'Keep this area upscale' warns letter to interracial Raleigh family

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Steve Williams
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Really not sure what to make of this. Almost too brazen to be believable. Then again, these are crazy times we live in.

https://www.wral.com/keep-this-area-upscale-warns-letter-to-interracial-raleigh-family/19176711/
Pacfanweb
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Does seem mighty convenient for this to happen now.
Seems most things like this turn out to be fake.
If it's real, it's deplorable.
If not...same.
PackBacker07
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I live in this neighborhood and that letter is disgraceful. I can't believe it.
acslater1344
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Disgusting stuff. Not all that surprising, though. Glad they have the support of their community.
IseWolf22
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Those letter writers are going to be very upset the next few months.

I've seen many BLM signs in yard around Cary. My neighborhood has at least 4 and all of them are in the yards of white families
GuerrillaPack
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Wouldn't be surprised in the least if this was staged/fake. There are far more "hate crime" hoaxes than real ones.
"Ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you." - John 15:19
PackBacker07
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Just received this message from our HOA:

"On July 6th an article was posted by WRAL related to a letter received by an interracial family in Wake Forest, incorrectly identifying them as residents of the Wakefield Plantation Community Association. The incident occurred in an adjacent community that is not part of or associated with Wakefield Plantation. As of this morning, WRAL has removed the video that led viewers to believe the incident happened in Wakefield Plantation and modified the supporting article."

There's more, but that's the main point. Regardless, still a loathsome act.
acslater1344
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GuerrillaPack said:

Wouldn't be surprised in the least if this was staged/fake. There are far more "hate crime" hoaxes than real ones.
Also, the Earth is flat.
TheStorm
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https://www.wral.com/real-estate-company-backs-agent-after-online-posts-suggested-she-used-racial-slurs-at-raleigh-swimming-pool/19177161/

Is this the same neighborhood?
acslater1344
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TheStorm said:

https://www.wral.com/real-estate-company-backs-agent-after-online-posts-suggested-she-used-racial-slurs-at-raleigh-swimming-pool/19177161/

Is this the same neighborhood?
No
packgrad
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TheStorm said:

https://www.wral.com/real-estate-company-backs-agent-after-online-posts-suggested-she-used-racial-slurs-at-raleigh-swimming-pool/19177161/

Is this the same neighborhood?


That article is an excellent example of people looking to be victims of racism. Their own video doesn't show racism, but of course it was supposedly said when the camera was off. Mind you the rules during the pandemic were being broken, but that doesn't matter if you're brown and there's an opportunity to be a victim, get on tv, get Twitter likes, and get a white person fired from their job. Rules be damned then.

Also, if you're a minority living in a townhome community, you will have ample opportunity to be victims of today's definition of "racism". TH owners collectively are the most bitter, antagonistic, confrontational groups I deal with. They love their rules and love to call and tell on people when their rules are not being followed.

Hope the OP wasn't true. Sounds too sensational to me to be true, but certainly is sad if it is.
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If someone really did this then it's despicable. However I would not rule out hoax. Lots of race baiting happening today. BLM is the largest racist organization in America today anyway so a lot of people supporting that probably don't even understand what they're supporting.
TheStorm
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PackBacker07 said:

Just received this message from our HOA:

"On July 6th an article was posted by WRAL related to a letter received by an interracial family in Wake Forest, incorrectly identifying them as residents of the Wakefield Plantation Community Association. The incident occurred in an adjacent community that is not part of or associated with Wakefield Plantation. As of this morning, WRAL has removed the video that led viewers to believe the incident happened in Wakefield Plantation and modified the supporting article."

There's more, but that's the main point. Regardless, still a loathsome act.
Interesting that the story was first attributed to a neighborhood with the word "Plantation" in it...
cowboypack02
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TheStorm said:

PackBacker07 said:

Just received this message from our HOA:

"On July 6th an article was posted by WRAL related to a letter received by an interracial family in Wake Forest, incorrectly identifying them as residents of the Wakefield Plantation Community Association. The incident occurred in an adjacent community that is not part of or associated with Wakefield Plantation. As of this morning, WRAL has removed the video that led viewers to believe the incident happened in Wakefield Plantation and modified the supporting article."

There's more, but that's the main point. Regardless, still a loathsome act.
Interesting that the story was first attributed to a neighborhood with the word "Plantation" in it...
Interesting but unfortunately not unexpected. Asking the media to actually do their homework on a story before just running something to try and sensationalize things is a field to far for "journalist" today
3rdGenPacker
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Doesn't sound like the WRAL folks were trying to be sinister here:
Editor's note: WRAL has received several inquiries from residents of Wakefield Plantation concerned that their neighborhood was mentioned as part of this story originally. The neighbors interviewed all identified themselves as Wakefield Plantation residents. Their mailboxes all have "WP" neighborhood logos on them. The neighborhood entrance has the "WP" logo on it. When the Wakefield Plantation Community Association pointed out that technically these homes are in Wakefield Estates, WRAL adjusted the story.
Pacfanweb
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ncsualum05 said:

If someone really did this then it's despicable. However I would not rule out hoax. Lots of race baiting happening today. BLM is the largest racist organization in America today anyway so a lot of people supporting that probably don't even understand what they're supporting.

There's absolutely no proof that it IS true, other than the word of this family that claims they got the letter.

With as many of these supposed racial and homophobic incidents that are proven to be faked, I would say they all should be doubted unless there's some serious proof.
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3rdGenPacker said:

Doesn't sound like the WRAL folks were trying to be sinister here:
Editor's note: WRAL has received several inquiries from residents of Wakefield Plantation concerned that their neighborhood was mentioned as part of this story originally. The neighbors interviewed all identified themselves as Wakefield Plantation residents. Their mailboxes all have "WP" neighborhood logos on them. The neighborhood entrance has the "WP" logo on it. When the Wakefield Plantation Community Association pointed out that technically these homes are in Wakefield Estates, WRAL adjusted the story.
WRAL should've figured that part out before they ran the story. Would've taken very little leg work to figure out.
acslater1344
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Pacfanweb said:

ncsualum05 said:

If someone really did this then it's despicable. However I would not rule out hoax. Lots of race baiting happening today. BLM is the largest racist organization in America today anyway so a lot of people supporting that probably don't even understand what they're supporting.

There's absolutely no proof that it IS true, other than the word of this family that claims they got the letter.

With as many of these supposed racial and homophobic incidents that are proven to be faked, I would say they all should be doubted unless there's some serious proof.

What kind of "serious proof" would you expect to see in this situation?
Pacfanweb
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acslater1344 said:

Pacfanweb said:

ncsualum05 said:

If someone really did this then it's despicable. However I would not rule out hoax. Lots of race baiting happening today. BLM is the largest racist organization in America today anyway so a lot of people supporting that probably don't even understand what they're supporting.

There's absolutely no proof that it IS true, other than the word of this family that claims they got the letter.

With as many of these supposed racial and homophobic incidents that are proven to be faked, I would say they all should be doubted unless there's some serious proof.

What kind of "serious proof" would you expect to see in this situation?
How about "any" ? There's zero. A "letter" with nobody even suspected of sending it, suddenly pops up at a time like this?
A time when we've had many of these publicized "racial incidents" turn out to be faked by the person(s) that reported it?

As I said earlier, if it's real, it's despicable. If it's not, same thing applies.
Pacfanweb
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So.....evidently WRAL/Sloane Heffernan helped promote and basically staged the "protest" in Wakefield?

And still not a shred of evidence that this letter was even real, other than the word of some unnamed, alleged resident named "Lori"

https://djhjmedia.com/kari/wral-helped-stage-blm-death-threats-in-quiet-nc-suburbs/

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Pacfanweb said:

So.....evidently WRAL/Sloane Heffernan helped promote and basically staged the "protest" in Wakefield?

And still not a shred of evidence that this letter was even real, other than the word of some unnamed, alleged resident named "Lori"

https://djhjmedia.com/kari/wral-helped-stage-blm-death-threats-in-quiet-nc-suburbs/


If they have a name, even a first name, the wake county register of deeds is online and WRAL should have been able to figure out who sent the letter, assuming this "Lori" owns her property. I know anyone can do this, because its how I figured out my new neighbors last names (after they told me a couple of times and I forgot). It admittedly would have been time consuming, but as a news organization, you should be able to vet your stories.
Bas2020
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WRAL has chosen politics over journalistic integrity .

Their ratings are dropping and sales numbers are surely going down in radio & tv.
Gopack80
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I'm 40 and I don't even recognize WRAL anymore. Not the news organization that I grew up watching.
GuerrillaPack
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Bas2020 said:

WRAL has chosen politics over journalistic integrity .

Their ratings are dropping and sales numbers are surely going down in radio & tv.
The far-Left ideologues who own and run the vast majority of the major "news" media organizations must believe that the Leftist/socialist takeover of the country is near complete. So they are no longer even pretending to have some small measure of an "unbiased" nature to their "reporting"/propaganda. They are just going full Leftist now, and not even trying to hide it. On average, even your local news channels have already shown a blatant Leftist bias in ~95% of all their political/social reporting for the last few decades. But now it's just going to be blatant Leftist bias 100% of the time -- like CNN.

And you can also see this with almost every major media organization (and most major companies, universities, etc) overtly siding with the Antifa/BLM agenda after this George Floyd situation. And the NBA and other pro sports having athletes put "BLM" on their jerseys, etc. It's over the top. They are just going full 100% with their Leftist agenda right now.
"Ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you." - John 15:19
PackBacker07
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Y'all means ALL.
Pacfanweb
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Gopack80 said:

I'm 40 and I don't even recognize WRAL anymore. Not the news organization that I grew up watching.

Charlie Gaddy is not walking through that door
GuerrillaPack
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PackBacker07 said:


Wait...but Leftists told us for years and years that "right-wingers are CRAZY for believing that there is a leftist bias in the media". Now it's too obvious, and so they just admit it.

Just shows that Leftists will blatantly lie about everything. Anything to advance their lust for power and control.

Same for how Leftists will tell you to your face that "no one is coming for your guns". The reality, of course, is that the Democrat party is hell-bent to ban guns and confiscate your guns. And more and more Democrat politicians now openly advocate confiscation of firearms. For decades, the Democrats have been banning guns. But these lying Leftists think they can piss down your back and tell you it's raining, and tell you "no one is coming for your guns".

Another example is how Leftists will deny that the Democrat party are socialists, or based in Marxist/socialist ideology. This is just another brazen lie. Most democrats now must surely know that the Democrat party is advancing a socialist agenda. And, by the way, as evidence for that I can cite the poll where the majority of Democrat voters now support socialism over capitalism.
"Ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you." - John 15:19
Ripper
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Pacfanweb said:

Gopack80 said:

I'm 40 and I don't even recognize WRAL anymore. Not the news organization that I grew up watching.

Charlie Gaddy is not walking through that door
What about Adele Arakawa?
Steve Williams
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Ripper said:

Pacfanweb said:

Gopack80 said:

I'm 40 and I don't even recognize WRAL anymore. Not the news organization that I grew up watching.

Charlie Gaddy is not walking through that door
What about Adele Arakawa?
Possible. I think she's still working in Denver.
Pacfanweb
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Steve Williams said:

Ripper said:

Pacfanweb said:

Gopack80 said:

I'm 40 and I don't even recognize WRAL anymore. Not the news organization that I grew up watching.

Charlie Gaddy is not walking through that door
What about Adele Arakawa?
Possible. I think she's still working in Denver.

Seems like I remember reading she is retired and is like the voice of the airport or something
Bell Tower Grey
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Pacfanweb said:

Gopack80 said:

I'm 40 and I don't even recognize WRAL anymore. Not the news organization that I grew up watching.

Charlie Gaddy is not walking through that door
And Bobbie Battista is not coming out of that grave in Iowa, either.
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