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Post-racial America - burning effigies and black churches

by: Pam Spaulding

Fri Nov 07, 2008 at 10:00:00 AM EST


Maine resident and Blender Dawn sent me links to two articles on incidents, one in Springfield, Massachusetts, the other in Mount Desert Isle, Maine, that should dispel any fantasies that the election of Barack Obama means that the bad old days of garden variety racism are no more, no matter how hard you wish for it.

First, the black church burning in Springfield.

A predominantly black church under construction in Springfield was destroyed by fire early yesterday, just hours after Barack Obama's landmark victory, triggering concerns that the building was purposely set ablaze in a possible hate crime.

...Church officials pledged to rebuild, but the concerns that their building was targeted dampened a mood that had been so uplifted in the night of Obama's historic win to become the nation's first black president-elect.

"This was a special time in our nation's history, but I also know not everybody was happy and celebrating," said Bishop Bryant J. Robinson Jr., head of the church. "After 71 years of being an African-American, you know these things happen."

The FBI and ATF have been called in to investigate with accelerant-sniffing dogs and they will be interviewing neighbors. It will be some time before a definitive cause can be determined.

The next case occurred in Dawn's town of Mount Desert Isle, and it's just plain stupid. It, along with Dawn's reaction, are below the fold.

Pam Spaulding :: Post-racial America - burning effigies and black churches
MDI News:
Election night here was marred by the discovery Wednesday morning of effigies depicting a black man found hanging from telephone lines in Tremont and Bar Harbor.

The cardboard effigies, which some officials believe are a response to the election of Barack Obama as president, were removed Wednesday morning. Maine State Police received a report at 12:30 a.m. Wednesday that a cutout figure of a black man was hanging from telephone lines near Seal Cove Pond in Tremont. Trooper Alden Bustard responded but was unable to remove the figure because it was too high off the ground. Fire chief Brad Reed agreed to use a fire truck to take the figure down.

In Bar Harbor, a similar cutout figure was found hanging from telephone lines near the intersection of Route 102 and the south end of the County Road. A Bar Harbor fire truck was used to remove the effigy.

Dawn doesn't mince words:
How nasty and petty and shallow and mean can people be? Well, I guess the depths of that reservoir have yet to be plumbed.

Less than two hours after America elected its first ever African American president, some knuckle-dragging, mouth-breathing, cousin-fucking asshole pulls something cute like this. Yessireebob, I bet the boys back at the bait shack are gonna have a real good hee-haw at that.

But what is particularly chilling is the fact that this brilliant piece of political commentary could not have been pulled out of a redneck's ass in the 90 minutes between when the networks called the race and when the first call to police came in about the cardboard black man in a noose. That means that Billbob, or whatever the fuck his name is, had to prepare for the event in advance, making the cutouts, painting them black, tying the nooses (they're not easy, I've done them) and figuring how much rope and weight would be necessary to get the thing in the air and sufficiently wrapped around the lines so as to be a pain in the ass to take down, all probably done very quickly and from the back of a pickup truck. I am sure it must have taxed our hero's little pea brain to calculate such things, and to make TWO of them, plus figure out where to put them.

I am sure the schoolchildren who rode past one of the effigies on the bus in the morning were proud of their neighbors for such a display. I bet the black kids especially thought it was clever and funny.

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My fear...
... is that it's only a matter of time before someone pulls an assassination attempt. It only takes one crazy M.F. and we have a whole frickin' asylum in this country.

The Secret Service has its work cut out for it.


"The Secret Service has its work cut out for it."
Like they don't with Bush? The least popular president in U.S. history?

People keep talking about the possibility of Obama being assassinated.

That's true for EVERY president!

Will some nutjobs plot to kill Obama? Certainly.

Bush has had two assassination attempts - on February 7, 2001 and again on May 10, 2005.

Then there's Ahmed Omar Abu Ali...

When you look for the bad in mankind, expecting to find it, you surely will.

- Abraham Lincoln.


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Well, a lot more secret service agents
are free to do their jobs, now that they no longer have to busy themselves keeping reporters away from McCain and Palin.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.  -Archbishop Desmond Tutu


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There's a HUGE difference, though...
Any president is at risk for assassination for the simple reason that there are attention-seeking crazies out there.

However, Obama is at a greater risk because there are the usual attention-seeking crazies--and then there are racist crazies who are absolutely infuriated at the thought of a minority running our country.

He's at risk of violence from people who would never dream of going after their fellow good ol' boy Bush.    


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yeah but...
"Like they don't with Bush? The least popular president in U.S. history?"

Yeah, but the tiny percent that love Bush are the nuts with the AK 47s under their beds.


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I can think of a third
Isn't the White House considered to have possibly been the target of the fourth plane on 9/11?

____________________________________
Cuius testiculos habes, habeas cardia et cerebellum.


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We won't hear of 99% of the attempts....
I once knew an Army Captain in Bomb Disposal, whose job was to defuse roadside bombs found along Presidential motorcade routes...this was in the Nixon Ford era...there were AT LEAST 20 of them found every time the Presidents visited our California area!!!   Just imagine with the development of newer tactics how many there are now...then double it because Obama is black. I truly did not think he would make it to the election...now, at least, we get Biden if 'something happens.'

It's the Hammer of JUSTICE,
It's the Bell of FREEDOM,
It's the Song about LOVE between,
my Brothers and my Sisters
...All over this Land.


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cross-burning in Newark
And this from Newark:
NEWARK (CBS) ?  Acts of racism have popped up in parts of the tri-state area since Barack Obama was elected president on Tuesday night.

In the latest, a family who had supported Obama's campaign emerged from their home in the northwestern New Jersey town of Hardwick Thursday morning to find the charred remnants of a 6-foot wooden cross on their front lawn.

Pieces of a homemade bed-sheet banner reading "President Obama -- Victory '08," which had been stolen from the yard the night before, also were found, leading investigators to believe the banner had been wrapped around the cross before it was set afire.

The news is also at philly.com.

Electricity's for light bulbs!


Call me crazy if you like,
  I don't like the effigies of Barack Obama being used, as I support and voted for him.  But I must say that I don't mind seeing the church burn.  I wish every church would be set a blaze.  But My motives would be different.  Mine would be to send a message that the freedoms you have to marry, you voted 70% for taking away peoples rights.

 So keep the churches burning.  But not only the black people's churches.  burn the rest of them too.  UP IN SMOKE!!!

If I make sense? it was quite by accident.


That's really classy....
This was in MASSACHUSETTS. For starters.

And even if it were a California church, you don't know that it wasn't a GLBT-supportive denomination or independent church.

Also, advocating violence and destruction is never a way to make friends and influence people. Hate begets hate.


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I'm almost with you HappyCat
But that is cuz we are in the ANGER stage of our grief. 83% of Californias 'frequent Church goers' voted for Prop H8.  86% of infrequent goers voted against. ...  I was pleased that only 64% of Catholics voted for it...but we have been making decisions independent from Papa Ratzi ever since the birth control debacle.

I still think all we need to do is to support and defend all the CLOSET GAYS in these churches...remember at a minimum 10% of all the congregations ARE GAY!  Make these people see that they need to: 

Be Careful of who you H8...It Could be Somebody you LOVE.

It's the Hammer of JUSTICE,
It's the Bell of FREEDOM,
It's the Song about LOVE between,
my Brothers and my Sisters
...All over this Land.


[ Parent ]
Okay
I'm a Buddhist, not a Christian, but I don't think that matters to the anti-religious crowd.  I am sick and tired of the left expecting me to choose between my faith and being gay.  I am sick of the faith-bashing (whether we're talking about my religion or someone else's), subtle or not.  I've decided to no longer be silent when people make snide remarks about religion or religious people whose only apparent crime is that they are religious.  The right would love for me to be in the closet with regard to being gay, but the left wants me to be in the closet about being a person of faith.  Well, you can both kiss my hairy white ass.

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I have no desire to keep you in the closet,
  I am a person of faith.  I am not talking about burning every church, I wasn't clear on that,  Just the ones that take time and effort to stick their nose into my business.  Being gay and a person of faith is fine by me.

 I am sick of the ones that knock on my door and leaves notes on my vehicle. If I want to join a church, that is my choice.  If some one asks me to join them I will politely decline.  I want to have my faith and you to have yours.  I wont tell you that you are wrong because you don't believe the same way I do.

 Sorry, I don't like hairy asses.

If I make sense? it was quite by accident.


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I'm Not Surprised
Some people will never change. Hate and bigotry can be passed from generation to generation.  

Wrong verb Kesnit.
Hate and bigotry ARE passed from generation to generation.

It's the Hammer of JUSTICE,
It's the Bell of FREEDOM,
It's the Song about LOVE between,
my Brothers and my Sisters
...All over this Land.


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I Almost Phrased It That Way
But there are some who break away from the brainwashing and do not carry on the hate. I didn't want to make it sound like I think the children of hateful bigots always become hateful bigots. They frequently do, but not always.

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Rodgers And Hammerstein's South Pacific
You've got to be taught
To hate and fear,
You've got to be taught
From year to year,
It's got to be drummed
In your dear little ear
You've got to be carefully taught.

You've got to be taught to be afraid
Of people whose eyes are oddly made,
And people whose skin is a diff'rent shade,
You've got to be carefully taught.

You've got to be taught before it's too late,
Before you are six or seven or eight,
To hate all the people your relatives hate,
You've got to be carefully taught


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Hey Dawn
Guess who is NOT covering this: The Bangor Daily News.

Not a PEEP. And as of last night, I didn;t read anything about this on the websites for WCSH, WMTW, or WGME either. Gonna go look now to see if there's an update...

"It goes on one at a time, it starts when you care to act, it starts when you do it again after they said no, it starts when you say We and know who you mean, and each day you mean one more."


F/U
Nope- not a word (kinda what I expected).  But WCSH did have 2 interesting stories- one about WSJ's listing both Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins as potential cabinet picks. If that were to happen, Gov. Baldacci could give the Senate a Democrat to replace... (not likely that either would accept).

The second story here regarding SSM in Maine:

http://www.wcsh6.com/news/loca...

"It goes on one at a time, it starts when you care to act, it starts when you do it again after they said no, it starts when you say We and know who you mean, and each day you mean one more."


[ Parent ]
Expect something in the BDN Saturday
A blog buddy of mine is a BDN staffer. My bet is she took the clip, wrapped it around a brick and heaved it at an editor somewhere to drive the point home. Our local BDN guy is not the biggest go-getter to ever carry a reporter's notebook, plus he covers a HUGE area. Not to make excuses, but I bet he slept through the scanner traffic.

As for Snowe and Collins, I think either would be OK as Secretary of Something Obscure, but neither will allow Baldacci to appoint Tom Allen as their replacement. Look for Allen to get a plum job in the administration as well as reward for throwing himself on his sword to fight Collins. SBA for New England, maybe? That's what Pat McGowan got from the Clinton administration for challenging Olympia!


[ Parent ]
This was always in the cards
Obama's election threatens the world view of neo nazis, KKKers and racists, those that feel they were left out in life due to affirmative action, etc.

They will react in violent ways... get ready for more .. really

with McCain and Palin blowing dog whistles and stoking the fire, it's only made matters worse.  And my feeling is John needs to do a lot of work reversing what he did before he'll EVER gain his honor back in my eyes.

It's going to get worse before it get's better.


Wow...
McCain/Palin/Fox were wrong about something else.  There are Real AmericansTM up north...

My America includes LGBT families.

To HappyCat
That is a despicable comment. Anger is understandable (I am angry, too), but this is unacceptable. And I am angry nobody here has called him out on it (yet). Damn!

Hello!
I thought that's what I did.

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Oops!
Sorry, lyonside.  Missed your post; I was so angry by HappyCat's. Thanks for it.

Sorry if I made you angry,
  I was stating a feeling, and yes I am angry.  I do have a personal Ax to grind when it comes to certain churches.  And I was so glad to see Tom Feeney, A republican, that lost his election by big numbers is part of that church in Florida.

 I understand that there are churches and groups of religion that support LGBT rights.  And I do in fact paint with a wide brush and I should not.  My experience with organized religion has not been the best.  As a post-op trans-woman, and them idiots of my ex-wifes coming up to my two daughters telling them they will go to hell for loving me, it got personal.

 Again, sorry if I angered anyone.

If I make sense? it was quite by accident.


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