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November 18, 2008

Hundreds of Race-Based Incidents Reported Since Election of Obama
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Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center said there have been
“hundreds” of race-based incidents since the election. The Associated
Press has compiled a list of other possible hate crimes over the past
two weeks. Crosses were burned in yards of Obama supporters in Hardwick,
New Jersey and Apolacan Township, Pennsylvania. In the Pittsburgh suburb
of Forest Hills, a black man said he found a note with a racial slur on
his car windshield, saying, “Now that you voted for Obama, just watch
out for your house.” A black teenager in New York City said he was
attacked with a bat on election night by four white men who shouted
“Obama.” In Standish, Maine, a sign inside the Oak Hill General Store
read, “Osama Obama Shotgun Pool.” Customers could sign up to bet $1 on a
date when Obama would be killed. At North Carolina State University,
four students admitted writing a sign on the campus that called for
shooting Obama in the head. And in Idaho, second- and third-grade
students on a school bus in Rexburg, Idaho were heard chanting
"assassinate Obama.”



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