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Before Bobby L. Cutts Jr.’s court appearance Monday, fliers were slid underneath windshield wipers of nearby cars and handed out to those walking by.
“White ladies beware,” the fliers read, “once you go black, you might not come back!”
Six members of the Parma-based branch of the National Alliance, a separatist group that’s based in West Virginia, distributed hundreds of them downtown.
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With a crush of media and curious citizens on hand for a case that’s drawing national attention, the National Alliance used the opportunity to perform, in the words of the organization’s chairman, Erich Gliebe, a “public service.”
Below photos of Cutts, a black Canton police officer, and Jessie M. Davis, the pregnant white woman from Lake Township who Cutts is accused of murdering, the flier delves into the “dangers” of interracial relationships.
Included on the flier is a photo of O.J. Simpson with his arm around Nicole Brown Simpson.
Moniquec Conner, president of the Canton chapter of the NAACP, isn’t overly concerned. “Whoever was writing those fliers and doing that, it’s simply a sign of ignorance,” Conner said.
“We are in this together.”
But Conner said “considering all the hate fliers and the different things that are going on ... I’m concerned with the additional crime that this could lead to.
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Erich Gliebe, chairman of the National Alliance, said his group’s flier distribution will continue throughout the Cutts trial.
Gliebe said Davis “was uneducated to the dangers of interracial relationships,” and in an attempt to reduce what he said is a significant risk to white women, members of his organization will distribute “thousands and thousands” of the fliers in the Canton area “as long as the trial lasts and perhaps even beyond that.”
Conner said the way Patty Porter, Davis’ mother, is handling the situation has helped and will prevent Davis’ death from becoming a matter of race.
“I feel that if (Porter) was preaching hate, hate, hate, hate, it might become a different issue, but she’s not that kind of a woman,” Conner said. “I don’t see this case creating a racial war. What I do see is outsiders, just foolishness, attempting to create one.”
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