Clyburn: Racist faxes, image of noose were sent to office

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From Huffington Post:

House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.) received racist faxes Monday in the wake of Sunday’s House vote approving health care reform legislation.

Clyburn, a veteran of the civil rights movement, told Keith Olbermann Monday that faxes sent to his office had racist images including a noose. “If you look at some of the faxes that I got today, racial slurs, nooses on gallows, and I’m telling you, some very vicious language. This stuff is not all that isolated. It’s pretty widespread. I hope it’s not too deep.”

Olbermann read Clyburn a National Review reader’s statement that racism is dead, and asked Clyburn if he could explain the logic behind it.

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