Facebook offers White pages

-------------------UPDATE - Since this article was posted, Facebook no longer hosts such a page! Thanks to J. Porter for  noting this update.---------------------------


There is a new player in the community of Facebook Pages. It is likely to get much attention. Hopefully it will get very few "Likes".

The page is titled "Let's put a white man back in the White House".

If you think the name may just be some kind of sarcasm or sensationalism not really indicative of racial hatred, you would have a hard time defending that benefit of the doubt once looking at what is actually there. 

First, their self-description:

"Electing Obama to office was a huge mistake. Even though he is only a half breed it was his black side running our country and spending out of control."

In this screenshot, notice the pages liked by the administrator:

When I learned of this Facebook page this morning, they had 17 Likes. As of this writing, they have 23.

Facebook claims this page does not violate their code of Community Standards. That decision is hard to defend when you actually read Facebook's standards.

Note Facebook's specific text "…it is a serious violation to attack a person based on their race, ethnicity, national origin…"

Facebook's code of page conduct or "Community Standards"

Attacking the President of the United States solely on the basis of his race is about as clear and blatant a violation of that Facebook code as one could put forth.

But Facebook says they were "not able to confirm that the specific page" violates any code of Facebook conduct.

I wonder if Facebook's ability to confirm this pages's blatant purpose "…to attack a person based on their race, ethnicity…" would dramatically improve if they get enough violation reports.

Facebook offers the option to report a page as inappropriate