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KITCHENER -- Flyers condemning interracial marriage have been circulating in Ontario's Waterloo Region, and police say their hate crime unit is getting involved.
A photo of one of the flyers surfaced on social media earlier this week after they were reportedly mailed to people living around Wilfrid Laurier University.
They show a photo at the top of a white woman and a Black man smiling for the camera, but the text below alleges "negative consequences" of interracial marriage.
Cambridge residents Heather and Russel Preddie say that, while they don't deal with this sort of response to their relationship very often, it's not something new to them after being together for decades.
"It is hurtful, but you're taught very young that this will happen. You also taught yourself that you can expect it, that you have to have a certain response to it," Russel said.
"None of it is true, and I think that this person is either very ignorant or just trying to inflame people in this day and age," Heather told CTV.
Still, the couple said that the flyers are alarming because someone took action on their feelings.
"What the person is saying in that letter is, 'I hate you.' In short terms, it's: 'I hate you and I'm willing to do something about it,'" Russel said.
"That's why it's disturbing, because not only do they hate you, but they will do something about it."
In a response online, Kitchener Mayor Berry Vrbanovic said he had forwarded the posters to police, and asked for anyone who received one of them to come forward so that footage from security cameras nearby can be reviewed.
KITCHENER -- Flyers condemning interracial marriage have been circulating in Ontario's Waterloo Region, and police say their hate crime unit is getting involved.
A photo of one of the flyers surfaced on social media earlier this week after they were reportedly mailed to people living around Wilfrid Laurier University.
They show a photo at the top of a white woman and a Black man smiling for the camera, but the text below alleges "negative consequences" of interracial marriage.
Cambridge residents Heather and Russel Preddie say that, while they don't deal with this sort of response to their relationship very often, it's not something new to them after being together for decades.
"It is hurtful, but you're taught very young that this will happen. You also taught yourself that you can expect it, that you have to have a certain response to it," Russel said.
"None of it is true, and I think that this person is either very ignorant or just trying to inflame people in this day and age," Heather told CTV.
Still, the couple said that the flyers are alarming because someone took action on their feelings.
"What the person is saying in that letter is, 'I hate you.' In short terms, it's: 'I hate you and I'm willing to do something about it,'" Russel said.
Hate crime unit investigating anti-interracial marriage posters circulating in Ontario's Waterloo Region
Flyers condemning interracial marriage have been circulating in Waterloo Region, and police say their hate crime unit is getting involved.
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"That's why it's disturbing, because not only do they hate you, but they will do something about it."
In a response online, Kitchener Mayor Berry Vrbanovic said he had forwarded the posters to police, and asked for anyone who received one of them to come forward so that footage from security cameras nearby can be reviewed.
