[Vision2020] Election Spurs 'Hundreds' of Racist Incidents

[Tom Hansen]

Extracted from the Associated Press at:

http://tinyurl.com/6277ps

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Barack Obama's election spurs 'hundreds' of racial incidents around the 
country

The day after the vote hailed as a sign of a nation changed, black high 
school student Barbara Tyler of Marietta, Ga., said she heard hateful 
Obama comments from white students, and that teachers cut off discussion 
about Obama's victory.

Tyler spoke at a press conference by the Georgia chapter of the NAACP 
calling for a town hall meeting to address complaints from across the 
state about hostility and resentment. Another student, from a Covington 
middle school, said he was suspended for wearing an Obama shirt to school 
Nov. 5 after the principal told students not to wear political 
paraphernalia.

The student's mother, Eshe Riviears, said the principal told her: "Whether 
you like it or not, we're in the South, and there are a lot of people who 
are not happy with this decision."

Other incidents include:

- Four North Carolina State University students admitted writing anti-
Obama comments in a tunnel designated for free speech expression, 
including one that said: "Let's shoot that (N-word) in the head." Obama 
has received more threats than any other president-elect, authorities say.

- At Standish, Maine, a sign inside the Oak Hill General Store 
read: "Osama Obama Shotgun Pool." Customers could sign up to bet $1 on a 
date when Obama would be killed. "Stabbing, shooting, roadside bombs, they 
all count," the sign said. At the bottom of the marker board was 
written "Let's hope someone wins."

- Racist graffiti was found in places including New York's Long Island, 
where two dozen cars were spray-painted; Kilgore, Texas, where the local 
high school and skate park were defaced; and the Los Angeles area, where 
swastikas, racial slurs and "Go Back To Africa" were spray painted on 
sidewalks, houses and cars.

- Second- and third-grade students on a school bus in Rexburg, Idaho, 
chanted "assassinate Obama," a district official said.

- University of Alabama professor Marsha L. Houston said a poster of the 
Obama family was ripped off her office door. A replacement poster was 
defaced with a death threat and a racial slur. "It seems the election 
brought the racist rats out of the woodwork," Houston said.

- Black figures were hanged by nooses from trees on Mount Desert Island, 
Maine, the Bangor Daily News reported. The president of Baylor University 
in Waco, Texas said a rope found hanging from a campus tree was apparently 
an abandoned swing and not a noose.

- Crosses were burned in yards of Obama supporters in Hardwick, N.J., and 
Apolacan Township, Pa.

- A black teenager in New York City said he was attacked with a bat on 
election night by four white men who shouted 'Obama.'

- In the Pittsburgh suburb of Forest Hills, a black man said he found a 
note with a racial slur on his car windshield, saying "now that you voted 
for Obama, just watch out for your house."

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Free speech or not, the provocators of such incidents are no more than 
white trash.

Seeya round town, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho
 
"We're a town of about 23,000 with 10,000 college students. The college 
students are not very active in local elections (thank goodness!)."

- Dale Courtney (March 28, 2007)


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