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RandySF

(59,052 posts)
Fri Feb 11, 2022, 12:21 AM Feb 2022

Anti-Abortion Group Targets Black West Virginia Lawmaker With KKK Graphic

Delegate Danielle Walker, the only Black woman serving in the West Virginia Legislature, had just finished a busy day of committee meetings on the first day of Black History Month when she opened her inbox and found an email that would take her days to process.

The message came from Berkeley County West Virginians for Life, an anti-abortion group east of Walker’s district. In it appeared a graphic of a Ku Klux Klan member giving a Nazi salute with a message for the Democrat, who had recently introduced legislation to roll back West Virginia’s abortion restrictions.

“The idiot featured in the picture below is an ally of yours and holds the same beliefs you do that the killing of children look like you is a good thing,” the email read in part.

Walker was stunned.

“When I opened the attachment I was just drawn back. I absolutely could not wrap my head around why someone would send this to me,” she told HuffPost on Wednesday, just over a week after she received the email.





https://www.huffpost.com/entry/west-virginia-danielle-walker-kkk_n_62054980e4b032302467b604?utm_campaign=share_twitter&ncid=engmodushpmg00000004

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Anti-Abortion Group Targets Black West Virginia Lawmaker With KKK Graphic (Original Post) RandySF Feb 2022 OP
Some people have ForgedCrank Feb 2022 #1
These people irk the hell out of me Deuxcents Feb 2022 #2

Deuxcents

(16,287 posts)
2. These people irk the hell out of me
Fri Feb 11, 2022, 12:48 AM
Feb 2022

They don’t like anyone w/ a different skin pigmentation. Foreign sounding names. And I’ll never live to see the day these people n their hatred are gone is what pains me.

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