Did a Group of White Men Set a Black Woman on Fire For Wearing an Obama t-Shirt? [Update]
The people of Winnsboro, LA are grappling with a truly monstrous crime. 
Sharmeka Moffitt, who is black, was taking a walk on a local trail when she was set on fire.
WMBF News reports:
According to the Franklin Parish Sheriff’s Office, Sharmeka Moffitt was on a walking trail in a city park when she was attacked. It happened about 8 p.m. Sunday evening.
She was taken to a hospital in Winnsboro and then transported to LSU Hospital in Shreveport.
After the initial reports, this case went viral on social media, with many people saying that a group of white men associated with the KKK attacked Moffitt because of her support for Obama. It was initially reported that the woman was wearing an Obama t-shirt at the time of the attack, but the sheriff’s office insists that the woman was not wearing an Obama shirt.
Even though police do not yet know whether Moffitt’s attack was a hate crime, this would not be the first time support for Obama resulted in violence.
President Obama’s Denver campaign office were shot recently while people were inside working. And there are also pictures circulating on the web of people having their Obama signs riddled with bullets.
With the right wing on edge, and becoming more unhinged as we draw closer to the election, it pays to be careful and cautious. Even though we don’t know what triggered the attack on Moffitt, it can’t hurt to take extra precautions.
Louisiana state police have taken over the investigation of Moffitt’s attack.
UPDATE: Here
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RIGHT WING NUTS…. GOING CRAZIER AND CRAZIER. It almost seems like they are trying to bring back the days of JIM CROW.
Bring back the days of jim crow?
THOSE DAYS NEVER LEFT!!! Where have you been?
We’re still fighting for the same rights we were murdered for 500 years ago!!!
JUSTICE, LIBERTY, EQUALITY & VOTING RIGHTS!
This willie lynch government is still keeping us DIVIDED!!!
WAKE UP THINGS AIN’T NEVER GONNA CHANGE UNTIL THESE caucasoids are annihilated!!!
And your comments will lead us to unity?
The young lady did this to herself. She has admitted it to the authorities.
Winnsboro didn’t divide into groups, we stood together, prayed together, and we grew closer because we did. People from the outside may want us divided, but we are united.
If you were from Winnsboro, you would know that racism isn’t predominant in our neck of the woods. We live together, play together, and pray together. People from the outside spit their venom, but we stood together.
Now the debate is whether she did this to herself after some forensic evidence supposedly points back to her. Sick, sad world either way— if she was a victim or it was self-perpetrated. A lot of people who are crying out for attention do give themselves serious injuries… just not to their faces. That is a classic sign.
We Just Need to get the Same idea! This is the Key Unity something every Black Leader tried to Bring because Organizations Kill More Devils than Bullets! Whitey won’t be here soon,you don’t need the Bullet if you got the Ballot! Gone Obama I better see your Black Behind at some Black Avents! And Free Mumia & all our Political Prisoners not now right Now!
We been living like a Turkey on Thanksgiving lol The Poor have no voice & Satanic Forces & evil everywhere d**n Devils! Black Power Now! Freedom Now let my people go & give us a good send off yeah Money! Tired of y’all crackers & sambos