Posted on 10/17/2012 7:14:56 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The “Twitter-verse” erupted this week with threats to riot or assassinate Mitt Romney should President Barack Obama lose the Nov. 6 election.
This brings up a few questions. Is this a reflection of real outrage being felt in the black community? If it’s real, does it reflect the sentiment of a small or a large segment of the black community? Or is this manufactured outrage being used for a broader purpose?
Americans have rioted before for lesser reasons. Simply having their favorite team win the Super Bowl or World Series has led to riots in cities like Boston, Detroit, Denver and Los Angeles. In Lexington, Ky., fans of the Kentucky Wildcats were setting fires and firing guns within minutes of watching their team win the NCAA Basketball Championship in April.
In Cincinnati in 2001, people rioted for three days after police shot 19-year-old Timothy Thomas. Riots broke out in more than 100 U.S. cities in 1968 following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Those riots came just three years after the infamous Watts riots in Los Angeles that began when a small crowd began throwing rocks at a California Highway Patrol officer who had stopped a drunk driver. People rioted in Newark, N.J., over an incident that never happened after a rumor began that police had killed a black cab driver they had in custody.
There’s no denying that blacks saw a rise in their self-esteem and the reinforcement of America as a land of equal opportunity following Obama’s 2008 election. Obama’s defeat after just four years could be seen as a major blow to that self-esteem and a pivot back toward black oppression.
Add to that divisive rhetoric from both political parties, a voting base ginned up over the ongoing loss of freedom (real), and the threat (just imagined) that Republicans are going to take away entitlements, ongoing economic hardships and a high rate of unemployment (for whites 7 percent, for blacks 13.4 percent), and you have the makings for trouble.
I have written before that food stamps and welfare are all that are staving off riots like those that have occurred in Greece and Spain. Those who live in or near congested areas should take extra precautions of the prevailing mood as Election Day draws near. If real, the outrage could lead to days and weeks of unrest. If manufactured, the outrage could be serving a broader purpose of pushing the United States toward martial law.
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Update 10:30 a.m.
According to Twitchy assassination threats increased following the debate.
FN FAL - the free world’s right arm. They’ll all find equality over the sights of my FAL.
“Nobody is seriously expecting him to win.”
Maybe, but some people look for any excuse to loot, burn and rape.
We haven't learned by now that lefties are all image and no substance?
Where?
LA? So what!
You need a safe place to stay...freepmail me for info.
Just don’t panic.
That's just sport rioting - rioting to burn off adrenaline, booze and drugs.
That's not the kind of rioting these racists are threatening.
They mean to inflict hurt and damage out of pure hate.
If they are smart they will not actually go beyond talk.
I don't think they have any idea of the pent up disgust there is among the people they are threatening.
They will come out on the bitter end of any rioting they carry on outside of their own cribs.
The difference between a Romney voter and an Obama voter is that an Obama voter doesn’t have to worry about his car getting trashed because of a bumper sticker. And that is why I’m for Romney.
Alot of conservatives don’t want to hear it because it is disgusting and immoral. This site is pro life. Black babies born to young single mothers deserve to have their right to life protected just as much as every other baby. I think you took a wrong turn to FR on your way to the DU. Listen to yourself, you are advocating the killing of innocent children in this ‘war’. Sickening!
urban renewal
“1) GOP rolls over, and Obama gets four more years.”
at the minimum... :/
I won’t ever let the threat of mob violence shift my vote. The Iraqis voted under the threat of mass familial murder and mortar fire. The ghetto erupting in flames should scare no free man. My guess is there will be a few hundred cases of mob violence. It will suck, but a full scale national riot? No way. For one the blacks are nowhere near as ferverent as they were in 2008. Many may say in public they are supporters, but the reality is, the crappy economy hits us all. For 2, the right has way more guns and guts that the left. Try a large scale rebellion and it will look like the “occupy” crowd against a reasonably well equipped and trained militia. They don’t really dare.
I well remember the Freepers who demonstrated at the place in Florida where the Democrats had locked themselves in a room and were “counting the hanging chads”. The guy leading the Freepers was some fellow with a smiley-face badge on his shirt and stood at the door to that room; the door had a little window in it. They were beating on the door and refusing to allow the Democrats to keep on pulling their stuff. - Other Freepers lined up at Al Gore’s place and shouted at him to get out of Cheney’s house. - AH! Those were the days. - Now, Gore’s just reportedly reduced to harrassing massage therapists; sorry to see he and Tipper got on the outs with each other. You need each other as you get older.
And I bet half the threats come from middle class white liberals who are willing to pull all the strings.
If the Watts riot back in ‘65 had been properly dealt with, we wouldn’t be worried about this today. Rioters and looters should be shot on sight.
Plus...
We’ve been practicing for 200+ years for just this type of scenario!
This is voter intimidation, and not much more subtle than the big guy with the stick in Philadelphia. It costs Obama nothing and could potentially keep votes against him down. Smells like Chicago politics to me.
So I assume you feel blacks living on the South Side of Chicago - blacks who have never met a Southern white - no less a southern white racist - blame their high crime rate on themselves?
What do you think this war is about? I’m not going to ‘war’ and screw the babies just to give everyone a little tax cut.
I call it Operation Odinga or the Odinga Maneuver.
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