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TexasTowelie

(116,747 posts) Tue Oct 30, 2018, 10:38 AM Oct 2018

White supremacist signs posted on two Burlington campuses

Posters reading “It’s okay to be white” that are part of a national white supremacist campaign were placed on the University of Vermont and Champlain College campuses in Burlington over the weekend.

Last November, posters with the same message were displayed at UVM. Student-led demonstrations called attention to racial justice issues at the university last year, and UVM’s Board of Trustees passed a resolution over the weekend to remove former UVM President Guy Bailey’s name from the school’s library because of his involvement in the racist eugenics movement.

UVM removed the posters, citing its posting policy.

“To the extent that the signs are intended to promote a white nationalist ideology, as news reports have suggested, we condemn the activity in the strongest possible terms, as it is completely antithetical to our core University values,” the university said in a statement.

Read more: https://vtdigger.org/2018/10/29/white-supremacist-signs-posted-two-burlington-campuses/

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White supremacist signs posted on two Burlington campuses (Original Post) TexasTowelie Oct 2018 OP

Wonder why Kiah Morris ended her race? Pity no power names stood up for her, showed up for her. Bfd Oct 2018 #1

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1. Wonder why Kiah Morris ended her race? Pity no power names stood up for her, showed up for her.

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Tue Oct 30, 2018, 10:56 AM

Oct 2018

https://www.google.com/amp/s/vtdigger.org/2018/08/24/kiah-morris-withdraws-candidacy-bennington-house-race/amp/

UPDATED: After threats, Kiah Morris withdraws from House race

(The influential voices of Vermont allowed this?!!
Her collegues did offer kind words following her exit, however. Is this what the supremacist-moves-to-VT skit on SNL referred to?
No prominent Pol condemned it or stood by her in her campaign to defend her?
Pretty shitty huh.)

In August 2016, a mocking Twitter post by a Bennington man included a cartoon caricature of a black person. It was posted in response to Morris winning that year’s primary nomination and sparked condemnation among political leaders locally and around state government after Morris posted a screenshot on her Facebook page.

During the recent primary campaign, Morris, who is African American, her husband, James Lawton, and friends have referred a number of times on Facebook to racially disparaging online comments and to the receipt of threats, many from outside the Bennington area.

In a post this week, Lawton said his wife has received “death threats and threats of harm from all over the country due to the Max connection,” an apparent reference to Max Misch, of Bennington, who authored the Twitter post about Morris two years ago.

Lawton has blamed white supremacist groups in Vermont and elsewhere for recent harassment and threats and complained in a Facebook comment that the FBI “told us there ‘wasn’t enough evidence to open a case.’”

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