In light of some of the recent chatter around town I thought this would be a good time to offer my own opinion on the character of my hometown.
I grew up in Great Falls in the 1960’s and 1970’s. I raised my own two daughters here and helped to get a couple of my grandkids started right here in the Electric City, so I take strong exception to some of the disparaging, insulting, and divisive comments which have made it into the local news recently about the kind of community this is and people who live here.
Despite what some of the loudest most obnoxious local voices would have you believe, the overwhelming majority of folks in this community are not bigots, homophobes, racists or haters.
I’ve always known the people of Great Falls to be good, kindhearted, give-you-the-shirt-off-their-back kind of folks who couldn’t care less about who you love or the color of your skin.
In Great Falls you will always get a fair shake as long as you’re not a jerk and are willing to work hard and reciprocate that fair treatment with respect and honesty.
Are there jackasses in this town? Sure, just like in any other town. But when someone magnifies the exception and dishonestly and tries to convince others that it’s the rule for their own selfish reasons, we should call it what it is – horse excrement.
So don’t believe the lies, Great Falls. This is a good community filled with good people who believe in the principle of ‘live and let live’, but who also understand that ‘live and let live’ is a two-way street.
WELL SAID
I so agree you well never find a town anywhere as honest or welcoming as Great Falls!
Well your defense of the guy that got fired from his job for his hateful actions at the pride parade last year and your absolute silence about the white nationalist propaganda all over the city says otherwise.
My opinion is that most of us white citizens in Great Falls have not much of an idea of what kind and how much bigotry there is in our city. Maybe better than just opinions we could ask our Great Falls citizens of color to let us know what their experiences are here. Take surveys and give them a platform to let us
know what they maybe going through on a daily basis. Maybe our city government could help us with this survey. If there are significant issues, how can we be a better city as a whole and how to contend with any issues that come up. It could be a real learning experience for us all. It’s worth a shot in my opinion.
I love this little big city! Do we have our share of problems? Of course! Would I like to have more restaurants here, of course! But all in all, when push comes to shove, our neighbors, our community, our little big city would come together to help each other out.
Great falls emplo9yers are just like the jerk off hateful prejudice employers of Bozeman and maybe a bit more jerks and haters.
Mike! Where are you? Message me!
i am in great falls right now but hoping to leave soon. i am pretty much starting from scratch trying to get disability unemployment something to get some debts paid and have money to travel to where my heart and soul is at the national parks and will never come back to great falls and deal with these hateful people in great falls again
i am giving up. i give up on god give up on life i pretty much lost everything and have nothing. just want to go so somewhere and die and be out the hateful judgemental city of great falls and be elsewhere. i just need a gun or knife to do it
there needs to be a mass shooting in great falls and some p high horses eople killed take the people of great falls off their
maybe i was a bit harsh towards people. some of it is my fault but fine i give up on jobs. just will die broke and in a hopeless state at the shelter as i am done trying there is no hope at 53 and i do have skills but apparently not for jobs here
anybody wants me too leave town to die back home in cut bank where a few people care drop a couple hundred by the shelter and i will get a bus ticket to head back to cut bank to die
suicide is sometimes the best option to end a life. god makes mistakes and my life was a mistake as it was determned by the world so when you are useless and have no hope in life suicide is the only solution
why is it impossible for me to get a job here in great falls. i try to be positive and helpful yet am still judged negatively. what the hell do you employers want in great falls. my blood and if thats what you want i can shed my blood for you just provide a gun and you can watch mer blow my brains out since you want that
Well all of you hateful judgemental evil people of great falls especially you employers will be glad when april opens as i will be dead and you can rejoice in you drove someone to suicide. you people will be well pleased with yourselves so i hope you all die horrible painful deaths as even in my grave i wish you all ill for the way you have spit in my face and you know the whole frickin world can burn a painful death
so again if you people want me to end my life and post me killing myself just tell me to meet you somewhere and you can have the pleasure of blowing my brains out for the world to see since thats what you want it wouldnt be murder would be a merciful killing because you are killing somebody useless and the world wants dead anyway
ok great falls you won am going somewhere to end my life. am trying to find at least one job to get some money for a bus ticket back to cut bank for a motel room and some money foer a knife to stab myself to death with or a gun. anybody can help me out just send it to the shelter 326 2nd avenue south great falls momtana 59405 the minute i get it wil leave great falls and end my life in a place where a few people care. i dont want live anymore so having to end my life is of no consequence but dont want to do it around enemies and the haters of great falls but around a few people who care back home. god has failed me enough i asked god for a job and he never answers so am done with god too done with life done with people just want to go home to cut bank and die