Antifa is coming to steal your potatoes!

I live in the small town of Scotland, CT. The neighboring town to the west is Windham, which like Scotland is mostly rural and nearly 100% white but incorporates the borough of Willimantic, an urbanized area with an ethnically diverse population. The Willimantic NAACP decided to hold its Juneteenth observance on the Scotland town green, I presume in part for the symbolic reason that Scotland was the site of a notorious Ku Klux Klan rally in 1980. But in fact they ' ve been holding rallies in various small towns in the area, trying to reach out beyond the urban base of the current movement and speak to, and recruit, a broader constituency.My next door neighbor Gary is the First Selectman (that ' s basically like the mayor) and he started getting messages from people who either wanted protection from the rampaging hordes who were going to burn their houses down, or were threatening to show up carrying semi-automatic rifles. I got a ride from another neighbor and went to offer ourselves up as human shields.As it happened, a good many of our townspeople turned out to join the substantial contingent from Willimantic, sunburned white folks carrying Black Lives Matter signs. I had a friendly discussion with some folks about Scotland. We have a post office and basically four businesses, an auto repair shop, a seamstress, a liquor store, and a chain saw shop. They were surprised to hear that a small town needed a chain saw shop so I explained that there are a lot of trees out here and...
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