12 Black Elected Officials In Charlotte Receive Trump Inspired Racist Letters

[sheshe2]

https://3chicspolitico.com/2019/08/15/thursday-open-thread-12-black-elected-officials-in-charlotte-receive-trump-inspired-racist-letters/

At least 12 local elected officials, including black county commissioners, Charlotte City Council members who are people of color, and the black chair of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools board, received similar letters in recent days, according to representatives of those bodies. The letter, which the Observer obtained a copy of from a City Council member, is also addressed to the local police and fire departments.

The letter to Leake invoked the name of President Donald Trump, said blacks need to “assimilate” to Charlotte and the United States and blamed “twisted media” for problems.

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“Nothing good will come to you if you don’t change,” the letter to Leake and other commissioners stated.

Assimilate.

“One of these days, someone … will round you up. All of you. And send you screaming to the concentration camps where you belong … Be very careful.”

A Mecklenburg County commissioner says she has asked the FBI to investigate who sent her and other black elected officials a racist, threatening letter that said

“Black Democrats should be tarred and feathered and run out of town” and sent “screaming to the concentration camps.”

……………………………..

Ignorant POS. Penned from a frightened 'anonymous' white man that is totally ignorant of the facts.

“You need to go back to where you came from … Your freedom was born on the backs of great Americans, white Americans, who fought for you, so get over it.

First of all, slave ships and slavers are what brought them here. They did not come here all by themselves, they had a country and husbands and wives, children, friends and parents that loved them. They were ALREADY free! Slavers beat them, shackled them, raped them and threw them into shithole cargo hatches that no living being would wish to be placed. They were starved. Some made it here, many did not. Collateral damage dontcha know.

The author of the letter is woefully ignorant. He claims that their freedom was born on the backs of GREAT AMERICANS, WHITE AMERICANS!

Fact is America was built on the backs of black men and women. The letter writer needs to get his facts straight. Slavery did not end with the Emancipation Proclimation...it was WWII.

Read Douglas Blackmon. Slavery by Another Name

http://www.pbs.org/tpt/slavery-by-another-name/home/

Fact is, we are still not doing a very good job.

[struggle4progress]

1. "We had to enslave you to make you free, so show some friggin gratitude!"

[sheshe2]

2. That about sums it up, s4p.

*SIGH*

Thanks~

[bobbieinok]

5. In 90s CBN, etc was telling blacks they had been enslaved because they were pagans

Some black colleagues told me some black preachers were teaching that.

I was totally freaked out! [Me--white woman now nearly 80]

Nice way to switch blame for slavery from white ship captains, slave traders, slave owners to blacks worshipping idols in Africa.


I was told some black church goers were buying the claim ....... because their minister said it.

[ancianita]

21. It's how they rewrite history to make themselves the good guys -- rape, incest, slavery, you name it

This is the heart of sick, twisted shit, the way they gaslight this country.

This is the heart and soul of the sick alt-right's view of the world -- discounting only the world's facts and forcing any fact to fit their sick, twisted beliefs. And the ministers?? They are pharisees.

It's the beginning of historical revisionism. Like current climate denialism.

Next, the holocaust didn't happen, and " what you see and what you hear is not what is happening."

[llmart]

3. North Carolina has sunk to new lows in the past three decades.

I used to live there at a time when I thought, of the two Carolinas at least North Carolina was making progress. Now I feel like they are on a par with South Carolina and that isn't a good thing.

There was a time when I thought I might retire there, but not any more.

[sheshe2]

4. I don't blame you, llmart.

[llmart]

6. Odd thing is, I don't even have any desire to vacation there either.

For a long time I pined for a vacation back to some of my old haunts, but as I get older the desire isn't there any longer. I loved all my trips to different beaches and the mountains, but I don't recognize the people any longer.

[sheshe2]

8. Sorry place we are right now.

I don't recognize them either.

[llmart]

9. Are you in NC?

I moved there in the 80's and left in the early 90's. My son stayed behind because he was in college when we moved. He was there for only a little while longer and then got really disgusted with the place. I always trust his opinion on things, so my disappointment started then and it's only seemed to get worse.

[sheshe2]

10. No. MA.

Just commenting on what I see and read when I brace myself to turn on the news every morning.

Glad you got out. Maybe someday soon you will be able to return.

[paleotn]

14. I hear you.

If it weren't for Asheville, the triangle and the larger cities, NC would be indistinguishable from SC. I've lived in both and can't find one single good reason to go back, even to just visit. It's like that in much of the south. Georgia without metro Atlanta is just Alabama. I use to live in Mark Meadow's district. I simply couldn't take it anymore and moved north the first chance I got. I miss very, very little of my former home.

[llmart]

22. I like Asheville.

That was the only place I was considering retiring to. I lived in Charlotte when I was there, which is why this article interested me. I actively campaigned for Harvey Gantt to defeat ole' Jesse Helms who was a racist through and through, but of course Gantt lost. My son was very good friends with Gantt's youngest daughter. Moving there from the Midwest was quite an eye opener for me.

[littlemissmartypants]

19. Please don't paint all North Carolinians with the same broad brush.

There are still many of us still here who stay to fight the good fight for justice. It is a fact that gerrymandering has us in a stranglehold but the last election more democrats cast votes than republicans. The tides are changing. I hope you are able to see the bright side. It will never change if you don't want it to. Keep the faith.

I'm sorry you felt you had to leave instead of stay and fight. I hope you are happier now. I'm so connected to the land of my ancestors, here since the 15th century and before. I don't feel that I can be who I am anywhere else right now. So I am taking the good with the bad and keeping my heart on justice. It's definitely not easy but definitely worth it.

Stay encouraged.

[llmart]

23. Just to clarify...

I didn't feel I had to leave. At that time, I really didn't want to leave because I had one child in college and one going into her senior year in high school. I was married to someone who got transferred.

I wasn't painting all of the people with the same brush. But even back then it was very difficult for me to ignore the racism.

[Initech]

7. We have some extremely sick people in charge right now.

[ck4829]

25. We do

[FakeNoose]

11. This is insanity

[djacq]

12. This still exists in Virginia!!!

[link:https://npsfrsp.wordpress.com/2017/09/14/the-slave-auction-block-at-william-and-charles/|

[link:https://images.app.goo.gl/WpC9HVsS9hFLaThk9|

[NBachers]

13. Whether the FBI is friend or foe, they still need to be enlisted in this.

[sheshe2]

15. I sure hope so, NBachers.

I think they will. I hope they will.

[paleotn]

16. Wasn't just WWII...

To this very day, a swath of the populace simply won't accept the fact that America is a multi cultural, multi racial country and has always been so. America's wealth and prosperity were born on the backs of African slaves. DC itself was built originally by slaves. The White House and Capital were created through slave labor. Successive waves of immigrants built upon those foundations. That's the reality a number of Americans don't want to accept.

[sheshe2]

17. I know.

Douglas A. Blackmon (born 1964) is an American writer and journalist who won a Pulitzer Prize in 2009 for his book, Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II.[1]

n 2008, Blackmon published Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II, which explored the history of peonage and convict lease labor in the South after the American Civil War. He revealed the stories of tens of thousands of slaves and their descendants who journeyed into freedom after the Emancipation Proclamation and then back into the shadow of involuntary servitude, which lasted into the 20th century.[5] In 2009, Blackmon was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for Slavery by Another Name.[1][6]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_A._Blackmon

[Scruffy1]

18. Ten per cent of the troops in the Revolutionary war were of African origin.

When Washington went to Yorktown he took his best troops: The All Black Delawares.

[bucolic_frolic]

20. So as they are being exposed for what they are

MAGAts are digging in. This is an escalation, but not unexpected.

[ck4829]

24. K&R

[raging moderate]

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Some of my ancestors fought to help free the slaves, and they would be FURIOUS at these vicious little white supremacists for daring to pretend to speak on their behalf. I think, most poignantly, of my great-grandmother's older brother, George S. Barnes. He left his father's little dirt farm at age 16 to join the Union army to help free the slaves. George S. Barnes didn't get to be anybody's ancestor, because the nasty little pro-slavers captured him the next year and spent the rest of the war slowly torturing him to death in a prison camp, so that he died very soon after the war ended. He would say something like, "How DARE you presume to use my sacrifice as an excuse for you to try to lord it over these brave people yet again? We fought to free these people from the horrors of chattel slavery unjustly forced on them, because they had EARNED FREEDOM a thousand times over, and to salvage what honor we could after our country had let this monstrosity continue so long!" I know the hearts of my great-grandmother and her family. They were poor, but they could see that their problems were tiny compared to the injustices visited on Black Americans and Native Americans. They knew that it was the moral obligation of every white American to do whatever it took to end the sadistic tyranny that was antebellum slavery. They left word that we should do what we could to oppose white supremacy. George knew he had a sacred obligation to God, who had been quoted in Deuteronomy saying, "Thou shalt not forget that thy people were once slaves," mandating fair and kind treatment for everybody. He would not want the freed slaves or their descendants to feel any obligation to him. He just wanted them to receive the fruits of their labor and manage their own lives. Every civil rights victory would make him happy.

[lunatica]

27. If we hadn't brought them over as slaves

they would be living in shithole countries now. Where’s the gratitude?!

[Mc Mike]

28. An anonymous nazi whitie. How brave.