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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I wonder what Hussein's white mother thinks about this...
Saul Alinsky... Hillary and Obamas mentor
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a39a1bb090251.htm
Antonio Gramsci... Hillarys mentor
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3a4c610569be.htm
Frank Marshall Davis... Obamas mentor
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?D=2008-02-20&ID=228129
Obama will be fine, just as long as he stays out of Ft. Marcy Park.
His mother died many years ago.
Anybody running for president knows that JFK was killed, Reagan survived a shooting, there were 2 attempts on the life of President Ford, within recent history. It’s something they all have in the back of their mind, I’m sure.
The girl might be the source of Obamas confusion..
I would worry about the black race hustlers, like the ones hanging nooses everywhere, or another Twana Brawley. (sp)
The Clintons dream of Obama being killed, and it being pinned on a Republican plot
Clinton conspiracy or Republican conspiracy? Or maybe a Clinton-Republican-Israel conspiracy in cohorts with aliens from of the recently discovered extra-solar planets?
I predict right here and now that Barack Obama will not be President of the United States.
Maybe Edwards was right, there is Two Americas.
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
I thought Obama was less than 1/8 black? If so, he doesn't qualify as a member of that ethnic group. Why don't the Black people worry about Michael Jackson? Theoretically, he is Blacker than Obama...
The Clintons would kill Obama is a nanosecond.
I don’t think Obama has to worry near as much about surviving as a Black President as he has to worry about surviving getting in the way of the Clinton’s on their way back to the White House.
I join you in that prediction and go one farther - Neither will Hillary.
Especially with the Beast behind in the delegate count.
To the muslims, there is no greater sin than turning your back on the muslim faith or not becoming a muslim when your father is one.
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