Posted on 09/12/2008 8:32:29 AM PDT by forkinsocket
An anxious murmur is rising among black voters as the presidential race tightens: What if Barack Obama loses?
Black talk-show hosts and black-themed Web sites are being flooded with callers and bloggers reflecting a nervousness -- and anger -- over the campaign. Bev Smith, a nationally syndicated radio talk-show host, devoted her entire three-hour show Monday night to the question: "If Obama doesn't win, what will you think?"
"My audience is upset," she said in an interview. "Some people said they would be so angry it would be reminiscent of the [1960s] riots -- that is how despondent they would be."
Warren Ballentine, another nationally syndicated talk-show host, said: "Once Sarah Palin was picked and African-Americans saw the Republicans ignited again, they got worried. We are scared now."
The worries aren't universal. New York Gov. David Paterson, a Democrat, acknowledged the concerns about race. "I am hearing those jitters," he said. But he said many Democratic candidates have lost the presidential race in recent decades and "they were white candidates. African-Americans need to remember that."
Black nervousness could help Sen. Obama, the first African-American to head a major-party ticket, by boosting black turnout in November. One caller to Ms. Smith's show Monday said she was so worried that she planned to go to her church to begin working on a voter-registration drive.
If Sen. Obama loses, "African-Americans could be disappointed to the point of not engaging in the process anymore," or consider forming a third political party, said Richard McIntire, communications director for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
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Can you IMAGINE what would happen if a white Evangelical or Catholic said this? The IRS would be down on his house in helicopters the very next day, so they could take away the church's tax-free status for even having a member who was THINKING about this.
But we'll see the busses outside of every black church in the country come election day, and not a word said.
“she was so worried that she planned to”... vote 3 or 4 times
“The worries aren’t universal. New York Gov. David Paterson, a Democrat, acknowledged the concerns about race. “I am hearing those jitters,” he said. But he said many Democratic candidates have lost the presidential race in recent decades and “they were white candidates. African-Americans need to remember that.”
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So only white democrats can lose presidential elections??? Blacks are guaranteed a win just because they are black?
“The worries aren’t universal. New York Gov. David Paterson, a Democrat, acknowledged the concerns about race. “I am hearing those jitters,” he said. But he said many Democratic candidates have lost the presidential race in recent decades and “they were white candidates. African-Americans need to remember that.”
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So only white democrats can lose presidential elections??? Blacks are guaranteed a win just because they are black?
“If Sen. Obama loses, “African-Americans could be disappointed to the point of not engaging in the process anymore,” or consider forming a third political party, said Richard McIntire, communications director for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.”
Now that’s a raceist comment if I ever heard one.....
Riot? LOl, let ‘em! The morons who engage in or instigate these riots would be solely responsible for totally erasing the progress made by the black community since 1962.
That would be 46 years of effort and gains thrown away.
P.S., Translation: “I’m picking up my marbles and going HOME!”
LOL! Now there's a colorblind perspective. "Just another loser Democrat ..."
Yeah, what if McCain DOES win? What do the Americans of African origin do then? Spread out to “organize” the community, with a few fires and overturned vehicles, spilling out into Uptown, and scaring the white folk?
That will move to nullify the election, all right.
I would welcome this response, The dims would never win another race. About Obama losing. I'm afraid even the anoited one still has to get the most votes.
Insanity.
Geez, sorta sounds like some ‘entitlement’ mindset has infected the psychosis here. I mean, just ‘create’ an ‘ideal’ candidate, and all you have to do is just ‘show up’, and you get the ‘prize’ handed to you.
These are not so veiled threats. You really can tell a lot about a person by the company he/she keeps. Obama is king of the sore losers and cry-babies.
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