Racism In Vermont

Racism In Vermont

Racism happens all over the place but it also happens in Vermont. Here are some key examples of racism and racial bias in Vermont:

1. Racism at Winooski soccer game: At a Winooski soccer game black students on the Winooski team were being called racist slurs by the opposing team's players and parents.

2. Racism towards the first black women police chief in Brattleboro Vermont: Norma Hardy the first black women police chief in Vermont was targeted by a person on Facebook with racist memes and comments.

3. Vandalizing black lives matter sign: Tabitha Moore had decided to move from Wallingford, a town a couple of miles south of Rutland Vermont. Her reasons for moving included a black lives matter sign her daughter had made that someone had smeared white paint over, times when she was feeling harassed, Including people on social media who made comments targeting her and her daughter, who recently had tried to put up the black lives matter sign at her school. In past nights Moore's kids had not fallen asleep fearing somebody would break in. The sign Moore's daughter had made had been a community art project. Moore's neighbors said that putting the sign on Moore's front lawn would protect her family from being targeted, but it still happened. Stories like this one are making people face the reality that not all of the citizens of color feel safe or welcome. News from Moore moving sent a shock through the community. Moore later said she wanted the community to stop racism in southern Vermont.

4. The state's only black woman legislator faces racial harassment: Kiah Morris is the state's only black woman legislator in the state of Vermont. She was being stalked and harassed by a white supremacist and because of this, she moved to Vermont's southern border even though she was very popular in Bennington. After the story went national a year later Bennington still had not changed. Even in Kiah's new town, there were still threats, two burglaries, including a time when Kiahs's husband's tires were stolen and spread across a cemetery. The Vermont Attorney TJ Donvan, A Democrat said the evidence was not enough to charge the people harassing Morris. He also said that the comments were protected by the First Amendment. During a 2018 press conference, TJ acknowledged Morris had been a harassment victim.

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