Rights educator finds noose on porch of Spokane home

[sabra]

Source: spokesman

A black woman who directs educational programs for Coeur d’Alene’s Human Rights Education Institute awoke Sunday morning to find a noose on the doorstep of her north Spokane home.

It is the most recent in a spate of incidents Rachel Dolezal, 31, has experienced since April, when three skinheads walked into the education institute and asked her personal questions, including where she lived and where her son attended school. After that, her Coeur d’Alene home was burglarized and Aryan Nations fliers were distributed in her neighborhood.

In August, she moved to Spokane, in part because her son wanted to attend school in a more racially diverse classroom. Before she moved in with a friend who’s also black, someone wrote a misspelled racial epithet on the sidewalk outside the home, with an arrow pointing to the house.

Last Wednesday, the home was burglarized, with thousands of dollars in possessions stolen. That included two guns – a Glock 9 and a .357 Magnum, one of which Dolezal bought to protect herself following the encounter with the skinheads. The thieves took every penny from her son’s piggy bank, Dolezal’s laptop, a high-definition TV, an electric guitar, DVDs and video games.

Read more: http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2009/sep/24/rights-educator-finds-noose-on-porch-of-spokane/

[BlooInBloo]

1. Clearly this is not related to race. Good thing there's nothing wrong with Idaho.

[cliffordu]

3. Prolly some nutcase. Not racism. Not there.

:sarcasm:

[BlooInBloo]

4. Obviously the only reasonable thing to do is wait for all the facts to come in.

[grantcart]

9. There is a funny side to this.

Somebody moves to Spokane for a more racially diverse school.

There are more Americans of Japanese descent in Spokane than Blacks.

Visiting family they were filming a TV series there and finally had to beg non whites to show up because only one black person had responded to the requests to date. Mrs. grantcart being obviously not white landed us as "background" in shot after shot.

[cliffordu]

12. Lotsa folks write in asking that you be relegated to the background here, too

but we ignore them.

Mostly.

Howdy gc, howya doing??

[grantcart]

19. have em take a number

[Xenotime]

2. These racist RW assholes need to be stopped.

[NOLALady]

5. But,

it's not about race.

But, if it's determined that the motives were racial, we should find out why skinheads were moved to take such drastic action.

[SemperEadem]

13. "take such drastic action"? Are you inferring that the woman did something

wrong or did something that caused the skinheads to believe that they were in danger?

this is most certainly about racial intimidation--the skinheads certainly aren't the welcome wagon, unless you're a racist and they're doing your dirty work for you.

[NOLALady]

25. I didn't think I needed the

:sarcasm: tag. Sorry.

[laconicsax]

6. I thought that when white people steal stuff, they "found" it.

http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2005/09/01/photo_controversy/index.html

[No Elephants]

18. Hey! It worked for Columbus, didn't it?

[laconicsax]

21. Yep.

[onehandle]

7. RepubliKlans strike again. nt

[southernyankeebelle]

8. I hope this lady puts cameras around her home

[WriteDown]

10. Forget cameras...

She needs a very large dog and a gun.

[NOLALady]

26. I thought she had guns.

[Dogtown]

11. vermin

K&R

[Ozymanithrax]

14. She needs cameras for video evidence...

If it is done again, send the perpitrator to prison for a hate crime and put him in prison.

We don't need to kill these people, that only makes martyrs.

[nolabear]

15. WA is starting to seriously piss me off.

I'm not an innocent nor a fool, but it appears there's woodwork everywhere and things to crawl out of it. Having grown up in the South and dealt with overt racism and suspicion there, maybe I do tend to forget that it's everywhere. Now that I'm just an hour south of Mt. Vernon I suppose I shouldn't be surprised. But it's painful nonetheless.

[BolivarianHero]

16. Coeur d'Alene needs to be put under martial law...

If Canada can declare martial law over a leftist separatist group in Quebec, the U.S. ought to do it to crush this Nazi enclave once and for all.

Every time there are is racialist terrorism in that neck of the woods, the Coeur d'Alene area seems to be the source.

[Dappleganger]

17. Is this where the sweeping generalizations of NW people begin??

This Southerner is waiting equal treatment!

:sarcasm:

[Tikki]

20. Eastern Washingtonians...in general....

Southeastern Washingtonians for sure...

Tikki

[laconicsax]

22. The Cascades act as a sort of filter.

They filter the stupid as it moves west.

[zonkers]

23. If she knew she was targeted, why not have some hidden cameras?

[GoddessOfGuinness]

24. Don't you just love the "post-racism" world?

Fuckers even took money from her kid's piggy bank. :grr: