Will there be race riots if Obama loses?

examiner.com ^ | 10/10/2012 | Howard Portnoy

[Signalman]

There are plenty of good reasons for making Barack Obama a one-term president, among them his adding of $5 trillion to the national deficit and presiding over the slowest recovery since World War II. But reason goes out the window along with common sense for dozens of Twitter followers who have posted threats to riot if Romney wins.

Twitchy offers up an assortment of tweets that center on this theme. The majority of them are in black “eye dialect. Here is a sampling:

I Heard Mitt Romney , Tryna Take Away Food Stamps , If He Do ."IMA START A RIOT , IMA START A RIOT" —@ThugPickles

If Romney win Imma start riot!— IG: Mocha_21 (@SpoilMe24_7) —@SpoilMe24_7

If Romney is elected president, its gon be a riot its gon be a riot. —PhillyB_2Insane

on b if romney become president im a start a riot on 11th in front of heb and subway. oh im a make the damn news. espn, kbtv, and kfdm.— You askin too much!! (@MyCup_OILY) —@MyCup_OILY

If ROMNEY GETS IN THE WHITE HOUSE ...U MIGHT AS WELL KILL ME NOW .....CAUSE ITS GONNA BE A MOTHERF**KIN RIOT !!! —@J_freakyArtemis

Twitchy notes that a number of the tweets have since been deleted, and one poster has apologized for his tweet, claiming it was a “joke.” And an hilarious one at that.

[SkyDancer]

So like Chicago will turn into Zimbabwe for several nights?

[publius911]

Funny thing is that the Detroit riot of 67 started with something that most FReepers would probably say should have been left well enough alone. (Raided an unlicensed bar)

I believe that you are totally wrong about that.

Leave well enough alone?
Formalize, and set in concrete the notion that some animals are more equal than other? And that they are immune from the rules of civilized behavior that everyone else voluntarily observe?

[RoosterRedux]

Obama's people will riot...and burn their own houses...their own neighborhoods.

That will show us.

[Brandonmark]

If Obama can get his folks behind Romney then it will be ok.

IMHO I wouldn't count on that happening!

[Morris70]

Yes but so what.

[svcw]

I am not anti-mormon and have never been nor will I ever be.
My comment is about what I beleive will happen if obama wins or loses.

[Wicket]

And Philadelphia

[garyhope]

Uh, scuse me, but what are “homie sights?

[DiogenesLamp]

Probably. Democrats have a tendency to act like spoiled rotten brats when they are told “no.”

[garyhope]

Uh, scuse me, but what are “homie sights?

[hinckley buzzard]

If Romney wins by a thin margin, and there are provocations by the party psychopaths in the inner cities, then yes there could be riots. If Romney wins comfortably there will not be.

All depends on whether white democrat slaveowners decide to poke a few of the slave quarters with a firebrand or two.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

If the media wants riots, there will be riots.

If journalism wants riots, it will advertise for them.

[X-spurt]

Easy, hunger is a might powerful force. Just like when klintoon had to cut welfare, it wasn’t a bump and “they” went to work, at least until Mr. Reparations came along.

[dalereed]

“They LOVE that free stuff and want more of it, not less. “

If they riot i’ll be ready ro give them a lot of free fast lead!

[FrogMom]

Don’t know if they’ll riot, but on one of those threads, I saw one fellow say, “If Romney wins, I’m going out and taking out the first white I see!”

I can see that happening.

[Farmer Dean]

Notice how the surviving houses appear to be well maintained.Try to find a neighborhood in Detroit that looks that good today.

[greene66]

Obama-voters rioting and burning down Obama-voting cities?

Fine by me. Burn your cities down. Burn your selves down. Burn your selves straight to hell.

[Chode]

same same South Bronx

[Farmer Dean]

Berlin looked better in May 1945.