and their three children, an angry white mob unleashed a wave of violence against local blacks, beating a young mother with a three-day-old child and killing her husband. Before the rampage ended, numerous blacks were assaulted and their homes destroyed. Law enforcement officials never attempted to prosecute any of the rioters or mob ringleaders. Many blacks moved out of Statesboro in the wake of the riot.
I just reverted that addition about the lynching. Material like this needs a source to back it up. Also, it should not be included in the opening paragraph about Statesboro, as that space is reserved for introduction and a brief history of the article. Clocktopus 15:37, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
