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This prank may culminate in a Neo-Nazi rally at Washburn later this afternoon.

:::: UPDATE :::: Washburn High parent concerned black doll incident could lead to racial violence [INTERVIEW]

A handful of Washburn High School students were disciplined after a black doll was found hanging from a noose in a school stairwell on January 11.

SEE ALSO: Obama effigy hangs from Duluth billboard [PHOTO]

The Independent Business News Network's Don Allen reports that three students were suspended for one day (January 18 update: Though the school still hasn't publicly disclosed the punishments, it appears four students were suspended for as many as four days and one student may have been expelled.) But  the most interesting part of Allen's post pertains to how a white pride group plans to respond to the suspensions.

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YouTube screengrab (left); Facebook image via Duluth News Tribune (right)

At left, two blackfaced Duluth women during their racist YouTube rant; at right, Pizza Luce employee Adam Stoningpot wears blackface at an employee party.

In recent weeks, video of two young Duluth women wearing blackface and uttering absurdly offensive racial slurs went viral (the footage can be seen below the jump).

Just a week later, a photo of a Pizza Luce employee wearing blackfare at a Halloween party has surfaced.

SEE ALSO: 11 white supremacists turn out in Duluth, get pelted with snowballs

It's been a surprisingly racially charged year in Duluth, as news of the two most recent incidents come on the heels of an Obama doll being hung from a billboard on election day and controversy about the city's "It's hard to see racism when you're white" billboard campaign.

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Mulholland likes bikes. She doesn't like black people.

Laura Mulholland -- the Rochester racist whose backyard display features a bayonet-pierced empty chair hanging from a noose -- didn't have her picture published along with an online report about her anti-Obama views.

SEE ALSO: Openly racist woman's anti-Obama display: Bayonet-stabbed chair hanging from noose

But she does have a public Facebook profile, so thanks to the wonders of social media, we can shed a bit of light on who she is and what her political beliefs are.

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"We can do that in this country," Laura Mulholland says of her backyard display.

:::: UPDATE :::: Laura Mulholland, Rochester anti-Obama racist, has a public Facebook profile

A week after Wisconsin resident Thomas Savka made waves with his "HANG in there OBAMA" sign (he says it's intended as a message of support for the president!), Rochester resident Laura Mulholland has upped the ante.

SEE ALSO: "Hang in there Obama" sign, adorned with noose, displayed on Wisconsin roadway

Mulholland packed an impressive amount of symbolism into her backyard anti-Obama display, which features a bayonet-stabbed empty chair hanging from a noose.

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David Kahn says the T-Wolves whiteout roster is nothing more than a coincidence.

In a piece published over the weekend, the Star Tribune's Jerry Zgoda and Dennis Brackin went there -- they wrote a story about the Timberwolves' historically white roster, which has been dubbed the 'Cream Team.'

SEE ALSO:
-- Wolves acquire Chase Budinger, white guy who jumped over P. Diddy at Dunk Contest [VIDEO]
-- Andrei Kirilenko: Newest T-Wolf's top 10 plays [VIDEO and EPIC TATTOO PHOTO]

With 10 white players (five American-born, five foreign-born) and just five African-Americans, the T-Wolves' 2012-13 roster is the whitest the NBA has seen since the Bird- and McHale-led Celtics teams of the late 1980s, and two prominent Twin Cities African-Americans think it's more than a coincidence.

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Did the DFL employ "racist tactics" by darkening this photo? The MNGOP thinks so.

MNGOP leaders are accusing the DFL of race-baiting with a new anti-Rep. King Banaian mailer.

SEE ALSO:
-- Minnesota is one of the least racist states, according to Google (and Harvard)
-- Bemidji cross burning: Two white men, ages 19 and 20, arrested [MUGSHOTS]
-- Racist Art Song's chicken wings sign uncovered off Nicollet Ave. in SW Minneapolis [PHOTO]

The mailer darkens Banaian's skin, but the DFL says that a document released by the MNGOP that highlights the contrast actually darkens the first-term legislator's skin more than the original DFL mailer does. Banaian, an economics professor at the St. Cloud State University, is of Armenian descent.


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On the Lynx's theory, Kevin Love could drive through Roseville with impunity, dangling air freshener or no.

Earlier this week, we told you about Lynx star Seimone Augustus' Twitter tirade after she was pulled over in Roseville for having an air freshener dangling from her rear-view mirror.

SEE ALSO: Seimone Augustus blasts Roseville PD after air freshener traffic stop

Augustus alleged officer Won Chau acted inappropriately by threatening to write her a ticket if she reported the pull-over to Roseville PD authorities, but stopped short of claiming she was a victim of racial profiling. But Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve explicitly characterized the traffic stop as "racial profiling" while discussing the incident with reporters yesterday.

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Those of us who are racist apparently don't share those prejudices with Google.

A Harvard PhD student recently analyzed Google search data from the 2004 and 2008 presidential election cycles in hopes of determining to what extent the Obama vote was limited by racial prejudices.

SEE ALSO:
-- Minnesota is the least miserable state, according to Bloomberg
-- Twin Cities 4th-most peaceful metro; Minnesota 4th-most peaceful state, study finds [GRAPHICS]

The student, Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, determined that Obama's vote percentage could've been about three to five percent higher nationally if he were white. But what's interesting for our purposes is the state-by-state Google racism ranking Stephens-Davidowitz put together.

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Olmsted lost his job, but he hasn't totally lost his paycheck.

St. Paul teacher Tim Olmsted is still getting paid by taxpayers, nearly six months after he resigned amid accusations he was openly racist in the classroom.

SEE ALSO: St. Paul teacher allegedly calls students "fat, black, and stupid," placed on paid leave

As we told you about last January, Olmsted was placed on leave after he allegedly told five students in his class at Heights Community School on St. Paul's East Side that they're "fat, black, and stupid." He's also accused of segregating black and special education students from whites -- a charge backed up by a substitute teacher who worked in Olmsted's classroom. A new CNN video report reveals that he still has his teaching license and continues to be reimbursed by the district for unused sick days.

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Stop the Un-Fair Campaign is fighting billboards with billboards.

SEE ALSO:
-- University of Minnesota-Duluth suspends involvement with "divisive" Un-Fair Campaign [VIDEO]
-- 11 white supremacists turn out in Duluth, get pelted with snowballs
-- "It's hard to see racism when you're white" billboards roil Duluth

The Un-Fair Campaign has divided Duluth since "It's hard to see racism when you're white" billboards first debuted last winter. Now, a new anti-Un-Fair Campaign group is putting some money where its mouth is.

A new billboard near downtown Duluth calls for the end of the anti-racism effort that has allegedly done more harm than good. "Diversity: Embrace it. Don't Deface it. STOP the Un-Fair Campaign," it reads.


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