Letter To Black Family Says ‘You Don’t Belong Here’
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A black family on Long Island received an anonymous letter telling them, “You don’t belong here.”
Ronica Copes, 37, a resident of Lindenhurst in the town of Babylon, found the typewritten, all capital-letter message in an addressed envelope in her mailbox on Thursday afternoon, she told Newsday.
“ATTN: AFRICAN-AMERICAN FAMILY,” begins the letter, which she later posted to Facebook. “THIS IS COMING FROM LINDENHURST COMMUNITY.”
“LINDENHURST IS 84% WHITE POPULATION. YOU DON’T BELONG HERE!!! PLEASE LEAVE LINDENHURST AS SOON AS YOU CAN. IT WILL BE BETTER FOR ALL OF US.
“FIND THE TOWN WHERE THERE ARE MORE PEOPLE LIKE YOU,” the note ends, according to WCBS-TV. “SORRY IF THIS IS RUDE, BUT IT’S THE TRUTH.”
Suffolk County Police are investigating the correspondence as a possible hate crime, according to Newsday. Copes has lived in her house with her mother, her two siblings and five nieces and nephews since September 2013, but she told the publication she hasn’t experienced any racism firsthand in the community.
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labman57 May 24th, 2015 at 2:13 pm
And conservative blowhards will blame Obama in … 3 … 2 … 1 …
tracey marie May 24th, 2015 at 2:42 pm
Long Island, long time republican stronghold, lately Dems have been elected locally. This is more of the losing white racists death wails.
F_cons May 24th, 2015 at 4:24 pm
I live in this racist shole – if you read the comments on the local paper, Newsday, you would swear it was a southern, conservatard hell hole
tracey marie May 24th, 2015 at 6:26 pm
Just call it the conroe texas of NY
jasperjava May 24th, 2015 at 3:19 pm
Ummmm… if the community is 84% white, that means that it’s 16% non-white. That’s more than one out of every seven people.
Does the idiot who sent this letter even realize what he or she is saying, by including that statistic? It means that non-whites DO belong there.
Of course, even if the town were100% white, people have the right to live where they want.
Budda May 24th, 2015 at 4:16 pm
I thought conservatives have said that racism was dead…would they lie to us?
Suzanne McFly May 24th, 2015 at 5:56 pm
The whole “sorry to be rude” seems out of place, I guess you can be both ignorant and still have manners. I wish nothing positive on these people.
Snick1946 May 25th, 2015 at 11:15 am
I admit to doing something like this a couple years ago- but in reverse. We had some new neighbors move in who were flying a huge Confederate battle flag every day- their car had Alabama plates. Some of the folks I knew nearby were unnerved by this but nobody wanted to tell them, so I did- via a note in their mailbox. I told them they lived two doors down from an older black woman who was the widow of a cop who died in duty and that their rebel rag flag was offensive to a lot of people, I never saw it again. I doubt they meant offense, they still live there and are nice folks.