Posted on 06/05/2007 10:51:13 AM PDT by Rodney King
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HAMPTON, Va. (AP) - Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama said Tuesday that the Bush administration has done nothing to defuse a "quiet riot" among blacks that threatens to erupt just as riots in Los Angeles did 15 years ago.
The first-term Illinois senator said that with black people from New Orleans and the Gulf Coast still displaced 20 months after Hurricane Katrina, frustration and resentments are building explosively as they did before the 1992 riots.
"This administration was colorblind in its incompetence," Obama said at a conference of black clergy, "but the poverty and the hopelessness was there long before the hurricane.
"All the hurricane did was to pull the curtain back for all the world to see," he said.
Obama's attack on Bush got ovation after ovation from the nearly 8,000 people gathered in Hampton University's Convocation Center, particularly when he denounced the Iraq war and noted that he had opposed it from the outset.
Repeatedly, he referred to the riots that erupted in Los Angeles after a jury acquitted four police officers of assault charges in the 1991 beating of Rodney King, a black motorist, after a high speed chase. Fifty-five people died and 2,000 were injured in several days of riots in the city's black neighborhoods.
"Those 'quiet riots' that take place every day are born from the same place as the fires and the destruction and the police decked out in riot gear and the deaths," Obama said. "They happen when a sense of disconnect settles in and hope dissipates. Despair takes hold and young people all across this country look at the way the world is and believe that things are never going to get any better."
He argued that once a hurricane hits or a jury renders a not guilty verdict, "the frustration is there for all to see."
Obama, who is bidding to become the first black president, took the stage after a succession of ministers repeatedly brought the crowd to its feet, singing, praying and swaying to music.
Ah, race-baiting. Don’t ya love it?
Where’s all the white women?
This is probably true: "but the poverty and the hopelessness was there long before the hurricane."
But the question is: Whose fault is that?
haha tis ok.
I think the race baiters are getting desperate and stirring the pot.
Best I can tell from my rung of the white middle class strata is that most people just don’t give a crap about race anymore. It’s not an issue for us. I really don’t care. I treat everyone with the same respect. If my respect isn’t good enough for some and they wish to call it racism, then it’s tough titty, I really don’t care.
Hey Rodney I was just asking Freddy about you the other day.
What are the Islamists supposed to do then? Blow things up?
/sarc
yawn...
Too crude. The real riot curative is something more discerning and less noticeable. A nice .22 rifle with shorts could put a big dent in someone’s rioting aspirations, and they would never hear the shot (what with all the hooting and hollering going on around them).
No less an expert than Jeff Cooper recommended a .22 for riot control.
RACIST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Why can’t we all just get along? Because of Obama and others who want BLACKS BACK ON THE PLANTATION.
This guy has balls.
Rock and Roll.
Theodore Roosevelt
This bears repeating.
"There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americans."
Theodore Roosevelt
Ah, race-baiting. Dont ya love it?
Obama just try’n to git some street cred....
I wonder how many ways B. Hussein Obama will figure to use the race ticket? That’s two or three so far. Democrats would burn the nation down if they could be sure to get elected. Just aiding the enemy to insure a war loss isn’t enough for them apparently.
I am a “Katrina Victim” from Biloxi, Mississippi. While I struggle in Ft. Worth, Texas, millions of (mostly black) people from New Orleans live rent-free, on food stamps and receive numerous other benefits that I don’t share in. Does that mean that President Bush is anti-white, or that the USA doesn’t owe me anything?
The USA doesn’t owe you anything. You are from the priveleged class, and had the ability to get a job to support yourself. You are not any better or hard working then the others “victims”, its just that they have been victimized by our entire racist and patriarchal system since the day of their birth, and are in need of government support.
Or something like that.
“the frustration is there for all to see.”
Apparently what you don’t see along with many other race baiters/hustlers is that this white guilt, “racism” name calling and “whoa is me” crap has run it’s course and is in fact now having quite the opposite effect of what it did over the last 40 years. Enough is enough. Most of us have had it up to our eyeballs with this crap. Nobody owes you anything. I’ve got problems too and my children and family are just as important as yours or anybody elses. If you want to work together as Americans fine. Not African-Americans, Not Hispanic-Americans, Not Whatever-Americans. We can all be Americans and work together or if not, quite frankly, you can go to hell.
So Harvard Law Review is threatening to whip up the masses...
Puhhleeezzz...
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