Showing posts with label Traditional Christian Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. Show all posts
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Thursday, June 11, 2009

Southern Poverty Law Center Documents Some Of The Hatred Toward President Obama

Historically, the Southern Poverty Law Center has done amazing work combating hate and creating awareness about hate groups and trends in hate around the United States.

Here are some comments from racist nuts (in regard to the election of Barack Obama as the first black president of the United States) compiled by SPLC:

“I believe tonight is a night of tragedy and sadness for our people… . [T]he country is not recognizable any more.”
— Former Klan leader David Duke

“Someone will kill him! And I will celebrate!”
—Neo-Nazi activist Hal Turner

“I consider this to be the darkest day in American history since the end of the Civil War. They might as well have put Bin Laden in the White House.”
—Comment posted in an online forum of the Traditional Christian Knights of the Ku Klux Klan

“An Obama presidency … will only intensify racial polarization and stimulate greater white racial consciousness and self-assertiveness. More of the sleepers will waken.”
—Greg Johnson writing in The Occidental Quarterly, a far-right race journal

“[T]he next four years could prove to be the biggest bonanza ever for open borders advocates.”
—Federation for American Immigration Reform, a nativist hate group

“It could mean an awakening of our spirit and blood. Every time the television shows an image of Obama, it will be a reminder that our people have lost power in this country.”
—Thom Robb, national director of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan

If you think these men are so far out of the mainstream, don’t be so sure. Turner, as an example, has had an association over the years with Sean Hannity, a prominent Fox News talk show host.

Southern Poverty Law Center:
http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?sid=442