Day: July 7, 2009

Newbury Today report:  ‘Loner boasted of KKK connections’

— Newbury Today reports: “Man accused of plotting racist bombing campaign wanted to see black men lynched and skinned alive, jury hears”
— reports: “Neil Lewington, aged 43, told 27-year-old single mother Samantha Dale he wanted to hang a black man from a tree and skin him alive, it is claimed.”
— reports interview with Samantha Dale who states: “He said he was part of a group like the KKK and if he could go to the US he would become a proper member.”
— She added: ‘He was fed up of the black people, they took all the jobs and money. He said he wanted to hang a black man from a tree, skin him alive and set fire to him.'”
— report also states: “Mr Lewington also asked her if she had slept with a black man and told her that black and white people shouldn’t mix because ‘their babies came out deformed,’ the court was told.'”

South Carolina: ACC moves tourneys over Confederate flag dispute
— AP news reports: NAACP “has boycotted South Carolina for nearly a decade for flying and then displaying the Confederate flag on state capitol grounds”