MSNBC/CNN pick up S. Harrison Twp. Mayor resigning

by: Jason Springer

Mon Jan 26, 2009 at 12:30:00 PM EST

South Harrison Township Mayor Charles Tyson resigned his position on January 12, but not because of any misconduct on his part. He was tired of the racist threats he was receiving as mayor:

He says the death threats and racist vandalism he and his family have endured are not worth it anymore.
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Not long after being elected two years ago, Tyson said he received emails and phone calls warning him that he was being watched and calling him a "dead man." No arrests were ever made in relation to those threats. Investigators said whoever made the calls used disposable phones.
Tyson also had his tires slashed and a sign on his lawn bedecked with "KKK.
A member of a neo-Nazi organization was indicted last month for making other threatening phone calls to Tyson and other African Americans, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.

The attorney for Bill White, the neo-Nazi member who made the threats defended the words. Here's more of the disturbing story from CNN in which the mayor said this:

"Racism was here yesterday, it's here today and it'll be here tomorrow"

Jason Springer :: MSNBC/CNN pick up S. Harrison Twp. Mayor resigning

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Just the Facts (0.00 / 0)

Fact: The state with the largest amount of donations to the David Duke presidential campaign, New Jersey.

Fact: Parts of South Jersey lie Below the Mason Dixon Line.

by: Got Kids @ Mon Jan 26, 2009 at 19:21:41 PM UTC

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I've seen this stated even in some New Jersey print publications, but it's not accurate. The Mason-Dixon "line" was not a straight curve, nor did it run through New Jersey.

The 39° 43' latitude line, which approximates a portion of the M-D line, runs through New Jersey, but that was not the M-D line.

There's more interesting information here.

So it doesn't make much sense to try to extend one portion of the Mason-Dixon line beyond Maryland, to imagine that it had any bearing on where slavery existed, or even to try to identify where sympathy with the confederacy was stronger. During the run-up to the Civil War sympathy with the southern states was far stronger in North Jersey than it was in South Jersey. In fact, a strong case might be made, in regard to New Jersey, for a REVERSE Slavery-Line since through the early 1800s slavery was much more prevalent in North Jersey than it was in South Jersey.

by: Juan Melli @ Mon Jan 26, 2009 at 21:01:30 PM UTC

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Got Kids Larger Point Stands (0.00 / 0)

For a mayor of a town in New Jersey to be forced out of office because of threats from racists is an abomination. These bigoted vermin are far more of a threat to American Democracy that anything that comes from overseas. As awful as 9-11 was; this kind of home grown terrorism is far more disconcerting.

We fought a civil war to put an end to this kind of shit and we went to war in Europe to fight the same shit there. These people are a minority of sick pathetic bullies and there is no way they will ever come to take over this country.....unless we ignore them and hope that they will, somehow....just "go away". That "strategy" didn't work in Germany in he 1930's and it won't work here now.

by: Nick Lento @ Mon Jan 26, 2009 at 21:32:46 PM UTC

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