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  • 2018-10-30 (xsd:date)
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  • Is This a Real Photograph of a Man Holding a 'Homeless N*****s Go Back to Africa' Sign? (en)
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  • The frequency of hate crimes in the United States increased for the fourth straight year in 2017, according to a report released in May 2018 by the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University at San Bernardino. The largest percentage of those crimes were motivated by ethnic or racial bias, the report said, with African Americans the most frequently targeted segment of the population. White supremacist groups and hate speech incidents were also on the rise. So was public awareness of how hate groups have recently grown more emboldened in their displays of racial bigotry. In mid-2018, social media users began sharing photographs of what they took to be a particularly egregious expression of racial hatred. The images showed a man on a street corner holding a large sign which read Homeless Niggers Go Back to Africa, a sign clearly visible in this example from Twitter: Some social media users who shared the photographs explicitly called the man pictured holding the sign a white supremacist: But despite the fact that the photograph was genuine and matched press reports of an incident that occurred in Tampa, Florida, in July 2018, the story behind the picture -- including the identity of the subject and his motivation for displaying the sign -- was significantly more complex than it appeared at first glance. A 13 July 2018 article in the Tampa Bay Times supplied the backstory: Why would an African-American man display such a virulently racist sign in a public place? Not even the Tampa Bay Times, which has covered Tony Daniel's race-baiting antics for years, is sure. The following account is from a May 2017 article about an ongoing dispute between Daniel and Tampa City Hall: In court proceedings, Daniel has described himself as a protester against the racist treatment he says he received in dealings with the city and various local businesses: As of this writing, Daniel still faces charges of misdemeanor battery for the 13 July 2018 altercation in which he was accused of striking two women with his megaphone. (en)
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