Racism in the Fox Valley

A police officer from Fond du Lac told me last year those distributing racist fliers are "cowards" who never show their faces because they are afraid to stand behind their anonymous words.

Two Wisconsin colleges in the Fox Valley are looking for the idiots who distributed racist fliers on their campuses yesterday. They can check the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) Hate Map that shows eight racist groups operating in Wisconsin, likely some of the same white supremacist groups operating in the Fox Valley that hit UW-Oshkosh and St. Norbert College (De Pere).

And likely they're the same geniuses who left anti-Obama, racist fliers around Fond du Lac in 2008, and dropped white pride lit on car windows at a Latino pride gathering at the Fond du Lac Public Library last January.

Quit hiding, show your faces.

Inauguration Community

The atmosphere in D.C. is described as having an incredible sense of community, the museums, the celebrations, everywhere.

From family members who arrived Saturday.

[On Sunday] we walked to the White House, around the mall, to the Smithsonian, to the concert on the mall, to Georgetown . . . and then the girls (eight and ten) finally rebelled and we cabbed them back to home base (to dress warmer and rest). Of course, we saw every vendor to ensure that we could bring gifts home (in Wisconsin) to the unfortunates who could not attend. My favorite was the Barrack action figure for the bargain price of $15!

The atmosphere at the mall was fantastic. People were uncommonly nice. We met a couple from Alabama and it was so cool to hear that southern accent talk about the historic occasion.

At the Museum of American History there was an actor during the speeches of MLK. At the end, we all held hands and sang 'We Shall Overcome'. I must say, I felt like I was in the 60s. ...

More to come tomorrow. . . . .

Happy MLK Day!