Posted on 11/16/2008 4:20:35 PM PST by NCDragon
Cross burnings. Schoolchildren chanting "Assassinate Obama." Black figures hung from nooses. Racial epithets scrawled on homes and cars.
Incidents around the country referring to President-elect Barack Obama are dampening the postelection glow of racial progress and harmony, highlighting the stubborn racism that remains in America.
From California to Maine, police have documented a range of alleged crimes, from vandalism and vague threats to at least one physical attack. Insults and taunts have been delivered by adults, college students and second-graders.
There have been "hundreds" of incidents since the election, many more than usual, said Mark Potok, director of the Intelligence Project at the Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors hate crimes.
One was in Snellville, Ga., where Denene Millner said a boy on the school bus told her 9-year-old daughter the day after the election: "I hope Obama gets assassinated." That night, someone trashed her sister-in-law's front lawn, mangled the Obama lawn signs, and left two pizza boxes filled with human feces outside the front door, Millner said.
She described her emotions as a combination of anger and fear.
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As if nothing like this happened in the past 8 years.
He should make a movie about that instead.
Who’s this? Another affirmative action columnist?
“the Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors hate crimes.”
Do they monitor racial hate crimes committed by blacks against whites? Hate crimes directed against Christians? Hate crimes directed against conservatives? Hate crimes directed against business owners?
Do I hear the sound of crickets?
Remember all the riot threats from the media if he DIDN’T get elected?
Deal with it now, MSM.
I haven't seen too many protests agaist Obama, yet. Make that none.
Where is the OTHER SIDE On this ? I’ve been called a racist time and time again because I “DISAGREE” with Obama’s Socialist polices..this by BLACK PEOPLE AND WHITE PEOPLE who supported that Socialist POS.
This one sided BS is going to cause a race war. Some people best STHU IF they can’t show both sides of the story.
To me this propaganda salvo in the MSM sounds like preparing the ground for suppression of dissent.
But calling for the assassination of Bush and Cheney and Hyde and other Republicans was hunky dory, wasn’t it? Huh?
BINGO! On the duplicate thread, I said as much.
Oh and let me add this .....an article the other day was about the FBI looking into some racial hate sites....they went on to investigate the so-called white racial hate sites and found BLACKS were putting the sites on the Web.
The racism comes from BOTH SIDES, and in my experience over the last year, I’ve seen much more racism from the Black community than the White.
Oh Bullashit
I have two teenagers here in Alaska, its a daily thing at school to make chants against Obama, the whole school does it.
Anything about Obama is ridiculed and the children of parents that did support him quite literally run around in fear.
I never told my kids what to do, they are on the internet, they watch youtube and they are not the gullible youth of decades past.
School for gifted children, I suppose?
Since I am a news junkie, I was taken aback by the black church burning comment. I had read nothing of it.
So I spent a couple of hours searching for news stories about black church burnings to see if I had simply missed the stories.
I kept finding stories about black church burnings during the 1990’s. Apparently the media hyped this as an epidemic, which turned out to be a media hoax.
The only current reference I could find, was a story about a church under construction in Massachusetts, which had been burned. Guess who were the only sites carrying the story? Kos, HufPo and DU.
People should be careful where they get their news.
Can’t be any worse than what they have said about Bush the last eight years.
I think that this is quite true. Their Obama-loving parents tell their schoolchildren to do it because they think it will make Republicans look bad.
Just like most hate crimes, most of this is a put up by the liberals.
I don't remember the MSM saying anything about it!!
Hell they even made a MOVIE about President Bush BEING ASSASSINATED!!!!!
Why don’t they check the race on race crime for the last twenty years and see which way the numbers have been going.
wonder how many of these were “fake hate crimes”?
Thats just sick
Liberals are the biggest racists alive.. This is another example of Liberals accusing others of what they do themselves.
I-want-to-make-a-difference "reporters" are skid marks on journalism's clean shorts.
Mods: sorry for the double post, I see that the original post was 2 minutes afore mine!
Most of the examples are generalities: insults on the rise, cross burnings in New Jersey, etc.
Makes me suspicious.
The racial stuff is pathetic. I just don’t like him because he is a Marxist, isn’t all that smart, is arrogant, has an annoying cadence in his speaking, has terrorist and Marxist friends. Plus, for a bonus, he want’s to redistribute wealth-— but, that is covered under, he is a Marxist.
If you believe this racist crapola let me tell you about a nice bridge crossing the East River that is for sale at a bargain price.
Just cut to the chase ... who does John Q. make out the check to?
Anything about Obama is ridiculed and the children of parents that did support him quite literally run around in fear.
I never told my kids what to do, they are on the internet, they watch youtube and they are not the gullible youth of decades past.”
You know, its a funny thing, but we've had bad presidents before, and good presidents before, and we've survived them all. Perhaps we ought to let the new president get inaugurated before we all jump off a cliff.
I intentionally did not let my kids get raised in a third-world s**thole, and I certainly did not come back to the states to do to have this country turn into one.
THIS IS AMERICA, GOD BLESS IT! We don't do that kind of crap here!
Jesse Washington wrote this for AP, yesterday.
Some of the incidents he cites, were taken from the recent Newsweek article.
Apparently, he has a history of making controversial public claims that get others riled up.
Which at some point, caused him to be beaten by an associate of Puff P.Diddy Daddy or whatever the heck his name is.
Washington was the entertainment editor for AP,
editor of a hip hop magazine,
author of “ Black Will Shoot” and two coffee table books about African Americans
and founded the street basketball magazine, Bounce.
I’m sensing a pattern in his published pieces...
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I call this article BS!
For the guns and ammo business that is. From what I heard today the gun show in Houston was packed and vendors that usually have stacks of stuff were running out quickly.
The two incidents which spurred the march were said to be a.) a lynching rope hanging from a tree on campus and b.) a burning pyre of Obama campaign signs.
The university administration investigated, however, and found that the "lynching rope" was the rotted remains of a swing and the "burning pyre" was cardboard boxes.
No response yet from the protest leaders...
I would think that Pres. Bush would call it a slow day if he wasn't hanged/burned/mutilated in effigy somewhere.
Obama better get used to it.
Exactly. Most “hate crimes” are blacks attacking whites rather than the other way around.
But why are any of us surprised....the Southern “Poverty” Law Center has an agenda, and it’s an agenda that keeps the money rolling in from liberals and their special interest groups.
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