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 Racism & Civil Hysteria over Obama's Victory. 
#9251714 - 11/15/08 10:24 PM (4 years, 6 months ago) |
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Sorry to be a news junky, but this article is intense.
Election spurs 'hundreds' of race threats, crimes
By JESSE WASHINGTON – 8 hours ago
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.
"I can't say that every white person in Snellville is evil and anti-Obama and willing to desecrate my property because one or two idiots did it," said Millner, who is black. "But it definitely makes you look a little different at the people who you live with, and makes you wonder what they're capable of and what they're really thinking."
Potok, who is white, said he believes there is "a large subset of white people in this country who feel that they are losing everything they know, that the country their forefathers built has somehow been stolen from them."
Grant Griffin, a 46-year-old white Georgia native, expressed similar sentiments: "I believe our nation is ruined and has been for several decades and the election of Obama is merely the culmination of the change.
"If you had real change it would involve all the members of (Obama's) church being deported," he said.
Change in whatever form does not come easy, and a black president is "the most profound change in the field of race this country has experienced since the Civil War," said William Ferris, senior associate director of the Center for the Study of the American South at the University of North Carolina. "It's shaking the foundations on which the country has existed for centuries."
"Someone once said racism is like cancer," Ferris said. "It's never totally wiped out, it's in remission."
If so, America's remission lasted until the morning of Nov. 5.
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."
Emotions are often raw after a hard-fought political campaign, but now those on the losing side have an easy target for their anger.
"The principle is very simple," said BJ Gallagher, a sociologist and co-author of the diversity book "A Peacock in the Land of Penguins." "If I can't hurt the person I'm angry at, then I'll vent my anger on a substitute, i.e., someone of the same race."
"We saw the same thing happen after the 9-11 attacks, as a wave of anti-Muslim violence swept the country. We saw it happen after the Rodney King verdict, when Los Angeles blacks erupted in rage at the injustice perpetrated by 'the white man.'"
"It's as stupid and ineffectual as kicking your dog when you've had a bad day at the office," Gallagher said. "But it happens a lot."
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Re: Racism & Civil Hysteria over Obama's Victory. [Re: mathewww]
#9251744 - 11/15/08 10:29 PM (4 years, 6 months ago) |
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I used to live in snellville 
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there are 923 words in the english language that do not follow the "I before E"
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for education to keep making students stupid
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Re: Racism & Civil Hysteria over Obama's Victory. [Re: Prisoner#1]
#9251806 - 11/15/08 10:40 PM (4 years, 6 months ago) |
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Simple solution, kill racists.
No, really, it should be allowed
I'm no Obama fan, but come on! Other white countries have had black leaders without this shit!
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Re: Racism & Civil Hysteria over Obama's Victory. [Re: doom876]
#9251831 - 11/15/08 10:43 PM (4 years, 6 months ago) |
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Quote:
doom876 said:
Simple solution, kill racists.
No, really, it should be allowed
I'm no Obama fan, but come on! Other white countries have had black leaders without this shit!
Sounds a bit extreme... I mean, beyond the regular court process dont you think that'd be a judicial nightmare? Everyone killing everyone else because of alleged racism.
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Re: Racism & Civil Hysteria over Obama's Victory. [Re: The_Red_Crayon]
#9251865 - 11/15/08 10:49 PM (4 years, 6 months ago) |
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I mean hard core racists, the "niggers should go back to africa" racists, the "kill the gays" homophobes.
Skrew it, I'm just hateful
carry on
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Fight for a large loving government that can take care of its people, kill our criminals, and preform the huge industrial tasks our corporate overlords refuse(wanna greenwash me some more Exon?)
Not this weak travesty that let millions starve and sucks corporate cock while failing at every turn.
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Re: Racism & Civil Hysteria over Obama's Victory. [Re: doom876]
#9251896 - 11/15/08 10:55 PM (4 years, 6 months ago) |
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Violence is exactly what we're trying to prevent.
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Re: Racism & Civil Hysteria over Obama's Victory. [Re: doom876]
#9251899 - 11/15/08 10:56 PM (4 years, 6 months ago) |
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Barack Obama was elected as a result of racism. The democrats were guaranteed the election as a result of Bush's poor ratings. Hilary lost because she could not get the black vote, thus making Barack president by default. Black people who would never vote, voted to get a black man in office, if thats not allready racism, what is.
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Re: Racism & Civil Hysteria over Obama's Victory. [Re: mathewww]
#9251901 - 11/15/08 10:56 PM (4 years, 6 months ago) |
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Yeag, to the innocent
these people doing these things arn't worth my dog's morning piss
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Fight for a large loving government that can take care of its people, kill our criminals, and preform the huge industrial tasks our corporate overlords refuse(wanna greenwash me some more Exon?)
Not this weak travesty that let millions starve and sucks corporate cock while failing at every turn.
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Re: Racism & Civil Hysteria over Obama's Victory. [Re: doom876]
#9251904 - 11/15/08 10:57 PM (4 years, 6 months ago) |
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Quote:
doom876 said:
I mean hard core racists, the "niggers should go back to africa" racists, the "kill the gays" homophobes.
Skrew it, I'm just hateful
carry on
so that means we baracade all of the people into the church
obama attended and burn it to the ground, obama is a racist
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there are 923 words in the english language that do not follow the "I before E"
rule, there are 44 words in the english language that follow the rule. this is
the shit our education funding is paying for and these liberals want more money
for education to keep making students stupid
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Re: Racism & Civil Hysteria over Obama's Victory. [Re: Xpatriot]
#9251909 - 11/15/08 10:58 PM (4 years, 6 months ago) |
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Quote:
Xpatriot said:
Barack Obama was elected as a result of racism. The democrats were guaranteed the election as a result of Bush's poor ratings. Hilary lost because she could not get the black vote, thus making Barack president by default. Black people who would never vote, voted to get a black man in office, if thats not allready racism, what is.
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Re: Racism & Civil Hysteria over Obama's Victory. [Re: mathewww]
#9251920 - 11/15/08 10:59 PM (4 years, 6 months ago) |
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Is there no hope for America? Are these the true colors of humanity? I can't believe how ignorant and racist these people are.
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Re: Racism & Civil Hysteria over Obama's Victory. [Re: BoneMan]
#9251934 - 11/15/08 11:03 PM (4 years, 6 months ago) |
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Does any of this come as a surprise?
This article might as well read "HUMANS STILL BEHAVING LIKE HUMANS".
Just another day at the office.
This is pretty much what I have come to expect from America. I would've been more shocked if the article was "No Civil Hysteria or Racism over Obama's Victory".
What a sad state of affairs. 
Poor Ron Paul.
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Re: Racism & Civil Hysteria over Obama's Victory. [Re: mathewww]
#9251961 - 11/15/08 11:07 PM (4 years, 6 months ago) |
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Strange.
I live in Arkansas and havent seen, or heard of, any overtly racist remarks 
Sounds like the media is trying to stir up some shit again 
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Re: Racism & Civil Hysteria over Obama's Victory. [Re: joe666]
#9251964 - 11/15/08 11:07 PM (4 years, 6 months ago) |
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Quote:
joe666 said:
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Xpatriot said:
Barack Obama was elected as a result of racism. The democrats were guaranteed the election as a result of Bush's poor ratings. Hilary lost because she could not get the black vote, thus making Barack president by default. Black people who would never vote, voted to get a black man in office, if thats not allready racism, what is.
Don't be stupid, even if 90% of blacks voted, whites made up the vast majority(well over half of people). That's like attributing the passage of prop 8 in Cali to blacks.
Don't be a dumb ass and say dumb ass things.
People were just tired of the republican politics, so the cycle continued. Hillery didn't win because the small number of people voting at the primary didn't want her. I'd rather ave had Gravel, because I'm far less conservative then Obama politically, but hillery was rather weak and I think she would have folded like a paper doll in the white house.
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Fight for a large loving government that can take care of its people, kill our criminals, and preform the huge industrial tasks our corporate overlords refuse(wanna greenwash me some more Exon?)
Not this weak travesty that let millions starve and sucks corporate cock while failing at every turn.
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Re: Racism & Civil Hysteria over Obama's Victory. [Re: niteowl]
#9251976 - 11/15/08 11:10 PM (4 years, 6 months ago) |
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niteowl said:
Strange.
I live in Arkansas and havent seen, or heard of, any overtly racist remarks
Sounds like the media is trying to stir up some shit again
I'm in Texas, and I literally cannot go anywhere without hearing people either complaining about Obama being a Muslim terrorist, or general distasteful and unclever jokes about a black man in office.
Personally I'm interested to see what he does, but my hopes aren't that high. He's not Jesus or anything.
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Re: Racism & Civil Hysteria over Obama's Victory. [Re: niteowl]
#9251977 - 11/15/08 11:10 PM (4 years, 6 months ago) |
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Quote:
niteowl said:
Sounds like the media is trying to stir up some shit again
thats what the media does. sensationalize bullshit that will make people want to watch
Racist Rednecks in the super-plot to kill obama!
i dont doubt that there are lots of pissed off white supremacists, but i'd like to see them get by the secret service.
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Re: Racism & Civil Hysteria over Obama's Victory. [Re: niteowl]
#9251989 - 11/15/08 11:13 PM (4 years, 6 months ago) |
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niteowl said:
Strange.
I live in Arkansas and havent seen, or heard of, any overtly racist remarks
I'm in rural georgia, I have the same thing to report, people
were disappointed the McCain didnt win but many are more than
willing to let Obama give it a go, no threats, no racial
comments, I've heard several say "I hope nothing happens to
him, it would really reflect bad on the US if the first black
president were killed"
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there are 923 words in the english language that do not follow the "I before E"
rule, there are 44 words in the english language that follow the rule. this is
the shit our education funding is paying for and these liberals want more money
for education to keep making students stupid
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Re: Racism & Civil Hysteria over Obama's Victory. [Re: doom876]
#9251991 - 11/15/08 11:14 PM (4 years, 6 months ago) |
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negros came out in droves to vote for obama just because he was black.
I know a lot of black people who haven't voted in many elections because they didn't care which white guy won.
but actually got out and vooted for obama, just to see a black man elected.
I can only imagine this went on in a mass scale.
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Re: Racism & Civil Hysteria over Obama's Victory. [Re: doom876]
#9252002 - 11/15/08 11:16 PM (4 years, 6 months ago) |
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doom876 said:
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joe666 said:
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Xpatriot said:
Barack Obama was elected as a result of racism. The democrats were guaranteed the election as a result of Bush's poor ratings. Hilary lost because she could not get the black vote, thus making Barack president by default. Black people who would never vote, voted to get a black man in office, if thats not allready racism, what is.
Don't be stupid, even if 90% of blacks voted, whites made up the vast majority(well over half of people). That's like attributing the passage of prop 8 in Cali to blacks.
Don't be a dumb ass and say dumb ass things.
watch yourself, it's getting close to flaming
they're correct, how many times have you seen people say "I'm
voting for him because he's black... do you think the record
turnout of black voters was because of his policies? the
roots are in racism
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there are 923 words in the english language that do not follow the "I before E"
rule, there are 44 words in the english language that follow the rule. this is
the shit our education funding is paying for and these liberals want more money
for education to keep making students stupid
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Re: Racism & Civil Hysteria over Obama's Victory. [Re: Prisoner#1]
#9252006 - 11/15/08 11:16 PM (4 years, 6 months ago) |
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I hope to see him have his own personal pope-mobile.
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"what is a weed, a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered"--Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I'm sippin Hennessy, riding on my muthafucking enemies" -Meek Mill.
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