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White nationalism fliers Controversial posters that first appeared in Pittston have spread to Shickshinny
Documents generate indignation
SHERRY LONG slong@timesleader.com
SHICKSHINNY – More anti-multiculturalism fliers similar to the ones that appeared in Pittston earlier this week have been found posted on trees and utility poles in Shickshinny.
AIMEE DILIGER/The Times Leader
This comes just days after 18-year-old Nora Rynkeiwicz was arrested for vandalizing a Wilkes-Barre synagogue.
The black-and-white posters, which indicate white people should defend their heritage by fighting multi-culturalism, seem to be distributed by the Keystone State Skinheads, because its Web site and logo appear on the bottom of the fliers. An email seeking a response from the group was not received before deadline.
Borough officials and NAACP leaders are outraged :rant::rant::tantrum::tantrum:at the postings. They vow to not let any hate group win.
Shickshinny Mayor Beverly Moore first learned about the fliers from her husband, who spotted them around the borough earlier this week.
“I was livid that someone would put something like that up because of the content and what it implies,”��”�� Moore said.
She encourages everyone who spots the posters to throw them in the trash; and, while many are doing just that, the posters seem to keep reappearing.
As soon as the papers are torn down, someone or a group of people, whom the mayor calls cowards, come during the night to repost them.
“They are cowards. If they really represent this great respect for themselves and their plight, why are they doing this in the middle of the night?”��”�� Moore said.
In her 11 years as mayor, she said she’s never seen any hate fliers posted.
Moore contacted the utility companies and was told they would be willing to file charges against the people posting the fliers.
Ron Felton, imp: president of the Wilkes-Barre chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said the postings have caused him to consider hosting an anti-hate rally to “demonstrate to these hate groups that we are not going to put up with the hate they are trying to spread.”��”��
Felton commended Moore for taking a leadership stance in battling the people who are posting the documents.
Moore supports the idea of such a rally. Every elected official must take responsibility to ensure what is being posted in their communities is appropriate, she said.
The posters state multiculturalism destroys the uniqueness of different groups by serving as a weakness.
But Felton strongly disagrees with that.
“We are strengthened by our diversity,”��”�� he said.:no2: