Race War?

Commentary Magazine ^ | September 2, 2008 | Abe Greenwald

[Jbny]

At the Philadelphia Daily News, Fatimah Ali warns:

If McCain wins, look for a full-fledged race and class war, fueled by a deflated and depressed country, soaring crime, homelessness - and hopelessness!

Sounds like a pretty enfeebled bunch of warriors to me. Deflated, depressed, homeless, and hopeless. What makes Ali so sure this gloomy mob will be able to rally themselves and rise up against the rest of the country? Oh yeah, that’s right: hope.

[Bon mots]

Stock up on ammunition and get some range time.

[rjsimmon]

Booker T. Washington wrote about way back in 1911: “There is another class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.”

That defines both Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton to a "T".

[Jimmy Valentine]

Ready to go.Just start the argument, I'm in.

Sick and 'effen tired of this constant jive about if we don't get what we want going to burn the cities.

Burn, baby, burn.

[Verloona Ti]

Yep. I am TIRED of the BS I’ve seen since the early 1990s. Let it come now, while I am still young (and mean) enough to defend myself and my family.

[Chode]

tooo funny...

[ctdonath2]

Them: “Our guy or we riot!”
Us: “Bring it.”

There’s a lot of hothead rhetoric on both sides, as this and other current threads show.
Time for some CWII-brand popcorn.

[LibWhacker]

If McCain wins, look for a full-fledged race and class war...

You mean a continuation of the one we've been living through the last 40 years? Big deal. Same old, same old.

[LibWhacker]

They should reflect on the fact that, so far, only one side is shooting, killing, raping, and murdering. Do they want to push it so that it becomes a two-sided shooting war? Well, they can be my guest.

[Beckwith]

But Barry is half white and no slave blood.

Barack Obama's forebears were slaveholders.

One of Obama's great-great-great-great grandfathers, George Washington Overall, owned two slaves who were recorded in the 1850 Census in Nelson County, Ky. The same records show that one of Obama's great-great-great-great-great-grandmothers, Mary Duvall, also owned two slaves.

The Obama File

[murdoog]

That's the theme song for the Jeffersons!

[omega4179]

It seems to me the race war was in the 60s and Obama wants to use 60’s domestic policy along with 1930s foreign policy.

[Osage Orange]

I can guarantee you this:

If John McCain wins, there won’t be a metropolitan area in the country that doesn’t see some sort of riot.

I am up for that bet.

What do want to bet? Money? Property? Pink Slips? Dogs? Guns?

Just tell me......

[Osage Orange]

Booker T. Washington.....was an excellent man..and a genius.

[bolobaby]

You’re saying we won’t see rioting when McCain wins...?

[Calamari]

So Barry is a conflicted fellow!

[Osage Orange]

Here's what you said: "If John McCain wins, there won’t be a metropolitan area in the country that doesn’t see some sort of riot."

Are you changing your mind?

Cause I am very willing to bet you thousands of dollars...or whatever else you might have.

Put up or shut up.....

[bolobaby]

No, I’m pretty sure that every city will have at least one roving band of thugs that goes out and commits violence/property damage/looting if McCain wins simply based on the fact that “the election was stolen.”

In almost all cases, it will be racially motivated violence/property damage/looting.

[Stentor]

So, if John McCain loses, will there still be a race war?

Eventually.

[Islander7]

“...If history is any indicator, riots and race *anything* usually results in them looting and burning their own sh*t to the ground. I say let them; and no funds to help rebuild after the fact either...”

Those are my thought as well. Let them eat the ashes and sleep in the streets.

Race war? I’ve been hearing this crap for 40 years. Let’s keep over with already.

[archy]

There’s a lot of hothead rhetoric on both sides, as this and other current threads show.

Time for some CWII-brand popcorn.

Concur. Accordingly, CWII list ping....