I have seen more racist spew in the last couple of months

[Roon]

than I have in probably six months. Hatred against blacks and muslims,it's been really bad ever since Obama won the nomination. This could get very ugly.

[babylonsister]

1. Sadly, it's only just begun...

http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2008/06/obama_bid_boon_for_white_supre.html

Obama bid boon for White Supremacists
Posted June 22, 2008 6:16 PM
The Swamp

by Mike Dorning



Barack Obama's historic victory in the Democratic presidential campaign may have been widely interpreted as a sign the United States is overcoming racial divisions. But his candidacy also appears to be a boon for racist and white supremacist groups.

The Washington Post reports today that neo-Nazi, skinhead, and segregationist groups say that visits to their web sites have surged since Obama clinched the Democratic presidential nomination on June 3. Civil rights groups that monitor racist activity on the web also have detected an increase as the possibility of a black president stirs concern among those with racist views, the paper reports.

The truth is, we're finding an explosion in these kinds of hateful sentiments on the Net, and it's a growing problem," said Deborah Lauter, civil rights director for the Anti-Defamation League, which monitors hate group activity. "There are probably thousands of Web sites that do this now. I couldn't even tell you how many are out there because it's growing so fast."

Neo-Nazi and white power groups acknowledge that they have little ability to derail Obama's candidacy, so instead some have decided to take advantage of its potential. White-power leaders who once feared Obama's campaign have come to regard it as a recruiting tool. The groups now portray his candidacy as a vehicle to disenfranchise whites and polarize America.

[TreasonousBastard]

7. The southern Poverty Law Center is on it...

http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2008/06/11/president-obama-many-white-supremacists-are-celebrating/#more-2475

"He will make things so bad for white people that hopefully they will finally realize how stupid they were for admiring these jigaboos all these years,” “Darthvader” wrote on the neo-Nazi Vanguard News Network web forum. “I believe in the motto ‘Worse is Better’ and Obama certainly fits that description.” Just last week, Ron Doggett (right), a Virginian who has been a key activist in the Klan, the paramilitary White People’s Party and the neo-Nazi National Alliance, chimed in with this: “I hope Obama wins because in four years, white people just might be pissed off enough to actually do something. … White people aren’t going to do a thing until their toys are taken away from them. So things have to be worse for things to be better.”

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"Even David Duke (right), the neo-Nazi and former Klan boss who is the closest thing the movement has to a real intellectual these days, sees clear advantages in an Obama victory in the fall. “Obama will be a signal, a clear signal for millions of our people,” Duke wrote in an essay entitled “A Black Flag for White America” last week. “Obama is like that new big dark spot on your arm that finally sends you to the doctor for some real medicine. … Obama is the pain that let’s your body know that something is dreadfully wrong. Obama will let the American people know that there is a real cancer eating away at the heart of our country and Republican aspirin will not only not cure it, but only masks the pain and makes you think you don’t need radical surgery. … My bet is that whether Obama wins or loses in November, millions of European Americans will inevitably react with new awareness of their heritage and the need for them to defend and advance it.”"



There aren't that many of these militant haters out there, but they are a nucleus for the part-time bigots and this kind of crap could mean blood in the streets again.

[ogradda]

2. Where?

Where you live?
I haven't heard any here. :shrug:

[papapi]

3. I live in central Virginia and I hear stuff every day that really disturbs me....

where do you live?

[Roon]

5. I live in Denver

I haven't seen anything in the RL.

[ogradda]

8. Tacoma.

I work in Seattle but Puget sound is pretty liberal and a lot of people really like Obama.

[Roon]

4. Just online

under the safety of anonymity in the chat rooms.

[TreasonousBastard]

6. It's gonna get worse-- Obama for Prez is bringing out...

the worst in a lot of people.