Local Newspapers Cover Rising Number of Racist Anti-Obama Actions in Small Towns
many local newspapers around the country have covered recent incidents of racially motivated reactions to last week's election, from flags hung upside-down to the dangling of nooses and cross burnings. As we noted last week, a couple in northern New Jersey who had an Obama sign on their front lawn woke up to find the charred remains of a cross. Local residents today announced a "unity march" to protest the still-unsolved incident. Full Story »
Posted by Kaizar Campwala
While it would have been great for the world to wake-up holding hands and singing "we are the World", just because a Black man is President does not solve the racial problem in this world any more than it could solve the immigration problem, mortgage problem, or terrorism. We got serious problems in this country and reporting on stupid pranks by a bunch of pucks ain't changing shit.