Wednesday, October 29, 2008

White Supremacy

Is there really still room for racial discrimination? How is it that after nearly 150 years, we are still experiencing the same sorts of hatred against people of African heritage?

In the last few days a story broke about two young-adult white supremacists who were plotting a nationwide killing spree against African Americans. In all, they were planning to kill 88 people (beheading 14 of them) while culminating their spree of killings with an attempted assassination of Senator Barack Obama.

It isn't too often nowadays, that we here such extravagant and outrageous displays of racial hate. These are the sorts of stories that open our eyes to the fact that things have not changed nearly as much as we have thought, and that we have far from eradicated racial prejudices.

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