[A-List] Obama enabling White Supremacists

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"On the high plains of Assembly of God country Missouri... In the deep 
Baptist South... MLK day is still referred to as "Dead Nigger Day"" 
--Travus T. Hipp, Cabale News Service


Obama bid boon for White Supremacists
from The Swamp by Mike Dorning

by Mike Dorning

Barack Obama's historic victory in the Democratic presidential campaign 
may have been widely interpreted as a sign the United States is 
overcoming racial divisions. But his candidacy also appears to be a boon 
for racist and white supremacist groups.

The Washington Post reports today 
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/21/AR2008062101471.html?sid=ST2008062200049>that 
neo-Nazi, skinhead, and segregationist groups say that visits to their 
web sites have surged since Obama clinched the Democratic presidential 
nomination on June 3. Civil rights groups that monitor racist activity 
on the web also have detected an increase as the possibility of a black 
president stirs concern among those with racist views, the paper reports.

The truth is, we're finding an explosion in these kinds of hateful 
sentiments on the Net, and it's a growing problem," said Deborah Lauter, 
civil rights director for the Anti-Defamation League, which monitors 
hate group activity. "There are probably thousands of Web sites that do 
this now. I couldn't even tell you how many are out there because it's 
growing so fast."

Neo-Nazi and white power groups acknowledge that they have little 
ability to derail Obama's candidacy, so instead some have decided to 
take advantage of its potential. White-power leaders who once feared 
Obama's campaign have come to regard it as a recruiting tool. The groups 
now portray his candidacy as a vehicle to disenfranchise whites and 
polarize America.

http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2008/06/obama_bid_boon_for_white_supre.html