Asheville mayor urges tolerance and respect, decries harassment of minority and LGBT community members

Asheville mayor Esther Manheimer. Photo courtesy of the city of Asheville

Press release from the city of Asheville:

A statement from Asheville Mayor Esther Manheimer:

“A number of people have contacted me in the past week to tell me about incidents of hate speech in our community.”

“I am disheartened to learn that members of our minority and LGBT communities have been the victims of hate speech, harassment and intimidation. These disgraceful actions will not be tolerated in Asheville.”

“Asheville’s people are accepting, open-minded and respectful. As a community, we have an even greater challenge to come together with kindness and compassion for each other.”

“I call on every individual to demonstrate that intolerance and hatred will not be accepted. As Mayor of Asheville, I am dedicated to maintaining Asheville as an equitable and inclusive city where we can acknowledge our differences, and allow everyone to feel safe and respected.”

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8 thoughts on “Asheville mayor urges tolerance and respect, decries harassment of minority and LGBT community members

  1. Deplorable Infidel

    I know that Trump supporters have received lots of hate from the leftwingers who LOST the presidential election. THEY are the INTOLERANT people that are so mad and so mean to others…just look at all the election protesters being PAID for by Soros and the leftwing. These are EVIL INTOLERANT people who do not value Amerikkka, nor their very lives.

    • bsummers

      Why would anyone value “Amerikkka”? I mean really, Fred Caudle – you’re chastising people for not valuing an America mixed with the Ku Klux Klan? Would you like to re-phrase that, or are you seriously intending to call the KKK a good thing?

      Pretty subtle with the threat at the end there, BTW.

      • Deplorable Infidel

        No I would NOT like to rephrase that … ‘Amerikkka’ describes what intolerant UNconstitutional anti American democrackkks have done to our once great nation…surely you know that by now. It’s simply cleverness and descriptiveness rolled into one word and works great for my writings. You’ll just have to TOLERATE it ;)

        Esther is a tool-fool of the left and she should hang her head in shame for forcing the BOND SCAM on the TAXPAYERS!
        ONLY real property owners should have decided such BS, for WE are the ones to PAY FOR IT ! ! ! She is an EVIL lawyer, nothing else …

        • bsummers

          No worries. I don’t have to ‘tolerate’ it – I’m happy you keep using that language. It lets everyone know you celebrate the KKK, but try to make political hay out of incorrectly laying it at the feet of last century’s political left. Everyone knows that the racist factions of the Democratic Party left and joined the GOP during the 60’s and 70’s. The KKK is your legacy my friend, not the Democrats.

          You may think it’s “clever” to try to celebrate the KKK while pinning the political downside on someone else, but it’s just sad, really. Keep it up – like I say, it lets people know where you’re coming from.

  2. bsummers

    Thanks for making this statement, Esther. We need statements like this all the way up the political leadership in this country, to offset the hate that a fraction of the population feel like spewing right now.

  3. “A number of people”

    Too late by two months.

    The mayor is an embarrassing cartoon. A make-believe mayor for a make-believe city.

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