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SANDPOINT Of the caches of racist fliers that have littered Sandpoint neighborhoods since April, the citys mayor, Shelby Rognstad, has been the primary target.
A Photoshopped depiction of Rognstad in a gas chamber a Nazi-clad cartoon frog, Pepe, manning the switch was the most recent on-paper assault by what he believes is a tiny faction of white supremacists.
Other fliers had broader hate-filled messages, including Keep Idaho safe
Keep Idaho clean
Keep Idaho white, words draped over racist caricatures of three men, Hispanic, African-American and Jewish.
But since the events in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Aug. 12, Rognstad said, there has been an uptick in distribution.
Its almost been on a daily basis the last couple of weeks, said Rognstad, a white man who believes he struck the ire of the hate group because of his support for low-income housing projects and a false rumor he is Jewish.
My hunch is that its just one or two people trying to get as much attention as possible, he said. Intially, the attitude was to ignore them. But now, since Charlottesville and these fliers now being distributed every day, its time to speak up.
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Also see: Hate Literature in E-mail Flyers Hits Sandpoint, Idaho
kimbutgar
(21,139 posts)Hayden Lake is also a white power enclave. The only place I have ever been where I've been afraid being there.
JI7
(89,249 posts)Behind the Aegis
(53,956 posts)This is more than a case of "a few bad apples", there is a barrel full of rotten ones!
Rhiannon12866
(205,320 posts)Have we learned nothing in 241 years???
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)Beautiful state. Backwards bigoted shithole, nonetheless.
I say this as a straight white guy who was born and raised there and couldn't fucking wait to leave.
Raster
(20,998 posts)...
OregonBlue
(7,754 posts)Sandpoint area because it is so incredibly beautiful but it is filled with such awful, hateful, bigoted, Neanderthals.
treestar
(82,383 posts)Is there any indication that nonwhite people are moving into the area? I wish a million Mexicans would just move there.
Unfortunately, it works, because if you are not white, you're not going to be motivated to move there after hearing this, in the event you wanted to for some reason.
dalton99a
(81,485 posts)Despite protestations to the contrary, many if not most white people move there because of its reputation as a white haven. And conversely, non-whites stay away because of it.
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)Even white gay people have been flocking to the relatively "cosmopolitan" Boise to try to create some sort of haven for themselves. Yeah, right. Good luck with that, guys.
treestar
(82,383 posts)where April Gaede, the mother of the twin girls in a racist band when they were kids, moved to Montana, because Bakersfield, California was getting too diverse.
dalton99a
(81,485 posts)I wonder what happened to them
treestar
(82,383 posts)on the racist bit:
dalton99a
(81,485 posts)Thanks!