Tea Party Just Rich Whites Exploiting Poor Ones

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By: Tonyaa Weathersbee, BlackAmericaWeb.com

For a brief moment in 2008, we caught a glimpse of the madness that some white folks would be driven to if a black man managed to make it into the White House.

In October of that year, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms uncovered plans by two neo-Nazis to assassinate then-candidate Barack Obama and gun down hundreds of black students in Tennessee.

Those plans, of course, were foiled – and as criminals, the neo-Nazi nuts who planned it would have flunked out of pre-school.

Still, that discovery accelerated fears among black people that a President Obama might meet the same fate as President Kennedy.

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White Racist Groups Increase Membership, Activity in Wake of Potential Obama Presidency

By: Michael H. Cottman

The serious hatin’ on Barack Obama is in full force among racists in cyberspace and has spread to countless computers in homes across America.

Since Obama defeated Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primary last month, clinched the Democratic presidential nomination and could become America’s first black president in November, racist groups, white supremacy organizations, neo-nazis and skinheads have all increased their activity on the Internet and stepped up their hateful online denunciations of Obama.

It’s a hate experts say is now reaching a fever pitch.

"I haven't seen this much anger in a long, long time," Billy Roper, a 36-year-old who runs a group called White Revolution in Russellville, Arkansas, told The Washington Post. "Nothing has awakened normally complacent white Americans more than the prospect of America having an overtly non-white president."

White Racist Groups Increase Membership, Activity in Wake of Potential Obama Presidency....