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Belafon9/30/2018 12:53:03 pm PDT

Let’s have a conversation about Vermont:

Threats on black Vermont lawmaker were so ‘dangerous,’ she dropped re-election bid. Now she has resigned.

A black Vermont lawmaker first suspended her re-election campaign before resigning altogether from her post following racist attacks against her and her family.

When state Rep. Kiah Morris announced August 24 she was abandoning her bid for a third term in the Vermont House of Representatives, she cited disturbing social media messages. The Bennington Democrat intended to finish her current term, though, she said.

“Political discourse, and in particular within the sphere of social media has been divisive, inflammatory and at times, even dangerous,” Morris wrote. “It is my hope that as a state, we will continue to demand greater support and protections for one another from those forces which seek to divide and destroy our communities.”

She did not elaborate, but her husband, James Lawton, has documented several such messages — including one calling their son a “mongrel” — as well as in-real-life harassment in the form of swastikas painted on trees near their home.