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Behind the Aegis

(53,979 posts)
Thu Mar 28, 2019, 12:50 PM Mar 2019

Oklahoma Democrats' HQ Hit With Anti-Semitic Graffiti (Updated)

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Source: US World and News Report (via AP)

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma Democratic Party officials say the Oklahoma City building that houses its headquarters has been vandalized with racist and anti-Semitic graffiti.


Former Democratic Gov. David Walters said Thursday that vandals spray-painted derogatory remarks about various racial and ethnic groups outside the building. Swastikas were also spray-painted onto the doors. Walters and his wife, Rhonda, own the building, which also houses other tenants.


Anna Langthorn, executive director of the Oklahoma Democratic Party, says she thinks the graffiti, which refers to Democrats, targets the party.


Oklahoma City police say they are investigating the vandalism as a hate crime.


Read more: https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/oklahoma/articles/2019-03-28/oklahoma-democrats-hq-hit-with-anti-semitic-graffiti



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Adding: Racist vandals also hit Chickasaw Nation building



On the same morning that someone wrote racist graffiti in front of the Oklahoma Democratic Party headquarters, vandals also defaced the Chickasaw Nation building two miles east.

The words “Indians will be gassed” were scrawled in a parking space on the south side of the Chickasaw Nation’s Oklahoma City Area Office, 4001 N. Lincoln Blvd. Below that, the word “lampshaded” was written as well. The meaning of that word is unclear in its context, though the term has been used to describe a rhetorical device in the writing of fictional media. It could also refer to allegations that lampshades were made out of human skin during the Holocaust.

Other racist words and imagery, reported to include a swastika, were spray painted across the building’s south entrance. While cardboard had been taped over the graffiti by Thursday afternoon, blue spray paint was slightly visible. Vandals at the Oklahoma Democratic Party wrote the majority of their hateful messages in blue spray paint.

“It is very disheartening to see our building defaced by this type of hateful message which is so out of place for Oklahoma,” Chickasaw Nation Gov. Bill Anoatubby said. “We believe it is important to move past this isolated incident and focus our attention on the important work we do.”

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Oklahoma Democrats' HQ Hit With Anti-Semitic Graffiti (Updated) (Original Post) Behind the Aegis Mar 2019 OP
Oklahoma is the only state in which Obama won ZERO counties. BigDemVoter Mar 2019 #1
BigDemVoter grannyokie Mar 2019 #2
I know, and I am so sorry. I grew up in a neighboring state, so I DO know. BigDemVoter Mar 2019 #3
BigDemVoter grannyokie Mar 2019 #4
My company has a major training center in OKC bluevoter4life Mar 2019 #6
Gay and Jewish and living in OK. Behind the Aegis Mar 2019 #10
Hasn't been ONE Oklahoma County go Dem in a Presidential election in 18+ years.......... Bengus81 Mar 2019 #5
And yet, me and many others keep trying. Behind the Aegis Mar 2019 #11
I too was born and bred in the briar patch.... Toorich Mar 2019 #7
I live down the street from there. Mrs. Ted Nancy Mar 2019 #8
The only reason I stay is because of my Tribe Runningdawg Mar 2019 #9
kick Behind the Aegis Mar 2019 #12

BigDemVoter

(4,156 posts)
1. Oklahoma is the only state in which Obama won ZERO counties.
Thu Mar 28, 2019, 12:53 PM
Mar 2019

. . . My apologies to any nice people who live there. . . But I find the state ugly as hell, and furthermore, I just couldn't stomach being surrounded by Pussy Grabber's supporters.

Oh yeah, I am an upper middle aged, nominal Jew. If I were there, maybe they would think I came to replace them? I guess they think everybody is just dying to live in OK.

 

grannyokie

(95 posts)
2. BigDemVoter
Thu Mar 28, 2019, 01:17 PM
Mar 2019

I live here. A very rural area not very far from Tulsa. It really sucks to be a Democrat in this state.
During the election of Obama they were running people off the road with Obama stickers. Tearing up Obama signs in their yards. In Tulsa a man with a gun approached the home owner and demanded at gun point he remove that sign.
It's very hard for us. We can't talk too loud in restaurants, or the stores in fear they might pounce. I once had a blog page but I gave it up because it caused me too much grief. They teach this kind of hate from the pews of the Churches here. They have way, way too much influence on the politics here.

BigDemVoter

(4,156 posts)
3. I know, and I am so sorry. I grew up in a neighboring state, so I DO know.
Thu Mar 28, 2019, 01:30 PM
Mar 2019

Hopefully over time, people will change. I never expected that gay marriage would be legal ANYWHERE in the USA. . .

The proliferation of guns really terrifies me. I don't even bat an eye anymore when there's a mass shooting unless it's more than 50-60 people, as something happens EVERY day in the USA now. Hell, we had FIRST GRADERS shot in their classrooms at Sandy Hook, and all the victims got were a bunch of "thoughts & prayers." They even got blamed for "faking it." Yeah. That's what repigs do. They insult dead war veterans' parents; they stage white "identity" rallies and attack others. They have no decency whatsoever.

 

grannyokie

(95 posts)
4. BigDemVoter
Thu Mar 28, 2019, 01:50 PM
Mar 2019

Aww you're so sweet thanks for the words of encouragement. I was born and raised in Chicago 'Little Village' for a time. Moved to Wisconsin and got displaced during the 80s when ronald Reagan took office. Oklahoma had one of the lowest unemployment rates in the country. Many people from up North fled to Oklahoma. Many ended up living in their cars. I grew up in the early sixties and witness the Housing March of MLK first hand. I have a different perspective about things than many born and raised Okies. I had some daughters a son, three grandchildren and a couple of great grand children. All Liberals. That's my revenge.

bluevoter4life

(788 posts)
6. My company has a major training center in OKC
Thu Mar 28, 2019, 01:58 PM
Mar 2019

I have been twice already and a third time before the end if the year. I agree with other commenters. With apologies to our Democrat brethren there it is an ugly, ass-backwards state.

Behind the Aegis

(53,979 posts)
10. Gay and Jewish and living in OK.
Thu Mar 28, 2019, 03:57 PM
Mar 2019

I have lived in this state for 13 years, in three different cities, including OKC. While some areas are not to my liking, there is some real natural beauty in this state and there are a variety of peoples, a few who are working hard to make this state come into the 21st century, though I would settle for the 20th century at this point. Unlike other states, it is a feat to be a democrat here and to work to elect democrats, but we keep working. Oklahoma passed marriage equality before the Supreme Court. We also, finally, legalized medical marijuana. We make inroads where we can and we work very hard to stop the archaic bullshit when it is possible.

As for the recent attack, the anti-Semitism here is bad and I have encountered a number of anti-Semitic slurs and attitudes while living here. What upsets me is how many people overlook the anti-Semitic component and act as if it is unimportant. Finally, the messages included scare me because it is a reference, once again, to immigration "fears" and there are three synagogues in OKC, and I really don't want to see what happened in Pittsburgh happen here, though, I am wondering if it might be a foregone conclusion at this point and just a matter of time.

Bengus81

(6,932 posts)
5. Hasn't been ONE Oklahoma County go Dem in a Presidential election in 18+ years..........
Thu Mar 28, 2019, 01:53 PM
Mar 2019

Will that change in 2020--nah. Right along with Kansas (a load of western Kansas going 90+% for Trump) they have some of the poorest people in certain Counties who vote and vote and vote for Republicans to keep them down while giving the top 1% and huge Corporations ALL their money.

If you can fix this amount of STUPID tell me how...........

Toorich

(391 posts)
7. I too was born and bred in the briar patch....
Thu Mar 28, 2019, 02:23 PM
Mar 2019

.... Until Eisenhower was elected, I think Oklahoma had only elected Democrats or Socialists.
The Nixon/Republican "Southern Strategy" and Ronald Regan swept the State.
Also the right-wing Gaylord family owned the major newspapers (since statehood), TV and radio stations and
pumped out right-wing viewpoints that could have been the template for Fox news.
But we are trying to do better. For the first time in ages we elected a woman Democrat to Congress and that
shocked the hell out of the Repubs in the last election.
I get sick of Fox news being on in bars and cafes (most places in Okla) and I always ask for the manager and politely
request the TV be turned off
while I eat or at least put on an ESPN channel. If refused I leave and tell them that the party I needed to book for 20 people
will be booked at another establishment. That gets a great reaction when the potential lost profits sink in.
And when I feel particularly pissed, I wear my maga hat that is printed in Russian. That has started some great discussions
where I always address the Trumper as Comrade. They actually have no response to that. If the conversation moves to
the ultra-right and white supremacists and fascists, I tell them that my old Pappy and my uncles all had their uniforms
covered with medals for killing as much of that trash as possible.

Mrs. Ted Nancy

(462 posts)
8. I live down the street from there.
Thu Mar 28, 2019, 02:50 PM
Mar 2019

There was a local TV crew there a few minutes ago.

Very troubling to say the least.

Runningdawg

(4,522 posts)
9. The only reason I stay is because of my Tribe
Thu Mar 28, 2019, 02:53 PM
Mar 2019

Even that is becoming less a reason as my elders die off.
The comments on FB and on the Tulsa News Stations websites and Tulsa World are truly disgusting. I have not read ONE statement today condemning the actions of the vandals, yet they all claim the Democrats pulled a "Smollett".
I never label ANYTHING with my political party - house, car, clothes...and I don't carry my voter registration card, I don't have FB or DU on my phone, nothing there to identify my political party either. I NEVER discuss politics in public, even with friends and yes, I will admit I don't participate in public demonstrations either.

These redneck MAGAts aren't playing around.

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