US blacks fear lingering racism if Obama loses

Agence France-Presse ^ | September 3, 2012 | Andrew Gully

[2ndDivisionVet]

CHARLOTTE, North Carolina — Liz Wills remembers the unbelievable feeling when Barack Obama entered the White House in January 2009. Now she looks fearfully at the specter of his defeat by a Republican candidate she sees as gripped by the racist right.

"I'm old enough to have seen the 'black' and 'white' signs for bathrooms, schools segregated, you couldn't ride in the front of the bus or the train. I saw all of that. I lived through that," Wills, 73, of Durham, North Carolina, told AFP.

"It's not supposed to be segregated now but there's a lot like that still. Racism is alive and well and thriving," she said, speaking in Charlotte, where Democrats are gathering to formally nominate Obama for re-election in November.

Wills was overcome with emotion when a nation struggling to turn the hard-won gains of the civil rights era into real economic change for poor African Americans elected its first black president.

"There are no words that can tell you the true feeling. It was just so exciting. I didn't think I would ever see the day," she told AFP. "They were so beautiful and their hearts looked like they were so warm."

Her tone changes markedly when asked about the prospect of Republican challenger Mitt Romney ousting Obama after one term, an eventuality she said would be akin to a racist backlash.

"I would be depressed if Mitt Romney was elected. I have to be honest with you, I would be depressed," she said. "A lot of it's racism, we have to be truthful, a lot of it would be racism...

[Georgia Girl 2]

“Racism is alive and well and thriving”

Yeh packs of roving blacks all over the country are assaulting whites.

[a fool in paradise]

I tire of this piffle. There are no black people in the world as well-off as those in the United States. Not even close.

Robert Mugabe is living high on the hog.

[2ndDivisionVet]

The exception that proves the rule. And are you sure that’s not the Obama bedroom?

[EnigmaticAnomaly]

"The race card has been used so much that to get even half the effect of yesteryear they have to up the volume logarithmically."

I would go so far as to say exponentially...;-)

[sagar]

There are millions who like Obama simply for who he is, so it should be no surprise that there are millions who hate him simply for who he is. Obama is being evaluated in his entirety, which includes his blackness, foreign roots, and his name.

It is not politically correct to say, but a whole lot of Americans are not comfortable with blacks in power. Black dominated areas are riddled with crimes and non-blacks in those areas are openly abused targetted. That reality represents the epitome of “black rule” to millions of people. Add the rampant violence and abuse in black Africa, especially by its marxist rulers, a lot of Americans are terrified of that happening in this country. No sugarcoating, just reality.

[chesley]

If he is re-elected, a black won’t have to be elected again. They will inherit the position through the Bambi bloodline.

Or maybe not. Maybe something even worse will happen.