Mon. Jul 1st, 2024

Black Surfer Says Board Nailed to Tree Was Racist Attack<!-- wp:html --><p>Andrew Mills</p> <p>A Black man in Florida has ripped a local surfing community for being racist, he says, after his surfboard was stolen from him and nailed to a tree.</p> <p>“The message was just to let me know, ‘You can’t come around here and mess with us,’” Andrew Mills told The Daily Beast. “I know they feel a certain way about me because I’m Black.”</p> <p>The 41-year-old father-of-two said he went to Jupiter Beach on Friday to surf, but was interrupted when another surfer from an all-white group ran into him on the water and seemingly flipped Mills’ board on purpose.</p> <p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/black-florida-surfer-andrew-mills-says-board-nailed-to-tree-at-jupiter-beach-was-racist-attack">Read more at The Daily Beast.</a></p><!-- /wp:html -->

Andrew Mills

A Black man in Florida has ripped a local surfing community for being racist, he says, after his surfboard was stolen from him and nailed to a tree.

“The message was just to let me know, ‘You can’t come around here and mess with us,’” Andrew Mills told The Daily Beast. “I know they feel a certain way about me because I’m Black.”

The 41-year-old father-of-two said he went to Jupiter Beach on Friday to surf, but was interrupted when another surfer from an all-white group ran into him on the water and seemingly flipped Mills’ board on purpose.

Read more at The Daily Beast.

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