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When a bulldozer tore through the swastika painted on the roof of the Aryan Nations compound 
eight years ago, many people thought they had seen the end of the neo-Nazi hate group in this part of the world. They were wrong. A new entity calling itself Aryan Nations recently distributed fliers in the area, saying it was recruiting members to create a “world headquarters” in Hayden Lake. And there has been an upswing in activity by hate groups, part of a national trend likely caused by the economic downturn and the Obama presidency. One of the most disturbing and publicized incidents occurred in late September, when the education director of the Human Rights Education Institute found a noose on the porch of her Spokane home/Nicholas Geranios, Inlander. More here.
Quote: “Any publicity is good publicity,” (Coeur d’Alene resident Jerald) O’Brien says. “If the enemy is not screaming for our blood, we are not doing a good job.”
Question: Have you ever personally seen a racist incident in North Idaho or Spokane County?
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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Bree on October 14 at 1:56 p.m.
Way too many times.
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trishgannon on October 14 at 2:27 p.m.
Opening night of the Festival this year, the Matseko children's choir performed (stunning!). In the middle of the performance a couple walked out, saying loudly, “N*****s!” (The site won't allow me to type that word. And it told me to “watch my mouth!” God forbid, I may give up computers if a website ever threatens to “wash my mouth out with soap!” :0)
Hopefully, they will never come back.
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trishgannon on October 14 at 2:32 p.m.
And more. On the second night of the Festival, a lady came up to me and said (I thought) “This Festival is all right.” I told her thank you and she looked at me oddly and repeated with emphasis, “This Festival is all WHITE” and went on to chastise me for the lack of 'color' in our volunteers and performers. Rather dumbfounded (especially given the events of the night prior), I acknowledged that we did tend to be a predominantly white event, given that we're a predominantly white community, but I wondered how she had managed to overlook all the people of color surrounding her, including a lady who's partly Blackfoot Indian (and looks it) standing not five feet away. I guess their color just wasn't dark enough. I think her remarks were also racist.
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ShoshoneConservative on October 14 at 4:03 p.m.
Publicly, the “worst” I have personally seen was a woman walking out of church a few years ago muttering “what has this world come to” when an inter-racial couple stood up as god-parents for a child who was being baptised. Otherwise, other than a few old men in a bar making some disparaging racial remarks once in a while, I have been fortunate enough not to have seen anything of a serious nature.
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fortboise on October 15 at 8:48 a.m.
The grandkids and I were swinging into Boise Cascade lake this summer. A very young couple was in the mix, and we she heard that the g'kids were from Spokane Valley, she said she used to live up there, and was glad to be gone, dripping with derision.
Really, why was that, I asked?
“Too many nationalities.”
In eastern Washington, OMG.
She was pink and white and a little freckly (like me and my grandkids). Her boyfriend was Hispanic, I wonder what he thought of that comment? I don't suppose it even touched his consciousness as long as he keeps getting what he wants from her…
More here: http://fortboise.org/blog/200908.html…
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