Racial slurs spray-painted across Obama billboard in Pittsfield Township (MI)

[davepc]

http://blog.mlive.com/annarbornews/2008/09/racial_slurs_spraypainted_acro.html

Racist slurs were spray-painted across a large Barack Obama presidential campaign billboard alongside a heavily trafficked stretch of US-23 in Pittsfield Township sometime overnight Tuesday.

And the U.S. Secret Service is investigating what now appears to be two threatening letters against Obama that were received in Livingston County, according to news reports.

Michigan State Police were on the scene of the billboard Wednesday morning, and have called in for tracking dogs, police said.

Black spray paint was used to draw three swastikas, symbols of Klan hoods and to write "KKK," "Rebel" and two racial slurs.

The billboard, roughly 10 feet tall by 50 feet wide, is located where Textile Road deadends near US-23, east of Carpenter Road.

...

This is what we're fighting against.

[Bread and Circus]

1. That's not far from me. I say let them stay there and remind people of how far

we've come and where we are going.

It just makes the perps look bad.

The vast majority of people are repulsed by that.

[Dogtown]

6. That's an excellent point, Bread and Circus

:toast:

[AspenRose]

2. Cowards.

[1corona4u]

3. I hope they find out who did it.

Let's put them up for all to see...

[kestrel91316]

7. I say we put them in stocks and let the community lob a few rotten tomatoes and eggs

at them. And then give them 40 lashes and run them out of town. Seriously.

[1corona4u]

8. Sounds like a plan...and I do think they would be easy to find...

see who sold/bought black spraypaint in the last few weeks, and take the dogs there...

[TheWraith]

4. People like this are a waste of oxygen. nt

[PermanentRevolution]

5. Its really hard sometimes to feel optimistic about the future

I know this isn't indicative of anything other than a few racist idiots, but the fact that these feelings are still out there in 2008 makes me so fucking depressed...

[RichardRay]

9. Leave it up.

Take pictures of it and paste them all over the Internet. Send them to every wire service and daily in the country. Make posters out of it.

This is not the way the vast majority of the people in this country think or believe (really, it isn't).

Hoist them by their own petard.

[rvablue]

10. I don't think there are just a few racists like this in our country...

I think there are a lot.
But I also believe that 99% percent of them would never, ever, ever, vote for a Democrat.
The feeble-minded and jingoistic like politics repug-style.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

11. Are there any people who were ever going to vote Obama that would see that and say "Oh, well if the

KKK doesn't like him, I guess I'll vote McCain."


I'd be for leaving it up. I have an aunt and uncle that are hardcore Dems. Although they are going to vote for Obama, I believe, they are racist. My aunt straight up says she doesn't *want* to vote Obama BECAUSE HE'S BLACK and my uncle makes up some new excuse every week, but we all know the truth. Let them see who they are standing with.

[Doremus]

12. That's what it's all come down to. We need to steamroll over the fucking racists,

win big, and leave them behind face down in the dust.

[seabeyond]

13. of course there is. and it is expected and gonna happen. the thing

the more it happens, the more visible it will all become, the more it feeds the more shame, ..... fuckin in your face and heart shame, a lot of these deniers of race issues in our society

it is time for this ugly zit to come to a head and pop the fucker....

obama.... pres. leader of the most powerful nation.