Category: Anti-Black

After the Election

Posted in Anti-Black, Anti-Immigrant, Anti-Latino, Editorial, White Supremacist by Mark Potok on November 7, 2008

After 250 years of slavery, a century of Jim Crow laws, and a legacy of racial terror that includes the lynching of thousands of African Americans, America has elected a black president. It was a day that many thought would never come.
In all the euphoria after the election of Barack Obama, it is tempting to [...]

Mongols Indictment Details Biker Gang’s Racism, Alleged Crimes

Posted in Anti-Black, Extremist Crime, Hate Crime by Casey Sanchez on October 24, 2008

Shooting up “Toys For Tots” charity events. Selling cocaine to Catholic high school football coaches. Earning “purple wings” by having sex with dead women.
Unsealed earlier this week, a vividly detailed, 177-page federal indictment (PDF) leveling 86 felony counts against 79 members of the Mongols motorcycle gang is a dizzying cavalcade of barbarous and degenerate acts, [...]

Neo-Nazi Leader Bill White Jailed, Charged With Obstructing Justice

Posted in Anti-Black, Anti-Gay, Anti-Semitic, Extremist Crime, Neo-Nazi by Mark Potok on October 19, 2008

This time, he finally went too far.
At least that’s what federal officials apparently concluded when they charged neo-Nazi leader Bill White (arrest photo, right), the threat-spewing former anarchist from Roanoke, Va., with obstructing justice on Friday. As first reported by Hatewatch on Sept. 12, the leader of the American National Socialist Workers Party had posted [...]

Neo-Nazi Leader Investigated for Allegedly Intimidating Juror

Posted in Anti-Black, Anti-Semitic, Neo-Nazi by Larry Keller on October 17, 2008

Federal agents, digging for possible evidence to charge neo-Nazi provocateur Bill White with threatening a juror, have seized computer modems, servers and other equipment from a Roanoke, Va., apartment where his website is based.
The website, Overthrow.com, has been shut down since the FBI served a search warrant on the apartment on Saturday.
The search warrant affidavit [...]

Fox’s Cavuto Wins SPLC’s Dobbsy Award for Pinning Blame on Minorities for Mortgage Crisis

Posted in Anti-Black, Anti-Latino, Dobbsy Awards, Extremist Propaganda by Mark Potok on October 6, 2008

The first wave of nominations are in, and one man stands head and shoulders above the rest to claim our inaugural Dobbsy Award – Neil Cavuto of Fox News.
The host of “Your World with Neil Cavuto” used his program to put the blame for the subprime mortgage meltdown squarely where he believes it belongs – [...]

Noose Provocateur’s Hometown Celebrated White Supremacy

Posted in Anti-Black, Extremist Crime, Hate Crime by Mark Potok on April 24, 2008

A lawyer for the teenager who set off the largest rash of racist noose incidents this country has seen in recent decades says his client will plead guilty to a federal misdemeanor Friday. Jeremiah Munsen, 19, faced up to 11 years for conspiring to intimidate a black crowd returning from a huge anti-racist demonstration last [...]