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Sandra Thompson, One of the “Fairway Five” Golfers Receives Hate Mail

by Debert Cook
Sandra Thompson

Sandra Thompson

Sandra Thompson, a full-time attorney who also serves as President of the York, Pennsylvania, NAACP, shared on her Facebook page a piece of hate mail that she received in her office mailbox on June 30, 2018. The hand-scrawled letter arrived at her East Princess Street office address and it is filled with allegations from an unknown sender regarding the April 21, 2018 incident that occurred at Grandview Golf Course (York, PA).

 

Thompson, a former candidate for York County judge and the vice chair of the county Democratic party said on her page, “After attending a couple of events today, I go to my office and find this letter.”

Known as “The Fairway Five” by African American Golfer’s Digest, Thompson was one of five women playing together as members of the golf course when police were called by the course for their alleged slow play and asking for the women to be removed.  The five women involved in the Grandview Golf Club incident say they were victims of racial and gender discrimination. 5 members of Sisters In The Fairway claim racial and gender discrimination at Pennsylvania's Grandview Golf Club

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Thompson responded on her Facebook page writing this:  “But I know: Romans 8:28 “And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.  And: Psalm 16:8 I have set the Lord always before me; Because He is at my right hand I shall not be moved.  So: as in Jeremiah 17:8, I will remain planted, spreading knowledge… without fear…without anxiety of what might happen… And I will be fruitful.”

 

The letter is below.

Sandra Thompson hate mail

(Letter as posted on Sandra Thompson’s Facebook page)

 

The Grandview Golf incident went before the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission on June 21, and Steve Chronister, the man who called the police on the women, did not appear.  Thompson has also filed a complaint with the state agency as well as a federal complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, according to the York Daily Record.

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