Racism Watch - 6/8/12
/Neo Nazi Terrorist Pleads Guilty to Weapons Charge He might serve fifteen years, or he might serve life. In any case, Samuel James Johnson will have to put his dreams of a race war on hold for awhile. Ironically, the increasingly racist and bizarre right-wing website World Net Daily put a story up about Minneapolis media ignoring Black on White violence there today. Seems WND missed this guy from the same area. [MORE]
Fat Loser Rush Limbaugh: "There's Not A Whole Lot Of Masculinity" In Obama's Appearance; He "Can't Even Throw A Baseball like a guy [MORE]
White supremacists threaten state attorney, judge, agent. Central figures in the prosecution of the American Front white supremacy group have received death threats on several websites in recent weeks. Family members of Orange-Osceola State Attorney Lawson Lamar, Circuit Judge Walter Komanski and an agent assigned to the FBIJoint Terrorism Task Force are named in the detailed threats demanding the immediate release of more than a dozen American Front members arrested last month. "We are at your houses, we are at your kids houses we are your grandkids houses and we are sitting outside their schools," it reads in part. "Don't believe me? Here you are pigs, here you are:… we are going to CUT THEIR …HEADS OFF and leave them in A COOLER OUTSIDE YOUR OFFICE." [MORE]
MSNBC describes President Obama's cabinet as "team of mascots." [MORE]
Don Rickles makes racial comments during the AFI Life Achievement Award ceremony.“I shouldn’t make fun of the blacks,” Rickles began. “President Obama is a personal friend of mine. He was over to the house yesterday, but the mop broke.” [MORE]
President Obama ‘Lynched’ in Front of Church by Republican ‘Pastor’ Terry Jones. Florida pastor Terry Jones, best known for his Islamophobic burning of Korans has now simulated the “lynching” of the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama. Jones says that he is “hanging [Obama] high as a symbol of what America needs to do.” [MORE]
Racial Graffiti Scrawled On Local Apartment Building. Scrawled in chalk had been the N-word as well as a swastika. On the sidewalk – a pentagram and the number “666.” Joshua Johnson, a single father, came home Wednesday afternoon and found racial slurs on the brick wall outside his Greensburg apartment. Johnson believes his multi-cultural family might have prompted it.“I’m like the only black person in the building basically,” he said. “Being a black man fathering three white boys and a black boy – a lot of mixed emotions from people.” [MORE]