Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms says she had to have a discussion with her 12-year-old son after they both received a racist text regarding her efforts to keep the city closed to help curb the spread of coronavirus
In a Wednesday night tweet, the mayor said she received a text addressing her by the n-word and demanding,"just shut up and RE-OPEN ATLANTA!"The mayor shared the text message on Twitter.Her son received the same text, she later told the city council. When Bottoms opened the text on her phone, she said, her daughter was looking over her shoulder as she read it.Bottoms included in her tweet,"I pray for you.
"You have to live to fight another day, and you have to be able to be amongst the living to be able to recover."Disagreement over courses of action have been a theme during the pandemic, with residents in some states staging protests over the decision to shut down parts of their economies, while local leaders, governors and the federal government bicker over the best way forward.
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