Racial slur, threat against Obama at UA [View All]

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Source: AP

TUSCALOOSA — Marsha L. Houston, a professor at the University of Alabama, was so happy Barack Obama won the presidency that she put up a poster of the soon-to-be first family on her office door after the election.
First, someone ripped down the poster. When she put up another, someone scrawled a racial slur on it along with a death threat against the first African-American to win the White House.

“It seems the election brought the racist rats out of the woodwork,” Houston, who is black, said in an interview Thursday.
The slur and threat that defaced Houston’s poster was but one of a string of racist taunts and menacing on U.S. campuses in the wake of Obama’s historic victory, which apparently pulled the hood off old-fashioned hate.

Juicycampus.com, a Web site where students from some 500 schools nationwide post comments anonymously, is littered with hundreds of racist rants and death threats toward Obama, whom exit polls showed was favored by young voters by a 2-1 margin over Republican John McCain.


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