Archives: Hate Watch

NEW BERN, N.C. — WCTI-TV, a FOX affiliate, reported on Jan. 10 and 11, that a restaurant owner Ed McGovern of The Stingray Café, 520 S. Front St., on Dec. 4, presented a married lesbian couple, Ariel and Shawnee McPhail, with a condemning letter in the parking area, after they had completed their meal and paid their bill.

Local media came out in droves to cover the Nov. 10 rally by neo-Nazi and KKK groups. A snapshot of local coverage.

Video report from the Nov. 10, 2012, National Socialist Movement and Ku Klux Klan rally in Uptown Charlotte.

100-plus photos from the Nov. 10 neo-Nazi and KKK rally in Uptown Charlotte.

Community members are preparing to counter messages of hate as a national neo-Nazi group and a North Carolina Ku Klux Klan make plans to rally in Uptown on Saturday.

Running an LGBT community newspaper, or any minority community newspaper for that matter, is no easy task. qnotes, like other minority press, operates in a sometimes uncomfortable middle ground between objective media and an instrument to build and empower community.

This news out of nearby Fort Mill, S.C., grabbed the attention of the public today, even as some local elected officials in Charlotte continue to dodge questions regarding their views on anti-Semitism and anti-LGBT hate.

On Monday night, President Barack Obama went on the record in front a national audience of tens of millions of voters against anti-Semitism and hate. He said that he had visited Israel and a Holocaust memorial there to “remind myself of the nature of evil.”

Writer says local elected official should stand up against hate and in support of those at the receiving end of it.

Another local elected official spoke out this morning, following a request by qnotes to condemn the anti-Semitic and anti-LGBT hate speech of hate group leader Louis Farrakhan. Yet, despite repeated requests, openly lesbian Charlotte City Councilmember LaWana Mayfield continues to refuse to do the same.

A timeline gives a short overview of the events which have transpired since hate group leader Louis Farrakhan visited Charlotte for a series of speaking events Oct. 13-14.

More developing news in the on-going controversy regarding openly lesbian Charlotte City Councilmember LaWana Mayfield, who has dodged repeated questions asking her to condemn anti-Semitic and anti-LGBT hate speech by hate group leader Louis Farrakhan, who spoke at a leadership event Mayfield attended on Oct. 13 at which she tweeted Farrakhan was “doing God’s will.”