1. From the October 7, 2008 edition of the Daily Mail: Dube Egwuata was wearing a Barack Obama T-shirt in London while he was making a purchase in a store. A man approached him and began shouting racist slurs ("I f***ing hate n*****s") and subsequently shot Mr. Egwuata three times with a gas-powered ball-bearing pistol. Egwuata stated that "Obama inspires me, his educational track record alone is quite unbelievable-that is why I was wearing the T-shirt. I did not think for one minute it could stir up such powerful feelings of hatred and I never said a word to [the shooter]." No arrests have been made.
2. From the October 6, 2008 edition of the Daily Mail: Lisa Ring, a nursery school teacher and supervisor and mother of two from Haverhill in Suffolk, was charged with racially aggravated harassment after she made monkey noises at an 18-month child who happened to be black as he played with a plastic banana. Asked by another staff member to stop that and other despicable conduct she was engaging in, Ring responded that what she was doing was "just a bit of fun." Found guilty by a magistrates' court, Ring was fined and was fired by the nursery.
3. From today's New York Times: Abdul William Guibre, who was born in Burkina Faso and was raised in Italy, was beaten to death in Milan, Italy by the father and son proprietors of the Shining Bar, a coffee shop. Fausto and Daniele Cristofoli believed that Mr. Guibre had stolen money and cookies from the shop; they beat Guibre with a metal rod, shouting "dirty black" as they killed him. "Although there is some debate about whether the killing was racially motivated, the attack on Mr. Guibre was the most severe in a recent spate of violence against immigrants across Italy. The attacks are fueling a national conversation about racism and tolerance in a country that has only recently transformed itself from a nation of emigrants into a prime destination for immigrants." Giovanna Giulio Valtolina, a scholar at MIlan's ISMU Foundation, remarked that "a black Italian is a very new thing." Apparently.
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