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Obama Warns of 'Quiet Riot' Among Blacks
Breitbart ^ | today | bob lewis

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.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bangyourhead; bhofacism; liberalfacism; mentalhealth; obama; osama; quietriot
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To: Do Be
"Every white person I know is fed up with not being able to speak the truth about black people and their lovely culture,"

It's not just white people. I know a black woman from Kenya who is appalled by what has become of black American culture.
101 posted on 06/05/2007 12:40:10 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle ("Above all, shake your bum at Burton.")
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To: Rodney King

Ah, race-baiting. Don’t ya love it?


102 posted on 06/05/2007 12:41:08 PM PDT by toddlintown (Six bullets and Lennon goes down. Yet not one hit Yoko. Discuss.)
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To: Rodney King

Where’s all the white women?


103 posted on 06/05/2007 12:43:12 PM PDT by toddlintown (Six bullets and Lennon goes down. Yet not one hit Yoko. Discuss.)
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To: Rodney King
This guy is quite the babbler isn't he?

This is probably true: "but the poverty and the hopelessness was there long before the hurricane."

But the question is: Whose fault is that?

104 posted on 06/05/2007 12:46:11 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: Frank_Discussion

haha tis ok.


105 posted on 06/05/2007 12:46:16 PM PDT by eXe (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: WilliamofCarmichael

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.


106 posted on 06/05/2007 12:50:46 PM PDT by Rb ver. 2.0 (The Republican party of today is the Whig party of 1856.)
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To: Rodney King

Hey Rodney I was just asking Freddy about you the other day.


107 posted on 06/05/2007 12:57:14 PM PDT by marlon
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To: sheana
Obama says blacks will riot and McCain says illegals will riot and burn cars.

What are the Islamists supposed to do then? Blow things up?

/sarc

108 posted on 06/05/2007 1:06:57 PM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: Rodney King
So Biden was wrong.

yawn...

109 posted on 06/05/2007 1:13:12 PM PDT by JasonC
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To: Jimmy Valentine's brother

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.


110 posted on 06/05/2007 1:16:27 PM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: Rodney King

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.


111 posted on 06/05/2007 1:19:18 PM PDT by gathersnomoss
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To: raftguide

Rock and Roll.


112 posted on 06/05/2007 1:20:42 PM PDT by gathersnomoss
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To: rfreedom4u
“There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americans.”

Theodore Roosevelt

This bears repeating.

"There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americans."

Theodore Roosevelt

113 posted on 06/05/2007 1:32:06 PM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: Rodney King
So Obama is preparing to lead some race riots?

He may have more political talent than I thought.
114 posted on 06/05/2007 1:59:29 PM PDT by George W. Bush
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To: toddlintown

Ah, race-baiting. Don’t ya love it?

Obama just try’n to git some street cred....


115 posted on 06/05/2007 2:12:42 PM PDT by kik5150
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To: Rodney King

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.


116 posted on 06/05/2007 2:19:23 PM PDT by MHGinTN (You've had life support. Promote life support for others.)
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To: Rodney King

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?


117 posted on 06/05/2007 2:23:34 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (Fred Thompson/John Bolton 2008)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

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.


118 posted on 06/05/2007 2:34:39 PM PDT by Rodney King (No, we can't all just get along.)
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To: All

“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.


119 posted on 06/05/2007 2:38:47 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: Rodney King

So Harvard Law Review is threatening to whip up the masses...

Puhhleeezzz...


120 posted on 06/05/2007 3:18:11 PM PDT by Natchez Hawk (I'm calling for a cease-fire on the "War on Drugs")
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