The Easter holiday, a time for chocolate bunnies, pastel colored clothing, and racism. Wait, what?

Courtesy of Raw Story:  

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:

 "You can sleep tonight knowing the Klan is awake?" Fat chance of that.

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.

Florida city introduces new rule forbidding neighborhood watch participants from carrying guns. I think Trayvon Martin might say, "Better late than never."

Courtesy of Reuters: 

The Florida city where neighborhood watch leader George Zimmerman shot and killed unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin is changing the rules on how civilian patrols can operate to help prevent a recurrence and revive the program's reputation. 

The new rules, to be released at a community meeting on November 5 in Sanford, Florida, will state explicitly that residents acting under the authority of neighborhood watch may not carry a firearm or pursue someone they deem suspicious. 

"Neighborhood watch was always intended to be a program where you observe what is going on and report it to police. In light of everything that has gone on, that's what we're really going to go back and push. That's what this program is and that's all it is," said Shannon Cordingly, spokeswoman for the Sanford Police Department.

I am glad that Sanford City has taken this step and hope that many others follow suit.

Personally I don't think that neighborhood watch personnel should EVER be allowed to carry a gun in ANY city.  It is bad enough with cops shooting unarmed individuals without adding untrained, or poorly trained, amateurs to the mix.

Now that George Zimmerman has shown the way, the KKK is trying to start neighborhood watch programs nationwide.

Courtesy of Forward Progress:  

Some residents in Springfield were greeted by a flier in their front yards the other morning from none other than the local area Ku Klux Klan. While most groups seeking to advertise something they’re wanting to promote might stick paper fliers on cars, put a few yard signs out or staple a couple of advertisements on a few light poles—the KKK didn’t quite go that route. 

Oh no, they took their fliers, then used a rubber band to attach them to rocks and threw them into residential yards overnight. Because nothing says “sleep well” quite like the KKK throwing rocks into your yard while you’re sleeping. 

But this isn’t just an isolated KKK group that’s starting a neighborhood watch, apparently this is part of a nationwide push from the KKK to recruit local residents to be a part of their neighborhood watch. 

Let that sink it for a moment. A racially driven hate group is behind a national push to recruit citizens for a neighborhood watch program. 

Oh, but don’t worry, a spokesman for the KKK says citizens can rest assured that race will play no part in who they see as a threat. Because it’s perfectly logical to believe a hate group driven by racism could separate themselves from their ignorance while “fighting crime.”

Oh yeah, I am sure that the Klan would treat every young person they see walking around at night exactly the same.

And if you believe that then you may be the very person that the KKK is currently looking to recruit.

Gee and just when Fox News was trying to hard to convince all of us that racism is really dead and the ONLY people still bitching about it are Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson.