Burned cross drives family away

[HarveyBriggs]

By William Croyle
Enquirer contributor


BURLINGTON - A black family has moved out of Boone County after finding a burned cross in their front yard one morning and their car windows smashed out the next.

"I felt hated and totally disrespected," said Fred Mahone, who moved to the Rosetta Drive home with his wife, 18-year-old stepdaughter and 16-year-old stepson in February.

"You expect your father to tell you stories about something like this - but it's never happened to me, and I never expected it to."

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"W" turns down an NAACP invitation. Sean Hannity talks about the clueless liberals in the NAACP, yet this is still going on.

Must be another Republican "Fraternity Prank."

Excuse me while I go vomit.

Haravey Briggs

[tom_paine]

1. Evil is on the rise in Imperial Amerika. Expect it to get worse.

Sorry, but if it makes you feel any better, the "kinder and gentler" Nazis will be multi-racial in their composition and the composition of that of their victims will be diverse, as well.

(actually, I'm kidding about the 'feeling better' part, any thinking human being feels awaful about the direction Empire is taking us)

You just CAN'T re-introduce Nazism straight up. Too many people would recognize and a few Busheviks might become ashamed.

So they do it this way. The end result, while not EXACTLY the same will be grotesquely similar.

We are currently living in The Good Old Days.

[atreides1]

8. And This Morning

A group of African-American and Hispanic ministers supported the amendment to the US Constitution about marriage being between a man and a woman.

They claimed that this was not discrimination, because they knew what
being discriminated against was all about.

When you look at it the re-introduction of Nazism is going according to plan. You get two groups that have been discriminated against in the past and set them against a particular group that you want to destroy.

Voila, you have accepted bigotry, and the sheep look the other way or join in. When the time comes there will Americans who will turn in a neighbor for the smallest slight, and then we will know that evil has
been reborn.

But in the words of Patrick Henry:
"It is in vain sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace--but there is no peace. The war has actually begun!
The next gale that springs from the north will bring to our ears
the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field!
Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? what would they have? Is life so dear or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not
what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!

And to those here who would rather go the route of the 'Rodney King Can't We All Get Along Club', this is directed at you. If this election is postponed, it is the end of the Republic and we have failed to keep it.

[tom_paine]

10. Yes, the Busheviks have a keen sense of the Nazi divide and conquer

And they do it in a much more subtle fashion than the orignal Nazis.

And yes, Patrick Henry's words resound loudly these days

[cprise]

2. How sad

...and totally sickening.

[Solly Mack]

3. This happened to mom when she was a little girl

Cept they burned their home down.


My mom was born in the late 20's....nothing ever changes it seems.

[AspenRose]

4. Also to my husband's grandfather

A Hungarian immigrant. He chased them out of the yard with a rifle before they could get it lit. Needless to say they didn't come back.

[JayS]

5. Go post your story down in the Gungeon (J/PS)! :) n/t

n/t
:)

[AspenRose]

9. Heh heh, I ain't touching that with a 10 foot pole ;-)

eom

[Tomee450]

12. And in my family

a relative was threatened with the Klan for daring to express an opinion.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

6. What the hell is the matter with people?

This makes me sick to my stomach.

The people responsible for this terrorism (Oh TOM! Where ARE you?) are the same people who talk about "White pride". Is this the kind of thing they're proud of?

[noonwitch]

7. In my neighborhood, there seems to be an increase in car vandalism

And it appears to target african americans. I've seen the cops at one neighbor's house a couple of times because someone slashed the tires on his SUV. My neighborhood is about 70% caucasian and 30% african american, which is way more diverse than the rest of Warren.

My guess is that there is a group of white punks doing this. It's probably the same brats that asked me to buy beer for them at the local store. It blew my mind that they would ask a woman their parents' age to buy for them. I told them they're lucky I don't know their parents, or they'd be in big trouble in about 10 minutes.

[lanparty]

11. Time to fight back ...

I think the NAACP needs to start burning big black fists in the lawns of Clansmen!!!!!!

[Rowdyboy]

13. So much for the idea that all racism is in the deep south

Kentucky is solidly border-state/midwest.

Hate lives everywhere in Bush-America

[TahitiNut]

14. It's clearly most prevalent in the "red" states, imho.

The correlation seems self-evident to me ... and is one of the major reasons I've disliked living in those areas.

[JayS]

16. Granted that I was only visiting, but I kind of felt it more in the...

...NE but in a way that I can't quite describe. Much of it could have just been differences in regional personalities. Ours seems to be more classism these days, but more based on either formal or informal education and to some degree income.

[HarveyBriggs]

17. Kentucky is securely "Dixie"

They fought for the rebellion. The old south still runs deep there.

Also, you forget the effect of southern migration toward northern jobs.

Too, you have forgotten the tale of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was based on the true story of an escaping slave braving the elements to escape Kentucky and get to the Red Oak Church in Brown County, Ohio -- just upriver from Harriet Beecher Stowe in Cincinnati.

I'm directly descended from the founders of that church. I'm from proud abolutionist stock. I exist as a product of one of those escapes from the decadent grasps of satanic-based southern fundamentalist faith.

If it weren't for the dedication of those Ohio abolutionists, particluarly those of us in the Brown family, and certainly not excluding the efforts of Higgensport-born Hiram Ulysses Simpson Grant, the effects of southern hatreds would most likely be exponential to those which exist today.

How many ancestors do you count as hung at Harper's Ferry? Forget not that war between the states was a religious war. And the matter of God and his terrible swift sword vs. the forces darkness was decided at Appomatox Courthouse. It is unfortunate that George W. Bush and many of his supporters have not submitted to that judgement and continue abominations such as we have witnessed in Tulia Texas, Abu Gharib, Iraq, and here in the United States of America.

I know there are those in the south who have changed their ways. Others have not. And among those who have not, many have moved north prosthelizing their hatreds along the way,

Do not make the mistake that Northern Kentucky is the North. I have seen the stars and bars flown proudly in Boone County, Kentucky. And in this article we have seen the manifestations of the hatred cultivated there.

Martin had a dream. Mine eyes have seen the glory.

Harvey Briggs

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

15. Truth be told

we cannot legislate prejudice, hatred and intolerance out of people. Especially since that stuff is all learned. It is a shame that * would rather talk about rampant steriod use or oppose gay marriage that address something so much more fundemental.