[Vision2020] Election Spurs 'Hundreds' of Racist Incidents

[lfalen]

I don't like things like this anymore that I like signs of Sarah Palin hanged in effigy. I think it would be best if nether were played up. It just incites more of the same.
Roger
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From: Tom Hansen thansen at moscow.com
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 11:23:47 -0800
To: vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: [Vision2020] Election Spurs 'Hundreds' of Racist Incidents

> 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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