NC "its voters will carve in large, bloody letters hatred into the Constitution"

[zazen]

12. some coward(s) stole the anti-amendment sign from our yard yesterday

kPete--I hope you stay. Carolina (my alma mater), the Triangle, Triad and Asheville are bastions of more progressive sentiment. At Carolina you can continue to influence in-state students from more rural areas. African Americans weren't welcome at Carolina until the 60s/70s but people kept fighting. Faculty have been outspoken activists for years and have helped lead the way.

Of course, I don't have to put up with the daily slap in my face that you and your partner have to tolerate, but frankly, having grown up in NC with ancestors not many generations back who owned slaves and one who literally led a lynching, it's amazing to me that several hundred thousand to a million or so people actually voted AGAINST this travesty. That's serious progress, given our patriarchal, racist, xenophobic, homophobic past.

We need you here, if you can stand it.

Publicly shop around so people realize we're losing talent and business due to this amendment, and then make Thorp give you an amazing counteroffer so you can stay.