Kern Valley Sun
Linda Block of Kernville made a gut-wrenching discovery as she entered Kernville on her way home Saturday night from Bakerfield, where she and a group of friends had attended a showing of “The Laramie Project,” the chilling, true story of Matthew Shepard who was brutally beaten and tied to a fence in Laramie, Wyo. in 1998, and left to die alone simply because he was gay.
A vacant building in the 11000 block of Kernville Road, the Kern Valley Museum, the “Welcome to Kernville” sign as well as various community groups’ signs were defaced with Neo-Nazi graffiti that had been spray painted on them.
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The Southern Poverty Law Center, based in Montgomery, Ala., counted 888 active hate groups in the United States in 2007, including 80 in California - the highest number in the country. Nearer to home, the Aryan Militia, in Bakersfield, consists of various Neo-Nazi chapters such as American National Socialist Workers' Party, American Thule Society, Aryan Nations Youth Action Corps, and White Revolution. In Porterville, a Racist Skinhead chapter, Skinheads of the Rahowa, is active, as well.
The Southern Poverty Law Center was founded in 1971 as a small civil rights law firm. Today, SPLC is internationally known for its tolerance education programs, its legal victories against white supremacists and its tracking of hate groups. For more information visit the organization’s website at www.splcenter.org.


Comments
15 comment(s)Peg wrote on Dec 10, 2008 9:22 AM:
You anti gay people aren't pushing your "normalaliy" down our throats? Why can't you just live the way that works for you and let others make their own choices...why do they have to live the way YOU think is right? Diversity is the backbone of this country. Why is gays in quotes anyway? "
Rod Rowland wrote on Dec 8, 2008 9:34 AM:
bonnie wrote on Dec 5, 2008 7:38 PM:
Weekender wrote on Dec 4, 2008 6:03 PM:
Julie wrote on Dec 4, 2008 12:14 PM:
thinker wrote on Dec 3, 2008 12:39 PM:
You sure are telling us a lot about yourself...and it isn't pretty.With your twisted "logic", it is legal in some countries to beat ones wife, female castration without pain control among other barbaric practices. If you like the idea of living with those ideals, why don't you move to one of those countries? I'm sure you could find a husband who would treat you the good ol tradition way...... "
Barbara wrote on Dec 3, 2008 11:34 AM:
I am not the one who has "societal difficulties"...I am one who is considered "normal" by the majority of society throughout the world. If "gays" want "parity" in this world, then stop trying to convert society to your way of thinking. "It" still is called "deviant" by the majority of the world population, and crimes committed in this catagory are still prosecuted by law enforcement. If the "gays" would just stop trying to push their "agenda" down peoples throats, they would be considerably more comfortable in this community. "
Peg wrote on Dec 2, 2008 7:09 AM:
Peg wrote on Nov 27, 2008 10:47 AM:
Weekender wrote on Nov 26, 2008 5:44 PM:
Julie wrote on Nov 26, 2008 12:13 PM:
No matter.
Hate is hate and those that practice and preach it suffer all the more. "
Barbara wrote on Nov 21, 2008 12:26 PM:
This is a thinly veiled attempt to hype the agenda of the homosexuals in this community; with this graffiti, now the normal people in this valley are seemed to be "in-tolerant" just as many normal people are labeled these days when they protest deviant behavior as abnormal & criminal! You stink Kern Valley Sun and your agenda is transparent. "
Peg wrote on Nov 21, 2008 9:40 AM:
Weekender wrote on Nov 20, 2008 4:28 PM:
Julie wrote on Nov 20, 2008 9:45 AM: