Most Of Police Force Quits After Black Woman Elected Mayor

refinery29.com ^ | APril, | MEREDITH CLARK

[MeshugeMikey]

Employees of one small Missouri town had an extreme reaction when residents elected their first Black female mayor: 80% of the police department quit, along with the city clerk and two other staffers. And, according to the New York Times, no one seems to wants to guess, or even speculate about, the real reason for the mass exodus.

....The city attorney, clerk, and waste water treatment supervisor also resigned with the police officers. ...

This post has been updated. It was originally published on April 20th.

Correction: A headline on an earlier version of this post on Facebook mistakenly stated that the entire police force had resigned — it was 80%. We apologize for the error.

[MeshugeMikey]

gorilla cookies it TIS

[MeshugeMikey]

yep..

so very many of the more complete articles available these days seem to come form “elsewhere”

[ETL]

The Byrd Family published the home addresses of some of the dissidents.

Any relations to the former Leader of the Senate for the DEMOCRATS, Robert "KKK" Byrd?

Just wondering...

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

In 1942, 24-year-old Byrd joined the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), whose parades in Matoaka, West Virginia, he had witnessed in his childhood. He was unanimously elected Exalted Cyclops, or leader, of his local chapter.[8]

Byrd, in his autobiography, attributed the beginnings of his political career to this incident, although he lamented that they involved the Klan. According to Byrd, a KKK official told him "You have a talent for leadership, Bob... The country needs young men like you in the leadership of the nation." Byrd recalls that "suddenly lights flashed in my mind! Someone important had recognized my abilities! I was only 23 or 24 years old, and the thought of a political career had never really hit me. But strike me that night, it did."[4] He participated in the KKK during World War II, holding the titles Kleagle (recruiter) and Exalted Cyclops [the top officer in the local Klan unit]. He did not serve in the military during the war, working instead as a welder in a Baltimore, Maryland shipyard, where he helped build warships.[citation needed]

Byrd commented on the 1945 controversy about racially integrating the military. Byrd, when he was 28 years old, wrote to segregationist Senator Theodore Bilbo, of Mississippi, vowing never to serve in such a military:

"Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.[5]"

He had earlier written "I shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side".[6][7]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Byrd#Participation_in_the_Ku_Klux_Klan
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From the Washington Post:

"Byrd said in the Dec. 11, 1945, letter -- which would not become public for 42 more years with the publication of a book on blacks in the military during World War II by author Graham Smith -- that he would never fight in the armed forces "with a Negro by my side." Byrd added that, "Rather I should die a thousand times, and see old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.."..."

"during the general election campaign, Byrd's GOP opponent uncovered a letter Byrd had handwritten to Green, the KKK Imperial Wizard, recommending a friend as a Kleagle and urging promotion of the Klan throughout the country. The letter was dated 1946 -- long after the time Byrd claimed he had lost interest in the Klan. "The Klan is needed today as never before, and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia," Byrd wrote, according to newspaper accounts of that period. Byrd makes no mention of the letter in his new book."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/18/AR2005061801105_pf.html

[SoFloFreeper]

Actually, if this was the small town in Missouri, it is because the black woman is a Republican who wanted to get the town back on a decent financial footing.

The defeated mayor was a Democrat who had been running the show for 30 something years.

[doorgunner69]

Blacks have had such opportunity these many decades, but they clung to their victimhood and just sat,

You left out becoming far more openly hostile toward whites. The white race senses this and logically is responding in ways the negro is not going to like.

They pissed away decades of progress and good will after the Great Society started things going downhill and the early 60's riots.

[MeshugeMikey]

I believe the Mayor’s...name was Byrd...but I dont suspect that the more well known byrds family would ever have...ah “race mixed”

[tacticalogic]

The Byrd Family published the home addresses of some of the :dissidents. [ for some unexplained reason[s]-}

That does seem a little odd, but in a town that size it doesn't seem like something to quit over. You can't really hide from anyone in a town of 760.

[rktman]

Tx for the updated info. But, a black woman republican?

[SoFloFreeper]

Tyrus Byrd, black female, Republican mayor of Parma Missouri.

[Eddie01]

Is that Destiny’s Child?

[Eddie01]

Wow. That brought back memories, mostly TVs with no remotes. ;)

[ifinnegan]

And the town is 2/3 white, 1/3 black and she won by a landslide.

This is not a big deal. Race baiters, liberal or faux-conservative, try to use it.

If there is something, I think it is the incumbents jumping ship after a decades long run of having access to the city coffers.

She is a Republican and a Christian missionary.

[Fiddlstix]

Interesting Article. Turns out the “black” mayor is a Republican.

[TheBattman]

Tyrus Byrd, the newly elected Mayor is, apparently, a Republican... and I suspect she ran, in part, on a promise to root out corruption...

And yes, there probably IS a racist underbelly - Racist DEMOCRATs who are corrupt and have been committing criminal activity in their jobs/offices... But just mostly speculation.

[WayneS]

... no one seems to wants to guess, or even speculate about, the real reason for the mass exodus.

Maybe they saw what happened to Baltimore...

[Trailerpark Badass]

I'm sure they aren't assuming that because she is black she must therefore be a Marxist. That's beyond ridiculous.

You're the one wondering, lol.

I find your naive confusion both cute and sickening at the same time.

[Terry L Smith]

Good for them!

Take all their case notes with them, all their engineer’s hand written notebooks, and other associated materials.

[SoFloFreeper]

bingo.

[Vendome]

They quit because the woman is a crackpot....

Black and white as that...erh,....Uhmmmm....

[ETL]

You’re saying that because she is black she therefore must be a Marxist? No basis other than that? Nothing in her past, nothing she has said? That’s pretty friggin stupid. Now I’m not saying she isn’t A Marxist. I have no idea. Has she said or done anything to lead you to believe she’s that far left?