Posted on 09/15/2008 4:59:45 AM PDT by pabianice
The hopes of black America ride on his shoulders. But the outcome's way up in the air.
I am a black man born in 1954, the year of Brown v. Board of Education. Fleeing the abuses of Jim Crow, my parents moved from South Carolina to Washington, D.C., later that decade. Tales of racial oppression and racial resistance were staples of conversation in our household. My father often spoke of watching Thurgood Marshall argue the case ( Rice v. Elmore) that invalidated the rule permitting only whites to vote in South Carolina's Democratic primary. Memories of that story played a large part in producing the tears I shed on the evening Barack Obama won this year's primary in the Palmetto State.
Related memories -- the most haunting being our visit to a D.C. funeral home to pay last respects to Medgar Evers, the courageous head of the Mississipppi branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People who was murdered by a segregationist -- helped reduce me to tears, again, on the night the senator from Illinois accepted his party's nomination as its candidate for president.
Never before have my emotions been so exercised by a political campaign. For one thing, never before has a candidate so fully challenged the many inhibitions that have prevented people of all races, including African Americans, from seriously envisioning presidential power in the hands of someone other than a white American. With intelligence, verve and elegance, Obama has opened the public mind to the idea of a black president and made that idea broadly attractive.
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RTFA, people. There is nothing in there about rioting.
That said, hopefully they realize that the opposition’s attitude is “bring it”.
Hey Folks!
I read the whole article, and I couldn’t find anywhere a reference to rioting. The closest thing was that SOME blacks may feel “stark rage” if Barry loses. This was at then end of a list describing several possible emotions that black people may feel. Although the article was written by a man who obviously is psychologically stuck in the traumas of the past, and is of the “blame the white man for every misfortune” type; I don’t see ANY threats.
COMPUTER ACTING UP; PLEASE PARDON IF THIS IS A REPOST.
Hey Folks!
I read the whole article, and I couldn’t find anywhere a reference to rioting. The closest thing was that SOME blacks may feel “stark rage” if Barry loses. This was at then end of a list describing several possible emotions that black people may feel. Although the article was written by a man who obviously is psychologically stuck in the traumas of the past, and is of the “blame the white man for every misfortune” type; I don’t see ANY threats.
She suffers from a terminal case of BDS and white liberal guilt. Of course, she also claims to be a feminist, but the most she can come up with to say against Palin is she's "a great set of unqualified boobs."
Liberals are almost all brain-damaged, if not actively evil.
“OTOH race riots will change the balance, and we’ve tried limiting guns, and that didn’t work. This time Americans are going to got the other way.”
Just one more instance of progressive (snicker) policies resulting in unintended consequences.
Some might ask, "Why are Asians charged two dollars? They're a minority." You'd be right. According to the 2000 Census, residents who reported as Asian, or in combination with one or more other races, totaled 11.9 million or four percent of our population. In my book that makes Asians a minority and eligible for the cookie affirmative action discount. Instead of being charged two dollars for a cookie, Asian females and Asian males are rightful claimants to the racially discounted price of 25 cents and 50 cents respectively.
If you see things that way, think Asian-Americans are eligible for preferential treatment, it simply means that you haven't kept abreast with modern racial enlightenment. A minority group is not a minority if as a group they are successful. Asian median family is $55,525, the highest of any other racial group in America. More than 44 percent of Asians age 25 and over have bachelor degrees; the rate for all other Americans was 26 percent. Other indicators of group success would include low crime rate and high family stability. Case closed; Asians are not a minority.
From an article by Dr. Walter E. Williams, a black professor, on an "affirmative action bake sale" where minorities (except Asians) were charged less for cookies.
http://www.gmu.edu/departments/economics/wew/articles/03/bakesale.html
What race-baiting???? That's sort of a “Is it true you've stopped beating your wife” kind of statement! The ONLY references to race have come from the cynically manipulative obama campaign!
As to the demographics and voting records; what are they supposed to prove??? That some groups hold certain values and vote that way regardless of party, like they did in 1980, 1984, 1988???
Note to Randall Kennedy: I realize you are a racist, but NOT EVERYTHING HAPPENS BECAUSE OF RACE!
We have a black man who rents a room from us. He’s reasonably well educated and a very pleasant guy to drink with but plans to vote for Obama anyhow. In our discussions on the subject it’s clear his primary reason for wanting Obama is racial.
We try not to discuss it very much since political discourse can get pretty heated and I while control his rent he’s 6’5” and weighs about 270 lbs. If we let things get out of hand we could both lose.
And after the cities are burned to the ground, let, make that, force those that did it, pay for the reconstruction. Cut no slack. They destroyed it, they pay for it.
“Honestly, do many black people vote for someone just because they’re black, regardless of what they stand for?”
Honestly, YES, they do. Obama will garner at least 90% of the black vote this time around, probably more like 93-95%.
Simply because he is black.
The ONLY exception to this rule is if the black that happens to be running for office is shown to be a .... conservative.
Euro-Americans should not fear that blacks may riot if “their candidate” loses. What’s coming after the 2008 election (assuming anything is going to happen at all) is actually a _necessary_ event - “necessary” in that it will show the Euros that their carefully-nurtured “white guilt” is all for naught.
For 45 years the American “dialogue” on race has been more like a one-way harangue. That is to say, it is acceptable for blacks to say almost anything they wish regarding race relations, and have whatever they say accepted or at least excused. Conversely, whites are not permitted to say ONE WORD that would criticize black behavior without fear of opprobrium and ostracism.
Hopefully, this will change with Obama’s loss.
We had better be prepared for the media telling us over and over and over and over and over and over (had enough?) that the messiah’s loss is but one more piece of evidence of continuing “white racism” in America.
Fair enough. Let them say what they wish, for it is what they’ve been saying for four decades. The difference is, that, this time, hopefully, Euro-Americans will dare to speak out and tell them to shut up.
- John
“...you should have nominated Hillary, at least her heart is black.”
ROTFL !! Absolutely great!
Ah, the old threat of rioting if we don’t get our way. Nice.
So, in the end, Obama must win because he is a hard-core leftist like the author and America should bow down to white guilt and phony charges of racism and put this extreme leftist in the White House. That’s basically the argument here.
LLS
"Thurgood Marshall argue the case that invalidated the rule permitting only whites to vote in South Carolina's DEMOCRATIC primary."
I guess his father never told him these situations were caused by DEMOCRATS, or maybe he figured if he voted for the DEMOCRATS, they would make them go away.
Agree.
This seems like a “threat”. I don’t know anyone that votes against 0bama because of his race, but because he is totally wrong on everything important.
It will be interesting to see a section 8 plot overlayed with any riot sites if they happen.
If he wasn't from Chicago he wouldn't be, either.
Interesting, because those, included in the package with his elitist attitude, are what turned me OFF of Obama. It would have been the same if he were white, in fact, I voted against men just like him in 2000, and again in 2004.
My opposition to Obama has NOTHING to do with race, though most in the MSM will automatically assume that's the reason.
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