Category: Racial Supremacism

South Africa: Apartheid leader Eugene Terre’Blanche returns to politics
— Daily Telegraph reports: “Eugene Terre’Blanche, the once-feared white supremacist leader of apartheid South Africa, has returned to politics, pledging to revitalise the Nazi-style Afrikaner Resistance Movement (AWB).”

Wisconsin: Waukesha Teens Appear In Court For Hate Crime
— ABC reports: “Police said Kurtis Hickey, Dylan Barnett, and Thor Eggum burned a swastika and the letters KKK into a Waukesha basketball court.”
— “Police said the three didn’t like African Americans playing on the courts.”
— TMJ Channel 4 reports: “Three Teens Charged with Racist Vandalism in Waukesha”
— “Kurtis Hickey, Dylan Barnett and Thor Eggum all faced a judge on the same criminal charge.”
— “Police say in the criminal complaint that Hickey started the fire ‘due to his hate for blacks.'”
— “He goes on to say he knew the ‘KKK’ and swastika would ‘bring about a bad feeling when black people saw these symbols.'”
— “The complaint also reveals that Hickey and Eggum admitted to being racist.”

Georgia: Billboard outside Georgia restaurant uses N-word to deride Obama health care policy plan
— Bar owner says his signs are free speech, not racism

Florida: Public Bus Vandalized With Racial Slur
— First Coast News reports on St. Johns County:
— “Bright yellow paint covered the entire side of one of the Sunshine Bus program’s vehicles: ‘KKK. No ******* aloud” (sic).'”

(Oregon) Portland neo-Nazi indicted in mailing of noose to Ohio NAACP officer
— The Oregonian reports:
— “A Portland-based organizer for a national neo-Nazi group was brought before a federal judge in shackles Thursday, accused of mailing a hangman’s noose to the president of an Ohio chapter of the NAACP.”
— “Daniel Lee Jones, the 33-year-old regional director of the American National Socialist Workers Party, was in court to make his first appearance on two criminal civil rights charges.”

Connecticut: Racist e-mail forwarded by school board member should be condemned in strongest possible terms

California: White supremacist was leader of death squad, says prosecution
— Orange County Register reports: “An Orange County prosecutor told a jury Wednesday that a heavily tattooed white supremacist was the leader of a death squad who executed a gang member for violating gang code by divulging secrets in a television interview.”
— “Deputy District Attorney Ebrahim Baytieh said defendant Billy Joe Johnson, 46, showed a ‘complete and utter disregard for human life’ when he led Scott Miller, one of the founders of the Public Enemy Number One gang, to his death in an Anaheim alley on March 8, 2002.”

Vermont: Yankee Secessionist Back in Cahoots with Neo-Confederates

Missouri: College Student’s Arrest Leads To Racism Claims — Video of “KKK Cards Handed Out”
— WREG reports on case of Heather Ellis:
— “The Missouri case started in 2007 with Heather Ellis allegedly cutting in line at a Wal-Mart and creating a disturbance at the store. It ends with her facing up to 15 years in prison for assaulting police officers. Her family says she was the one assaulted. So, in June, minutes before a scheduled protest march started, a Kennett police officer paid a visit to their homes and handed them cards.”
— “‘I held it up and looked at it and of course I was startled by it and I said it’s not going to change anything. I’m still going to march,’ said Ellis’ aunt, Mildred Whitehorn.”
— “The brown cards with red writing said you’ve just been paid a social visit by the Ku Klux Klan. The next visit will not be social.”