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.
This is exactly why the Gorebot is waiting to see if Hillary can sink Barry O before the final filing deadline for the primaries. If Obama withers away before that point, Gore's in, if not, he sits back and plays eco-guru for a few more years.
“but the poverty and the hopelessness was there long before the hurricane...”
Yep, they were just “there”, descended like some unknown, unexplainable natural phenomenon.
The simple, Obamaless solution:
Step One: Remove the chip from your shoulder placed there by liberal political scum.
Step Two: Respect the Law.
Step Three: Stay in school. Learn to read and write. Graduate.
Step Four: Embrace the concept of the nuclear family.
I suppose if I was from NOLA, and I really cared about the city, I’d have gone back a long time ago to help rebuild it.
So I really don’t understand what Obama’s asking for. Does he expect “someone” (but *not* the displaced residents) to rebuild the city and to supply everyone with a new house or condo with flat screen TV, Wolf kitchen appliances, and berber carpeting?
Sorry dude! I stole your pic and posted it too!! lol
Shows what he is like. He’s just like the revs JJ and AL - stirring up resentment without doing anything about it.
Maybe if blacks would stop separating themselves from the rest of America. Stop thinking of themselves as black-America. Why not be Americans?
“There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americans.”
Theodore Roosevelt
I recall a thread a few months ago about hispanics opening shops and building an economic community in a large northeastern city. They are flourishing, but cater primarily to their own ethnic community. The blacks in the area are resentful of the success of the latinos in the area. That has resulted in attacks by blacks against latinos.
Good point. Working everyday is a good way to get out of ‘poverty’, and you can do it yourself!
Never seem to hear that message preached to the ‘community’,tho.
Is there anyone left who thinks that Obama represents something “fresh” in the Democratic Party? He’d have us believe that the black community was doing just fine when Clinton left office, and Bush shoved them back to the Dark Ages in 5 years. He’s just another shameless race-baiter.
‘Poverty and hopelessness’ just seem to be foisted on some people. Apparently there is no way out, except some government programs...my own disenfranchisement went away pretty quickly after I got a full time job (and kept it).
I must just be one of the lucky ones, because there is no way anyone else could ever duplicate my rise out of ‘poverty’.
I have said for a long time that there will be another civil war when the entitlement class does not get their way, just as the Muslims have done in France.
I'm an old fart and this is the most angry I've ever seen white folks, and a lot of that anger is about minorities.
Every white person I know is fed up with not being able to speak the truth about black people and their lovely culture, and illegal aliens mooching off our corrupt government.
I'm not saying it's going to happen but if someone lights the wrong match at the wrong time this is going to explode and I think we'll see what a riot really looks like.
Maybe we can figure out a way to get them to burn down each others' neighborhood and shoot at each other. Less of them would die that way.
And some of us might feel better about giving away our country. If we give it away without any kind of fight, God will hate us.
The “we” need to be chocolate Democrats.
Will never confront their own, a white Republican who dares to even think about confronting Obama on this issue will immediatedly be labeled racist, the result shriveled cojones and a quick apology.
Is Obama for the shamnesty bill? Why would he vote for illegals to displace AMERICAN minorities?
And McCain has the browns covered.
Is Wilma Mankiller gonna come out and talk about the reds rioting???
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