Tag: white supremacy

Barely three weeks after Americans elected their first black president amid a wave of interracial good feeling, a spasm of noose hangings, racist graffiti, vandalism and death threats is convulsing dozens of towns across the country as white extremists lash out at the new political order.

Even more ominously, America’s most potent symbol of racial hatred – the Ku Klux Klan – has begun to reassert itself, emerging from decades of disorganization and obscurity in a spate of recent violence.

So-called ‘white supremacy’ hate groups in the USA are changing their marketing tactics in an attempt to broaden their appeal.

The hate groups are on the rise as they market themselves to middle America, according to leaders of the groups and organizations that monitor them.

The renewed activity includes a boom on the Internet.

That was no official advisory and it appears to have been the work of a hacker, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, which is coordinating the anti-gang initiative.

Current cyber activity indicates that a notorious white supremacist may be cultivating Calgary, Canada, as a possible hot bed for hate, an investigative group alleged yesterday.

CNET News.com, Oct. 23, 2002 http://news.com.com/2100-1023-963132.html By Declan McCullagh, Staff Writer, CNET News.com Google, the world’s most popular search engine, has quietly deleted more than 100 controversial sites from some search result listings. Absent from Google’s French and German listings are Web sites that are anti-Semitic, pro-Nazi or related to white supremacy, according to a new report (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/filtering/google/) from Harvard University’s Berkman Center. Also banned is Jesus-is-lord.com, a fundamentalist Christian site that is adamantly opposed to abortion. Google confirmed on Wednesday that the sites had been removed from listings available at Google.fr and Google.de. The removed sites continue to appear