Man badly beaten in Shreveport, LA for wearing Obama t-shirt

by versha
Mon Dec 08, 2008 at 08:24:54 PM PST
That subject line sounds a lot more generic than it actually is. Kaylon Johnson is the victim in question - and anyone who's ever been in the Shreveport for Obama office knows him very well as our go-to IT guy and one of the office coordinators.

I received a call yesterday from Jasmine Whitehorn about Kaylon's current condition. On Saturday night at a gas station in Shreveport, he was accosted by two white males who were yelling racial slurs, incensed by the Obama bumper stickers on Kaylon's car and the Obama t-shirt Kaylon was wearing. He waved them off, but when he came out of the gas station, they jumped on him.

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Kaylon was badly beaten and has sustained several head injuries. He will have surgery on Friday to repair a broken eye socket, broken nose, and torn tear duct.

News links with more details about the attack are below. For images of Kaylon before and after the attack,go here.

The local media have given the matter some attention, but it needs more. This email also serves different purposes - to let you all know about the attack (and please email obamashreveport@gmail.com if you want to send a message to Kaylon), to heighten awareness about the occurrence of such racist incidents, and to ask you to spread the word yourselves. A press release is also attached, written by fellow volunteer and Kaylon's close friend David Handy. David has been working tirelessly since Saturday night to get the facts of the case and to get those facts out to the public.

I've known Kaylon for a few months now - I first met him this June at a grassroots Obama meeting in Shreveport. I had organized the meeting through my.barackobama.com; he brought refreshments and buttons (both of which proved to be very popular). Someone on the Louisiana for Obama mailing list made the comment that it would be prudent to avoid wearing Obama paraphernalia unless one seeks martyrdom - it shouldn't have to be that way. Obama is no longer just a politician; he is our President-Elect, even in the red state of Louisiana (where Shreveport and Caddo Parish went blue). Kaylon didn't ask for any of this, and certain members of society need to realize that this kind of behavior will not be tolerated.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/12/8/231013/041/309/670913

i doubt these things even voted. the aryan nations are going to be recruiting more people than ever before and the increase in gun sales is`t a good sign .

Repukes are generally RACIST - but I'm being reduntant - hence their successfull appeals to racism in ALL their campaigns...

where have you been...look around you...

...:shrug:

I know a couple who aren't, who were pissed that skin color got people they considered "friends" to vote for Mccain.

Some racists are Democrats. I know some who could not vote Obama because of skin color, but voted straight Dem ticket otherwise.

A 32-year-old Shreveport man is now recovering at home after he says he was badly beaten at a west Shreveport gas station for wearing a Barack Obama t-shirt.

Kaylon Johnson says he now has a broken nose and eye socket after the brutal attack that he says was racially motivated and brought on by the t-shirt. "They were screaming "f" Obama, f***. Obama something about a n**** president, basically you know I was hit."

This all happened Saturday night around 11:30 at the Citgo on Industrial Drive off of I-20. He says he had already pumped gas and was walking out of the store with a drink when he was attacked. "Seem like some red necks, they're pretty big guys and they were blasting music or whatever, mean by the time I turned around and looked at him they were on me." Johnson says all he remembers after that was hitting his car door.

Johnson has been heavily involved in the Obama campaign and has even opened up a store on North Market where he sells Obama shirts. He says the beating will not distract him. "Things go on every day and all this seems is it shows that we do have purpose throughout the campaign and we still have work to do after the campaign."

http://www.ksla.com/Global/story.asp?S=9479629&nav=menu50_2

not a fake one like that gal claimed back during the election.
with the SCOTUS decision yesterday, and now that its sinking in that Obama really will be the president, I am afraid more of this might happen.
be careful out there.

some shitbrain says, "What about the white people who were jumped after election? Was the FBI called in? I don't think so. Double standards."

Were a lot of white people "jumped" after the election?

And maybe some were, but if they were Obama supporters too, I wonder what that poster would be saying.

I did however hear about lots of people (who just happen to be "rednecks" :P) stocking up on guns!



((nothing against rednecks, don't get me wrong y'all!!))

people all these years? And it wouldn't be FRONT PAGE NEWS . . ??

who'da thunk

Unfortunately I fear we will here more and more stories such as these - the are seriously nutting up.

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All racist are cowards. That's just a fact about these un-American bastards.

That's the way those RW assholes do things.





They lost and they just can't get over it.


:rofl: :rofl:

"it would be prudent to avoid wearing Obama paraphernalia unless one seeks martyrdom"

Oh, puh-leeeze...
:eyes:

Whenever they don't get what they want (this election cycle) they are quick to turn to violence.
The church shooter in TN, the shooter in AR, and the Palin rally folks, and now this.

There is an extremely violent theocratic element that is a large part of the conservative mindset. From the thugs here to the Iraq War architect Neo-Cons, this group is a seething ball of hate ready to explode either at first provocation (like the thugs) or when profit is available (the Neo-cons).

And after the election, conservatives proclaimed the end of 'white guilt'.