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No, the United States is not headed toward a race war
The Washington Post's Post Everything ^ | July 20, 2016 | Stuart Wexler

Posted on 07/20/2016 3:37:52 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Is the United States on the verge of a race war? You might think so if you saw the New York Post’s “Civil War” front page the morning after the killing of five Dallas police officers. Or if you watched the YouTube clip of Baton Rouge shooter Gavin Long declaring, “It’s a time for peace, but it’s a time for war, and most of the times when you want peace, you got to go to war.” Or read the tweet from former congressman Joe Walsh (R-Ill.), warning “This is war. Watch out Obama. Watch out black lives matter punks. Real America is coming after you.” Or if you watched former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani’s speech at the Republican National Convention: “The vast majority of Americans today do not feel safe. They fear for their children. They fear for themselves. They fear for our police officers, who are being targeted, with a target on their back.”

It’s easy to understand why, according to new polling, Americans say race relations are getting worse. But despite real fears and frustrations, and those who are trying to capitalize on those fears and frustrations, the United States is unlikely to return to the widespread, violent civil disorder of the 1960s. Improvements in policing and community relations, along with the fragmentation of extremist groups, provide a bulwark against anything approximating a race war....

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TOPICS: Conspiracy; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: racism
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To: Biggirl

I would hope so, but you never know. The claims are that both candidates are so hated the people would welcome a third Obama term. Of course the only people that will count are those in favor of it.


21 posted on 07/20/2016 4:21:12 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This is one of those things you don’t want to hear from a newspaper that’s wrong about pretty much everything.

It’s like a Dick Morris prediction, in reverse.


22 posted on 07/20/2016 4:43:12 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (I apologize for not apologizing.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The problem is that black people are going to continue to experience a clash between their expectations and reality, and they will blame their inability to succeed (which I believe is a fact that cannot really be remedied) on white racism. As the last vestiges of formal racism fall away, and blacks still fail, their anger will increase, it will not decrease, and this will occur, in part, because there is a whole political industry that benefits from angry black people.


23 posted on 07/20/2016 4:58:58 PM PDT by Toliph
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Since obama would clearly be to blame, the kneepad media is doing what they can to deflect responsibility.

Lies, half-truths, innuendos...whatever it takes.


24 posted on 07/20/2016 5:00:58 PM PDT by Paulie (America without Christ is like a Chemistry book without the periodic table.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The 12% side really does not want a race war.
Millions of deer hunters out there who are excellent shots.
They don’t hold their guns sideways.


25 posted on 07/20/2016 5:02:18 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam , Know Peace)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

We are already in a race war.

Shall we count the dead?


26 posted on 07/20/2016 5:11:49 PM PDT by chris37 (heartless)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I'm sure if this dick-head, Stuart Wexler, had been alive in 1765, seeing the Stamp Act, he would have written an article predicting, with certainty, that the colonies were not headed for a revolutionary war.

The race war began decades ago...slowed down...then accelerated to "full steam ahead" during the past 7.6 years.

27 posted on 07/20/2016 5:45:09 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Those two sides live into different environments. The black separatists wont go out to the country and the country does not want to go into the urban area where typically 75 percent of all casualties occur.

The whites who stay in the urban are will be quickly and thoroughly purged.


28 posted on 07/20/2016 6:04:04 PM PDT by Molon Labbie
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To: Molon Labbie

Too many blacks have too much to lose in a race war.


29 posted on 07/20/2016 6:22:57 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Maybe so, but there are hundreds of thousands of foot soldiers who just don’t care anymore and getting bolder by the day.

They are also absolutely convinced that whites don’t have the stones to fight back.


30 posted on 07/20/2016 6:27:04 PM PDT by Molon Labbie
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If there isn’t a race war; it is NOT for lack of trying to
incite one by BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA.


31 posted on 07/20/2016 6:28:25 PM PDT by Twinkie (JOHN 3:16)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The washington post ought to look in the mirror.

the media deliberately inflame by only reporting black people shot by police when whites are shot twice as often.


32 posted on 07/20/2016 6:43:55 PM PDT by Cubs Fan (Liberals and Islamists are the Nazis and Stalinists of the 21st century. This time they are united.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The washington post ought to look in the mirror.

the media deliberately inflame by only reporting black people shot by police when whites are shot twice as often.


33 posted on 07/20/2016 6:45:18 PM PDT by Cubs Fan (Liberals and Islamists are the Nazis and Stalinists of the 21st century. This time they are united.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

WaPo is blind. If a shooting war led by the President, targeting civilian police forces is not civil war, then, what kind of war is it?


34 posted on 07/20/2016 6:51:10 PM PDT by FlyingEagle
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

How can we be headed for a race war...

WHEN WE ARE ALREADY IN ONE?


35 posted on 07/20/2016 6:55:25 PM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (The Confederate Flag is the new "N" word.)
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To: x

“If a race war comes just about anybody could become a victim.”

I know that there will be no race war. I was speculating that IF there would be a race war then, I, for one, would be looking for the MSM ‘reporters’ for starting/enabling it.


36 posted on 07/20/2016 10:42:34 PM PDT by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise
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