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Many Blacks Worry About Obama's Safety
breitbart.com ^
| Feb 22, 2008
| DAVID CRARY
Posted on 02/22/2008 2:29:50 PM PST by kellynla
NEW YORK (AP) - For many black Americans, it's a conversation they find hard to avoid, revisiting old fears in the light of bright new hopes. They watch with wonder as Barack Obama moves ever closer to becoming America's first black president. And they ask themselves, their family, their friends: Is he at risk? Will he be safe?
There is, of course, no sure answer. But interviews with blacks across the country, prominent and otherwise, suggest that lingering worries are outweighed by enthusiasm and determination.
"You can't have lived through the civil rights movement and know something about the history of African-Americans in this country and not be a little concerned," said Edna Medford, a history professor at Washington's Howard University.
"But African-Americans are more concerned that Obama get the opportunity to do the best he can," she added. "And if he wins, most of us believe the country would do for him what it would do for any president, that he will be as well protected as any of them."
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: barackobama; blacks; notfromblack
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To: Sudetenland
No one ever discusses the body count connect to the Clinton mafia machine. I wonder why? Is it just too explosive? If a Republican were associated with as many deaths, he/she would be exposed daily.
To: trumandogz
All I am saying is that it is important to be realistic and not introduce hyperbole that makes us look like a paranoid fringe. Sensibly said. But I also see how we are already regarded as a "fringe" - by our own party.
We agree that either of the Leftists would damage this nation. We just differ on future ops.
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posted on
02/22/2008 3:46:40 PM PST
by
Old Sarge
(CTHULHU '08 - I won't settle for a lesser evil any longer!)
To: kellynla; xzins; 1000 silverlings; Alex Murphy; blue-duncan; Lord_Calvinus
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posted on
02/22/2008 3:47:57 PM PST
by
Dr. Eckleburg
("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
To: Paved Paradise
He will only have to worry about his safety if in some wierd Outer-Limits scenario, Hillary was his VP....
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posted on
02/22/2008 3:48:06 PM PST
by
Gaffer
To: trumandogz
105
posted on
02/22/2008 3:49:50 PM PST
by
unkus
To: Old Sarge
Yes, John McCain proves that the right is seen as a fringe group in the GOP.
And yes, Obama, Hillary and McCain each has great potential to damage this nation.
But, we will survive as a nation and as a people.
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posted on
02/22/2008 3:50:06 PM PST
by
trumandogz
("He is erratic. He is hotheaded. He loses his temper and it worries me." Sen Cochran on McCain)
To: trumandogz
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posted on
02/22/2008 3:52:01 PM PST
by
unkus
To: Responsibility2nd
If you read the two attempts on clinton’s life you will see they are REALLY REALLY lame. One guy shoots at the whitehouse from pennsylvania ave, and another guy crashes a cessna into the whitehouse lawn. And Clinton wasn’t even there.
For it to count as a real assasination attempt, I think the president should actually have to be present, IMO.
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posted on
02/22/2008 3:52:47 PM PST
by
mamelukesabre
(Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?)
To: BeAllYouCanBe
His followers that are “hoping for change” think they are going to win the lottery if he wins, they will get so much “free” stuff and they can just coast thru life with no worries because they won the lottery.
To: Dilbert San Diego
Yes, applying for a job with an almost 10% assassination rate should give them pause.
To: trumandogz
Here’s to your continued optimism *drinks*
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posted on
02/22/2008 3:55:36 PM PST
by
Old Sarge
(CTHULHU '08 - I won't settle for a lesser evil any longer!)
To: Blood of Tyrants
Oh, my.....
To: al baby
If Obama is Killed this country will see a riot like nothing you have ever seen before It will last for months not a few days or a week Will be close to all out civil war and Al Qaeda is also very aware of that.
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posted on
02/22/2008 4:02:20 PM PST
by
Paine's Ghost
(todays conservative ideals were called socialism in 1960)
To: trumandogz
“But, we will survive as a nation and as a people.”
Quit crying , that is the first step..
Look at what the American People have done in days gone bye,,
And get right with your Maker
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posted on
02/22/2008 4:02:50 PM PST
by
silentreignofheroes
(I'm Southron,,and I Vote..,.A Saint I Ain't,,,But my Ma thought I was.)
To: Gaffer
heh, heh - you are right on that I think.
To: kellynla
In all seriousness, If it did happen, and God please don’t let it happen, but if it did, can you imagine the Hell that would hit our inner cities because of it? The Rodney King riots in LA would seem like a country picnic in comparison.
To: Tired of Taxes
Thats funny, because i seem to remember Shelby Steele talking about how he thought that Barack Obama was not black enough to be the first black president...
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posted on
02/22/2008 4:09:03 PM PST
by
The Axis Effect
(If people were held accountable we would all be screwed...)
To: dandiegirl
I hope that Obama wins just so the rest
of America can see how full of crap he is>
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posted on
02/22/2008 4:09:04 PM PST
by
The Axis Effect
(If people were held accountable we would all be screwed...)
To: kellynla
No-one is going to shoot Obama. He's a likeable guy. Even racists probably think so. It's like watching Denzel Washington run for president.
Besides, it's almost always a left wing wacko that shoots the president and that president is almost always a Republican, as American history shows.
To: unkus
A troll because I believe it may be a bit paranoid to believe that a President Hillary would exterminate 26,000,000 people?
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posted on
02/22/2008 4:09:57 PM PST
by
trumandogz
("He is erratic. He is hotheaded. He loses his temper and it worries me." Sen Cochran on McCain)
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