Leonard Pitts: Must be doing something right to stir up neo-nutsies

[babylonsister]

http://www.news-press.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070627/OPINION/70627076/1015

Must be doing something right to stir up neo-nutsies
Originally posted on June 27, 2007

So, what’s going on with you? Nothing much? Wish I could say the same.
As you may know if you’ve seen CNN or read the paper, yours truly has lately been the target of death threats and harassment from the ranks of the not-so-tightly-wrapped.

This, after a June 3 column about the torture murder of a young white couple, allegedly by four blacks. My column took on white supremacists and far-right bloggers who contend that this “genocide” — their word — goes unremarked by news media too PC to report black-on-white crime.

It was an argument made for ridiculing and I did my best, pointing out that black-on-white crime, a relative statistical rarity, is not underreported but, in fact, OVER reported, according to any number of studies and experts. This offended a self-professed neo-Nazi leader whose name you won’t read here. So he got on his little neo-Nutsy Web site and posted my home address and phone number. It’s been game on ever since — 400 e-mails, dozens of phone calls and leaflets on my neighbor’s driveway.

“You should be back in a damn mud and dung hut you nappy headed ho.” ... “Who’s crying now, you affirmative action ape?” etc.

The gist of this outburst: a handful of contentions, each more asinine than the last:
(1) Pitts has no compassion for the victims. (I called the murders brutal and a tragedy and said the killers should rot under the jailhouse.)

(2) Pitts told those mourning the murders to “cry me a river.” (I gave that advice specifically to white supremacists yelling genocide and other stupid things.)

(3) The murders were so heinous they were “obviously” a hate crime. (Actually, heinousness has nothing to do with it. Hate crime penalties come into play when the prosecutor can establish racial or religious bias as a motive, period.)

It turns out this tactic — publishing private information for intimidation purposes — is one these folks use frequently to silence those with whom they disagree. Which only deepens my appreciation for the sheer guts it took to be a Fred Shuttlesworth in Birmingham or a Medgar Evers in Jackson, speaking truth to power in a time and place where everyone knew your address, assassinations were common and you could not go to law enforcement because they were part of the problem.

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[BOSSHOG]

1. Sadly those e-mail writers vote and breed

without them the republican party would be a mere blip on the radar; and rush limbaugh would have to contend with part time weekend work at a small radio station in southeast Missouri. There's alot of profit in hate.

[havocmom]

3. and Hate Radio breeds domestic terrorists

Send Rush to GITMO pronto

[BOSSHOG]

4. And the proof of that is their

instantaneous, loud and pompous denials. rush wanted to downgrade the size of the government back in the 90's and boom, there goes a federal building. The shouters don't like the immigration bill and senators get deaths threats and intimidating phone calls. But sean and rush and their ilk are just cute little comedians. Just ask them. The latest fight will be the fairness doctrine. sean has told his brain dead ignorant trash lemmings that THE FAIRNESS DOCTRINE WILL DESTROY THE FIRST AMENDMENT, so that will be the next words from the lips of the trash who won't waste a second with research or intellectual curiousity. They don't need to.

per limbaugh going to GTMO would be a vacation. His fat ass would be sweating and he'd be crying for Momma his first hour behind the gates.

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. Good for him!

Glad to see he isn't backing down.