Unacceptable

It took until now for this to make the Ark?

texags will find out who did this, destroy their lives, and i wont feel any sympathy for whomever wrote this

Roger, are you willing to take the Billy Kennedy butthole challenge on it being fake?

That has hornfan written all over it

I'll also mention that word is buyout discussions have been initiated with Sumlin this week.

"Or else"

I'm with roger, it feels... off.

The handwriting is feminine, not exactly a huge deal by itself but a factor nonetheless.

The letter folded is larger than envelope. Not necessarily a deal breaker either, but suspect.

The wording is awkward. It reads like a child or soccer mom wrote it and the sole intention was to use the n word. Anyone who feels strongly enough about him as a coach or as black man would Say it differently I'd wager.

The postage stamp isn't post marked. It's possible, certainly, but very improbably it ever went through the mail.

Why return address an anonymous hate letter? Why use a prominent country club? You know who's racist? Rich white golfers.

I've seen conflicting info, but many have said that barcode is a precoded return address used by business and public entities. The barcode reader website says that code is the college station address that is attributable to the sumlin residence. Could be the sending code, but that is not the info ppl have been sharing on tRant.










I say all that to say, regardless of sender and intention racism has no place in today's society and it's morally reprehensible. Charlene shouldn't have public ally shared it though, if for no other reason, As she pointed out a child can see it. Despite its authenticity it's a shameless attention grab on her part.


Idk, just none of it feels sincere to me.

Bingo

If it looks, sounds and walks like a duck it's a fricking duck.

Yeah I'm not on board that Charlene is the culprit, although I don't really have a whole lot of respect for her beyond my Normal minimum for a human/woman/mother.

Who writes letters anymore? Very odd. Maybe it was a crazy old racist grandma? Also, how are home addresses so easily found? Are the Sumlins listed in the white pages? Also, are white pages still a thing?

Either way, this feeds in to the narrative narrative that America, Texans, and Aggies, are all a bunch of white supremacists. If that letter is real, and I would like to think highly enough of the Sumlins that it is, then I still think it's crass to put it out on social media. It just feeds a narrative that I would hope the Sumlins don't actually believe is true. With all the fake hate crimes surrounding Trump's election, and the perpetrators of the hoaxes usually saying things like, "I just wanted to bring awareness to the issues Muslims/Jews/blacks face because of Trump" even though painting an unrealistic picture of that is vile and disgusting and hurts everyone, that mentality seems to ring true time and time again. I don't think that's the case here, even though I think it's natural for people to draw parallels to that.

My first guess is that Charlene posted this because she knows the criticism around her husband is growing, it's valid, and she saw this as a reason to lash out and go in to bunker down mode without thinking of the implications. She saw a legitimate reason to get mad at the outcries against her husband, and it was probably cathartic to some degree. It wasn't just the racist letter she felt she was using that sassy hashtag on, but every Aggie having a meltdown on TexAgs and the national pundits as well.

Some really old lady on psychotropic drugs probably wrote this and felt great doing it, which is a sad thing, but it's not the end of the world. Sumlin is a black man in America, and he didn't have it easy in this world. That being said, very few of us, even the white ones, have it easy. I'm sure this wasn't the first time he was called that word, and unfortunately it probably won't be the last. However that hasn't, and won't, stop him from being a wildly successful and wealthy man for the rest of his life, and we should all be thankful we live in a country where that is the case.