The 
Nigger President...
(English translation of Swedish article Nytändning för ohöljd rasism)
With the selection of Barack Obama as the first black Democratic nominee for president seeming more possible by the day, racists and white supremacists are posting increasingly ugly and even threatening remarks on the Internet.
“OBAMA WILL DIE, KKK FOREVER,”
concludes a Feb. 15 post by “Rodney” to a blog run by a person identified only as Strider333. Above that signoff, Rodney wrote: “The KKK or someone WILL assassinate Obama! If we get a NIGGER President all you NIGGER’s will think you’ve won and that the WHITE people will have to bow to you. FUCK THAT.”
(please excuse their explitive...)
On traditional white supremacist and neo-Nazi sites, there are lengthy discussion threads about what would happen if Obama were elected president. Dozens of those posts are derogatory and employ all kinds of racist slurs.
Others speculate that such an Obama victory would kick off a race war between whites and blacks. And some even raise the possibility that he could be assassinated. But talk like that is rare and extremely careful — probable evidence that the “white nationalists” who inhabit these sites are deeply concerned that their comments are being monitored by law enforcement for any criminal threat relating to the presidential race. In fact, Obama reportedly received federal Secret Service protection unusually early in the campaign season because of concerns about a racially motivated attack.
The most heated anti-Obama talk appears to be on Internet sites that allow people to post messages anonymously. One such site, JD Underground, is a list ostensibly devoted to lawyers, although further details were not available. It has carried a particularly venomous thread, entitled “Nigger President,” that has stretched from January into this month.
“I’m hoping someone will do his public duty of putting a bullet through Obama’s head,”
said a poster identified as “Kill Da Nigga.” Another poster suggests “bring[ing] back lynchings” and concludes with a warning: “LOOK OUT NIGGER. THE KLAN IS GETTING BIGGER!!!!!!”
And a third, using the screen name “amerikkkan,” says only, “The deep south is making plans.”
Sitting here in my home in Finland, as we are approaching 2010, this is really blowing my mind to think that some people in our world is still in such a mindset as this... I of course realized since Obama began running for President that this sort of thing was going on, but of course the government has done it's best to keep it low-key. Now that Obama is President, more is coming out in the open about these opposition groups, especially on the net where anyone has free reign to speak their mind.
I have dealt with this (racism), myself as a mulatto for all of my life and it is needless-to-say exhausting (for lack of a better word...) As a man I want to just live in peace and I think that most people feel that way no matter where in the world they live. But there is an opposition to freedom for all, not matter one's color and that opposition is not coming from above.
Christian-Charles de Plicque, Freelance Journalist/Evangelist
Österbottens tidning (Karleby's Daily Newspaper)
Angel House International
Finland
