Posted on 09/16/2008 6:58:39 AM PDT by markomalley
AT LEAST 2 million readers visit DrudgeReport.com daily, and, for the last two weeks, it seemed like most of them were steamed at me.
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I stand by the column - but after all of that backlash, I realize I was dead wrong. We don't have to wait until after the election for a race war. We're in one now.
I know that putting the words "race" and "war" together is like hurling an incendiary device. But I wasn't issuing a call to arms, it was a metaphorical prediction.
I hate violence, but I do see a growing wave of intolerance sweeping the nation. And most of the responses were hostile, like one from someone who identified himself as Dennis Van Pelt: "Obama runs like a porch monkey in Alabama during a KKK concert." But, not all white Southerners feel like Dennis. Russ Nelson wrote: "I am a white male who was proud to cast my vote for Barack Obama in the Alabama state primary. He inspires me!"
Nelson sounds more like the liberal whites I grew up with in West Mount Airy, a community that pioneered integration in Philadelphia and kept me wearing rose-colored glasses. I didn't personally experience racism until I was 40, and then it hit me like a ton of bricks.
The recent onslaught of hate mail I received is a cruel reminder that racism is a like a simmering pot ready to boil over. But it's diametrically opposed to what democracy should represent.
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(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...
Let’s see if I get this straight. They run a black Marxist lunatic who’s the dumbest candidate in history. 90+ black voters fall all over themselves to support him.
Yet everyone else is racist and intolerant?
Ok, got it.
I hope and pray that there will not be any violence.
I will take the Freeper pledge not to incite violence if Obama wins this election, and challenge the other side to make the same pledge. Violence has no place in our elections. Emotions run high but we settle things at the ballot box, not in the streets.
You're obviously too young to remember Jimmy Carter.
So Fatimah - are you going to use the combat skills your father taught you to conduct your little war? Oh wait, he was a draft dodger. Never mind. It's just words.
I lived in Detroit durning the riots. We were friends with the black family next door.... When the riot broke the family next door turn mean and cruel...They tried to kick in our door. Stood if front of our apartment calling us everything but white.... I did not understand what we did wrong, we did not treat them like that..
Tell me, who was it that brought it up in the first place?
How sad that others made such vicious comments according to her article.
When I was a student at public schools in the 60's and 70's I heard vile comments from both blacks and whites.
Has been years since I heard a racial slur in conversation today. I have heard many more originating from the media over the years.
Her immediate concerns should be worrying about being
carjacked or shot in a drive-by in Philly!
If I don’t vote for a Democrat I am a racist?
As much as if you had a shaved head and a swastika tat over your heart, according to some.
Just stay the hell out of my foxhole.
She can see a racist in every mirror she looks into.
Hutus who had been friends for years with Tutsi turned on them. It's the mob mentality. And very scary.
She was probably correct.
However, it won’t be started by whites. That would be my prediction.
Just turn the racism comments back on them.
If a vote for McCain is a “racist” vote, than a vote for Obama is a “sexist” vote.
If I don’t vote for a Democrat I am a racist? .................... Only if he is black? If he was a Republican and black, would it be a race issue for her? Of course not, so why apply it to a Democrat? (Rhet.)
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I don’t doubt for a minute that this woman got a lot of racist mail. There are a lot of boorish, stupid people in this World.
Why do people have to exaggerate the racial aspects of this campaign? There are serious differences between the two candidates.
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Typical race-card-wielding lib take on things - using examples of either total agreement and compliance or abject hatred and enmity. There is a vast, color-apathetic middle ground out there where folks want nothing to do with “The One”. I don’t care if he’s a black democrat, or a white democrat, or a green democrat or a red democrat - its all the same to me - he’s a damn liberal-democrat and he’s not getting my vote. That’s not the basis for a race war, its simply the basis for a good old-fashioned American election. In the great marketplace of ideas and approaches, Barak has been weighed in the balance and found wanting. If Fatimah considers that war-mongering, then perhaps a switch to decaf is in order.
That’s just what I mean. And it’d be worse today, what with blacks being spoiled rotten by the welfare gimme-gimme and greivance industries.
The pollsters are finding that they are being punked in the Midwest, and not the South.
I love how she picked out a few lines from the hundreds of comments that were left for her. She even misquoted herself and Drudge. She’s irrelevant and it’s sad she makes more money than I do.
In all of my years coming up through public schools, the lion’s share of racism I saw was from the black kids towards the white kids, not the other way around. Most of the white kids were scared to say anything to offend the black kids, and the black kids knew it. They took full advantage, throwing words like honkey and cracker around like confetti and not thinking twice about starting fights for any provocation, real or imaginary.
Racism is not just the fault of ‘whitey’, in spite of what the liberal dopes in the media tell us.
This is why the "Bubba" comments are being magnified by the press, yet no mention of the "Blacklikeme" counterparts.
According to my observations, the counterparts outnumber the bubba's by a substantial number.
This is the problem with identity politics. You dont vote for Obama? Youre a racist. You dont vote for Hillary? Youre a sexist. You dont vote for McCain? Youre an Ageist.
Of course, politicos and their advisors know full well that people vote for (or indeed against) candidates for all manner of reasons...some good, some bad, some bizarre. Race will play a part, no doubt about it, but in the final analysis, Obama will lose because there are very large albatrosses around his neck, like inexperience, being a useless speaker without a script, being married to someone who isnt proud of America, being wrong on most policies, and so on , and on and on.
Oh geesh, I’m not so sure either this article is properly labeling everything, NOR sticking to the point or any facts.
‘Michael Babich from Wichita, Kan., accused me of “calling for rampant crime and a plague of locusts.”’
What has this to do with being racist?
‘From John Hassler: “I’d rather have an all out war than have [Obama] for president.”’
Is this racist? Or just partyist? (I.e., I’ll be damned if we have another damnDem in the WH.)
‘Roland hated my column: “I don’t like threats, so I will for sure, vote for John McCain.”’
So because he saw your column as a threat, Roland is racist?
‘Jim McDowell was less polite: “I just realized after I saw your last name you’re a damn rag head. You stupid S.O.B.’s want to take us back to the seventh century.”’
Not nice, but the same concern hit me with that name. (And the admission that your family “has several religions”.) Sorry, being “religionist” isn’t “racist”. And it’s reality to be damned worried about any Moslem. I mean, you pick on occasional white guys doing mean things, but not a bunch of Moslems killing 3000 within 1 hour? Hello? Maybe you’re not Moslem, but your name sure smacks of it.
“Do these quotes shock you? Is the vitriol not far from the kind of hatred that led to lynching?”
Again, half those quotes don’t bespeak “racist” to me. Hard-edged perhaps, but that’s all.
“Flip through right-wing talk radio, and you can hear this type of intolerance daily.”
Oh total BS! But typical.
‘I wonder about people like Larry Coltslinger, who said: “Our unemployment rate is as good, or better than it was after all eight years of Bill Clinton.”’
It’s true! So what? What are you wondering?
HA tell it to the liquor store, window smashing, tv stealing mob that will be running the streets when BARAAAACK loses.
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Be very careful, you are lumping all Spanish speaking people into one category. There are a lot of Hispanics who come to America legally, with the intention of assimilating into society. They have no desire to recreate the third world s***-holes they came from. Those are the people we want on our side. Alienating them with rhetoric helps not one iota.
I saw some folks in Chicago wearing T-shirts that had he words: THE NEW HOMELAND SECURITY — THE BLACK PANTHERS. I wouldn’t be shocked if Ms. Ali owns one of those shirts.
She lives in a city that sees 400+ murders a year, virtually all of them black-on-black.
For her, the thought of evil, scheming white racists is comforting; she embraces this fantasy like a warm puppy.
Doesn't help when one candidate makes it a part of his campaign.
But I’m sure you’re a much happier person than she is. :-)
Does she mean when Jimmy Carter called Obama a “black boy”?
Or when Senator Byrd used the “n” word on the senate floor?
Worse: under such pressure, there are many who will go into and come out of the voting booth swearing up & down that they voted for candidate X as socially required, but who actually picked candidate Y. It only takes about 2.5% of the voting population to actually decide an election (everyone else knows who they're voting for before the candidates are even nominated) ... but this year methings the "secret swing voters" will be upwards of 5%, firmly throwing the election one way.
However, if they want a war, I say bring it. It's about time this thing got settled. 50 years is long enough. A multicultural society, where people won't assimilate, has always ended with violence. Unfortunately, that appears to be human nature. People need to quit trying to live a politically correct pipe dream. It's not reality.
Fatimah, the daughter of Muhammad, was born in Mecca to Khadija, the first wife of Muhammad. Muslims regard Fatimah as a loving and devoted daughter, mother, wife, a sincere Muslim, and an exemplar for women. It is believed that she was very close to her father and her distinction from other women is mentioned in many hadith. After Khadijah, Muslims regard Fatimah as the most significant historical figure, considered to be the leader(Arabic: Sayyedih) of all women in this world and in Paradise. She was the only wife of Ali, who was the fourth caliph and whom Shias consider the first infallible Imam, the mother of the second and third Imams, and the ancestor of all the succeeding Imams.
Mohammed’s daughter
Fifth Column ping.
And with Obama's steadily eroding numbers even in states like New York he'll predictably lose the election.
And then a whole bunch of angry black folks are going to use that as an excuse to hit the streets and riot, pillage, plunder, and murder. Just like they do when their football or basketball teams win or lose playoffs or championship games. We'll also have Sharpton and Jackson on TV demanding 'do-overs' of the vote, dismissal of absentee votes from the military, dismissal of votes from predominantly white areas, and they may even demand that regardless of the outcome of the vote that Obama be granted the Presidency.
In any case, the first Wednesday of November would be a good time to carry a pistol or a shotgun in your car and laws to the contrary on this be damned.
Republicans or conservatives don’t count (good old libbie double standards). As others have pointed out, no race riots ensued when Ken Blackwell, Lynn Swann, and Michael Steele lost their races.
I should be very careful, lumping all Spanish speaking people into one category? A little late, aincha?
Dictionary definitions of “Hispanic” mention stuff like “of or relating to Spain or Spanish-speaking Latin American people or culture.” Are you a legal immigrant from Mexico who speaks Spanish as your primary language? You’re Hispanic. Are you an illegal immigrant from the DR who speaks Spanish as your primary language? You’re also Hispanic. Are you a native of Spain? You’re, surprise, still Hispanic. And, taken together, the legal and illegal Hispanic immigration and birth rates are pushing blacks downward in their demographic ranking. Blacks are becoming a minority minority, hayna? Or no?
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