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Obama's Historic
Run Boosts Racist Activity
Washington Post Reports of Increase in Traffic on
Racist
Web Sites
Washington
Post reporter Eli Saslow wrote an article in Sunday's edition about an
increase in racist and white supremacist activity, mainly on the
Internet, since Sen. Barack Obama clinched the Democratic Party's
nomination for president. "I haven't seen this much anger in a
long, long time," Billy Roper, 36, who runs a group called White
Revolution in Russellville, Ark, told the Post.
"Nothing has awakened normally complacent white Americans more than the
prospect of America having an overtly nonwhite
president."
Deborah Lauter, civil rights
director for the Anti-Defamation League, which monitors hate group
activity, says: "The truth is, we're finding an explosion in these
kinds of hateful sentiments on the Net, and it's a growing
problem."
Don Black, a former Ku Klux Klan
member and founder of Stormfront.org, a Web site with the motto "white
pride world wide," said traffic on his site has increased from a few
thousand visitors per day in 2002 to more than 40,000 unique users each
day.
Neo-Nazi and white power groups
acknowledge that they have little ability to derail Obama's candidacy,
so instead some have decided to take advantage of its potential.
White-power leaders who once feared Obama's campaign have come to
regard it as a recruiting tool. The groups now portray his candidacy as
a vehicle to disenfranchise whites.
Source: EURWeb
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