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Indiana woman says she feels better after leaving racist note for new neighbors: I released some angerTRAVIS GETTYS30 OCT 2018 AT 06:03 ET
Deborah Cantwell was charged with misdemeanor counts of intimidation and criminal mischief, and she was then hit with a protection order stating that stalking has occurred and told to stay away from her new neighbors, reported the Kokomo Tribune.
The husband and father of the family told police just after 1 a.m. Oct. 13 that his familys newly purchased Greentown home had been toilet-papered, and he found a racist letter on the door aimed at his son.
No N*ggers wanted in this neighborhood-THIS IS A WHITE NEIGHBORHOOD-some people find N*GGERS Stressful, the letter read. YOUR N*GGER KID IS NOT WELCOME.
YOU CAN SELL YOUR HOUSE AND MAKE MONEY ON IT RIGHT NOW, read the last paragraph. BY THE WAY HOPE YOU HAVE DEEP POCKETS.
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/10/indiana-woman-says-feels-better-leaving-racist-note-new-neighbors-released-anger/
Leghorn21
(13,526 posts)Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,505 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)People get testy when they run out of opioids.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Guess you can't wear a redhat in your mugshot pic.
The Genealogist
(4,723 posts)MineralMan
(146,329 posts)Her bigotry and hatred seethe inside her brain and make her miserable and lonely. And she doesn't recognize the cause, so she projects it out on others.
She will never "feel better." She will die angry and bitter.
LuckyCharms
(17,457 posts)AJT
(5,240 posts)Her inside ugliness has leaked to her outside.
I don't usually go to disparaging someone's looks, but I'm making an exception for her.
beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)She should be driven out
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)punishment to crime here? For that matter, how would "driven out" be accomplished without extensive criminal behavior of the same sort? Are there others the neighborhood should target and drive out?
And to where? What new neighborhoods get lucky?
I'm thinking maybe her neighbors will just go about their own business and leave her to herself. As is a time-honored way of dealing with these things.
Agree she will need deep pockets if she violates the court orders. Next time would be a felony, and she'd of course be developing her victims' case for civil action. Neither legal costs nor settlements would be covered by insurance, of course, and hopefully someone will explain that to her -- before she "drives" herself out of her home.
WhiteTara
(29,722 posts)Your logic is so sweet and revenge is best served cold. Driving herself out of her home would be a delicious cold dish to be rid of a nasty neighbor with hopes of a fresh start.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)but the community's dealing with her.
A DAY IN THE LIFE
(88 posts)probably agree with her. To them she is a hero.
Mopar151
(9,997 posts)And I'll bet that her place is not elevating property values!
I'd take the side bet, too...That she's been working for years to be picked for "Hoarders"!
Hekate
(90,793 posts)Ohiogal
(32,057 posts)would do something like that? All she needs is a MAGA hat.
I hope she is driven out of town.
pnwest
(3,266 posts)never have to pay for a drink at the local shithole tavern again. This is the same town that made Ryan White the face of AIDS. I had the misfortune to be assigned to a job in Kokomo for a year, I can tell you the whole place is lousy with Deborah Cantwells. Toothless, ignorant, hateful, uneducated, inbred Deborah Cantwells.
My summation of Kokomo, (I was there in the late 80s) was that everything you need to know about KokomofuckingIndiana is the fact that there are no less than FOUR Army-Navy surplus stores on the town square.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,431 posts)hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain." -- James Baldwin
Guilded Lilly
(5,591 posts)Will be his legacy. Hideous people have crawled out from under rocks and may they all be held openly accountable for their wretchedness.
lapislzi
(5,762 posts)I try to maintain standards of decency on DU.
roamer65
(36,747 posts)Inside and outside.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,198 posts)Initech
(100,102 posts)spanone
(135,873 posts)MiniMe
(21,718 posts)"She admitted that she was trying to make the new family feel unwelcome in the neighborhood, but she didnt think she had really done anything wrong."
ck4829
(35,091 posts)I once shut down a network of websites belonging to the now-pretty-much defunct American National Socialist Workers Party. I once taught a girl how to ride a bike. I once hugged a co-worker who needed one.
Those were things that made me "feel better".
Kind of sad that a letter threatening a black child does it for her.
Cousin Dupree
(1,866 posts)Blue Owl
(50,494 posts)n/t
Croney
(4,670 posts)vandalism with the racist note? Here, let me toilet paper their house, that'll show 'em! Oh and while I'm there, I'll just drop a turd from my sick brain onto a piece of paper.
violetpastille
(1,483 posts)And was afraid a black child in her neighborhood would cause her stress and cause her blood pressure to rise.
I just needed to let off some steam and it was the Im not a violent person so I didnt think it was any big deal, Cantwell said.
Typical.
Just take care of your health Ms Cantwell. Worry about that. Do something about that. Try Jazzercise. Take an epsom salt bath.
Stop blaming other people.
I used to have older Republican people in my life, but they got tired of me saying,
"You are going to die of heart disease. Not Islamic Terrorism. Look at the damn actuarial tables."
matt819
(10,749 posts)AwakeAtLast
(14,133 posts)Hardly surprised, unfortunately. I saw first hand the vile things scratched into Ryan White's school locker. Numerous reports of racist activity from this city over many years. Prime habitat for Trumpanzees.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Because she lost her job at the coal mine or whatever