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'Shocking And Disgusting' Racist Graffiti Found In Historic Black South Jersey Borough 'Shocking And Disgusting' Racist Graffiti Found In Historic Black South Jersey Borough
'Shocking And Disgusting' Racist Graffiti Found In Historic Black South Jersey Borough Residents in a historically Black community in Camden County were upset after racist graffiti was discovered on a fence at a woman's home, officials said. The incident happened in a neighborhood in Lawnside, according to a statement by the Camden County Board of Commissioners on Tuesday, Nov. 12. The graffiti included a racial slur and "offensive imagery" spray painted on a fence. "This was a shocking and disgusting display of hatred that has absolutely no place in Camden County," commissioners Jonathan Young and Al Dyer said. "Lawnside is a beautiful town with a deep connection to th…

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by Chris Spiker
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NJ Sikhs Terrorized By Texas Man Who Threatened To 'Show Them Heaven': Feds NJ Sikhs Terrorized By Texas Man Who Threatened To 'Show Them Heaven': Feds
NJ Sikhs Terrorized By Texas Man Who Threatened To 'Show Them Heaven': Feds A Texas man threatened to forcibly shave the “top and bottom hair” of a South Jersey Sikh activist, make that person smoke and eat tobacco and “show [them] heaven,” federal authorities charged. Bhushan Athale, 48, left seven voicemails of hate over the course of a single hour on Sept. 17, 2022, threatening to kill his primary target -- along with fellow members of a Sikh nonprofit organization in Burlington County – with a razor blade, they said. The voicemails, from Dallas, were “filled with violent imagery and obscenity” and “contained references to places, people and tenets that are part…

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by Jerry DeMarco