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TexasTowelie

(112,063 posts)
Thu Sep 8, 2016, 08:06 AM Sep 2016

Black California family shocked by arson attempt, spray-painted swastikas and racial slurs

A panicked family of seven bolted out of their California home early Wednesday as somebody tried to torch the two-story home with Molotov cocktails after spray-painting racist slurs across its facade, police said.

Roshon Williams was rousted awake by her 28-year-old daughter who screamed, “Mom, the house is on fire,” around 3:15 a.m., according to NBC Bay Area.

Williams grabbed a fire extinguisher and rushed out the backdoor of her Antioch home together with her family.

That’s when they noticed the vandalism.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/black-calif-family-shocked-arson-attempt-swastikas-article-1.2782608

Cross-posted in the African American Group.

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Black California family shocked by arson attempt, spray-painted swastikas and racial slurs (Original Post) TexasTowelie Sep 2016 OP
Gosh, I love the liberal Bay Area! KamaAina Sep 2016 #1
 

KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
1. Gosh, I love the liberal Bay Area!
Thu Sep 8, 2016, 06:10 PM
Sep 2016

And our post-racial society!

Antioch is in eastern Contra Costa County, at the very edge of the nine-county Bay Area. Eastern Contra Costa and Solano County across the strait were where African Americans "drove 'til they qualified" during the subprime mortgage fiasco -- in great numbers; Oakland lost about half its AA population in a decaqe!

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