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Race crimes go up with Obama win, Gun sales increases

by Sanjay Jha | November 16, 2008 at 10:23 pm

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Obama victory has led the fear of race crime going up. Analysts are saying that hate crimes are on the rise in USA. White racist group are not ready to accept the changes easily. Hate crimes have existed for a very long time, and getting to the root cause of them may not come easy. The election of Barack Obama has made hate crimes more visible.

His victory has also fuelled the sales of gun and other ammuntions. Fear that President-elect Barack Obama will stiffen gun legislation has sent sales of firearms and ammunition soaring around the country. Handgun purchases in Wisconsin skyrocketed 82% in the days before and after Barack Obama's election as president compared with the same 13 days in November last year, figures on state background checks show.

From California to Maine, police have documented a range of alleged crimes, from vandalism and vague threats to at least one physical attack. Insults and taunts have been delivered by adults, college students and second-graders.

There have been “hundreds” of incidents since the election, many more than usual, said Mark Potok, director of the Intelligence Project at the Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors hate crimes.

One was in Snellville, Georgia, where Denene Millner said a boy on the school bus told her 9-year-old daughter the day after the election: “I hope Obama gets assassinated.”

That night, someone trashed her sister-in-law’s front lawn, mangled the Obama lawn signs, and left two pizza boxes filled with human feces outside the front door, Millner said.

At 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. “Stabbing, shooting, roadside bombs, they all count,” the sign said. At the bottom of the marker board was written “Let’s hope someone wins.”

In Rexburg, Idaho, second- and third-grade students on a school bus chanted “assassinate Obama,” a district official said.

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Amitjha

at 00:27 on November 17th, 2008

Thats really strange, the sese of insecurity is there, that might be the time to change the arms law in US.well which section is the new buyer will put some light on the topic.

Fairbanks

at 12:03 on November 17th, 2008

that might be the time to change the arms law in US. . . .

The narrative is invalid. The plot is simplistic and the play will fold after the first show.

gerrypopplestone

at 01:35 on November 17th, 2008

So much for the American Dream ('all white men are born equal"). I used to work on race attacks in a London local authority where there was a strong undercurrent of nasty race prejudice. The white people I trained used to resent that I a white man was training on a race issue, but they also knew that I knew the games we white people play in doing nasty things towards Black people but in such a way as it can be denied! What we call dog whistling - giving a message to the dog to be aggressive towards someone without taking responsibility for the action. Nasty stuff, but we whites are well versed in it!

Releevo (not verified)

at 02:32 on November 17th, 2008

when i was talking to an american friend of mine using the world "boy" for many times, he told me that this word has an actually racial meaning, i was surprised, but soon it made sense to me, the "totally american stuff" always appear normal and reasonable when you put it into thinking, how people understand or dream about things in an american way, how the civilization stands and how it makes such damage.

tushizap

at 02:46 on November 17th, 2008

Hmmm.. times of India does have a good reason in pointing out this. Many Indian students and immigrants are also getting killed these days.

Rhonda J Mangus

at 05:06 on November 17th, 2008

Thanks for this story, Sanjay.

Roberto Alvarez-Galloso

at 05:31 on November 17th, 2008

This is extremely dangerous coming from a society that is insecure of itself. I pray to God that nothing happens to Obama, it will be disastrous for the country.