Report: Letter Threatens Jeter Will Be Shot, Set On Fire...

[Zim Hosein]

NEW YORK -- Yankees star Derek Jeter is the latest athlete to receive a threatening letter warning him to stop dating white women.

The letter was mailed to Jeter at Yankee Stadium and called him a "traitor to his race," according to a story in Monday's editions of the Daily News. It warned him to "stop or he'll be shot or set on fire," said a law enforcement source who the newspaper did not identify. It was not clear whether the source was speaking on condition of anonymity.

Jeter, whose father is black and mother is white, has been linked with women of various racial and ethnic backgrounds in New York's gossip columns.

In the last three years, 60 similar letters have been sent to professional black athletes and other well-known black men across the nation, including civic and business leaders.

Those receiving the letters include Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, Miami Dolphins defensive end Jason Taylor and the parents of tennis player James Blake, according to the Daily News.

"The wording is very similar to letters that have been sent to other prominent people across the country," special agent Scott Wilson of the FBI in Cleveland told the newspaper.

Both the FBI, which has said it believes one writer sent those letters, and the New York Police Department's hate crimes unit are investigating the letter, the newspaper said.

The mail, postmarked from cities in northeastern Ohio and Pennsylvania, criticized interracial relationships and directed the men to end such relationships "or they're going to be castrated, shot or set on fire."

St. Ignatius and St. Edward, two Roman Catholic high schools in Cleveland with well-known sports programs, received threatening letters addressed to student athletes last fall.

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Report: Letter Threatens Jeter Will Be Shot, Set On Fire :Q

 

[ElFenix]

derrick jeter is black :Q

 

[Orsorum]

Are these letters being sent by black people?

 

[Accipiter22]

wait....you mean an athlete is getting hate mail??? and a black one nonetheless...why I NEVER

 

[EKKC]

i cant believe that this day and age when people, especially new yorkers, are of 10 different heritage, that there are still people hellbent on hate-crap like this. grow the fvck up.

 

[jalaram]

Originally posted by: ElFenix
derrick jeter is black :Q

Jeter, whose father is black and mother is white,

 

[shot]

Red Sox fan?

 

[Spike]

Originally posted by: shot
Red Sox fan?

lol

 

[rh71]

Derek Jeter is half white and half black. In his history of gfs... I know of Mariah Carey (half and half also), Jessica Alba (half Mexican, half French), and Vanessa Minnillo (mostly Filipino, also Irish/Italian). Coincidentally, he was reportedly dating Alba & Minnillo at the same time... that's a lot of mixes.

 

[Lounatik]

Oh, crap, I guess its art imitating life....scroll down to my post at 07/31/2005 04:32 PM and 07/31/2005 05:20 PM here. I guess someone else reads OT too!


Peace


Lounatik

 

[Nitemare]

Originally posted by: ElFenix
derrick jeter is black :Q

 

[Queasy]

Originally posted by: Orsorum
Are these letters being sent by black people?

Apparently...

The letter was mailed to Jeter at Yankee Stadium and called him a "traitor to his race,"

 

[Zim Hosein]

Originally posted by: Lounatik
Oh, crap, I guess its art imitating life....scroll down to my post at 07/31/2005 04:32 PM and 07/31/2005 05:20 PM here. I guess someone else reads OT too!

Peace

Lounatik

:Q

 

[CoolTech]

Originally posted by: ElFenix
derrick jeter is black :Q

how is derek jeter black if his mother is white? what's with this society automatically labeling people as black if they have 1 black parent? why not automatically white? This is not slavery people

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: CoolTech

Originally posted by: ElFenix
derrick jeter is black :Q

how is derek jeter black if his mother is white? what's with this society automatically labeling people as black if they have 1 black parent? why not automatically white? This is not slavery people

just about every 'black' person in this country has some 'white' in them somewhere

 

[Gibson486]

Maybe it's an over zealous red sox fan who wants the red sox to get #2.

 

[KokomoGSTmp]

Originally posted by: rh71
Derek Jeter is half white and half black. In his history of gfs... I know of Mariah Carey (half and half also), Jessica Alba (half Mexican, half French), and Vanessa Minnillo (mostly Filipino, also Irish/Italian). Coincidentally, he was reportedly dating Alba & Minnillo at the same time... that's a lot of mixes.

Not to mention he's HOW much older than Alba and Minnillo??

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: ElFenix
derrick jeter is black :Q

 

[OutHouse]

Originally posted by: rh71
Derek Jeter is half white and half black. In his history of gfs... I know of Mariah Carey (half and half also), Jessica Alba (half Mexican, half French), and Vanessa Minnillo (mostly Filipino, also Irish/Italian). Coincidentally, he was reportedly dating Alba & Minnillo at the same time... that's a lot of mixes.

Those are not RACES!!! they are Nationalities!!!! Jesus is it that diffucult to understand?

 

[moshquerade]

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: ElFenix
derrick jeter is black :Q

he's mulatto

 

[moshquerade]

Originally posted by: Citrix

Originally posted by: rh71
Derek Jeter is half white and half black. In his history of gfs... I know of Mariah Carey (half and half also), Jessica Alba (half Mexican, half French), and Vanessa Minnillo (mostly Filipino, also Irish/Italian). Coincidentally, he was reportedly dating Alba & Minnillo at the same time... that's a lot of mixes.

Those are not RACES!!! they are Nationalities!!!! Jesus is it that diffucult to understand?

hey, get a glass of water and take this.

 

[Mojoed]

Originally posted by: ElFenix

Originally posted by: CoolTech

Originally posted by: ElFenix
derrick jeter is black :Q

how is derek jeter black if his mother is white? what's with this society automatically labeling people as black if they have 1 black parent? why not automatically white? This is not slavery people

just about every 'black' person in this country has some 'white' in them somewhere

Not Manute Bol

Seriously though, racism sucks and it probably will never be abolished completely. Ignorance sucks.