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[Wrinkle]

quote:Originally posted by tim huntzinger

quote:Originally posted by Wrinkle

quote:Originally posted by tim huntzinger

quote:Originally posted by USRufnex

Will White People Riot?
By Wendi C. Thomas | TheRoot.com

Ridiculous question? Then stop asking it about black people.

http://www.theroot.com/id/48479

Many whites still labor under the illusion that black folk act en masse and that if you ask the right one, you can get the official position of some 40 million people. If a few of us get angry, that logic allows, it must surely result in a riot.

Riot because we didn't get our way? Please. Black people have more than their share of experience with disappointment and dashed dreams. (See: King, Martin Luther; Evers, Medgar; Chaney, James.) Matter of fact, I'd go so far as to say we're experts in making the best out of a losing hand.

The reply to the curious white gentleman: "No! There is no reason to believe black people will riot if Obama does not win."

But soon after getting this man's e-mail, I started to wonder if he was on to something, if he had noticed what I had: a seething, barely constrained, ugly anger and frustration that makes good riot fuel. The kind of anger that prompts people to shout "Kill him!" and "Off with his head!" at rallies. The kind of hatefulness that would prompt a man to bring a stuffed monkey with an "Obama" sticker on the toy's head to a campaign event.

That kind of group-fueled nastiness must surely beg the question: Will white people riot if Obama wins?

Not all white people are McCain supporters. (See caucuses, Iowa.) Not all black people are backing Obama. (See Negroes, self-loathing. Just joking.)

But there is a small but vocal segment of white Republicans who just might have an aneurysm if the next occupant of the White House is a black man.

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Black people? Unwashed? Ruffian, you must be racist!  I would guess the most violent, destructive acts of righteous indignation would come from pointy-headed cracker eggheads chanting Rage Against the Machine songs.  Garsh Ruffian, I never suspected you would be so racist!  Ha ha!  Rich, white folk's violence is sublimated into racist policies like war, poverty, and such because they hold the tools of  of power (even when not in the electoral majority).  The poor and oppressed only hold the power of a vote and a rock.  If they feel the tool of the vote has been taken from them, what else do they have? You want them to hold hands and sing Kumbaya, chant in robes like Ghandi? If O'Bama loses and there is NOT rioting of some king in some quarters, then our Democracy is dead, indeed!

Pretty Palestinian thinking of you.

Did someone ever care to mention it's one man, one vote? Feel free to substitute 'person'.

Mucho Americano. If O'bama loses a significant number of voters will believe that some kind of shennanigans deprived them of their 'one vote.'  What was that 2nd Amendment about, again? That if the gubmint decides to run roughshod over its citizens that we were then allowed to go sustenance hunting?  Or does the 2nd Amendment only cover guns and not rocks?

No, guns are covered. And, a general uprising is probably closer than most think a this point, especially on a local basis.

I was referring to the target of blame. As with Palestinians, who blame Israel for their problems and throw rocks at tanks, when their real problem is being disenfranchised by their own people.

There are parallels.

[TulsaFan-inTexas]

quote:Originally posted by USRufnex

Waaaaasssuuuuppp!!!

8 years ago...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrYfNnreK88

Today...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qq8Uc5BFogE

That's hilarious... [}:)]

[tim huntzinger]

[Red Arrow]

quote:Originally posted by cannon_fodder

quote:Originally posted by Red Arrow


Edit: I wish spell checker worked on this computer

firefox is your friend.

A newer computer that I wasn't leary of loading new software on would be a start.  Already the subject of a thread a month or so ago.  Thanks for the tip though.