Troubling developments in the wake of the election of Barack Obama:
"Cross burnings. Schoolchildren chanting 'Assassinate Obama.' Black figures hung from nooses. Racial epithets scrawled on homes and cars. . . .
"From California to Maine, police have documented a range of alled crimes, from vandalism and vague threats to at least one physical attack. Insults and taunts have been delviered by adults, college students and second-graders."
On election night a black teenager in Staten Island, New York was jumped by two men carrying bats who said "Obama" and beat the teen on the leg and head. On that same night the Macedonia Church of God in Christ, home of a predominantly black congregation, was the target of one or more arsonists.
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