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TexasTowelie

(117,472 posts)
Thu Sep 8, 2016, 07:06 AM Sep 2016

Black California family shocked by arson attempt, spray-painted swastikas and racial slurs

A panicked family of seven bolted out of their California home early Wednesday as somebody tried to torch the two-story home with Molotov cocktails after spray-painting racist slurs across its facade, police said.

Roshon Williams was rousted awake by her 28-year-old daughter who screamed, “Mom, the house is on fire,” around 3:15 a.m., according to NBC Bay Area.

Williams grabbed a fire extinguisher and rushed out the backdoor of her Antioch home together with her family.

That’s when they noticed the vandalism.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/black-calif-family-shocked-arson-attempt-swastikas-article-1.2782608

Cross-posted in the California Group.

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Black California family shocked by arson attempt, spray-painted swastikas and racial slurs (Original Post) TexasTowelie Sep 2016 OP
Oh my God. mahina Sep 2016 #1
Not all racism is confined to the South as some here would have you believe! Dustlawyer Sep 2016 #2
Antioch lapfog_1 Sep 2016 #3
I'm shocked, shocked I tell you heaven05 Sep 2016 #4
I be shocked Coolest Ranger Sep 2016 #5

mahina

(19,024 posts)
1. Oh my God.
Thu Sep 8, 2016, 07:10 AM
Sep 2016

I jumped onto DU to do a little catching up before going to sleep. Now will not sleep. That family, my God in heaven. What a traumatic nightmare caused by such hateful ignorance. I hope they are supported and the criminals who did that receive what's coming to them.

Dustlawyer

(10,518 posts)
2. Not all racism is confined to the South as some here would have you believe!
Thu Sep 8, 2016, 07:18 AM
Sep 2016

Very glad that their daughter woke up and noticed. I hope police can catch this sick bastard who is willing to kill an innocent family because of the color of their skin". What makes a person hate that much?

 

heaven05

(18,124 posts)
4. I'm shocked, shocked I tell you
Fri Sep 9, 2016, 08:58 AM
Sep 2016

Last edited Fri Sep 9, 2016, 10:26 AM - Edit history (3)

NOT!!!!!! In this day of the trumpenfuhrer, and I know I'm not saying anything not known, but stay aware of your surroundings people. The trumpenfuhrer has opened a Pandora's Box of latent, virulent and murderous american racism and as our POTUS has said, started to again normalize white racial hate and white bigotry. I feel like I'm in Vietnam again where even during sleep one eye must be open and ears ALWAYS tuned to disturbance. How is that possible? It takes training, but one of my claims to fame from Vietnam???? I was ALWAYS first to shout INCOMING!!!!!!!!!!!!!

On further thought about this racism and the rise of the murderous white supremacist movement. It only took a slimy creature like the trumpenfuhrer to nick it's scaly skin to start the oozing out of the hate and fear that many white americans felt at the election of a man with brown skin to POTUS. And the reelection made that ooze a tidal wave.

Yet I am glad that finally we can be in a position to know how many are driven by their fear and hate of minorities. I at one time had to fight my thoughts because I thought they were just wrong and maybe just a little bit paranoid. Well they weren't and I'm not. Someone told me last week that his cadre of followers were just disaffected young and old white males. While that is true, I saw a photo of his post Mexico rally in Arizona last week and the number of young and old white women screaming in adulation of their fuhrer proved my point of the overall fear, genderwise, that pervades the american election landscape. America with this election season, you have shown me everything I will ever have to know about what has been right under the surface of american culture, ALWAYS, and what it has taken to cause this racist, hateful eruption of malevolent viciousness......an AA POTUS..

Coolest Ranger

(2,034 posts)
5. I be shocked
Sat Sep 10, 2016, 02:26 PM
Sep 2016

if I can make it a day without some white conservative calling me an ape, a monkey, a lazy crack baby, the n word and the F word

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