Philadelphia Front Page News Brief: Racist graffiti mobilizes South Jersey community to stand up against hate forwarded by KYW News Radio frontpagenews1@yahoo.com
Above: Hate writing in South Jersey, NJ.
SOUTH JERSEY (KYW Newsradio) — Two days after the presidential election, Dawn Hines discovered a hateful, racist message graffitied on her fence.
Located in the historically Black town of Lawnside, New Jersey, she and other community members were distraught. The message read, “I HATE [N-words] SORRY NOT SORRY,” along with a drawing of male genitalia.
“I became numb,” Hines said. “At first, I honestly thought that it was just for me, but as time went on, I realized that it was for the community.”
The tight-knit community of Lawnside was incorporated in 1926 as the first independent, self-governing Black municipality north of the Mason-Dixon Line. Hines doesn’t believe the town was chosen at random.
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