I live in a one-stoplight village of about 1400 people, an hour or so away from Chicago.
Our community has a few black families and they are well-liked and respected. they have been here for decades.
Within the past few years, white families have moved here and have occupied rental properties. They have been quiet and caused no issues.
The other day, down the street from me, one of these families hung a large "Black Lives Matter" flag on the front of their house. Another family has some kind of sign on their lawn in a few different languages, with one being Arabic, which I noticed as I drove by.
This community is full of hunters and most homes have at least one gun. Residents are of the old fashioned kind that don't take kindly to strangers in the beginning.
WTF is wrong with these people?
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 78202641 We live in the same kind of rural, quiet, small community.
While there are the "demographically correct" number of blacks here (about 15%), never had a problem with "live and let live."
HOWEVER, here lately one of them got elected to county official position. Suddenly, he's a HUGE advocate for "blacks need better representation/protection."
Okay, be an asshole. We'll vote your stupid ass out next election....
So what does he do next? Now he's written up legislation to CUT DOWN an iconic oak tree in downtown square that more or less DEFINES our town! Claims it stands for the KKK (there area RUMORS it was used for hangings, but that's not true).
Not only wants to CUT IT DOWN, but wants to make the park square where it stands a
MONUMENT TO BLM.Guy wants to get run out of town, obviously. I thought it would bring trouble....white vs black kind of trouble....but most blacks are also saying he's a nut and don't want any part of it.
I guess he's on someone's payroll.....
Small, small town, (not one stoplight, but almost!).
This shit's happening all over small towns. You KNOW it's well funded.
