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White supremacist backlash builds over Jena case

No sooner did tens of thousands of African-American demonstrators depart the racially tense town of Jena, La., last week after protesting perceived injustices than white supremacists flooded in behind them.

First a neo-Nazi Web site posted the names, addresses and phone numbers of some of the six black teenagers and their families at the center of the Jena 6 case and urged followers to find them and "drag them out of the house," prompting an investigation by the FBI.

Then the leader of a white supremacist group in Mississippi published interviews that he conducted with the mayor of Jena and the white teenager who was attacked and beaten, allegedly by the six black youths. In those interviews, the mayor, Murphy McMillin, praised efforts by pro-white groups to organize counterdemonstrations; the teenager, Justin Barker, urged white readers to "realize what is going on, speak up and speak their mind."

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...25,0,7139244,full.story?coll=chi_tab01_layout
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Fortunately . . . .

There really aren't a lot of these meadow muffins. Certainly not as a percentage of the population. Too many, yes, but still not a huge number.
 
Damocles said:
It's like peering back into the 50s and 60s.

I don't like it.
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Yeah, it's bad. I just read this very long piece in Vanity Fair about the Little Rock 9 yesterday too. It's chilling to think that's still out there. It seemed like the one girl's life, the one who is most famous for being in that photo with the white girl's twisted up face shouting hate at her, was pretty ruined. Like she never got over what happened to her, or how she was treated for in that school long after the cameras left.
 
What do you expect ? With all the hate and fear mongering of the Bush administration....Well fear and hatred once aroused is not easially channeled and focused....

We have become a lot more hate filled meaner, more selfish society.
 
Warren said:
Aha! I knew USC would show me how it was Bush's fault.
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Bush's rhetoric has been a major contributor. Not the only factor, but a major one.
As I stated earlier in the thread only fools thought that there is no rascism in this country.
But the small flame is being fanned....
 
uscitizen said:
What do you expect ? With all the hate and fear mongering of the Bush administration....Well fear and hatred once aroused is not easially channeled and focused....

We have become a lot more hate filled meaner, more selfish society.
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These people would be there without Bush being in office. Had Gore been in there, the RR would be blaming it on the "Culture of Death" or some other inanity. Its simply racism, blaming it on Bush is beneath you.
 
Cypress said:
Its definetly the fault of conservative, white southerners. This crap doesn't happen on the west coast. At least, not as blatant as this.


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It doesn't happen in CO either. The KKK get shouted down and embarrassed here. Mocked as clowns.
 
Cypress said:
Its definetly the fault of conservative, white southerners. This crap doesn't happen on the west coast. At least, not as blatant as this.


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I would say that both the racist whites and the black kids who think they're so tough they gotta fight 6v1 are responsible in equal measure.

Racism is not only a "white" problem.
 
uscitizen said:
Trying to deflect the blame Damo ? I expected no less.
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It is small to attempt to blame Decades and Decades of racism on one man because of your contempt for that man. I wouldn't try to do it to Clinton, but I'm sure somebody else may....

I could see it now... "This is a sign that Affirmative Action just perpetuates racsim..." blah, blah.

I find it a weakness to pretend that absolutely everything can be blamed on another or on one thing.
 
uscitizen said:
You are trying to twist what I said Damo.
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No, I'm not. You attempted to blame this clear racism, as if it would never have happened with another in the office, on Bush's rhetoric. I can read, you know.

It is weak to attempt to attach everything bad that happens no matter how weakly or remotely one's attempt might seem to be on the "Evil" one perceives in another. This problem is far deeper than Bush can or will be able to effect in his two terms.
 
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