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"
