[pburgh01]

I’ll be the contrarian here, election night will be calm no matter what. Blacks will not riot en masse or even in the cities, this is Obamabot fantasy. Maybe they will burn some couches like West Virginia Moutaineeer football fans, but 1968 type riots...umm Barak you’re a legend in your own mind.

[kearnyirish2]

“Blacks will not riot en masse or even in the cities, this is Obamabot fantasy.”

Black rioting outside of localized “wilding” is a thing of the past; the LA riots stopped because mailmen wouldn’t deliver the welfare checks, and that was the end of that. While technology has made such deliveries unnecessary, the fact is that America segregated even further as a result of that (and Crown Heights in Brooklyn); today most people in my area only see blacks if they work with them. The numbers for blacks have dwindled, bolstered only by a “one drop of black blood” rule used for statistics. The fact is that many former black ghettoes are now heavily Hispanics (thanks to both the Welfare Reform of 1996 and unfettered immigration), and even this was obvious in the LA riot. Many looters were Hispanics looking for free stuff..

[hinckley buzzard]

I am inclined to agree with you, with the possible exception of certain urban areas, where the rabble rousers can gin up stories about vote suppression by republicans and stir in the racial sewage to taste.