OK......I'll give you a few minutes.
The letter was intended to serve as a vehicle to decline an invitation to a local NAACP event. A professional would have simply declined the invitation and not used the letter to unleash an attack on the organization that had issued the invite.
The NAACP has, in fact, voiced concern over violence in the black community. The Sheriff is unaware of this. That does not mean that it does not exist. Out of line.
The condemnation of the NAACP directors stance on the Martin killing is out of line.
The comments about the President's race are out of line.
Again, the indictment of the NAACP as not having concern over black on black crime is out of line. This Sheriff seems to have a chip on his shoulder at this point. Unprofessional tone and content.
The Sheriff's comments regarding hip hop and the word "******" would be better placed on Yahoo Forums than in an official letter from his office. They are unprofessional. Absolutely unprofessional.
The idea that speaking one's mind is to be universally applauded does not take into account the fact that many people have fucked up minds.
The Sheriff's Dept down here has had next to zero help from the Black community when trying to enforce the law and keep crime out of their very own neighborhood.
So you know what? They can eat shit.
There's nothing they can do about it, so they either need to get with the program or sit down and shut the fuck up.
Because believe me when I tell you, the last thing they want to do is try any kind of crap with our Law Enforcement down here.
They really don't want to do that.
Several years ago (many, actually), some Outlaws (1%ers) decided they were going to go to Miami en masse to a Funeral for one their murdered 'brothers' in Miami.
Hundreds of them showed up on their Bikes.
Lee County Law Enforcement met them at the Lee/Charlotte County line in over a hundred cars, 50 MC Cops and even a dozen on horseback.
They stopped them cold and told them, "Do not stop in Lee County. If you gotta take a leak. Do it here. If you run out of gas, we will arrest you on the spot. If you break down, we will arrest you on the spot. If you look at us wrong, we beat the living shit out of you, THEN we will arrest you on the spot."
They then proceeded to escort every single one of them to the Collier County Line.
Without incident.
Where they were met by Collier LEOs.
We later lost a lawsuit to the ACLU because it used to be that the Lee Sheriff had a policy of no 'Colors' in Lee County. Wear Collrs? If they saw you, they pulled you over and arrested you.
Like I said, we lost that one.
And there are still some Outlaws here. Maybe six or seven. But the damnedest thing.... Their Clubhouse?
It keeps burning down. The Lee Sheriff swears he's on the case but so far, no luck. I suspect it will burn down again, soon
Don't play in SW Florida.
If you want to be a decent citizen. You will be treated with respect. Shit, I've even been let go when I could have been busted because I had been drinking, but he let me go anyway.
But if you act like a asshole or some kind of badass down here?
Just don't do it. You won't like what happens.
And THAT is what he's telling the NAACP..... This is OUR town, not theirs.
Get used to it.