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Racist Fliers Concern Arden Park Residents

NAACP: Fliers Fuel Fear, Hatred

POSTED: 8:51 am PST February 17, 2004
UPDATED: 9:15 am PST February 18, 2004

Sacramento's Arden Park is the latest neighborhood to be targeted by a group distributing fliers advertising for a racist organization.

Over the past five months, the same group targeted seven Northern California neighborhoods, KCRA 3 reported.

Miles Snyder said he was doing yard work when he found a flier thrown on his lawn Sunday. The flier was an advertisement for a The National Alliance.

"I was angry and outraged and tossed it," he said.

Snyder and his wife, Sharon, said they were even more angry when they learned that dozens of their Arden Park neighbors received the same flier.

"It's absolutely despicable ... I'm outraged and there's no room for racism in our society and our world ... and not here in Arden Park," Sharon Snyder said.

The head of the Arden Park Homeowners Association, John Clark, said he saved one of the fliers and is taking it to the sheriff's department.

"We've had many, many calls about this from people ... they are concerned. I think the sheriff should investigate who's behind it ... who put the bulletins on the ground," Clark said.

The fliers are legal. They feature an ad for a Web site and a phone number to a recorded message. Both advocate hatred for any race but Aryan.

"That information fuels fear and it fuels hatred ... and if it ferments long enough it manifests in action or potential action like what we saw at Laguna Creek High School," said David De Luz of the Sacramento NAACP.

The NAACP believes that type of literature was at the heart of a plan by two white students to shoot black students at Elk Grove's Laguna Creek High School. Authorities stopped the plan last week.

Arden Park

Similar fliers turned up in Amador County earlier this month and in Sacramento's Town and Country Village area last November.

Members of the Jewish community recalled the way Sacramento stood up to hatred after the firebombing of three synagogues in 1999.

"Maybe it's time for us to do things like that again, to make it clear to the few people who harbor these hatreds in the community that it's not acceptable," said Len Feldman of the Jewish Community Relations Council of the Sacramento Region.

Authorities said racist fliers often come close to the legal border line -- crossing the line if they include specific threats.

The NAACP is holding community meeting Wednesday to address the allegations of racism in the threatened attack at Laguna Creek High School. The meeting is at 7 p.m. at the Great Faith Church at 5230 Ehrhardt Ave. in South Sacramento.


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