Obama's election spurs hate surge

More accurate headline: "Obama election spurs reporters to quote hate-groups who specialize in crying racism and who get their funding from stirring up such fears."

Frank,
Thanks for running this story. It's been festering now for a while. Time to put some harsh UV light on the slimy fungus around the edges of our society.

Thanks for posting. Greens and lefties are also in the sights too.
And that ain't funny.

Chicago police were the perps in the Austin neighbrohood on election night.

Yes, thanks SWAMP for doing this story. I was surprised to read the wire story about this a few weeks ago and not see it here. If we do not expose the ugly underbelly of this nation, we will never make any progress. We can not keep sweeping this nations mistakes and ugliness under the rug. I particularly like exposing the “great christian south” and how they still can not shake their racism. I used to live down there and saw how rampant it was down there, but it still up in the North too. Thanks again SWAMP.

Put them in jail. Isn't it against the law to send these death threats? People who make death threats should be hunted down and jailed. They are criminals.

Posted by: Xcellentform | November 23, 2008 12:52 PM
.
When has this been "swept under the rug"? Not in my lifetime, and from the Kennedy thread, I know I'm older than you are.

The Republican base, Joe Six pack the bigot. Not surprising at all.

The anger and bigotry has surfaced in some peculiar places. A friend of mine placed some Obama themed Christmas cards for sale on Craig's List and received numerous racial diatribes in response. Heres one of the "milder" ones...

"What kind of freak are you? Christmas is about Jesus, the Messiah! Not about the president-elect! If I received this card I would never again speak to the person who sent it to me. Please do everyone a favor and keep your bliss to yourself and focus on the reason for this holiday season: the love of our Saviour and the blessings of family and friends. There are more appropriate ways to show your enthusiasm for this fraud. You should be embarrassed and ashamed of yourself!"

I was a bit surprised at the responses although I am clear that racism is not dead in America. But the vitriol that has found it's way into even a sales forum was a bit much. This kind of hatred was coming to the surface in the late Palin rallies and still resides in a substantial minority of Americans. The operative word here, however, is "minority". I hope and believe that the majority of us have moved past this racism.

Didn't hate groups have a spike in membership after Bill Clinton was elected, too? More Swamp silliness of trying to make something worse than it is. Scumbag racists don't care what the color is of the President is, just so long as it's not a Democrat. Stop trying to fan the racism, Swamp.

Anyone else hear about those poor Rexburg, ID kids chanting, 'assassinate Obama!' on the school bus?

I pity the kids, but blame the parents.

When Kennedy was killed there was dancing in the steets, and bars, in certain quarters of America.

Sad but true.

This is all swept under the carpet because it doesn't fit the American 'story line', which is in reality, an apology to a prosecuting attorney.

I'm going to go out on a limb here and list the top three greatest unresolved sins of America;

1. Treatment of native Americans
2. Slavery
3. Vietnam (We still ain't dealt with it)

Coming up next; Iraq.

"When Kennedy was killed there was dancing in the steets, and bars, in certain quarters of America."
Posted by: C.Morris | November 23, 2008 7:34 PM
.
I'd be really bummed out if that were actually true. Glad it's not.

"When Kennedy was killed there was dancing in the steets, and bars, in certain quarters of America."
Posted by: C.Morris | November 23, 2008 7:34 PM

There may have been a few grumpy "good riddance" right-wingers out there, but they're not the type to dance in the street. They have no rhythm.

MJ’s day of epiphany came today when he realized that he has been outwitted by a younger body but an older soul. Of course that crap has/ is being swept under the rug! How many times have we heard since Obama’s victory that this is the end of a bad period in our history, or something to that effect? I think you need to be fixing your party’s problem of hate, rather than worry about correcting my posts.

C. Morris, you couldn't be more correct!

This was blocked this morning for no apparent reason, so I'll try my luck again:
.
For my entire life I've heard about racial violence; lynchings; cross burnings; vandalism; riots. I've heard about groups like the Klan, The Aryan Nation and others.
.
So how could I know these things -- hear them reported constantly since I was a little boy -- if racial strife "has been swept under the rug"?
.
"How many times have we heard since Obama’s victory that this is the end of a bad period in our history...? Try "never".
.
All of the commentary I've heard is that this is an historic milestone, and that it marks a new beginning... NOT the end of our racial problems.

This was blocked this morning for no apparent reason, so I'll try my luck again:
.
For my entire life I've heard about racial violence; lynchings; cross burnings; vandalism; riots. I've heard about groups like the Klan, The Aryan Nation and others.
.
So how could I know these things -- hear them reported constantly since I was a little boy -- if racial strife "has been swept under the rug"?
.
"How many times have we heard since Obama’s victory that this is the end of a bad period in our history...? Try "never".
.
All of the commentary I've heard is that this is an historic milestone, and that it marks a new beginning... NOT the end of our racial problems.

Posted by: jasperjava | November 24, 2008 1:47 AM

Sorry, but not only did JFK's death spark praise from certain quarters, but ditto RFK and MLK deaths.

I actually heard it, in person, and you didn't have to go to Deliverance Land.
Right there in Chicago, NYC, Boston, the words were uttered.

I heard it all again a few years later in the army.

Sad but true.

It is really great that Barack Obama beat Hillary Clinton (victory as the Democratic presidential nominee). And then it is really great that Barack Obama beat John McCain (victory as the 44th President of the United States). McCain would only have continued the same failed policies of George W. Bush—the worst president in U.S. history.

However, surely George W. Bush, who hates black people, secretly must have been deeply saddened, disappointed, and angry relative to Barack Obama’s victory and Obama being America’s first black president.

Submitted by Andrew Yu-Jen Wang
B.S., Summa Cum Laude, 1996
Messiah College, Grantham, PA
Lower Merion High School, Ardmore, PA, 1993

Sad but true.
Posted by: C.Morris | November 24, 2008 9:06 PM
-----------------------------
And I heard the same things, in person, when Reagan was shot. Also sad, also true. But that's not quite "dancing in the streets" is it? Haters come in all stripes as you can see if you read this blog regularly.

They are being encouraged by Limpaw and InsanHannity, spewing their usual crap......Calling all incipient Tim McVeighs.

Obviously I used the term 'dancing in the streets' as a rhetorical expression to describe the mood of some.

Why do you Guys refer to Obama as AFRICAN American?..Was he not born in USA?..and if he wasn't how long was he in the US?..why do you say AFRICAN?...do i say I am GERMAN American?..or mabe IRish American?...Is not being American enough?..you need additives..why may I ask do you do this?..If he was born in the Us..then he's American..Not African..do You get the logic?..unless there is some underlying message..which in any case is misleading..You should refer to him as where he was born....Thats where hate begins,.by separating people..and making one people seem more important than anouther!...Get your stuff together!