“This is something that … troubling would not do it justice,” said Todd Perkins in the news article.

Perkins said in the published report that the hate speech letter came in the mail to his home recently, and it was cruelly mocking the Black Lives Matter slogan and a poem from the early 20th century filled with racial slurs, written in response to President Theodore Roosevelt inviting Booker T. Washington to the White House for dinner, the report added.

“We’re grownups,” Perkins said in the story. “This shouldn’t shock you that this is happening. Racism is profuse in this western culture, since its inception it’s been there. And it will take, hopefully, not as long as it’s been since it’s been there to eradicate it.”

According to the report, police are investigating the hate mail and that they contacted the homeowner living at the mail’s return address who said that they did not send it and the FBI should be involved because mail fraud was involved.

“My understanding is that individual has been approached and that individual has denied any involvement in this,” Perkins said in the report. “And that individual has sought and is very supportive of a thorough investigation.”

Perkins was ticketed by Grosse Pointe Shores last November for a Black Lives Matter sign in front of his house. Their reasoning being that no political signs could exceed seven square feet.

“We can all agree that that’s greater than seven square feet, but we cannot agree that that is a political statement,” Perkins said in the story. “What candidate was named Black Lives Matter? Number one. What ballot issue was called Black Lives Matter?”

The village of Grosse Pointe removed the ticket but harm was still done in the form of the hate mail.

Perkins said that at the end of the day, he wants people to continue to know that “Black lives do matter. Black lives aren’t what this individual states, whoever sent it,” he said in the report.

Perkins added in the story that he still has a lawsuit pending against Grosse Point; the investigation is still being worked on.