As foreclosure chaos rules, Jacksonville woman’s story touches a nerve

Updated on Friday, November 12, 2010 at 1:42AM by Kay B. Day, Editor

When you work in media a long time, people tell you a lot of stories. Most of them you can’t run for one reason or another—the person has no proof of his or her claims perhaps. Or maybe the prospect of a lawsuit is there because the current political climate aims to silence voices of those who disagree with the status quo.

After meeting Rebecca Sharp, she told me the story of her personal experience with foreclosure. Sharp’s case is probably not typical—she says she has made her mortgage payments and did so through Western Union. That way she had independent validation she made those payments. As I pointed out in the original column, Sharp’s problems involved her escrow account.

Since writing that story, I’ve received comments and one reader in particular was extremely upset.

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AG Holder says talk about race, so here goes

Attorney General Eric Holder says we need to talk about race more. I say we need to talk about lame politicians more. [Photo from US Gov.](Washington, D.C.)—The latest sound bite to come out of President Barack Obama’s administration is a condemnation of front line America. By front line I mean those of us who don’t belong to certain social classes:  the elitists in government, the academic elitists or select socialist leaning celebs all of whom love to tell us how we should live our lives. Attorney General Eric Holder is either clueless about real people or he was caught short on a topic for a speech during Black History Month—an anachronism the government and educators cannot let go of—and he settled on the tried and true Democratic Party theme of race. Is he on medication and maybe forgot to take it? We could forgive that.

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