In his email, Myers urges council members to stay focused and not give in to public pressure from what he considers a small but vocal minority.

“Please be advised and understanding of the significant pressures we as council members are being adhered to, as well as being bullied and forced to make unlike leadership decisions. Decisions are what they are and as leaders we make the hard choices as elected to do so as advised,” Myers wrote. “Our economic and financial development is in crisis, and until this council sets aside the foolishness of one and Facebook cronies, we will not be able to move forward.”

And: “We have a resident capacity of 33,000 people, yet 2 percent of the population rules the City Council in a largely populated African-American city.”

In a phone interview Wednesday, Myers clarified that the 2 percent to which he was referring are the same people who frequently “come to the podium” at City Council meetings “and try to influence how we vote.”

When asked about the “racists and Republican supporters” that to which he was referring in his email to the all-black City Council, Myers said he was talking about members of Clean Sweep Petersburg.

“They know who they are,” Myers said. “I didn’t point fingers at anyone.”