"Here I come Lizbeth. Obama lost."
Posted on 09/12/2008 8:32:29 AM PDT by forkinsocket
An anxious murmur is rising among black voters as the presidential race tightens: What if Barack Obama loses?
Black talk-show hosts and black-themed Web sites are being flooded with callers and bloggers reflecting a nervousness -- and anger -- over the campaign. Bev Smith, a nationally syndicated radio talk-show host, devoted her entire three-hour show Monday night to the question: "If Obama doesn't win, what will you think?"
"My audience is upset," she said in an interview. "Some people said they would be so angry it would be reminiscent of the [1960s] riots -- that is how despondent they would be."
Warren Ballentine, another nationally syndicated talk-show host, said: "Once Sarah Palin was picked and African-Americans saw the Republicans ignited again, they got worried. We are scared now."
The worries aren't universal. New York Gov. David Paterson, a Democrat, acknowledged the concerns about race. "I am hearing those jitters," he said. But he said many Democratic candidates have lost the presidential race in recent decades and "they were white candidates. African-Americans need to remember that."
Black nervousness could help Sen. Obama, the first African-American to head a major-party ticket, by boosting black turnout in November. One caller to Ms. Smith's show Monday said she was so worried that she planned to go to her church to begin working on a voter-registration drive.
If Sen. Obama loses, "African-Americans could be disappointed to the point of not engaging in the process anymore," or consider forming a third political party, said Richard McIntire, communications director for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
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It would be great if they formed a third political party...
Racism in its purest form - they are voting for him because of his race, and will be upset if he doesn’t win because of his race. They are defining themselves by their race rather than as human beings, and sizing up Obama based on his race, not as a candidate. Absolutely disgusting.
So, what do they want, affirmative action at the ballot box? I wonder if they’ll demand each black vote count for 1.5 votes compared to everyone else.
Vote for Barack, the candidate of change, peace and post-partisanship. Oh, and if he loses, we’ll riot.
Oh well, of course. It’s a perfectly normal, rational response to not winning all the marbles the very first time you play to go nuclear on the whole game...
No Obama, no peace.
I am skeptical, but also concerned.
The media has worked people up into a FRENZY that Obama WILL win. And if it doesn’t happen?
After all the years of Gore and Kerry-ites claiming they really won?
Folks, we need to fight for a large margin victory here.
Another slim victory? I have concerns.
The unhinged left knows no limits.
Yes, please form your own party.
From your lips to Gods ears.
Democrats have been selling black folks down the river for decades, it's about time they wised up.
Riots oh my. Make this a big story please. Let them threaten riots and McCain is sure to win by margins never before seen especially in the South.
"Here I come Lizbeth. Obama lost."
You know, it’s pretty hard to see it any other way.
two points:
-”Some people said they would be so angry it would be reminiscent of the [1960s] riots” GROW UP! Those threats wont work.
-They are “worried and angry”- good- if current trends persist, the Dhims should become demoralized and may wring their hands and stay home on Election day.
Didn’t MLK say judge a man by the “CONTENT OF HIS CHARACTER, NOT THE COLOR OF HIS SKIN”?
Sounds like a threat to me.
But they chose to ally themselves with unreconstructed racist Democratic whites rather than issue-driven who-cares-about-color Republican whites and those Democratic whites are going to stab them in the back.
The man will lose because he’s an empty suit, not because of his race.
I don’t remember being asked if I’m ‘fretting over Obama’.
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