Parents in one Virginia neighborhood were outraged on Sunday after their annual Easter egg hunt tradition was upset by white supremacists who had secretly hidden eggs with racist messages for the children to find.
West End parents Brandon and Jackie Smith told WRIC that they discovered the offensive eggs while having an Easter Egg hunt with their 3-year-old son on Sunday afternoon.
“My husband noticed the last Easter egg and I knew it wasn’t one that we put out,” Jackie Smith recalled. “We opened it and it’s got the white supremacist stuff in it.”
Other neighbors also found hate-filled eggs in their yard with messages that said “Diversity = White Genocide” and “Mass immigration and forced assimilation of non-whites into our lands is genocide.”
The notes pointed to the websites WhiteManMarch.com and WhiteGenocideProject.com, a reference to a so-called “worldwide” protest in March that reportedly ended with a very small turnout.
“We don’t want other kids around here who can read being like, ‘Hey mommy what’s the million man white march or what’s the genocide project?’ Most of us don’t want to explain genocide to our 6-year-olds,” Jackie Smith explained.
You know I never did trust that Easter Bunny.
He always looked so shifty.
Of course not all hate groups are being all hate-y.
For instance the KKK in Pennsylvania has volunteered to help out by starting a neighborhood watch:
The groups claims that they will treat not be targeting any specific ethnicity.
You know just the ones with brown skin who look like they don't belong around those parts.
Well the conservatives have been saying for decades that they wanted to bring America back to its traditional values, and it looks like they are getting their way. The traditional values of racism, oppression, vigilantism.
Just looking at the Feedjit and there are visitors from Melbourne, Sydney and Perth within a couple of minutes.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6AiM-dfe7M
Rebels without a clue.
ReplyDeleteThe Klan has been distributing recruitment propaganda in the Richmond VA area since Jan.
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"The funny thing is the same neighborhoods where you're saying there are people who don't want the flier are neighborhoods where our members live," said [Grand Wizard] Ancona. "And neighborhoods where people are sympathetic to our cause and are glad to hear from us. We get emails from people encouraging us...thanking us for the information."
Ancona says his organization is not a hate group.
"We want to keep our race the White race," said Ancona. "We want to stay White. It's not a hateful thing to want to maintain White Supremacy."
http://www.nbc12.com/story/25034656/kkk-leader-we-dont-hate-people-because-of-their-race
Years ago, my son took a job at a big box office supply store in the suburbs of Philadelphia. In walks these four well dressed men with a huge copy job to be done. It was similar to the second photo. My son, then in high school, went to his manager who told him to go ahead and print them, they have a right to free speech, and they're paying good money for card stock.
ReplyDeleteMy son set up the machine, showed a copy to the men and asked if they wanted any changes.... they said "no", and he finished the job.
Apparently, dressing in suits and ties doesn't raise one's iq. They got the KKK part right, but spelling errors made it almost comical. "Clue Clucks Clane" and "wite powder" were the ones I still remember.
Unfortunately, they're in every state in the union.
Next year, lets all put camouflage eggs out on the lawn. No kid should be exposed to this level of hate.
Would the KKK allow Todd Palin to join? Is Todd impure?
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...When the filmmaker's parents moved to a place where her father had a long solo commute to work and started listening to Talk Radio to alleviate the boredom, her family saw him change from a non-political Democrat to a radicalized, angry Right-Wing Republican. What happened to Dad?
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/is-there-a-fox-effect
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/more-on-the-fox-effect
I was brought up in a very multi-ethnic working class community where nearly everyone was more or less on the same socio-economic level. I ran around with white, black, Hispanic and Indian kids. We were all always in and out of each other’s houses and all of our parents got along very well. This was the 1970s.
My parents were strongly progressive, pro-integration and not at all racist as far as I could tell. I recall one time my father laid into me because I described a kid I'd had a fight with at school as a "beaner". Racial epithets were not allowed in our house. Jimmy Carter, Kennedy, LBJ and FDR were the political heroes in our house.
Leap forward to the early 1990s and my father starts listening to Rush for some reason. By the late 90s he was fully ensconced in the Fox world and ha remained there since.
The old man, now 70, sits around talking about 'niggers' and 'beaners', 'wetbacks', 'ragheads', 'kikes' and so on in the most hateful and disgusting way. He blames all of our nation's ills on minorities as well as diseases like menegitis and for the nation's moral decay. He has a bunker mentality as if a mob of angry brown people are going to show up at his door any moment. He also hates women, unions, gays and everyone else. The hate and fear that seethe from that man is stunning.
It is a shocking - and to be honest - very painful thing to see your father go from a tolerant welcoming man to an angry, hateful racist. I have no doubt at all that Fox and Rush had a massive impact on him and his attitude towards other people. I watched it happen.
Fox is powerful.
I've witnessed similar things in my own family. It's very distressing!
DeleteNoam Chomsky helps explain the ‘Fox Effect’ in upcoming film ‘Brainwashing of my Dad’
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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/more-on-the-fox-effect-part-1
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I have to say, I've seen a noticeable shift in my parents' views over the years as they've fallen deeper and deeper into Fox's grip. Although much more so for my mother than my father. (In fact, virtually every time we talk on the phone, I hear Fox droning on in the background. And when I am home visiting, I make it point to put Fox on mute.)
The vitriol that comes out of her mouth, the seething rage at "illegals," "Section 8," and all the other "low life" who, with the government's blessing, are taking away everything that she spent her life working for, is stunning. I don't remember her being that angry when I was growing up. It's really been in the last ten years or so that it's come on strong, and when Fox has become a virtual addiction.
What makes it worse, though, is the sheer amount of misinformation that she has bought into, along with her adoption of Fox's reflexive disdain of facts that counter the desired narrative (E.g., death panels, Bill O'Reilly has never divorced). My mother is a smart woman; she taught high school English for 35 years. It pains me to see her this way; it's simply not healthy to carry around that much simmering anger and paranoia.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/more-on-the-fox-effect-part-3
But back to the Fox News Effect, my mother has always been a huge Oprah fan, I think pretty much since she saw the movie “The Color Purple”. She read a lot of her book recommendations and would watch her show religiously. So I was shocked last week when I mentioned something about Oprah and she said flatly “I don’t like her”.
After a moment, I realized that this must have come about from the trashing of Oprah from Fox News because of her endorsement of Obama in the 2008 election. I tried to press her on the issue asking why but she wouldn’t go into detail other than “I don’t care for her anymore”.
It is like she thought Oprah had betrayed her. And that is when I came to the exact same conclusion as your previous commenter. Fox News is absolutely toxic. You take an older generation that grew up watching the new as the be all end all source of information and truth, and now inject the “entertainment” factor of slick talking hosts with a political agenda, and you wind up with people like my mother who can inexplicably turn against someone they have respected and adored for 30 years simply because of the hatred and bile presented on Fox News is taken at face value. It seems the only purpose of the Channel is to drive people to fear and hate that which they don’t know. I wish it weren’t so and I only hope that the trends of younger generations being more tolerant will continue to grow.
More on the Fox Effect, Part 4
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Fox’s Sean Hannity aired a special broadcast Friday night featuring interviews he has done with Christian leaders over the years. While the special was #1 in total viewers for Fox, it came in last place in the 25-54 demo behind HLN, CNN and MSNBC.
ReplyDeleteHannity’s show drew just 149K viewers in the demo.
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/friday-cable-ratings-hannity-special-comes-in-4th-in-demo-at-10pm/
Bill Nye, Ken Ham Both Declare Victory in Evolution vs. Creationism Debate
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This is somewhat unrelated but kind of funny. About 8 years ago, I was in some fast food restaurant with my boss (and best friend. She's black, I'm her white soul sister) and there was a marketing poster illustrating a holiday milkshake. It read, "may all your chocolates me white."
ReplyDeleteWe STILL laugh about this.
Obama’s Focus On Holding a Healthy Easter Egg Roll Will Anger Conservatives
ReplyDeleteThere was story telling, live music, face painting, yoga and games for the kids at the 136th White House Easter Egg Roll on the packed South Lawn this sunny Monday morning. 30,000 guests! So what’s the problem? There was also a theme that will likely upset conservatives, who feel very put upon when Michelle Obama points out that some food is healthier than others. The theme? “Hop into Healthy, Swing into Shape.”
Yup. There were healthy things at the Easter Egg Roll.
http://www.politicususa.com/2014/04/21/obamas-rocking-healthy-easter-egg-roll-anger-conservatives.html