School officials in Lancaster, Pennsylvania have identified 12 students who belong to a self-styled racist clique that has been instigating trouble recently. From
Lancaster Online:Several students, whom other Warwick students identified as having been among those involved in Wednesday's incident, maintain MySpace pages on the Internet, where they boast about their trucks and talk of "redneck row," the area in the student parking lot where they park and hang out.
On one 17-year-old student's page, a friend commented Oct. 4, the day of the incident: "hey man that was bullshit this morning but it was kinda funny i think you scared the shit out of that cop."
One 17-year-old Lititz youth, who on his MySpace page identifies himself as a Warwick student, has a history of posting to Stormfront.org, a white supremacist Web site owned by former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard Don Black. There is no confirmation that the student was involved in Wednesday's incident.
Tuesday, the student posted a message to the site: "all my friends have Rebel flags mounted on there truck beds now. It's funny as hell seeing them pull in, and hearing the handful of black kids at my school yell at them. You just got to give it right back to them."
The user also maintains a site on MySpace that has a picture of himself holding what appears to be a shotgun with the caption "border hoppers beware."
Of the school's more than 1,500 students, only about 20 are black.
I've suspected for a while now that this recent outbreak of incidents of this sort is
not just a series of coincidences. I think it's calculated, and I think it has direction. From someone
other than the mere dumb-bunny locals who start the fights and get their names in the paper.