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LongTomH

(8,636 posts)
Fri Mar 18, 2016, 12:21 PM Mar 2016

KKK tries to silence 84-year old woman who fled Nazis after she criticizes Trump

From Rawstory: http://www.rawstory.com/2016/03/kkk-tries-to-silence-84-year-old-woman-who-fled-the-nazis-after-she-criticizes-trump/

“I have found some alarming rhetoric coming from Donald Trump that is apparently finding approval from large numbers of my fellow Americans,” she wrote. “With Trump’s rather ambiguous response concerning his disavowal of the support of former Klansman David Duke, I have reached my breaking point”

ust days later, she received the envelope containing a square white cross and red background, the symbol of America’s oldest and most violent hate group.

“I believe somebody just read that letter, it touched a nerve, and that’s the way they reacted,” Mayerson told the Globe. She contacted the police, who are investigating.

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“We all know the opinions and actions the Ku Klux Klan stands for,” Mayerson wrote in her letter. “Among the fellow Americans the KKK has sought out for its venom are American Jews. Trump’s failure to immediately repudiate Duke chilled my blood. I can see myself needing to flee once more and perhaps return to my native country in Europe, where hateful rhetoric is now strictly forbidden and punishable by law.”
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