Woodcreek Mayor Gloria Whitehead said that Black Lives Matter is a “threat to our lives” and a “Socialist attempt to take over our lives, using guilt and shame… the race card,” in a Facebook post on June 9. The post has spurred hundreds of comments, many of which have called Whitehead and her comments racist as well as requesting that she resign from her position as mayor.
“Of course the comments are racist,” Nelson Linder, president of the Austin chapter of the NAACP, said. “They are very insensitive. They are also very untrue. There is no parallel from Black Lives Matter to Marxism. To even to say something like that shows a degree of ignorance. The comments I saw were alarming and based in total ignorance. It is a shame that anybody (with those views) even in a small town, would have any kind of power or any kind of authority.”
The Wimberley Democrats have requested that Whitehead resign her position calling the comments "racist, divisive and completely rooted in misinformation meant to incite anger and instill fear."
