Five acts of vandalism have scared some of these residents that showed their support for Barack Obama. Signs torn down, hate graffiti, vehicles spray painted, and trees – this happened late Saturday night in south Torrance.

Vandals attacked homes that displayed support for President-elect Obama, spray-painting cars, walls, trees and campaign signs with swastikas and racial slurs. One Hollywood Riviera resident awakened to find a large Nazi symbol on a tree, the N-word across her garage door and the phrase “Go back to Africa” scrawled across a front wall. “They had painted a big swastika on my car and spray-painted out my bumper sticker,” she said Monday. “It was pretty shocking. Immediately my heart began racing.” One couple who live near Calle Mayor found the words “Hitler” and “Nazi” painted in black on their Volkswagen.

The Torrance police Sgt. Bernard Anderson is trying to decide if this is aimed at the individuals or a political issue. Basically, he has to determine if these attacks should be labeled as hate crimes, then they could possibly be felonies. Which is what I’m hoping the Sgt. decides.

Each of the targeted residences displayed Obama campaign signs in their front yards or bumper stickers on their cars. All of the victims were white.

“God forbid these people come back again,” said a Southwood resident who found four Swastikas and a symbol for “Heil Hitler” on her car. “I was shocked and appalled and just frightened that this would happen in this day and age.”

In fact, the ADL believes that these attacks should be taken seriously. The Anti-Defamation League issued a Press Release yesterday. They are reporting some alarming facts and monitoring White Supremacists very closely.



In the aftermath of the election victory of Barack Obama, white supremacists rushed to online discussion forums to vent anger and disbelief that voters had chosen an African-American candidate as the next president of the United States. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which monitors and exposes extremist activity and rhetoric, said anger among white supremacists and other right-wing extremists in response to Obama’s victory resulted in an avalanche of vitriolic postings on racist Web sites. At one point, the chatter so overloaded the server of the most popular white supremacist Internet forum, Stormfront, that the site was temporarily shut down.

Mr. Foxman added: “The amount of invective, anger and rage being vented on white supremacist sites in the aftermath of the election is startling. Many racists are convinced that President-elect Obama’s achievement means that whites have lost their place in America, and they are predicting the beginning of a race war.”

The diatribe these White Supremacists are engaging in on the internet is scary. The ADL has samples of their themes: (The ones that want to leave the country – my sincere wish is that they do.)

Predicting a “Race War:” While some racists announced that they would leave the United States, others suggested that Obama’s election win would provide a catalyst that would move whites to become active racists. Some predicted the election would prove a boon to racist recruitment efforts. Still others suggested they were planning on arming themselves with guns and ammunition to defend themselves in a coming “race war.” Calls to Violence: While making no direct threats against the president-elect, some white supremacists expressed a hope that Obama would be killed or die while in office. One racist referred to a recent alleged plot by neo-Nazi skinheads to kill Obama and minorities, expressing a hope that someone else would carry out an assassination attempt: “… hopefully he’ll get assassinated before he gets into office. Just don’t be (expletive) idiots about it like those skinheads were,” wrote “Trellen R.” An anonymous poster on white supremacist Hal Turner’s blog went further: “Someone will kill him! And I will celebrate! It’s just a matter of time.”

The ones that are calling for violence, I can only hope are being closely monitored by the Secret Service. This is tragic and vile that some people in this country still hate someone for the color of their skin. Truly ugly and very sad they have such a narrow view, with no regard for human life.