Whitey Ford
01-27-2019, 03:01 AM
A White Supremacist Hounded a Black Lawmaker Out of Office
Kiah Morris was trying to do her job, but alt-righter Max Misch intimidated her to the point that she resigned. How could this happen in progressive Vermont? (https://www.thedailybeast.com/a-white-supremacist-hounded-a-black-lawmaker-out-of-office?utm_source=feedly&utm_medium=webfeeds)
But to the dismay of progressives, the answer is Vermont. That’s right: State Representative Ruqaiyah “Kiah” Morris, 42, who was the legislature’s only black female elected official, resigned in September 2018, to the shock of many Vermonters, following racist threats, primarily from a white supremacist in the state named Max Misch.
And last Monday, Morris held a press conference at the Congregation Beth El synagogue in Bennington to discuss her travails. "All of the accounts of what happened to me and my family over the years are enormous in scale and historically rooted in a legacy of white supremacy, misogyny and inequity," Morris said. "We did everything that we were told to do, reported everything, held nothing back and trusted in a system that, in the end, was insufficient and inept at addressing and repairing the harm done. In the end, we were told there was nothing to be done.”
And he didn't stop there. He even trolled her press conference announcing her quitting.
Only black woman in Vermont statehouse quit after harassment by white nationalist — who showed up to ‘troll’ her press conference (http://archive.is/OUbCo#selection-635.0-635.129)
Vermont has lost its only black female state legislator after she quit following two years of harassment by a white nationalist, reports the Daily Beast.
But the man who admitted to “trolling” her wasn’t done yet.
Misch even showed up at the press conference, wearing a Pepe The Frog shirt and instigating a confrontation with the crowd.
“I like trolling people—it’s fun,” he later told the local alternative newspaper, which has a detailed account of the harassment she suffered.
Kiah Morris was trying to do her job, but alt-righter Max Misch intimidated her to the point that she resigned. How could this happen in progressive Vermont? (https://www.thedailybeast.com/a-white-supremacist-hounded-a-black-lawmaker-out-of-office?utm_source=feedly&utm_medium=webfeeds)
But to the dismay of progressives, the answer is Vermont. That’s right: State Representative Ruqaiyah “Kiah” Morris, 42, who was the legislature’s only black female elected official, resigned in September 2018, to the shock of many Vermonters, following racist threats, primarily from a white supremacist in the state named Max Misch.
And last Monday, Morris held a press conference at the Congregation Beth El synagogue in Bennington to discuss her travails. "All of the accounts of what happened to me and my family over the years are enormous in scale and historically rooted in a legacy of white supremacy, misogyny and inequity," Morris said. "We did everything that we were told to do, reported everything, held nothing back and trusted in a system that, in the end, was insufficient and inept at addressing and repairing the harm done. In the end, we were told there was nothing to be done.”
And he didn't stop there. He even trolled her press conference announcing her quitting.
Only black woman in Vermont statehouse quit after harassment by white nationalist — who showed up to ‘troll’ her press conference (http://archive.is/OUbCo#selection-635.0-635.129)
Vermont has lost its only black female state legislator after she quit following two years of harassment by a white nationalist, reports the Daily Beast.
But the man who admitted to “trolling” her wasn’t done yet.
Misch even showed up at the press conference, wearing a Pepe The Frog shirt and instigating a confrontation with the crowd.
“I like trolling people—it’s fun,” he later told the local alternative newspaper, which has a detailed account of the harassment she suffered.