If you followed JoshiesWorld on Facebook, you might have seen a post from a few days ago where a man who is racist and has hatred in his heart decided to vandalize the city of Williamson, which is a small city in the state of West Virginia in the United States of America. I didn’t publish anything here on JoshiesWorld’s website, so I am going to echo what I said on Facebook here so that it can be documented on JoshiesWorld.com and people can easily find the story about this through search engines instead of having to dig through a lot of posts on social media to finally find some of the posts that connect with it. This will be under JoshiesWorld’s Updates and Statements category. I may add a little bit more about my thoughts on this.
My statement on social media
Hate has NO place, not just in Williamson, but anywhere! Let’s show that!
The person who vandalized Williamson has been captured
After many hours, Deputy J.D. Tincher of the Mingo County Sheriff’s Office and Officer Gibson of the Williamson Police Department captured the racist Daniel Kozee of Williamson, WV, who was responsible for vandalizing the flood wall in the city of Williamson, West Virginia, by painting it with racial slurs and a hate message, which I will not say, but you can see them in the picture above from JoshiesWorld’s Facebook post or from the Mingo County Sheriff’s Office below. Daniel Kozzee of Williamson, WV, is charged with two counts of destruction of property.
Disclaimer: Daniel Kozee is presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
Great job, Mingo County Sheriff’s Office, and the officers at the Williamson Police Department, for capturing the person responsible for vandalizing a city full of diverse people who respect each other. If any of you helped find that guy, then I tip my hat to you!
More on my thoughts on this
I still stand by what I said that day when I found out someone vandalized the floodwall in the city of Williamson, W.V., in a picture taken by June Warren. But I want to add a little more: the vandalism in the city of Williamson does not represent or reflect what the City of Williamson is. Unfortunately, there are some people, including Daniel Kozee, who have such hatred in their hearts and refuse to accept that every one of us is different in our own unique ways, but instead embrace their own breed of white supremacy. If they are Christians, then they have rebelled against the Lord by having that kind of hateful thought because God created every one of us in His image with love. This is why every one of us has different colors, different body shapes, different hairstyles, different hair colors, different eye colors, different sizes, the spectrum of genders, different lifestyles, different levels of intelligence — from people who don’t have disabilities to people who have disabilities, such as myself — and on this earth, it’s full of the beautiful diversity of people. All of us were created for a reason. We all are human beings. Anyone who doesn’t agree with that, who has hatred in their heart, and who dehumanizes others who aren’t the same as they are, is not welcome in the city of Williamson or anywhere else on the earth that God created with His own hands. We must continue to reject the hate, as well as people who harbor it.
Another thing: Whatever their political views are, that should never give them the right to insult people. They are human beings just like you and me, regardless of our political views. Just because many states flipped from red to blue (Democrats vs. Republicans) should never be the reason to spew hate speech or be racist. If you are so upset about the “blue tsunami,” then you are the one who has a problem, but that does not mean you should take it out on others. Stop making everything about politics.
Because there is no place for racists, homophobes, xenophobes, ableists, sexists, misogynists, genderists, or religiocentrists (religious exclusivists—people who are against all other religions except their own), and I could keep going, but I won’t. If anyone doesn’t hold them accountable or condemn anyone who does, they’re no better. If you don’t reject that kind of hate, then those of us who do will reject you too!
Be better than our ancestors, which means respecting them and showing them that we are not like our white ancestors, who dehumanized everyone who isn’t the same as us for many centuries, including BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and people of color). Be better, be kind. For once, let’s do the right thing that our white ancestors never did.
Joshua “Joshie” Sullivan.
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