Racist Attacks on Obama Growing More Heated
With the selection of Barack Obama as the first black Democratic nominee for president seeming more possible by the day, racists and white supremacists are posting increasingly ugly and even threatening remarks on the Internet.
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鈥淥BAMA WILL DIE, KKK FOREVER,鈥� concludes a by 鈥淩odney鈥� to a blog run by a person identified only as Strider333. Above that signoff, Rodney wrote: 鈥淭he KKK or someone WILL assassinate Obama! If we get a N----- President all you N-----鈥檚 [sic] will think you鈥檝e won and that the WHITE people will have to bow to you[.] F--- THAT.鈥�
On traditional white supremacist and neo-Nazi sites (for instance, and ), there are lengthy discussion threads about what would happen if Obama were elected president. Dozens of those posts are derogatory and employ all kinds of racist slurs. Others speculate that such an Obama victory would kick off a race war between whites and blacks. And some even raise the possibility that he could be assassinated. But talk like that is rare and extremely careful 鈥� probable evidence that the 鈥渨hite nationalists鈥� who inhabit these sites are deeply concerned that their comments are being monitored by law enforcement for any criminal threat relating to the presidential race. In fact, Obama reportedly received federal Secret Service protection unusually early in the campaign season because of concerns about a racially motivated attack.
The most heated anti-Obama talk appears to be on Internet sites that allow people to post messages anonymously. One such site, JD Underground, is a list ostensibly devoted to lawyers, although further details were not available. It has carried a particularly venomous thread, entitled that has stretched from January into this month.
鈥淚鈥檓 hoping someone will do his public duty of putting a bullet through Obama鈥檚 head,鈥� said a poster identified as 鈥淜ill Da N----.鈥� Another poster suggests 鈥渂ring[ing] back lynchings鈥� and concludes with a warning: 鈥淟OOK OUT N-----. THE KLAN IS GETTING BIGGER!!!!!!鈥� And a third, using the screen name 鈥渁merikkkan,鈥� says only, 鈥淭he deep south is making plans.鈥�
