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Al-Qaida No.
2 insults Obama with racial epithet

CAIRO, Egypt - Al-Qaida's No.
2 leader used a racial epithet to insult Barack Obama in a message posted Wednesday, using a demeaning racial term implying that the president-elect is a black American who does the bidding of whites.


The message appeared chiefly aimed at persuading Muslims and Arabs that Obama does not represent a change in U.S. policies.
Ayman al-Zawahri said in the message, which appeared on militant Web sites, that Obama is "the direct opposite of honorable black Americans" like Malcolm X, the 1960s African-American rights leader.


In al-Qaida's first response to Obama's victory, al-Zawahri also called the president-elect - along with secretaries of state Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice - "house negroes.
"

Speaking in Arabic, al-Zawahri uses the term "abeed al-beit," which literally translates as "house slaves." But al-Qaida supplied English subtitles of his speech that included the translation as "house negroes.
"

The message also includes old footage of speeches by Malcolm X in which he explains the term, saying black slaves who worked in their white masters' house were more servile than those who worked in the fields. Malcolm X used the term to criticize black leaders he accused of not standing up to whites.


The 11-minute 23-second video features the audio message by al-Zawahri, who appears only in a still image, along with other images, including one of Obama wearing a Jewish skullcap as he meets with Jewish leaders. In his speech, al-Zawahri refers to a Nov. 5 U.S. airstrike attack in Afghanistan, meaning the video was made after that date.


Al-Zawahri said Obama's election has not changed American policies he said are aimed at oppressing Muslims and others.


"America has put on a new face, but its heart full of hate, mind drowning in greed, and spirit which spreads evil, murder, repression and despotism continue to be the same as always," the deputy of al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden said.


He said Obama's plan to shift troops to Afghanistan is doomed to failure, because Afghans will resist.


"Be aware that the dogs of Afghanistan have found the flesh of your soldiers to be delicious, so send thousands after thousands to them," he said.


Al-Zawahri did not threaten specific attacks, but warned Obama that he was "facing a Jihadi (holy war) awakening and renaissance which is shaking the pillars of the entire Islamic world; and this is the fact which you and your government and country refuse to recognize and pretend not to see.
"

He said Obama's victory showed Americans acknowledged that President George W. Bush's policies were a failure and that the result was an "admission of defeat in Iraq.
"

But Obama's professions of support for Israel during the election campaign "confirmed to the Ummah (Islamic world) that you have chosen a stance of hostility to Islam and Muslims," al-Zawahri said.


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Obama election spurs race crimes around country

By JESSE WASHINGTON, AP National Writer Jesse Washington,

Cross burnings. Schoolchildren chanting "Assassinate Obama.
" Black figures hung
from nooses. Racial epithets scrawled on homes and cars.


Incidents around the country referring to President-elect Barack Obama are
dampening the postelection glow of racial progress and harmony, highlighting
the stubborn racism that remains in America.


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, Ga.
, 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.


She described her emotions as a combination of anger and fear.


"I can't say that every white person in Snellville is evil and anti-Obama and
willing to desecrate my property because one or two idiots did it," said
Millner, who is black.
"But it definitely makes you look a little different at
the people who you live with, and makes you wonder what they're capable of and
what they're really thinking.
"

Potok, who is white, said he believes there is "a large subset of white people
in this country who feel that they are losing everything they know, that the
country their forefathers built has somehow been stolen from them.
"

Grant Griffin, a 46-year-old white Georgia native, expressed similar
sentiments: "I believe our nation is ruined and has been for several decades
and the election of Obama is merely the culmination of the change.


"If you had real change it would involve all the members of (Obama's) church
being deported," he said.


Change in whatever form does not come easy, and a black president is "the most
profound change in the field of race this country has experienced since the
Civil War," said William Ferris, senior associate director of the Center for
the Study of the American South at the University of North Carolina.
"It's
shaking the foundations on which the country has existed for centuries.
"
"Someone once said racism is like cancer," Ferris said.
"It's never totally
wiped out, it's in remission.
"

If so, America's remission lasted until the morning of Nov. 5.

The day after the vote hailed as a sign of a nation changed, black high school
student Barbara Tyler of Marietta, Ga.
, said she heard hateful Obama comments
from white students, and that teachers cut off discussion about Obama's
victory.


Tyler spoke at a press conference by the Georgia chapter of the NAACP calling
for a town hall meeting to address complaints from across the state about
hostility and resentment.
Another student, from a Covington middle school, said
he was suspended for wearing an Obama shirt to school Nov.
5 after the
principal told students not to wear political paraphernalia.


The student's mother, Eshe Riviears, said the principal told her: "Whether you
like it or not, we're in the South, and there are a lot of people who are not
happy with this decision.
"

Other incidents include:

_Four North Carolina State University students admitted writing anti-Obama
comments in a tunnel designated for free speech expression, including one that
said: "Let's shoot that (N-word) in the head.
" Obama has received more threats
than any other president-elect, authorities say.


_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.
"

_Racist graffiti was found in places including New York's Long Island, where
two dozen cars were spray-painted; Kilgore, Texas, where the local high school
and skate park were defaced; and the Los Angeles area, where swastikas, racial
slurs and "Go Back To Africa" were spray painted on sidewalks, houses and cars.


_Second- and third-grade students on a school bus in Rexburg, Idaho, chanted
"assassinate Obama," a district official said.


_University of Alabama professor Marsha L.
Houston said a poster of the Obama
family was ripped off her office door.
A replacement poster was defaced with a
death threat and a racial slur.
"It seems the election brought the racist rats
out of the woodwork," Houston said.


_Black figures were hanged by nooses from trees on Mount Desert Island, Maine,
the Bangor Daily News reported.
The president of Baylor University in Waco,
Texas said a rope found hanging from a campus tree was apparently an abandoned
swing and not a noose.


_Crosses were burned in yards of Obama supporters in Hardwick, N.J.
, and
Apolacan Township, Pa.


_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 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.
"

Emotions are often raw after a hard-fought political campaign, but now those on
the losing side have an easy target for their anger.


"The principle is very simple," said BJ Gallagher, a sociologist and co-author
of the diversity book "A Peacock in the Land of Penguins.
" "If I can't hurt the
person I'm angry at, then I'll vent my anger on a substitute, i.e.
, someone of
the same race.
"

"We saw the same thing happen after the 9-11 attacks, as a wave of anti-Muslim
violence swept the country.
We saw it happen after the Rodney King verdict,
when Los Angeles blacks erupted in rage at the injustice perpetrated by 'the
white man.
'"

"It's as stupid and ineffectual as kicking your dog when you've had a bad day
at the office," Gallagher said. "But it happens a lot.
"
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Lawsuits claim cops engaged in election night hate crimes
David Edwards and Stephen C.
Webster
Published: Saturday November 15, 2008

Any telling of the night celebrated around the world as America's maturing on
matters of race -- the election of the nation's first black president -- would
not be complete without exploring the ugly traditions of a checkered past.


As the Illinois senator ascended to the highest office in the United States, a
family on Chicago's west end allegedly met the business end of racial hatred
enshrined by law. The family is suing the Chicago police department.


Niger Arnold claims that as her neighbors celebrated Obama's election in the
streets, police fired pepper spray into the crowd.
As she and her family
scrambled indoors, five white officers burst into her home with guns drawn.


She claims that no reason for the forcible intrusion was given, and instead the
officers cursed at her, and made racist remarks.


"If you can't trust the police, who can you trust?" asked Arnold.


Her attorney, Gregory Kulis, is seeking video tape from a nearby police street
camera, and says the suit is one of two he's filed related to election night
violence.


The Chicago PD has referred the complaint to an independent review panel.



This video is from CBS 2 Chicago.

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