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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He surely has or will made more than one SI groups’ ‘hit’ list....
# 1 Successful assassinations attempts
* 1.1 Abraham Lincoln
* 1.2 James A. Garfield
* 1.3 William McKinley
* 1.4 John F. Kennedy
# 2 Unsuccessful assassination attempts
* 2.1 Andrew Jackson
* 2.2 Theodore Roosevelt
* 2.3 Franklin D. Roosevelt
* 2.4 Harry S. Truman
* 2.5 John F. Kennedy
* 2.6 Richard M. Nixon
o 2.6.1 First assassination attempt
o 2.6.2 Second assassination attempt
* 2.7 Gerald R. Ford
o 2.7.1 First assassination attempt
o 2.7.2 Second assassination attempt
* 2.8 Jimmy Carter
* 2.9 Ronald Reagan
* 2.10 George H.W. Bush
* 2.11 Bill Clinton
o 2.11.1 First assassination attempt
o 2.11.2 Second assassination attempt
* 2.12 George W. Bush
# 3 Presidential deaths rumored to be assassinations
* 3.1 Zachary Taylor
* 3.2 Warren G. Harding
Do you know many mixed race individuals and/or their parents?
“The Clintons would kill Obama is a nanosecond.”
No kidding... and then blame it on VRWC. It would be so easy.
I don’t think GOP primary turnout stats can be used to predict anything (at least at this point).
HIS safety? HIS safety? If this twerp becomes the Prez, I’m going to be worried about my safety and the safety of all of us. Since he’s so anti-Israel, I’m really beginning to wonder where his loyalties really lay.
A few “Middle Class Americans” here voted for Obama in the primary as a vote against Clinton,though they will vote for a Repub in Nov.,saying the pickens were’nt that good anyway..
Did’nt mean to jump in,just what could be going on in other places.
If that is the case, how do you explain that more people have voted in the Democratic Primaries than the GOP Primaries? That is even the case in Red States.
I stand by my statement. She and her ilk have already ABORTED more than that.
Probably right there.
Never understood riots, as they occur in black neighborhoods and disproportionately affect blacks.
Let’s destroy our own neighborhood and infrastructure?
Course if Obamma takes a bullet I would expect blacks to target whitey in whiteys neighborhood.
Every, person who has been President, Senator, Congressman and S.C. Justice for the last 35 years is responsible for those killed by abortion.
Now, who would be the 26,000,000 killed by a President Hillary and how would she do it?
““The Clintons would kill Obama is a nanosecond.”
No kidding... and then blame it on VRWC. It would be so easy.”
If it happens, it’ll happen in the next two weeks or so.
You know she’s trying to figure out how to pull it off.
If she fails, he’d be a hero, and make things worse for her.
And yet they are not only not expressing this desire, they are happily supporting him. Which makes me wonder how much of an apostate he really is.
The Hoping for Hope cult, that wants change for the future. Because they are wanting change they have hope for the future. And the future will bring change.
Repeat 35 times and you will be a member of the cult.
How many registered Republicans are there?
"ARE YOU NOW, OR HAVE YOU EVER BEEN, A CONSERVATIVE?"
“Obama will be find, just as long as he stays out of Ft. Marcy Park.”
Geez this is tiresome and embarrassing.
Where is that Same old S___ guy?
Explains itself , alot of young voters got out and voted , most in school ,most seem to lean toward Socialist ideals, I would also think that more blacks voted this year,due to Obama , just saying what happened here in this town of 3500 voters.
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