Racial Incident Rattles George Fox University Campus (likeness of Obama found hanging)

[Purveyor]

A likeness of Sen. Barack Obama was found hanging in the George Fox University quad early Tuesday along with graffiti aimed at minority recipients of a scholarship program, the university president told The Oregonian this morning.

President Robin Baker said he plans to discuss the incident with the student body later this morning.

"We are a faith community driven by the teachings of Christ," said Baker, who has presided over the Christian college for about a year. "We have to express love toward each other so it was a great disappointment that anything like this would happen."

George Fox University, which is located in Newberg, was founded in 1891 by Quaker pioneers.

A custodian discovered the cutout of Obama about 7 a.m. Tuesday and removed it. The cutout was hung from a tree with fishing line near Minthorn Hall. He said the image of the African-American Democratic nominee for president was accompanied by the words, "Act Six reject."

Act Six is a scholarship program that was established two years ago and is aimed at including more low-income and minority students in the George Fox student body, Baker said. Students are chosen for their leadership potential; all receive full scholarships.

He said about seven of those students are African-American. About a quarter of the student body is minority, "which for us is a really significant achievement," he said.

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[elkston]

1. ...and so it begins. We knew stuff like this was coming. (eom)

[DangerousRhythm]

2. Wow, disgusting.

How do these people live with themselves?

[Barack_America]

3. At a Christian university nonetheless? I am shocked!

:eyes:

[GirlieQ]

4. Hey, they're Quakers.

Who doesn't love Quakers and Amish? I'll stay as far away as I can from Baptists and Evangelicals, but Quakers are usually good folks.

I was expecting this to be from Bob Jones University.

[NotThisTime]

12. And what kind of education are they getting? Doesn't sound like family values

[Kalyke]

14. I like their oats and butter, respectively.

LOL.

[Anwen]

5. This just makes me sick. nt

[iiibbb]

6. How decidedly non-Quaker of them... I've never met a Quaker I didn't like either.

There are some students there who aren't up on the Quaker doctrine.

[iiibbb]

7. double post

[DeschutesRiver]

8. There are pockets of that kind of racial baggage

in the outlying areas around Newburg; in fact, I used to have horses at a barn somewhat south from Newburg, in fact, drove through there on my way to that barn - the whole area for miles and miles is rural, with a few towns like Newburg popping up here and there. Newburg of late has tried to upscale and gentrify itself to accomodate yuppies with money; building out with McMansions and the like, spreading into nearby farm land.

This nearby horse barn owner and several of the customers turned out to be racists of the worst kind; they must be frothing in their muddy hovels to think that Obama is even this close to the presidency. Frothing with spit; I'd add that they are some of the stupidest and least mentally agile people you could meet, yet are convinced that no black person is smarter than they are, and that it is a known fact that blacks are sub-human, just the way it is (ditto for the hispanics that work for them). And when the white South Africans showed up to work in the area (horse related), omg, I had no idea of their levels of bigotry. Coming straight from South Africa, they were of dutch descent and made our local bigots look like choir boys. These people considered themselves good christians, but how they reconciled their their church beliefs and racist beliefs I'll never understand. Mean bunch of ignorant posers.

I will spare you the details which I was soon acquainted with, and which made me pack up my horses and leave (lots of other stuff there too). This is also not the majority feeling of Oregonians, neither in the more educated areas nor the rural areas surprisingly. But where these pockets of ignorance exist, they rival shit you'd previously only read about in the worst racist parts of our nation.

[ShortnFiery]

9. I smell the wanting of a right wing media distration to obsess on ... it happens and it's wrong.

[blondeatlast]

10. I'm guessing it wasn't a student. Sounds like an agent provocateur. nt

[SteveM]

11. Yeah, an incident in Austin, TX:

A woman had her McCain signs stolen and tires slashed. Made big news for about 5 minutes. This stuff can (and has been) carried out by provocateurs as well as bar room fuck-ups who think they are on the cutting edge of political incorrectness. Dull. Boring.

[AspenRose]

13. Wasn't Nixon Quaker?

He was pretty racist.

My best friend went to a Christian university and heard the n-word used frequently and unapologetically. :shrug:

[Cha]

17. Yeah, nixon was a Quaker but he didn't

represent anything very well.

[old mark]

15. I am afraid we will see a lot more racism come out than we

thought.
The closer Obama gets to winning, the more wwe will see, and probably from places where it is not expected.

I wonder if it was someone from the school or from the area.

mark

[Cha]

16. Hmmm...another so called

"Christian" hypocricy. They're so goddamed ignorant.

And I don't mean real Christians. I mean the ones who use that name but act like little fucking devil worshippers.

[medicswife]

18. So very sad. :(

It will probably get worse, before it gets better. :( I hope that the backlash from most of the students on this campus is large.