USA - An interracial couple in Pennsylvania who woke up to find the remains of a burnt cross in their front garden. A California town which saw cars and garages vandalized with swastikas, racist epithets and slogans such as "Go Back to Africa." Black effigies hung from nooses in an island community in Maine. Students chanting "assassinate Obama" on a schoolbus in Idaho.Barack Obama's historic election as America's first black president has led to a surge of racist incidents across the United States, hate-crime monitoring groups and analysts say. more
Saturday, November 22, 2008
Hate crimes surge in US after Presidential election
USA - An interracial couple in Pennsylvania who woke up to find the remains of a burnt cross in their front garden. A California town which saw cars and garages vandalized with swastikas, racist epithets and slogans such as "Go Back to Africa." Black effigies hung from nooses in an island community in Maine. Students chanting "assassinate Obama" on a schoolbus in Idaho.Barack Obama's historic election as America's first black president has led to a surge of racist incidents across the United States, hate-crime monitoring groups and analysts say. more
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