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The election of Barack Obama as President symbolizes a major attitudinal shift in America with regard to race. Obama’s victory proves that many Americans want to move away from the racially oppressive past of the United States, but racism is still very much alive in our country. There has been a large rise in hate crimes against African Americans preceding and following the Obama campaign, but these immoral acts are also notoriously undercounted in the United States and studies have found that hate crimes in this country are actually fifteen times higher than reported by the FBI ( http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=586 ). Even without the unreported acts of racism there has still been a disgusting amount of racially based abusive crimes instigated by whites and directed towards blacks in the past year because of the election of Obama. Here are ten of some of the most horrendous hate crimes reported in the United States between the years of 2008 and 2009:

1. On May 8, 2008, a mother returned to her home with her three children to find that everything inside had been vandalized and trashed with racist messages. There were racist slurs and gang symbols spray painted in every room of the house. Channice Davvy, the homeowner and an African American woman, is too afraid to reenter her home and has moved out until she can save enough money to buy a new home for her family. http://www.ktla.com/videobeta/watch/?watch=847a265c-724f-452a-a7a5-0727428c35cc&cat=c3d15e20-be56-43b6-b206-de573751f1ac&src=front

2. On election day in Staten Island, New York, a seventeen year old black male was beaten by three white men. The men were bitter about the election of Obama and went out to look for African Americans to assault. They came upon the boy who was walking home from a friend’s house and beat him with a metal pipe and baseball bats while yelling “Obama!” They went on to commit other racist crimes that night, ending with crashing their car into a man who they believed was black. http://wcbstv.com/topstories/obama.bias.attack.2.858230.html

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