Obama Warns of 'Quiet Riot' Among Blacks

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[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.

[JoanneSD]

Most of the people BO is talking about normally scream in every day conversation..

[ishabibble]

>>...with black people from New Orleans and the Gulf Coast still displaced 20 months after Hurricane Katrina, frustration and resentments are building explosively”<<

Does this mean that the white people down there are just fine now?

Half-white, half-black BARRY OBSAMA is betraying both halves of himself.

[Sprite518]

Here is a link again,

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/more/specials/fortunate50/2007/index.html?cnn=yes

[Mark was here]

Detroit is still waiting for an apology for the last riot, until it happens the healing will never start.

[Recovering_Democrat]

B. Hussein Obama needs Mental Health treatment...QR gave Metal Health treatment.

[hunter112]

Me thinks me smell a rat, a very big RAT that is the smell of a socialist attempt to overthrow the ‘08 elections with violence and riots!

Remember who's going to have to deal with that first, and that's Hillary, after she 'steals' the nomination from Obama. The two of them, and Edwards, are each going to go into the Rat convention with about 25-35% of the delegates apiece. The superdelegates that Hillary has bought and paid for (or can blackmail with stuff from their FBI files) will capitualate, and give her the nomination.

Then watch the fur fly after Obama has stirred up the masses!

[mimaw]

I’d like to ask The Great Black Hope if any responsibility for the slow recovery might have something to do with the fact that the state is run by an incompetent lying nincompoop demonrat governor and the levy board was comprised of a bunch of crooks and the city of New Orleans run by a goof-ball incompetent mayor is full of lazy welfare recipients and criminals ? Just wondering.

[L.N. Smithee]

As a black man, I am insulted by the presumption that if things go badly enough for me, I can be relied upon to engage in wanton destruction. What should be insulting to everybody is the idea that if I turned out to be such a person, any futile, self-destructive violence on my part is someone's fault besides my own.

As a black man himself, Barack Obama should be ashamed to even postulate such a thing. But of course, as a Democrat, he's not.

[Tamar1973]

Damn spell check doesn’t catch everything. LOL!

[mmichaels1970]

Suprised I can still hear with as many times as that album blasted out over my “Walkman”.

[Tamar1973]

Suprised I can still hear with as many times as that album blasted out over my “Walkman”.

Thank God for Youtube. : )

[Jimmy Valentine's brother]

McCain has his immigration riot and Obama is going to have his racial riot, what's a white boy to do?

Maybe this is the riot curative

[hershey]

Time for transfer of trillions from those who work hard to those who choose not to. Again.

[Old Professer]

He still ain’t black enough!

I want the real thing or nothing at all.

I wouldn’t even buy fried chicken from the man.

[sasafras]

Dont be dissin my beer homey!- Seriously Red Dog is damn good beer!

[bassmaner]

Remember who's going to have to deal with that first, and that's Hillary, after she 'steals' the nomination from Obama. The two of them, and Edwards, are each going to go into the Rat convention with about 25-35% of the delegates apiece. The superdelegates that Hillary has bought and paid for (or can blackmail with stuff from their FBI files) will capitualate, and give her the nomination.

Naaaah ... wait until ALGORE jumps in, then all bets are off.

[Scotsman will be Free]

Why is acceptable for minorities to riot? Every time a group is unhappy, a riot is threatened. Blacks, illegal aliens. What next? Disaffected voters?

[donnab]

“but the poverty and the hopelessness was there long before the hurricane.”
yep nothing was done by that “black” president Clinton....it was there then ...before then ...will be as long as there is that excuse.

[eXe]

Bang your head... Metal health will drive you mad.. :)

[Scotsman will be Free]

LOL!