[Vision2020] Election Spurs 'Hundreds' of Racist Incidents

Mon Nov 17 12:22:03 PST 2008

Roger,

If men were beating women after the election of a woman president, would you consider it because of her policies, or because of sexism from small men?

I think if Black people are violated after the election of a Black man, while shouting the elected persons name, it is very indicative to me that it is a racist motivated crime.

Best Regards,

Donovan

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

From: lfalen <lfalen at turbonet.com>
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Election Spurs 'Hundreds' of Racist Incidents
To: "Dave" <tiedye at turbonet.com>, "vision2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Date: Monday, November 17, 2008, 12:13 PM

It is wrong either way. It is a hate protest either way. I do dot see how you
can excuse it because you disagree with her point of view. You can just as
easily say that the acts against Obama were due to his politics. Would that
excuse it?
Roger
-----Original message-----
From: Dave tiedye at turbonet.com
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:34:43 -0800
To: vision2020 vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Election Spurs 'Hundreds' of Racist Incidents

> 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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