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      <![CDATA[Good on Seamus.
        
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      <![CDATA[Here's yet another example, to go along with "zookeeper's" remark, of the difference in attitude between Memphis' natives and its newcomers: <br>
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“I love Memphis,” he said. “I think this is one of the greatest towns in the world.
        
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      <![CDATA[I don't have a problem with someone moving to another city to improve their lot in life. What I have a problem with is taking a dump on the place you're leaving as a justification, for good measure.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Jackson Baker]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Like Bruce (and for much of the same time frame) I lived in D.C. What he says is true. It is everyplace -- and noplace.
        
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      <![CDATA[Bruce, ditto on DC. I love to visit.
        
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      <![CDATA[Look, everyone who moves away from one city to another isn't a quitter. If that's the case, I've "quit" Columbia, Missouri, San Francisco, Washington D.C., and Pittsburgh, to name four.
        
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      <![CDATA[After finishing off those who move away from Memphis, Marty now will berate and castigate people in other cities who don't want to move to Memphis.
        
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      <![CDATA[Unbelievable. I am an outside investor in delapdated apartments that I am rebuilding in the Midtown / hospital area and was ready to bail out on everything I have been trying to do, until AC Wharton became mayor and showed me what a difference ONE person can do.
        
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      <![CDATA[Look fellows, that Marty guy is kind of an idiot. Once you come to realize that you will realize how pointless it is to respond to his every post.
        
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      <![CDATA[Auto, your power to destroy the place is no greater than my own. These ruins will be a testimony to the terrible power of my sarcasm.
        
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      <![CDATA[Just to preempt the inevitable accusation of being some kind of hater, let me say something positive about Memphis: Memphis is strong enough to handle criticism from someone who has earned the right to give it.
        
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      <![CDATA[According to Marty's view, a person can spend their entire adult life working to improve the community where they were born, but the moment they seek opportunity elsewhere, and honestly describe the experience on a website, they become part of the problem. Apparently, in Memphis and only in Memphis, a single negative comment can undo not only every positive thing a person has said about Memphis, but a lifetime's work of activism as well.
        
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    <pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2010 11:39:00 -0600</pubDate>
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      <![CDATA[I've met quite a few people from "overseas" and I've never had any of them ask about Memphis's high crime rate when I tell them where I'm from. People from other parts of Tennessee, sure, but no one from another country.
        
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      <![CDATA[To be perfectly honest, the only place that the "Memphis brand" needs fixing is right here at home. As I've traveled the world, Memphis is far away recognized more than Nashville, Atlanta, or pretty much any other American city with the exceptions of LA, NYC, and possibly Miami (a tie I would say).
        
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      <![CDATA[Tech,<br>
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Far be it for me to defend Fred Smith, but your comment about him (and/or FedEx) being "absent from supporting the arts in Memphis" is simply not true. From the Cannon Center to Arts in the Park to the Memphis Symphony to many, many other arts-related initiatives, FedEx has long been a major supporter of the arts in Memphis.<br>
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Perhaps Fred Smith/FedEx hasn't sponsored YOUR pet local arts project.
        
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    <pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2010 10:36:26 -0600</pubDate>
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      <![CDATA[The image would take care of itself if the substance was fundamentally improved. The facts are, it has not been, really, since the early 1960's.
        
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      <![CDATA[Oh, and I agree that Mary's biggest obstacle is me - a semi-anonymous commentor. Sometimes my power to shape the course of Memphis frightens me, but then I remember how much fun it will be to destroy the place and I laugh.
        
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      <![CDATA[Marty, my comment was aimed more at the way Memphis is promoted than at Memphis itself. It seems to me that the only things you ever hear or see about Memphis have something to do with barbecue, Elvis, and/or Beale Street.
        
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      <![CDATA[Tom: a "small little man" would tell you what to do with your advice, and with your criticism, but I won't. Meantime, please consider joining your pal, Derek, in D.C. Its lily-white suburbs are in no danger of consolidating with predominantly-black D.C., but I'm sure you can find some other threat those demographics pose from which you can "save" them.
        
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      <![CDATA[Marty, give it a break !!! Wish Derek good luck and let it go.
        
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      <![CDATA[Priceless: you are the future of Memphis; some of the other commenters here are its past. Don't let 'em get you down.
        
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      <![CDATA["Sadly, Memphis is a city in decline and we are in dire need of help with our image and brand."<br>
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Donnak, this is simply not the case. This year, more than any other I remember, citizens all around the city are taking ownership in the revitalization and the development of our city.
        
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      <![CDATA[Sadly, Memphis is a city in decline and we are in dire need of help with our image and brand. I doubt that  hiring this woman will be of much help, but it's probably a good thing to do.
        
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      <![CDATA[Auto: sorry, but I have to comment on one other thing you said, namely that you were very pro-Memphis until you saw what life was like elsewhere. Forgive me, but that sounds very much like someone who says they loved their spouse until they found someone who was younger, richer and/or better looking..<br>
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There's a lot more to be said for loyalty and faithfulness than for opportunism.
        
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    <pubDate>Sun, 28 Nov 2010 01:09:05 -0600</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Re: The Memphis Brand]]></title>

    
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      <![CDATA[Auto: I don't know what you've "given to our good abode," but at least you can hold your head high for not leading the effort to keep Memphis mired in its past by opposing consolidation. Being complimented for your contributions to the city by someone who did lead that effort is like being complimented for promoting diversity by a member of a hate group.
        
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    <pubDate>Sun, 28 Nov 2010 00:46:35 -0600</pubDate>
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