Monday, February 14, 2005

There are neo-nazis in the suburbs.

I woke up this morning to find my quiet, suburban neighborhood had been blanketed with leaflets from a hate group offering to teach me about "Black History and the white victims it created". It also told me to "break the stranglehold" of the Jews "or this country's going down the drain."

My ten-year-old daughter was getting in the car to go to school when she noticed the packet on the driveway. It was a small plastic sleeve with three leaflets rolled together so that the large headline "LOVE YOUR RACE" was the only thing visible. My daughter was intrigued and wanted to read it on the way to school. I told her I wanted to see it first and then I was shocked by what it contained.

I couldn't believe a group like this would target my little suburban neighborhood.

I picked up another leaflet roll on my front lawn, but as I drove down the block to go to work I saw every front lawn in the neighborhood had been blessed with the little packets of hate.