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.
Hume talking about it now on FNC.
Outstanding Sir!
what ever you do... don't mention the EARS!!!
“Obama’s attack on Bush got ovation after ovation from the nearly 8,000 people gathered in Hampton University’s Convocation Center”
The same ones giving a standing O upon hearing the Simpson verdict?
Like Obama knows anything about the black American experience except what he's read in books.
“Quiet riot”?
How about “Quiet arming”? Or, “Quiet target practice”?
Subsonic .22LR and a suppressor makes for quiet target practice. A friend has that setup and tells me you only hear the click of the hammer and cycling of the bolt. A BufferTechnologies recoil buffer for the 10/22 really helps reduce that metal to metal slap of the bolt against the receiver retention pin.
Looks cute!
every day that goes by, every day that a ‘new’ person of color enters this country, every day that a ‘new’ person of color enters this country and makes something of themselves starting with basically NOTHING, the message of the race pimp’s of this country gets weaker and weaker and weaker and weaker.
Love the CLOWN car! ;o)
It’s good to see Woodstock, again, too.
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It should look good!
You made it!
Is he referring to a nonviolent silent minority?
The despair was there long before Bush became President.
We spoke with residents who were working at the Casino, and proud they had a job again.
But the beautiful Historic homes were leveled, and many houses on the outskirts still had blue tarpes on their roofs ..the owners still WAITING for any kind of assistance..God Help and Bless them.
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Obama now virtually tied with Clinton, poll shows (New USA Today/Gallup Poll)
USA Tiday | 6/5/07 | Susan Page
Posted on 06/05/2007 12:09:25 AM EDT by LdSentinal
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I agree. Amnesty will not only hurt the country, it was be real hard on blacks.
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