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TexasTowelie

(112,635 posts)
Fri Aug 18, 2017, 11:26 PM Aug 2017

Racially charged writing on pickup truck unnerves nearby workers

HUNTERSVILLE, NC (WBTV) - Employees of a Huntersville business park say they are uncomfortable after finding a truck parked there with racially charged wording written on it.

The writing said things like “Obama did Charlottesville.”

Those employees of Birkdale Business Park say they confronted the driver of the truck, who admitted to writing the words himself.

“I had never seen the truck before in the entire time I had been there,” one woman, who asked not to be named, said. “It was a statement.”

She says she believes the driver parked the truck in front of her workplace because the majority of employees there are African American.

Read more: http://www.wbtv.com/story/36171113/racially-charged-writing-on-pickup-truck-unnerves-nearby-workers

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Racially charged writing on pickup truck unnerves nearby workers (Original Post) TexasTowelie Aug 2017 OP
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What does that mean? The Velveteen Ocelot Aug 2017 #2
It means I am irritated Billy Jingo Aug 2017 #3
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Billy Jingo

(77 posts)
3. It means I am irritated
Fri Aug 18, 2017, 11:37 PM
Aug 2017

I've joined in 2002 but the hack took my post count. I can't pm. Sorry. I will just post cogent things.

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