Hate speech seeps into U.S. mainstream amid bitter campaign

(Note: paragraph 2 contains language that may offend some readers) By Peter Eisler KOKOMO, Indiana (Reuters) - The lettering is crude, scrawled in black spray paint on the sidewalk in front of Karen Peters’ neatly kept home in the quiet, working class neighborhood where she’s lived most of her life. "KKK Bitch.” The racially charged graffiti appeared in mid-October on cars, homes and telephone poles in the small city of Kokomo, Indiana. Many victims, like Peters, were African A