Category: Racial Supremacism

Mississippi: “Election signs defaced”
— The Natchez Democrat reports:
— “NATCHEZ — Adams County sheriff candidate Ray Brown got a call he wasn’t expecting Sunday morning”
— “The sign, bearing Brown’s picture, had been painted with a target over Brown’s forehead and the racial epitaphs ‘n—-r’ and ‘KKK’ painted below that.”

— AP report:
— Adams Co. candidate says sign defaced with racial slur and letters ‘KKK’

New York: Cortlandt cross-burner back in jail
— The Journal News reports: “A convicted cross-burner from Cortlandt was sent back to jail Tuesday for violating his probation, and authorities are checking suspected ties to white supremacists and other hate groups.”
— “Westchester prosecutors said 21-year-old Christopher Hudak, who burned a cross at the home of a Cortlandt family in 2007, posted such ‘vile and dangerous’ messages on the Internet that he was considered a security threat when President Barack Obama visited New York City last month.”
— Cortlandt cross burner back in jail; linked by authorities to hate groups

West Virginia: Investigate Racism in Area

Connecticut: Manchester Community College Reacts To ‘Racially Motivated’ Incidents

Illinois: White supremacists to rally in Illinois town over bus attack
— McClatchy: “The protest has been promoted on several supremacist Web sites, including the National Socialist Movement and Stormfront.org”

— BND reports:
— “The event is ‘to protest the racial double standard with hate crimes. If it had been white kids doing the beating they would have been charged with a hate crime,’ stated a link on Stormfront.org, which boasts the slogan ‘White pride world wide.'”
— “On the National Socialist Movement Web site, Cpl. Jason Bonn writes, ‘People in this town are rightfully angry at the double standard that we know how this would be working if the races were reversed.'”
— “Protesters will march outside the state’s attorney’s office, which is inside the courthouse, because they’re asking for hate crime charges to be filed, Bonn wrote.”
— “He continued, ‘This event is open to all concerned citizens and white nationalists regardless of affiliation.’

Hometown Annapolis reports:
2 teens charged with hate crime — Spray painted KKK on Shady Side church bus
— “Two 15-year-old boys perpetrated a hate crime last week on a predominately black church in Shady Side, county police said yesterday.”
— “The boys, who police did not identify, confessed this week that they broke into a bus Sept. 10 parked outside St. Matthew’s United Methodist Church and spray painted the letters “KKK” the acronymn for the Ku Klux Klan, on a back window, police said.”
— “After consulting with prosecutors, police on Wednesday then charged each boy with one count each of destruction of property and hate crime.
— “Several county and community leaders yesterday denounced the boy’s alleged activities, saying the teens apparent bias against African American’s is not indicative of how the rest of the county’s residents feel.”

U.S. Media Report on Talk Show Host Comments Regarding Bus Racial Segregation
— FOX News reports: “Limbaugh: Buses Should Be Segregated”
— reports: “Conservative radio show host Rush Limbaugh is getting heat after he said on his show on Wednesday that buses should be racially segregated.”
— FOX also reported that “Aaronk on ThinkProgress.org passed off Limbaugh’s comments as Rush being Rush . ‘I can’t stand Rush, but I just listened to this clip, and please tell me that you guys realize he is being sarcastic right?'”
— Full source document — states that comments were a “sarcastic riff”
— Alabama press reports
— Salt Lake City Headlines Examiner report