"88," White Power for "Heil Hitler"

[Duane Campbell]

On Wed, 28 Aug 2002 16:49:26 -0400 Grant Barrett

> "Thanks to Target, the nationwide department-store chain, students
> across the country may be heading back to school in hip-looking
> white
> supremacist regalia. The retail giant is selling shorts and baseball
> caps splashed with “EIGHT EIGHT” and “88” – white-power code for
> “Heil
> Hitler,” because “h” is the eighth letter of the alphabet."

This looks like the liberal counterpart of the religious right's
obsession with 666.

D