October 10th 2008
Race-Baiting: Dems Calling For Riots If Obama Loses
T
alk about your racist assumptions. If Sarah Palin says “soccer mom,” it’s racist, but if an Obama supporter says blacks are the kind of people who just can’t help themselves and will riot if things don’t go their way, well heck, that’s hardly something to be elevated to the same hateful level as “Joe Sixpack.”
I’d heard about the rioting meme some time back but was reminded of it this week when ultra-Dem James Carville said to Anderson Cooper after the debate:
Now let me be clear here, if Obama goes in this race with a 5- point lead and losing this election, the consequences are—bull, man. I mean I don’t think that’s going to happen, but I think David it’s a point to bring up.
But you stop and contemplate this country if Obama goes in and he has a consistent five point lead and loses the election, it would be very, very, very dramatic out there.
Talk about speaking in code. “Very, very dramatic out there,” in case you didn’t know, is code for “black people taking to the street, breaking windows, looting, beating up any stray whites they come across, and burning down the ‘hood.” But you knew that.
I’ve done a bit of poking about and I’ve found some more code-speak from Dems that could be as riot race-baiting. Let’s start with Philly Daily News columnist Fatima Ali, who wrote:
If McCain wins, look for a full-fledged race and class war, fueled by a deflated and depressed country, soaring crime, homelessness – and hopelessness!
I looked it up in my handy-dandy code book and “full-fledged race and class war” is code for “black people taking to the street, breaking windows, looting, beating up any stray whites they come across, and burning down the ‘hood.”
A post at One News Now gives us the academic’s view:
A recent Associated Press-Yahoo News poll suggested Senator Obama’s race could cost him up to six percentage points on election night. David Corbin, a politics professor at The King’s College, contends there is potential for public riots the night of or after the election, if Obama’s lead in the polls does not translate into victory.
“I don’t think that’s something that we’ve looked at very closely, and I think that this could be a powder keg here as we get towards that day, given that Senator Obama is an African-American and given that there might be some backlash if he actually loses,” Corbin explains.
“Powder keg?” “Backlash?” Those are code for “black people taking to the street, breaking windows, looting, beating up any stray whites they come across, and burning down the ‘hood,” but stated more academically, of course.
Finally, over at Obama News Weekly, aka Newsweek, Allison Samuels threads the racial needle for us.
In the African-American community, the thinking on Obama’s candidacy has gone something like this: In the beginning, there was disbelief that a black man could become president. Then, when Obama became the Democratic nominee and soared in the polls, listeners were concerned for his safety. Now that the race with John McCain is as tight as Sarah Palin’s smile, Baisden’s audience has started to worry about Election Day itself. There is still a fair amount of optimism in the black community, but it’s being tempered by two words: what if. What if Obama loses? How should people respond? What should they feel?
One would think they’d feel a lot like I felt when Bill Clinton got elected. Pretty much, “Shoot! We’re going to have at least four years of this guy, and he’s going to mess things up.” Then I went to sleep, got up the next morning, and went to work … like black supporters of Gore and Kerry did in 2000 and 2004. But that’s not what Samuels would have folks – is “folks” that racist? – do:
There’s not a lot of anger—yet—but you can start to sense the potential for it.
If Samuels were an attorney, someone would be standing up right about now and shouting, “I object! Leading the witness.” At least if she were a TV attorney.
“I’m going to be mad, real mad, if he doesn’t win,” says Daetwon Fisher, 21, a construction worker from Long Beach, Calif. “Because for him to come this far and lose will be just shady and a slap in black people’s faces. I know there is already talk about protests and stuff if he loses, and I’m down for that.”
Well I’ve never quite confronted racism right in my face like this before. Am I supposed to think that black people cannot process negative news? That if things don’t go their way, they’re down for protests and stuff? Shouldn’t Samuels have added some sort of “don’t generalize” disclaimer? But she didn’t. Instead she goes on:
… spent two years in prison for possession of marijuana and has never voted before. “I thought, ‘What’s the point?’ But my mom started talking about Obama last year and getting so excited about him, I started paying attention.” Now Richmond reads the paper and is talking to his buddies about the importance of the election. But since this is his first time voting, he has no idea what it feels like to lose, and he’s not sure what he’s going to feel.
Really? He didn’t feel like he lost when he lost in court and went to jail? This got me wondering: When he had sex for the first time, was there a chance he’d become a serial killer because he wasn’t sure what he was going to feel? When he got freed from jail, was there a chance he’d become a priest and work with lepers because he wasn’t sure what he was going to feel?
Samuels would have us fear the reaction of this young black ex-con, because that fear serves Obama well, in three ways.
First, it encourages more blacks to vote for Obama. Second, it encourages whatever whites may be struggling against their inner racist to be shamed into voting for Obama since the black population obviously wants him so badly. And finally, it just might get some whites – particularly those who live or own property in predominantly black areas – to cast a “safety vote” for Obama.
But remember all you soccer moms and Joe Sixpacks, drumming up this fear by casting blacks as violent primitives who are incapable of dealing maturely with the ups and downs of Democracy isn’t racist. And it sure isn’t what we thought they meant by “change you can believe in.”
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October 12th, 2008 at 12:26 am
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October 10th, 2008 at 8:30 pm
Oh, don’t worry… there won’t be any rights because he’s gonna blow McCain outta the water.
October 15th, 2008 at 5:59 am
“If McCain wins, look for a full-fledged race and class war, fueled by a deflated and depressed country, soaring crime, homelessness – and hopelessness!” …Fatima Ali