Hello,
If you are visiting this blog for the first time, it has changed since its original creation.
If you are looking for a racist, not here.
If your looking for gory details of the crime, move on.
I have my own opinions about a lot of things being talked about concerning this case, but I am not going to express them here.
This blog is about DOING something.
I'm sure the imediate family and friends of the Christian's and Newsome's have and are doing everything they can, but I'm talking about the community in general.
I did have a big write-up here explaining why I thought this would be one of the most sincere ways of showing the Christian/Newsome families our communities support and compassion, and the plan to make it happen.
I do not have any positive news of progress to report to date.
In fact, some began trying to use this blog as another venue for their propoganda by placing rude comments.
I shut that down immediately.
This is not a blog for any type of hate, racism, or other statements of fantasy-land garble.
The comments feature for this blog has been turned off, and I have removed all of the original content.
This blog was created to inspire a positive ACTION.
If you received the e-mail I began to circulate, then you probably have read the original verbage of the plan.
I still feel like this is one of the best, and one of the few ways we, as a community, can do something in a show of effort to ease the pain for all of us, but especially for the victims families.
Nothing we can do will ever erase the pain, but we can, as a consorted effort, erase the structure on Chipman Street that represents the pain.
I will no longer try to organize this effort on my own.
I'm also over the blogs, trying to talk rational to irrational people.
You do have to remeber that this is privately owned rental property.
I'm sure the current owner would have to be bought out, and the new owner(s) would be free to bulldoze it.
The propery could be sold at some price (maybe not what was paid) to Waste Connections to expand their parking lot, and the proceeds could be donated to charity in Chris & Channon's names.
That was the proposed plan in a nutshell.
If you want to see this vile place (2316 Chipman Street) removed from our community, I suggest that you write the office of the mayor.
Better yet, tell the Mayor you would support the effort with X amount of dollars to see it thru, and maybe if enough people do so, it will happen.
City of Knoxville; Mayor Bill Haslam
Phone: 865-215-2040
Fax: 865-215-2085
mayor@cityofknoxville.org
May God bless Channon & Chris, their families and their friends.
