A simple but eloquently written letter.
White Supremacist Peter Tefft was identified during the white nationalist rally in Charlottesville. His appearance went viral thanks to the twitter account @YesYoureRacist.
Imagine being a father and learning your son espouses hateful rhetoric which opposes everything you embody. Hard to digest something as ugly as Charlottesville being linked to your family name.
Well Pearce Tefft wasn’t here for it and penned an Op-ed letter cutting all ties to his hate filled son.
I, along with all of his siblings and his entire family, wish to loudly repudiate my son’s vile, hateful and racist rhetoric and actions. We do not know specifically where he learned these beliefs. He did not learn them at home.
I have shared my home and heart with friends and acquaintances of every race, gender and creed. I have taught all of my children that all men and women are created equal. That we must love each other all the same.
Evidently Peter has chosen to unlearn these lessons, much to my and his family’s heartbreak and distress. We have been silent up until now, but now we see that this was a mistake. It was the silence of good people that allowed the Nazis to flourish the first time around, and it is the silence of good people that is allowing them to flourish now.
Peter Tefft, my son, is not welcome at our family gatherings any longer. I pray my prodigal son will renounce his hateful beliefs and return home. Then and only then will I lay out the feast.
Spoken with authority and conviction.