Toban Black

(Photo by Albus Cavus)

Rainbows

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Anthony DiMaggio in CounterPunch -
“Transcending Race?”
“Obama’s Victory and the ‘End’ of Racism”

Lisa at the “Sociological Images” blog -
“CNN Pundit: Obama won, therefore racism is no longer a problem”

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The end of Ku Klux Klan racism -

[via Bastard Logic]

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Judith Siers-Poisson in CounterPunch -
“How Far Have We Really Come From the ‘One-Drop Rule’?”

( “Does framing [Obama] as America’s ‘first Black president’ show that we have not come nearly as far as we’d like to think? …”)

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(Photo by Mark Drewe)

Ghetto Obama

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A “YES WE CAN” t-shirt with ‘black’ clothing (and cowboy clothing)
in a storefront in London, Ontario, Canada

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As for the more aggressive racists in and around the KKK -

Barry Nolan (in this article)
has offered some indications of where they stand -

“A new [American] civil war, an actual shooting war, is just what some people seem to be trying to gin up these days. There has been an alarming spike in [racist crimes] and hate crimes:

The election of America’s first black president has triggered more than 200 hate-related incidents, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center – a record in modern presidential elections. Moreover, the white nationalist movement, bemoaning an election that confirmed voters’ comfort with a multiracial demography, expects Mr. Obama’s election to be a potent recruiting tool – one that watchdog groups warn could give new impetus to a mostly defanged fringe element. -The Christian Science Monitor - 11/17/08

There has been a huge spike in gun sales:

The FBI reported that, during election week, instant background checks in the U.S., an indicator of firearms sales, shot up 49 percent over the same week in 2007. This was during the most severe economic crunch in decades. From Nov. 3 to 9, the FBI logged nearly 375,000 instant checks. -The Arizona Republic - 10/18/08

And there has been a general undercurrent of threat, a deliberate stirring up of hatred and the embrace of a kind of violent imagery that has not been seen in this country since the election cycle that brought Abraham Lincoln to office. Some cases in point:

In a Maine convenience store, a sign invited customers to join a betting pool on when Barack Obama will be assassinated. For just $1 you could enter ‘The Osama Obama Shotgun Pool,’ the proceeds going to whoever picked the date closest to when Obama was attacked. The sign added: ‘Let’s hope we have a winner.’ Papers in Maine have also reported on three separate effigies of black men found hanging from trees.

In Idaho, land of militias, a sign posted on a tree with Obama’s name and the offer of a ‘free public hanging.’

In Tennessee, two skinheads were charged with plotting to travel across the country, beheading blacks as they made their way to assassinate Obama, while wearing white top hats and tuxedos.

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