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ChicanoPwr Donating Member (536 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-09-04 08:35 PM
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FBI: Racial hate mail sent high school athletes
FBI: Racial hate mail sent to NFL now reaching high school athletes
Associated Press

"CLEVELAND (AP) - A person who has sent threatening letters denouncing interracial relationships to some NFL players and other prominent black men now is targeting high school athletes, authorities said Thursday.

St. Ignatius and St. Edward, two Catholic high schools in Cleveland with well-known sports programs, received threatening letters addressed to student athletes, FBI special agent Bob Hawk said. St. Ignatius received eight letters on Nov. 30. St. Edward received two letters last week.
"The sentence structure is very similar, the paragraph structure, the verbiage structure. They're all computer generated," Hawk said. "We're convinced that it's the same letter writer."

Hawk said he only knew of schools in Ohio receiving letters.

Over the past two years, 60 such letters have been sent to at least six NFL players and other well-known black men across the nation, including civic and business leaders. None of the recipients has been identified.

The mail, postmarked from cities in northeastern Ohio and Pennsylvania, criticized interracial relationships and directed the men to end such relationships "or they're going to be castrated, shot or set on fire."

The FBI says it has no suspect and is asking anyone with information to contact the agency."

Do not you like your new neo-con moral values. You get to send hate mail. What is next, hangings. FUCKING RACIST BASTARDS!!!! THEY SHOULD ALL BURN.


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The Backlash Cometh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-09-04 08:43 PM
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1. Well, as long as right-wing Christians take control of this country,
you can expect more of their racists to get emboldened.
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Sara Beverley Donating Member (989 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-09-04 11:49 PM
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3. Amen!
It's happening all over the country.
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beanball Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-09-04 11:33 PM
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2. Our F.B.I.
those wonderful people at the FBI can track down dope dealer and terriost world wide but can't fine a lone racist in the good olde us of a.?,there is something fishy going on here.
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ChicanoPwr Donating Member (536 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-10-04 08:52 AM
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4. I know
Didn't they find the OK City bombers really fast and they were finding in rural America. But I guess racist are really not a top priority.
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wordout Donating Member (355 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-10-04 10:38 AM
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5. anyone see the irony here?
Edited on Fri Dec-10-04 10:43 AM by wordout
FUCKING RACIST BASTARDS!!!! THEY SHOULD ALL BURN.

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