'White Lives Matter' Fliers Distributed In Mt. Greenwood

CHICAGO, IL - About a dozen fliers with the headline "White Lives Matter" were found on cars parked in the Mount Greenwood neighborhood one morning last week. A resident of the 11000 block of St. Louis says she came across them after returning home last Wednesday morning around 8 a.m.

"I left around 7:30, so there was really a half-hour window in which they could have placed them there," said the resident, who did not wish to be named.

What she found on top of her car and a few others parked on the block is material she found "scary."

"This is not appropriate," the woman said, noting that she contacted the alderman who informed her the information would be passed along to the Chicago Police Department.

The words on the flier, "White Lives Matter," were followed by a list of "Pro-white websites" and the "Real WWII History."

"I followed the links and they were all promoting white supremacy," the woman said.

The woman said she grabbed the flier off her car and about five others, but did not get to the rest of the cars parked on the block. She checked bordering streets, but did not see the fliers on cars parked there.

"They seem to have just left them at 110th and St. Louis," she said.

At first, the woman said she planned to only inform the alderman of what she found. But after reading comments that followed a Tinley Park Patch news article that described one woman finding KKK fliers in the suburb of the story being fake, the Mount Greenwood woman felt compelled to back up her claim.

"I don't understand how people can dismiss this kind of thing as fake news," the woman said. "This happened. This happened in my neighborhood."

The woman says she hopes that every time such material is found it builds the dialogue of rejecting it and finding a way to come together.

"We ought not to dismiss others, but instead embrace what we have in common."

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