Forever thinking about Alabama AG (and eventually governor) Bill Baxley who, when threatened by the KKK for pursuing justice for the 4 girls killed in a KKK Black church bombing back in 1968 (Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, Addie Mae Collins and Cynthia Wesley, say their names), responded with the most legendary retort you could ever put on government letterhead paper:
KISS MY ASS.
I’m actually shocked at the amount of people who are seeing this correspondence for the first time. Bill Baxley published this publicly and used it as evidence to convict these losers for their part in 16th street church bombing.
This is the history White “Christian” Americans don’t want you to see. What they’re actively erasing out of school textbooks. Don’t let them.
No fascist iconography on that letterhead then 🙄🤦♂️
No one from Georgia is surprised to see bigotry coming out of Marietta, Georgia in Cobb County. They have a long history of hatred there.
And now, the republican party is sucking up to the KKK and similar groups, and put them in positions of power.
Before it was on the sly. Now it's just blatant.
At least with quite a few of us are not happy with all of this crap. Doing what we can, too.
Im also just 43. Plenty of fight left.
Like Arkell v. Pressdram:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Eye#Libel_cases
Arkell's lawyers: "His attitude to damages will be governed by the nature of your reply."
Response: "We acknowledge your letter of 29th April referring to Mr J. Arkell. We note that Mr Arkell's attitude to damages will be governed by the nature of our reply and would therefore be grateful if you would inform us what his attitude to damages would be, were he to learn that the nature of our reply is as follows: fuck off."
How was that first letter not wildly illegal?!
@ErickaSimone It was a great moment. The 50th anniversary is just a few months away!
Those specific images shown are modern (re-)interpretations of the letters, though—not images of the actual letters exchanged.
@ErickaSimone Sadly, neither is original. The “old typewriter-style font” is identical for both. Plus, the typographic curly quotes in the Baxley letter are not something you would get on a typewriter back then. The alphabetic characters are not really proportional, but not perfectly monospaced—and the numbers are not monospaced at all and look like a much lighter weight.
(Why yes, I did give a talk on fonts and typography to an audience of forensic document examiners 12 hours ago.)
That's a death threat. It's illegal. And I'm assuming no-one arrested this person.
Well, I'm pleased to have been wrong about that.
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