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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.


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To: SunkenCiv

Osama-Obama or Queen Jezebel Hillary...........they call that a choice!?!?!?!?!?


141 posted on 06/07/2007 4:17:57 AM PDT by Convert from ECUSA (Jimmuh Carter can kiss my cold instant grits.)
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To: oldbill; apocalypto; Seadog Bytes

I agree wholeheartedly,

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1845275/posts?page=24#24


142 posted on 06/07/2007 7:35:23 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Time heals all wounds, particularly when they're not yours. Profile updated May 31, 2007.)
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To: Rodney King

Listen to this skinny PUNK. This article and today telling his supporters to get in their neighbors face. All he’s missing is the Che’ Guevara T-Shirt.


143 posted on 09/17/2008 10:27:41 PM PDT by word_warrior_bob (You can now see my amazing doggie and new puppy on my homepage!! Come say hello to Jake & Sonny)
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To: Rodney King; MrChips; Liz

Blast from the past ping. This seems rather timely today.


144 posted on 03/25/2010 3:49:56 PM PDT by AuntB (WE are NOT a nation of immigrants! We're a nation of Americans! http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/)
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