Racism in the News
Facebook poll on Obama ‘assassination’ probed
MSNBC.com • September 28, 2009
The U.S. Secret Service is investigating an online survey that asked whether people thought President Barack Obama should be assassinated, officials said Monday.
The poll, posted Saturday on Facebook, was taken off the popular social networking site quickly after company officials were alerted to its existence. But, like any threat against the president, Secret Service agents are taking no chances. Read More
Freedom Riders mural defaced
The Tennessean • September 25, 2009
It took the students weeks to create the Freedom Riders mural that greets visitors to Jefferson Street. It took a vandal with a can of silver spray paint seconds to deface it. Along the length of the mural, the paint blotted out the faces of the civil rights marchers painted on the wall. Not all of them. Just the black faces. Read More