This is revolting.



Mr. McLaughlin has a whole lot more class than the scum that did this, that's for sure.

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To me this is just plain and simple out and out rude and racist all the way. Just how low people are willing th go to show their disrepect for a candidate of color... Shame on them... CAtherine

It's going on with the Republican signs, too. The vandalism is quite uncalled for.


Marooned In Marin: "Tolerant" Liberals Torch McCain Sign In Oregon...Dana Milbank & Mary Mitchell Are Silent

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Can't wait to hear your story where a Republican sign was replaced with a blatant symbol of racism.

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Sorry allinaugust its not the same we all know what the that particular flag stands for its not the same as with any anything that has been done to spear the McCain campain, this was a loud and clear view of totally unbelievable racism that still rages in our country.... Catherine

The Herald | HeraldOnline.com - Vandals strike York County GOP headquarters - Rock Hill, SC

"Vandals spray-painted the words “Republican means slavery” on the door of the York County GOP campaign headquarters overnight Friday.

Party volunteers called police after discovering the message when they arrived at the office on Rock Hill’s Oakland Avenue. The vandals also stole about 45 candidate signs from the front yard and spray-painted over a banner that carried a picture of Republican presidential nominee John McCain."

I've had one Obama sign stolen so far and we've had quite a few people come in the office saying their sign was taken too.

{no evidence of blatant racism so maybe I shouldn't be posting in this thread}

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WTF?? Throwing a moltov cocktail at somebody's home is somehow less of an evil? Get real!

I would much rather have somebody replace my sign with a symbol that I don't agree with than try to burn down my home with my family asleep in it. One is a nasty crime and the other is an act of violence!!!

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Again. .. ewwww. . .a symbol versus and act of violence. Neither is right, but I would rather have the symbol thank you very much!

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It is ALL so nasty.

Don't know if anyone heard about this. But it seems the dead bear found wrapped in Obama posters at Western Carolina University was just a prank and not politically or racially motivated.

Here's the AP article. According to the local news the bear was not shot but was instead hit by a car. Still not pretty but the students interviewed on TV were relieved it wasn't racial or political.


The Associated Press: Police in NC: Dead bear under Obama signs a prank

Oh, I see, the vandalism only counts if it's "racist"?? I see. And, how exactly do you know that the person throwing the molotov cocktail wasn't black??? Therefore, that could very well make it a racial act. I answered my own question a few threads ago, so no need to try and answer it

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In answer to forrestlayne 's quote about someone saying Republican means slavery is not ok in my books either, whether we are talking about slavery or the conferderate flags they both symbolize racism and should not under any circumstances be allowed for any running canditate. But I truly hate to say this , I personally do not feel this would be happening if it was not that Barack Obama is part African American or in some people'e views just by his looks they are taking him for being a whole African American Black person which is not fair. No one especially today should be judged on race creed or color nor religion nor personal lifesyles. Thats why I simply always will love the quote from the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Let not the man be judged by the color of his skin, but rather by the content of his character, sadly again, it seems we come so far, but then are taken back so far. Edited to all personal smearing of any racism towards any running candidate is uncalled for... Catherine

Be careful. . .because that is sometimes exactly how they want you to think. Remember the college professor who vandalized her own car with swaztikas and anit-lesbian graffiti? There was also a guy in New York, I think ,who spray painted his own house with racial slurs. Better to find out for sure who was respionsible before we jump to any conclusions.

I agree. . .Martin Luther King was a great man. . .a Republican too.

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Yes I know that the late Dr. Martin Luther King was a Republican again it did not make him or any Republican a bad person, however As I have stated before there are bad and good in all parties concerned. Of course I do not want to pass judgement but anyone who commits hideous racist crimes are wrong no matter the parties out and out wrong... Catherine

I agree.

I just think the whole "hate" crime thing is a little unjustified. Vandalism. . .assault. . .those are already crimes. And aren't basically all crimes where there's a victim "hate" crimes? Idk. . .maybe I just have a problem with the term "hate crime". Certainly there are racially motivated crimes, but does that make evey crime where the perpertrator is a different race then the victim a "hate crime"? I don't really know what the legal definition is.

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He wasn't a Republican according to his son.

Link

But what would Martin Luther King III know about his father?

Maybe his friends knew something. But they didn't think he was a Republican either, what with denouncing Goldwater and all . . .

Link

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Great links Truble! Especially the Washington Post link. It falls into line with what I have researched through the years.

The Republican Party was founded on noble causes but that has most certainly changed for the worse.

Here's an example: cbs5.com - SoCal GOP Group Depicts Obama In Racist Caricature

Then there's this article from 2002: Lott, Reagan and Republican Racism - TIME

There aren't too many blacks willing to vote for this.

It's sad that a few bad apples (idiots) are in the foreground. What about all the decent people...oh they're uninteresting so they don't make the news.

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I found it interesting that the article said the Democrats started the Ku Klux Klan.

I don't think we can verify one way or another what party affiliation MLK was with. He's no longer here to tell us himself, and while his sonswould hopefully know him better than most, they were only 10 and 8 when MLK died. I don't know of too many kids that young that really explore politics with anyone.

I did find this:
Martin Luther King


Just because it lists him as a Republican, I don't necessarily think that makes it so. It will have to remain a mystery, to me, anyway.

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Most Blacks were Republicans back in the early to mid 60s. It all changed with JFK and RFK's support of MLK Jr's cause, the Civil Rights Act of 1968 by LBJ, and Lee Atwater's Southern Strategy ushered in with Nixon.

You won't find a single quote attributed to MLK Jr. as to which party he was a member of.

Yes, but who cares about "facts" when suppositions support their purposes and wants....

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Omg posters I simply loved the late Dr, Martin Luther KIng Jr, he truly was a wonderful man who only wanted the same rights for all us Americans. He sadly died way before his time and would have love to have seen him go on to the future. I have a Dream Speech brings me to tears each and every time and we need to stop going to war and stop fighting and creating more violence.... Catherine