After receiving a threatening email and being named in a video posted by the Ku Klux Klan, activists working to get Confederate symbols out of the Mississippi flag refuse to back down.
Biloxi's Sun Herald reported Wednesday that Lea Campbell of the Mississippi Rising Coalition held a press conference to denounce the threats leveled against her by the United Dixie White Knights, a local Klan chapter.
"To the Klan and its allies," the MRC president said, "we will not be intimidated by your actions."
"We see this as a threat, but we are not our grandparents," MRC board member TNathan Fairley, who also spoke at the conference, said. "We will not lie idly by while the Klan runs over us."
Prior to the press conference, Campbell posted a screenshot of the email along with a strongly-worded response to it.
In the email, which was sent from a Rev. Smith who describes himself as a "proud southern redneck from Dixie," the "Imperial Kludd" said that people can "call us bigots if you want" and that they "win in the end."
"You ignorant mf's can kiss my ass," she wrote. "If you think for one second that sending me a video of you in your white hoods and pajamas burning a cross and making threats intimidates me, you obviously have no clue who you're dealing with."
"We're not going anywhere," she continued. "Hell, you must be scared of us if you take the time to film a 10 minute video and send it to me. F*ck you, your silly videos and your comrade cops and politicians."
After the press conference, Campbell noted on Facebook that she was "born to fight for this."
The email was accompanied by a video that has since been taken off of YouTube, but was acquired by local Fox affiliate WXXV. You can watch their reporting on it below.
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