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To the Editor:

I am deeply disturbed and outraged by a recent Facebook post stating that the Mayor of Milledgeville “deserves to be swinging from a tree.” That language is not political criticism. It is violent, racially charged, and historically terroristic.

Let’s be clear: the mayor of Milledgeville is a Black woman.

References to “swinging from a tree” are unmistakable. They echo the darkest chapt…