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Peach Pundit’s Pete Randall is very angry about the swastika spray-painted on the sign outside Rep. David Scott’s office overnight.

Only there’s a neat twist.

Guess who Randall’s angry at?

He’s angry at the victim, David Scott.

Randall:

Before we all buy into the assumptions of simpletons like Rep. Scott, who never met any sympathy he didn’t take advantage of, let’s consider for a moment that maybe, just maybe, a supporter of Scott committed this vandalism under cover of night in order to create a scenario where the scary and non-existent “racists” could be blamed.

He’s sick and tired of people being sick and tired of racism and, gosh darnit, he’s not gonna take it anymore!

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Last weekend’s vandalism of an Obama mural in Little Five Points wasn’t the first time someone sprayed the Nazi symbol on a sign related to Barack Obama.

During last month’s campaigning for the presidential primary in Pennsylvania, an elderly couple awoke to find a red swastika spray-painted on their Obama yard sign.

In case you’re keeping score on where the people who draw swastikas are directing their attention: According to my best culling of headlines over the last year, that’s two times Obama’s been defaced with swastikas, zero for McCain, zero for Clinton.

One interesting point about the people in this story is their ethnic backgrounds. Whatever you think of him as a candidate, Obama does seem to be drawing support from the growing portion of Americans whose families don’t fit neatly into “white,” “black” or “Christian” categories.

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Someone spray-painted a swastika and X’s last night over this graffiti portrait of Barack Obama in Little Five Points.

Camron Wiltshire and two other artists had been working last week on the piece at the corner of Colquitt and Euclid avenues. Sir2 painted another Obama portrait, and Michi had scripted out the old Sam Cooke lyric: “A long time coming but a change gonna come.”

Wiltshire, who happens to be a former CL Lust List winner, came by today to put the finishing touches on his portrait — and discovered the swastika. Sir2’s portrait also was defaced with a swastika.

“Nothing stops love,” Wiltshire said. “The person who did it is forgiven. And if he’d like to come talk to me, I am open to it. And I hope as a collective humanity can evolve and learn to love each other.”

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