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Election spurs 'hundreds' of race threats, crimes

Cross burnings. Schoolchildren chanting "Assassinate Obama." Black figures hung from nooses. Racial epithets scrawled on... more

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Hate Crimes Spike Since Obama Win

Atlanta – In rural Georgia, a group of high-schoolers gets a visit from the Secret Service after posting... more

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PHOTOS: March Against Racism

Over 300 people march in Hardwick New Jersey to support Gary Grewal and his family, supporters of Barack Obama who were the... more

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Aryan Nations - official site

This is one of the groups the FBI, CIA, and Secret Service are investigating; just look at this web page and you'll know why.... more

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"Free Public Hanging of Obama" Sign in Idaho

The U.S. Secret Service has been asked to look into a sign suggesting a "free public hanging" of President-elect Barack... more

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Teen beaten by Klan members awarded $2.5 million

A Kentucky teenager was awarded $2.5 million in damages after he was beaten by member of the Ku Klux Klan. The KKK targeted Jorden... more

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Jury awards $2.5 million to teen beaten by Klan members

A jury awarded $2.5 million in damages on Friday to a Kentucky teenager who was severely beaten by members of a Ku Klux Klan group... more

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Oxford students in 'bring a fit Jew' party controversy

Members of the under-21 rugby team at Oxford University were asked to attend a "bring a fit Jew party" where they were... more

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Texas school students wear black to protest Obama victory

In a Ft.Worth,Texas suburb students wore black to "mourn the death of capitalism." The protest was organized by the... more

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Idaho sign advertises Obama 'public hanging'

We may have to keep Guantanamo Bay open so maybe the racists will finally have their own island. A sign erected by a northern... more

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Facebook pulls neo-Nazi pages

I am not for Neo-Nazis for obvious reasons but this is censorship.

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Expats in Spain 'may face anger'

British expats in Spain have been warned that they could face the sort of attacks Polish people have been experiencing in the UK... more

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Rising hate crime a national shame

One of the many healthy aftereffects of President-elect Barack Obama's victory was to turn the term racism into an instant... more

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Anti-Obama racial incidents reported in several cities

Not everyone is happy about Barack Obama's election last week as president. In several places across the country, reports have come in of racially motivated incidents since election day.

In Raleigh, North Carolina, four students spray-painted anti-Obama messages across campus, including one that used a racial slur and suggested assassinating the president-elect. The NAACP called for the students to be suspended and brought to justice, but the school says the students won't face charges because the writing wasn't a hate crime since it was written on a wall where free speech is encouraged.

At Baylor University in Texas, a noose was found hanging from a tree outside a campus building shortly after Obama won the election Nov. 4. Later that same night, black and white students "exchanged words" outside a dormitory but were reportedly dispersed by police before the incident turned physical, according to the Waco Tribune-Herald. Across campus, students reportedly burned Obama/Biden campaign signs, although school officials suggest the students were actually burning empty computer boxes, the paper reported.

And it's not just in the south.

On Long Island, New York, the Secret Service is investigating an incident in which more than two dozen vehicles were spray-painted with racist graffiti, including messages targeting Obama. One local resident says "kill Obama" was written on a vehicle, according to a news report.

At Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, racial slurs were reportedly directed to at least three black students in the week following Barack Obama's election.

"In separate incidents, two black students said they heard racial slurs yelled from cars," according to the Associated Press. "A third student reported being called an "ignorant black (expletive)" when she was talking to a friend about Obama's victory," according to AP.

Lehigh President Alice Gast sent a campus-wide e-mail saying she was "deeply saddened" by the reports. "Rather than celebrating a landmark event in American history, we are addressing hateful acts of racism and ignorance," she wrote. "This cannot be tolerated."

And in Torrance, California, vandals reportedly spray-painted swastikas and racial slurs on a house and several cars that displayed campaign signs or bumper stickers for Obama. At one house, the words "Go Back to Africa" were spray-painted across the wall, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Back in Long Island, one local resident offered advice for those trying to adjust to the news of the nation's first black president. "We have to unite together instead of putting hatred stuff on people's cars," said Hallock Nash, who was reportedly trying to remove the racist graffiti from his vintage cars. "It's not going to change anything," Nash told the local CBS News affiliate. "He's still going to be president."Not everyone is happy about Barack Obama's election last week as president. In several places across the country, reports... more

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Skinhead charged in Obama assassination plot claims there are too many African Americans on jury

One of two white supremacists charged with plotting to kill President-elect Barack Obama and dozens of other black people argued Thursday that a federal grand jury was racially stacked against him.

Daniel Cowart, 20, said his indictment should be dismissed.

A grand jury indicted Cowart and Paul Schlesselman, 18, on Nov. 5, charging them with plotting to kill Obama, possessing a sawed-off shotgun, carrying guns across state lines to commit crimes and planning to rob a licensed firearms dealer.

Cowart and Schlesselman are awaiting trial without bond at a northwest Tennessee jail, on lock down in a two-man cell and separated from other inmates for their own safety.

In his petition, Cowart said the grand jury had two white members, while "21 were African-American or of another race or races." The jury, he said, could not "under the most modest constitutional scrutiny ... be considered fair, impartial and unprejudiced."

Prosecutors declined comment.

Authorities describe Cowart and Schlesselman as white supremacist skinheads and accuse them of plotting a robbery and killing spree in which 88 black victims were to be slain.

The spree was to culminate, authorities say, in an attack on Obama -- with Cowart and Schlesselman decked out in white tuxedoes and firing guns from a speeding car.

No trial date has been set. Cowart and Schlesselman are expected to stand trial in the town of Jackson about 75 miles north of Memphis, since the crimes they are charged with allegedly occurred in that area.

"There had to be either a systematic exclusion of white people from that (grand jury) pool or there was some unexplained deviation in the composition of that pool by which you get two white people out of 23," Byrd said.

Byrd did not say how he knew the racial makeup of the grand jury. "That's the information I have," he said. "I'm not stereotyping anybody. What I'm saying is the law requires a fair cross section of the community and that didn't happen."

Byrd refused to discuss the charges against his client or his alleged affiliation with white supremacist groups.One of two white supremacists charged with plotting to kill President-elect Barack Obama and dozens of other black people argued... more

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Racism emerges as Europe reacts to Obama

In the days following Barack Obama's historic election as America's 44th — and first African-American —... more

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Rape victim, 13, stoned to death

A 13-year-old girl who said she had been raped has been stoned to death in Somalia after being accused of adultery by Islamic militants.

Dozens of men stoned Aisha Ibrahim Duhulow to death on October 27 in a stadium packed with 1,000 spectators in the southern port city of Kismayo, Amnesty International and Somali media reported, citing witnesses.

The Islamic militia in charge of Kismayo had accused her of adultery after she reported that three men had raped her, the rights group said.

Initial local media reports said Miss Duhulow was 23, but her father told Amnesty International she was 13. Some of the Somali journalists who first reported the killing later told Amnesty International that they had reported she was 23 based upon her physical appearance.

"This child suffered a horrendous death at the behest of the armed opposition groups who currently control Kismayo," David Copeman, Amnesty International's Somalia campaigner, said in a statement on Friday.

Somalia is among the world's most violent and impoverished countries. The nation of some eight million people has not had a functioning government since warlords overthrew a dictator in 1991 then turned on each other.

A quarter of Somali children die before age five; nearly every public institution has collapsed. Fighting is a daily occurrence, with violent deaths reported nearly every day.

Islamic militants with ties to al Qaida have been battling the government and its Ethiopian allies since their combined forces pushed the Islamists from the capital in December 2006. Within weeks of being driven out, the Islamists launched an insurgency that has killed thousands of civilians.

In recent months, the militants appear to be gaining strength. The group has taken over the port of Kismayo, Somalia's third-largest city, and dismantled pro-government roadblocks.

They also effectively closed the Mogadishu airport by threatening to attack any plane using it.

The rest of the world truly is a beautiful place. We should listen to them, take suggestions, apologize for having more, and by all means ensure that they are educated. NOT!!!!!!A 13-year-old girl who said she had been raped has been stoned to death in Somalia after being accused of adultery by Islamic... more