[Vision2020] Election Spurs 'Hundreds' of Racist Incidents

[Donovan Arnold]

As the monster known as Bigotry is breathing its last breaths, we are experiencing its death rattle trying to resist its demise. 
 
We will see backlash from bigots against Blacks, Hispanics, Gays, and Muslims for the next few years. Hopefully, it will pass soon. 
 
Best Regards,
 
Donovan

--- On Mon, 11/17/08, Dave <tiedye at turbonet.com> wrote:

From: Dave <tiedye at turbonet.com>
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Election Spurs 'Hundreds' of Racist Incidents
To: "vision2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Date: Monday, November 17, 2008, 11:34 AM

One big difference Roger, Sarah was attacked due to her extreme politics
and hateful version of Christianity, both are choices on her part. 
Obama is being attack because of the color of his skin, not a choice.

There is a word for that.

Dave


lfalen wrote:
> 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
> -----Original message-----
> 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
>>
>> -------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> 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."
>>
>> -------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> 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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