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McGuire still faces a trespassing charge in Kootenai County District
Court after he was arrested in 
August outside Jimmy C’s bar in Athol.
Bar patrons said he’d been making racist comments, but McGuire told
Kootenai County sheriff’s deputies they only wanted him to leave
“because I’m white,” according to court documents. McGuire unsuccessfully ran for the Bozeman school board in
2005, criticizing schools for discriminating against
European-Americans, according to the Montana Human Rights Network. He’s
also been tied to the distribution of racist literature there,
according to the network, and organized a protest against a parade on
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in 2005/Meghann M. Cuniff, Sirens & Gavels. More here.
Question: Have you had any encounters with members of the Aryan Nations or any other racist individual or group in North Idaho?
D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.
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Jeffster on December 12 at 8:34 p.m.
While we lived in Athol for three months, we never met anyone “out” as a member of the Aryan Nations. Being new to North Idaho, and I’m sure this will seem unpopular, I notice racism expressed in very subtle contexts; a look, the jokes, the use of the “N” word. The recent news of vandalism of a Middle Eastern man in Coeur d’Alene, notably the white swastika on his SUV confirm a more than subtle kind of racism. I can’t say why this seems to be the case but it’s like being in love, you just know it when you feel it.