The KKK is alive and well in Turtletown, Tennessee. Last Sunday, someone threw a cinder block, with a racist message and threat taped to it, through Ellis and Jennifer Weatherspoon's window. The interracial couple (Ellis, 45, is black and Jennifer, 28, is white) has only lived in the trailer home since February, but clearly someone doesn't want them there. The message to the cinder block read: "Get out of town N----- or u die kkk." Sounds like a threat to us. But the police doesn't see this a civil rights violation -- instead they classified the crime as vandalism and damage. Update to the news report above: Ellis told the Chattanooga Times Free Press that he and the couple's 3-year-old son, Elijah, were in the kitchen when the block crashed through a window near them. "At first I thought a box fell because I was packing things. I thought, 'Maybe a box fell and some of my things broke,'" Jennifer said. "When I turned the light on and actually looked, there was glass everywhere. At first I thought a box fell because I was packing things. I thought, 'Maybe a box fell and some of my things broke,'" Jennifer Weatherspoon told the newspaper. "When I turned the light on and actually looked, there was glass everywhere." But get this? This is not the first time they've been the victim of a hate crime in that town. Ellis said, "when we first moved here, they said, 'We going to burn you out,' but we didn't pay them any mind." He said there have been other incidents that he didn't report because he didn't take them seriously. It's probably time to hightail out of Dodge. Now! (Sidebar: According to the 2010 census, of the 16,825 residents in that county, only 50 are black and 215 are multiracial.)
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