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So, consider this - on Tuesday, November 6, Fulton County was holding polling places for the presidential election as you all know. The event that occurred  is that millionaire pop-star and Country Club of the South resident, "Usher", was escorted in a back door and brought to the front of the line unlike the average voters.

This raises an issue that has arisen often during the last decade, and that is whether or not celebrities should be treated to special assistance. An assistant there claimed she believes the disabled, elderly, and those with young children should have special treatment. However, it would have been chaotic had the entire line realized a Grammy winner were standing with them. Fulton County made the right decision in letting Usher expedite his ballot.

This can be related to an issue more in the grand-scheme of whether or not celebrities should be above the law. If I walked into the Lakewood Amphitheater with pounds of the most potent marijuana the security had ever seen and bottles upon bottles of non-prescribed hydrocodeine, I would be tackled, jailed, and charged with felonies. However, rappers and last decade's rock stars can and could do that in any state, at any time, and with whomever they wants at all times without punishment. I'm not sure why it is that the police don't bug the immensely wealthy, but I have no reason to complain. Nothing I can do about it. It makes rappers music better because it's more of a unique lifestyle to observe, and the effects don't apply to me. Good for Wiz.

The article was from the AJC, titled "Fulton allowed Usher to skip voting line".