Why
are Some So Afraid of People of Color and Immigrants? What can they learn from this?
August 12th marks
the one-year anniversary of the Charlottesville riot where Heather Heyer lost
her life at the hands of a white supremacist driving his car through a crowd.
This was a terrorist act. Who can forget
the president’s response? Good people on
both sides? Nazis, KKK? Really?
Through his rhetoric and
actions, the current president has unleashed permission to spread “hate speech”
in our county. It’s in our community as
evidenced by a “White Lives Matter” flyer that was placed in Darien residents’
mailboxes. They flyer headline
“Pro-White websites with the Real News” says it all. This is not acceptable!!
The Patch reported “Darien
Mayor Condemns ‘White Lives Matter’ Flyer” on August 6 (article),
Kathleen Weaver, Mayor of Darien, was quick to respond with the following
statement:
“There was a one
page single-sided flyer circulated in the Knottingham area entitled "White
Lives Matter." There are a few websites that the originator of the
flyer invites people to visit. These websites have messaging not
consistent with the values of Darien. We believe the websites to be white
supremacist, racist and anti-Semitic in nature.
As the Mayor of
Darien, representing the communities within our town, I wanted to give the
message that Darien is inclusive and this type of rhetoric is not what we
believe.
If anyone has
information regarding this incident, please contact the Darien Police
Department at 630-353-8150.”
To ignore this kind of
behavior in our community is to condone it.
If this happens to you or your neighbors, report it to your local police
department. Don’t get mad….TAKE ACTION!
SEE YOU AT THE POLLS … with
your
paper ballots!
