Study: Hate of Obama
fuels 755% growth in
extremist groups
(originally published in 2012-- RAW STORY.com)
Fears that the nation’s first black president will be re-elected has fueled the dramatic growth (of) extremists groups in the U.S. over the past year, according to a report from a civil rights organization that tracks these groups.
The number of groups in the anti-government “Patriot” movement have sky rocketed 755 percent since President Barack Obama has been elected, the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) yearly report found.
Today's story du jour is about an elected official who was witnessed speaking at a KKK rally 12 years ago. While he doesn't deny his involvement, he does deny his allegiance to such an ideology, calling the event an effort to win votes during a campaign- and nothing more.
Modern day racial cleansing in congress got rid of David Duke ( the former representative from Louisiana who was a Klan grand wizard) and even former senator Trent Lott (Mississippi) felt the impact of co-signing the Klan. This current congressman under racism watch spoke to a group founded by David Duke himself. As the last vestiges of admitted bigots is being snuffed out by whoever smells for such stench, even this congressman's own attempts to wash himself of the odor may not save him from the mob of racism abolitionist' who think racism can be rooted out of congress like the cancer it represents. If this congressman doesn't care to admit his love of the KKK, than I personally would rather not even mention his name in connection with them.
Racism and racial intolerance are much bigger than one previously anonymous congressman who might be trying to quit the set (gang talk for leaving a gang). The statistics seem to suggest that racism was watered by the mere electing of a black president- but became mature plants that dropped seeds of their own in the wake of Obama's second term. In the first Obama term, extremist group recruiting grew, but they were as caught off guard by the reality of what America had done as they were by the masterful recruiting tool they had been handed. If racism had died in the days since MLK and JFK lost their lives to the cause, the death was but dried up seeds waiting for the right kind of rain to bring new life. Similar to Islamic terrorist who can start world war by creating beheading videos, racial extremist' have discovered a fertile landscape and a source of rain.
2012 represented a pinnacle in total number of anti-government groups -1,360 while only 1,096 such groups were still registered by the end of 2013 (SPLC.org). At its peak (since 2008) extremism grew by 813%. Is that in actual numbers or just those who signed up (aka., admitted to extreme views). What does 813% represent in real numbers and is that question even attainable?
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| Is Race STILL our #1 issue? |
Racial conversations may never be honest enough for an honest representation of true extremism or the extent of growth that we continue to see from the small crowd of those who dare admit it. Much like the belabored conversation on domestic violence, hate statistics say we have a problem while the voices refuse to agree that its them.
The newest way to pretend that extremism isn't yOUR issue is to pretend like Obama did it. In one year he will lose his value as a scapegoat and extremism will lose its best recruiting tool in years.
Soon, hate will get to chill out for a while, except in the halls of congress were it must diligently hide itself from hate filled mobs that either truly hate extremism or simply love being caught fighting it.
(Does hate chill out?)
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