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Protesters at a North Carolina Confederate Monument Have Received KKK Flyers at Their Homes

While most of us can acknowledge the fact that this country built so many monuments to a bunch of racist losers is deeply weird, racists will simply not accept anyone questioning the necessity of their big-ass participation trophies. So much so, that a group of people who protested a Confederate monument in North Carolina have…

While most of us can acknowledge the fact that this country built so many monuments to a bunch of racist losers is deeply weird, racists will simply not accept anyone questioning the necessity of their big-ass participation trophies. So much so, that a group of people who protested a Confederate monument in North Carolina have received KKK flyers at their homes.

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Iโ€™m always amazed at the amount of effort racists put into being racist.

WSCO-TV reports that in Statesville, N.C., there has been a growing effort by protesters to get a Confederate monument removed from a courthouse that sits in the heart of the city. Several people who participated in those protests have received flyers with the letters โ€œKKKโ€ written on them in bold red letters as well as the phrase โ€œwe see everything.โ€

โ€œI had just had a friend drop something off, and my 11-year-old came running into my office with this flyer right here โ€” he was terrified,โ€ Genesis Houpe, a Black woman, told Channel 9. โ€œIt said, โ€˜KKK we see everything,โ€™ with the business card and candy in it. He was terrified when he got this.โ€

โ€œHe cried and he asked me, โ€˜Do we need to move? What should we do?โ€™โ€ Houpe said. โ€œIโ€™m just a woman who wants to see change and her kids to grow up in a community without this kind of hate. Thatโ€™s all Iโ€™m working to do.โ€

According to Statesville Police Chief David Addison, the flyers began showing up at peopleโ€™s homes last Saturday. Earlier in the week, county commissioners voted 4-1 to move the monument from the courthouse. Obviously, sending flyers to harass people in their homes is going to reverse that decision.

As mentioned earlier, Houpe was not alone in receiving a flyer. Sheriff Darren Campbell told the news outlet that 66 other homes throughout the county received the flyers. Law enforcement has said that there hasnโ€™t been a crime committed, but they will continue to investigate the incident.

This whole fervor white people have worked themselves into over racist-ass monuments is just so bizzare. I donโ€™t understand getting so worked up about monuments of people who werenโ€™t just racist, but failed in what they were trying to do. Maybe Iโ€™m just different, but I tend to look up to people who were, you know, successful, and donโ€™t have the KKK stanning for them.

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