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NAACP Leaders Protest Racist Cartoon
The Portland Branch o f the
N A ACP stood up against a rac­
ist cartoon seen as advocating
the assassination o f President
O bam a and prom oting deh u ­
manizing racial stereotypes in a
N A A C P N ationw ide D ay o f
Action.
“Make M urdoch Fix it,” was
the ra lly in g cry o f N A A C P
m em bers and other com m unity
le a d e rs in c itie s a c ro ss the
c o u n ty
d e m a n d in g
th a t
NewsCorp Chairman and owner
Rubert M urdoch make changes
im m ediately to his New York
Post and Fox N ew s outlets.
The New York Post cartoon
showed police shooting a chim ­
panzee with a caption saying,”
I guess th e y ’ve have to find
som eone else to write the next
s tim u lu s b ill ,” ju x ta p o s e d
ag ainst a photo o f P resident
O bam a singing the stim ulus
package.
T he local protest took place
Thursday at Reflections B ook­
sto re in n o rth e a st P o rtla n d ,
draw ing several local leaders
and supporters.
Portland N A ACP President
Bishop H. L. Hodge distributed
a letter the group sent to the
Patrick M cCreery, the general
manager o f KPTV, Channel 12,
asking the local FOX-TV afftli-
piioto by
M ark W ashington /T he P ortland O bserver
A Nationwide Day o f Action to protest a racist New York Post cartoon draws the support o f the Portland Branch o f the NAACP. Pictured are Helen
Sherman (from left), Bishop H. L. Hodge, Lurene P. Campbell, Barbara Brady, Bishop Lamont Tellis and Earlean P. Hodge.
ate to lend its voice to a call to
change the pattern o f racially
in s e n s itiv e an d in c e n d ia ry
new s coverage, and dem and
greater diversity at new s out­
lets nationwide.
M cC reery did not return a
photo call from the P ortland
O bserver asking for comment.
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Cross Burning Guilty Pleas
Two men from Medford have
pleaded guilty to a hate crim e
after pouring flam m able liquid
on the front lawn o f a residence
in the shape o f a cross and the
letters KKK and igniting the
material with a small explosive
device.
G a ry M o ss an d D ev a n
K lausegger adm itted that this
w as done with the intent to in­
terfere with the victim s’ civil
rights under the Fair Housing
A ct because one o f the victims
was A frican-A m erican, federal
prosecutors said.
“ Bias-m otivated acts o f vio­
le n c e a re o f fe n s iv e to o u r
nation's fundam ental values,”
said
Loretta King, acting assistant
attorney general for the Civil
Rights Division. “The Justice
Departm ent is com m itted to
vigorously prosecuting the fed­
eral law s p ro hibiting violent
acts m otivated by hate.”
“C rim es com m itted in the
nam e o f racial hatred tear at the
very fabric o f our society,"said
U.S. Attorney Karin J. Immergut.
“All m em bers o f our society
must be free to live without fear
that they will be targeted b e­
cause o f their race.”
M oss and K lausegger face
a maximum punishm ent o f 10
y ea rs in p riso n , up to three
years o f supervised release and
a tine o f up to $250,(MX).
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