News: Hate in America

Klan and black groups expected to go head to head at protests at South Carolina state capital
From www.rawstory.com - July 17, 2015
A Ku Klux Klan chapter and an African-American group plan overlapping demonstrations on Saturday outside the South Carolina State House, where state officials removed the Confederate battle flag last week.

The troubling reason why whites in some states may show more hidden racial bias - Washington Post (blog)
From www.washingtonpost.com - December 19, 2014
A new theory about why whites in the Southeast and East Coast (but not New England) show more bias than whites in other states

Poll expresses increased prejudice
Ball State Daily News
November 8, 2012.
More Americans are expressing prejudice against African Americans than they did during the last presidential election, a recent poll from The Associated Press reported.

Bullying: Bizarre backlash
Charleston Gazette
The Chicago Tribune says Illinois lawmakers pondered a bill to reduce school bullying, but evangelical opposition killed it. Democratic legislator Kelly Cassidy said: "What they want is an exception for bullying gay kids -- and that's just not ...

Shifting the Goal-Posts: How ‘Post-Racial America’ Ignores Its Racism
From aattp.org - December 13, 2014
Willful ignorance leads to comfort and conformity; any little thing that rocks the boat is met with the hostile resistance from all fronts.

WATCH: KKK supporter uses ‘gorilla’ taunts to mock black crowd during tense Confederate flag rally
From www.rawstory.com - July 17, 2015
After proclaiming that the Confederate flag isn’t a symbol of hate and vowing a peaceful protest against its removal, members of the Ku Klux Klan required a police escort to leave a rally in front of the South Carolina statehouse on Saturday.

Tennessee has a lot of hate groups - Nashville Sun Times

These Teens And 20-Somethings Are Organizing The Civil Rights Movement That Will Change Our Country
From www.mtv.com -December 19, 2014
'In this movement, we are all leaders,' one young activist tells MTV News.

Mapping racist Tweets in response to President Obama's re-election
The Guardian (blog)
November 9, 2012
Information space is not divorced from everyday life and racism extends into the geoweb and helps shapes its contours; and in turn, data from the geoweb can be used to reflect the geographies of racist practice back onto the places from which they emerged.

Where America's Racist Tweets Come From
The Atlantic
November 9, 2012
The day after Barack Obama won a second term as president of the United States, the blog Jezebel published a slideshow. The gallery displayed a collection of screen-capped tweets.

Twitter Racists React to 'That Nigger' Getting Reelected
By Tracie Egan Morrissey
Jezebel
In case you were hopeful that Obama winning a second term was some kind of indication that racism doesn't really exist anymore, check out Twitter. The amount of hate speech, referring to the president as a "nigger," a "monkey," calling for violence and for the south to "rise again" was depressing—and eye-opening. Here is incontrovertible proof (as if we needed it) that racism isn't just some imaginary talking point invented by liberals, but an actual problem. What's sadder is that many of these Tweeters seem to be in high school, who don't have the flimsy excuse of being raised in "another time."

South Carolina mayor shocked to discover state law bars him from desegregating war memorial
From www.rawstory.com - February 6, 2015
A South Carolina mayor has met strong opposition as he tries to desegregate a memorial honoring fallen troops who fought in World War I and II.

GOP Official Resigns After Saying Purpose Of Voter ID Is To Suppress Votes Of Democrats, ‘Lazy Blacks’
From thinkprogress.org - January 31, 2015
"If it hurts a bunch of college kids that's too lazy to get up off their bohunkus [sic] and get a photo ID, so be it," and "if it hurts a bunch of lazy blacks that wants the government to give them everything, so be it."

Anti-LGBT

Hate Group Doubles Down On Violent Rhetoric, Calling For Anti-Equality ...
ThinkProgress
November 10, 2o12
The Family Research Council's desperate reaction to this week's marriage equality victories continued yesterday with more violent rhetoric.

Christian writer warns gay marriage is only the beginning for ‘tenacious sodomite tools of the devil’
From www.rawstory.com - February 6, 2015
An editor for anti-gay Christian website claims that “tenacious sodomite tools of the devil” are working overtime promoting same sex marriage in the U.S. with the goal of creating a “Sodom West”, according to Right Wing Watch.

Human Rights Chairman: ‘I Do Not Construe Homosexual Rights As Human Rights’
From samuel-warde.com - February 3, 2015
In keeping with their policy of putting foxes in charge of hen houses (e.g.

Christian Pastor: “I’m Not Gonna Let Any of These Dirty Faggots Inside My Church”
From www.patheos.com - December 15, 2014
Another child of God has called for gay people to be put to death.

'Why Nancy Reagan turned down Rock Hudson's plea for help before he died'
From holybulliesandheadlessmonsters.blogspot.com -February 3, 2015
Analyzing and refuting the inaccuracies lodged against the LGBT community by religious conservative organizations. Lies in the name of God are still lies.

Anti-Muslim

Muslim-hating Mexican-flag-stealer delivers bizarre anti-tyranny prayer to the Tenn. Senate
From www.rawstory.com - February 6, 2015
June Griffin, the pastor of the American Bible Protestant Church, gave what can only be charitably described as a bizarre opening benediction before the Tennessee State Senate, the Times Free Press reports.

Texas Lawmaker Decides Muslim Americans Must Now Swear Allegiance to United States | Nomadic Politics
From nomadicpolitics.blogspot.com.tr - February 1, 2015
One legislator's policy discriminating against Muslim Americans raises questions about what religious liberty actually means in Texas.

US airline accused of mistreating Muslim family
From stream.aljazeera.com - February 5, 2015
Delta under fire for alleged discrimination.

Horrific Hate Crime: 15-year-old Boy Killed in Front of Missouri Mosque
From www.alternet.org - December 5, 2014
An SUV rammed him, it appears quite deliberately.