Volunteer firefighter Kenneth Walker received a threatening, racist letter telling him to resign from New York’s North Tonawanda Fire Department on Monday night. “We believe it was retaliation,” his wife, Amanda Walker, told Buffalo News. The apartment is inhabitable, and Walker told local news station WKBW that the fire destroyed “everything that we owned.”Walker is the only black firefighter currently working at Gratwick Hose, an all-volunteer fire company in North Tonawanda, New York. The letter, unsigned and written in large, all-capital letters, read:N******S ARE NOT ALLOWED TO BE FIREFIGHTERS. Two days later, his home caught on fire.

Source: Huffington Post August 04, 2016 15:45 UTC