Days after Confederate monument removed, Enfield residents receive racist letter
Residents in Enfield said they received a racist letter days after a Confederate monument was taken down.
Last week, town leaders voted 4-1 to take down the monument at Randolph Park. But on Aug. 21, Enfield Mayor Mondale Robinson tore the monument down on his own. He went live on Facebook to show the moment a bulldozer brought it down.
Enfield Police Chief James Ayers said the State Bureau of Investigation will try to determine if any laws have been broken in the removal of the monument.
Friday night, residents in the town found letters in their driveway with a racial slur. The paper called on Enfield's white residents to stand up after someone "stomped" on their white heritage.
"What will you do? Don't let them get away with anything," the letter said.
Karen Richardson received one of those letters and said she will not be scared.
"I'm never going to feel like I have to be afraid to live in this town," said Richardson. "I've been living in this town for 54 years."
Richardson said she called Robinson to inform him about the letter.
"I thought it was very ugly and wicked," she said.
The letter also listed a website, which doesn't exist, and a non-working phone number.
"This is my home. I never feel intimidated from anybody if God be for me who should I be afraid of," said Richardson.
