there's a picture

at the link below. i'm NOT going to duplicate it here. it's revolting, disgusting, immoral AND dangerous.

i know racism and prejudice are born out of one thing and one thing alone. FEAR

(but what i don't know is WHY? why be afraid of someone whose skin color may be a shade or two off from yours? we all look alike UNDER our skin)

Illustration of Obama in rifle crosshairs draws fire'Roswell Beacon' distributed to 65,000 north Fulton readers
By CHRISTIAN BOONE The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 05/21/08
A Roswell newspaper is defending a controversial cover illustration that placed Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama in a rifle's cross hairs.
An influential liberal blog featured a post Tuesday on the provocative cover art, triggering a flood of complaints to the Roswell Beacon, a nascent free weekly distributed to about 65,000 north Fulton residents. The article was published May 15th. offensive, but the cover is beyond the pale. As indicated by the article, there are some serious racists in the area, and Obama's candidacy has brought out the worst in a lot of people. The last thing we need is a newspaper to suggest assassination with an incendiary cover such as this."
Readers — Kos receives more than 1.3 million visits a day, according to sitemeter.com — were encouraged to contact the newspaper and its advertisers. By day's end, Holiday Inn announced it would no longer do business with the Beacon, though the paper's publisher, John Fredericks, said editorial decisions would not be influenced by "liberal blogger thuggery."
"Good, bad or ugly, we tell the truth," he said...........