Hate on the Internet

I have a google alert set for the word "biracial" for both the news and blog updates.  Each day I receive an email with a list of items.  I have discovered some great stories and blogs this way.  The other day I clicked on one of the items that mentioned a favorite writer of mine who is a white mother of biracial children.  I was really shocked to have clicked through to a white supremacist site discussing her work.  Rather, the forum participants wrote many ignorant, hateful, racist, and misspelled things about the writer's claim that she stopped "feeling white" when she became pregnant with her biracial child.  I read a few of the supremacist's posts, but then had to stop.  I was disgusted and also scared.  How naive I am to think that just because it is 2008 and our next U.S. president likely will be a biracial African-American, that white supremacists wouldn't still enjoy a lively forum.  Still, it's really frightening to think about.