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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumsinterracial couple move into upscale neighborhood and the white wife received this letter
https://www.wral.com/keep-this-area-upscale-warns-letter-to-interracial-wake-forest-family/19176711/https://www.wral.com/keep-this-area-upscale-warns-letter-to-interracial-wake-forest-family/19176711/https://www.wral.com/keep-this-area-upscale-warns-letter-to-interracial-wake-forest-family/19176711/
https://www.scarymommy.com/wakefield-estates-lori-racist-letter-interracial-family/
The family, who live in the Wakefield Estates in the Raleigh neighborhood of Wake Forest, received the anonymous letter, which was written to Lori a white woman and singled out her Black husband and two teenage children.
Dear Lori:
Before you think about putting signage up in your yard or if you had any ideas about making a public statement on your property about George Floyd or racism please remember that the rest of us live in an upscale neighborhood and have spent the extra money to stay out of mixed neighborhoods and/or the ghetto," the letter states. "No one wants trouble or any circumstance arising which could turn our neighborhood into a 'semi-ghetto.' Please keep your husband and teenaged kids well behaved and orderly because no one is interested in your or their struggles. Keep matters inside your own house and do your best to keep this area upscale and free of that element, it read. Most of us would not hesitate to call the police if your kids or husband get unruly, so please be considerate of everyone else living amongst you.
With sincere Gratitude
dalton99a
(81,673 posts)Nevilledog
(51,268 posts)Demovictory9
(32,489 posts)Nevilledog
(51,268 posts)TeamPooka
(24,286 posts)milestogo
(16,829 posts)Segregation.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I feel sorry for them having to live with such horrible neighbors.
Mariana
(14,861 posts)have come out, publicly, in support of the interracial family. Good. The cowardly racist must be feeling pretty lonely.
JonLP24
(29,322 posts)It seems like the 90s were less racist than this decade.
Tech
(1,776 posts)Is receiving from their neighbors and the management company. A young person is making and selling blm signs and donating the proceeds to the NAACP.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,498 posts)KY...........
Demovictory9
(32,489 posts)struggle4progress
(118,379 posts)Dem2theMax
(9,658 posts)I don't know how anyone can hold it together when that hatred is coming towards them.
I sincerely hope the perpetrator is found out, and that Karma pays them a visit. I don't have the class and grace of this family.
dvduval
(260 posts)We're going to be filming a documentary about our struggles here in the community. Would you like to be famous?
Captain Stern
(2,201 posts)ONE person wrote that note.
Nobody knows who they are. We don't know if they actually live in that neighborhood. We don't know if they've ever been in that neighborhood...other than to leave the note.
They're probably laughing about the 'outrage' they caused.
JonLP24
(29,322 posts)bringthePaine
(1,739 posts)expressing with action and fortitude just what America aspires to be
Tipperary
(6,930 posts)Raine
(30,541 posts)and supported them, you really should go to the link and read the whole story instead of jumping to the wrong conclusion.
obamanut2012
(26,181 posts)Let alone read it.
mnmoderatedem
(3,734 posts)not even the gumption to say it to her face.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,405 posts)With, of course, a picture of Obama. And if they want to be explicitly Dem-supporting, "our next upscale president", and Biden.
demmiblue
(36,911 posts)Beautiful signs!
Dread Pirate Roberts
(1,897 posts)Got to love the old "anonymous neighbor" leaving these love letters. Thinks they speak for the entire neighborhood.
Beringia
(4,316 posts)I have unfortunately seen this in my own family with regards to class. I wasn't passable enough to be invited to a wedding after-party once by a relative. If they wrote a letter to me and spoke their thoughts out loud, it would have read like this.
Volaris
(10,278 posts)By hatred
By class
By monied 'priviledge'
Good on the rest of the neighborhood!
Mister Ed
(5,946 posts)signed, the Most Considerate Neighbor Evah!