The American Mind

Dam racist hurricanes!

Some people just don’t get it, no matter how you explain it to them.

That the KKK occasionally lynched white people didn’t make them not racist.

It’s Black Power 21st Century Style.

How so? It’s a plain statement of fact as far as I can see. Are you saying that there have never, ever been race riots in this country?

I can see you trying to drum this up like Obama’s some kind of Black Panther race agitator, but if you’re basing that on the fact that he doesn’t ignore the fact that race is still a factor in our society, it’s quite a stretch. Obama is a black man. Did you expect him never to talk about black people, or something?

[...] The first-term Illinois senator said that with black people from New Orleans and the Gulf Coast still displaced 20 months after Hurricane Katrina, frustration and resentments are building explosively as they did before the 1992 riots. Sean Hackbarth, American Mind, hacks Obama’s arguement to shreds: Outside the tourist haven New Orleans wasn’t so hot before Hurricane Katrina hit. Post-Katrina black-on-black violence got so bad the National Guard was called in to keep order. Mayor Ray Nagen, the incompetent one who blamed everyone else for his city’s problems, earned re-election. As Sean said, Crying Ray Nagin’s New Orlean was no prize before Katrina.Last 10 posts by DavidLRoll of Shame: John McCain – June 5th, 2007Don Surber: Bye-Bye Bill – June 4th, 2007Waging war in the name of Peace – June 4th, 2007Rip Van Winkleski – June 3rd, 2007Roll of Shame: George Stephanopoulos – June 3rd, 2007Mrs. Pelosi’s Swamp – June 3rd, 2007Cry to remember – June 2nd, 2007Snark of the Day: Don Surber – June 1st, 2007Radio Free Caracas – June 1st, 2007Leftards silent on al Qaeda torture – June 1st, 2007Extend the reach of this post Posted by DavidL @ 18:59 :: BitsBlog, Democrats, Social Issues, Race relations Comment RSS :: Trackback URI [...]

It appears Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), a front-runner for the Democrat Party presidential nomination, has stolen a page from the campaign playbook of Segolene Royal, the French Socialist Party candidate who lost the French presidential election to Nicolas Sarkozy early last month.

In a Bob McCarty Writes™ post May 4, I reported that operatives of Senator Obama and his chief rival, Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.), would be paying close attention to the results of the presidential election in France. A day later, I wrote and published a post about Royal’s warning to her countrymen — or, as she would say, “country-persons” — only 48 hours before election day that violence would erupt in the streets of France if she lost. And it did.

Now, according to an Associated Press report, Obama tossed out words like “Katrina” and “Rodney King” before accusing President George W. Bush of doing nothing to defuse a “quiet riot” among blacks that threatens to erupt just as riots in Los Angeles did 15 years ago.

Sounds like a threat to me. Moreover, it sounds like he’s targeting the same segment of the Democrat Party base at which people like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton tend to direct their oft-divisive, race-bating efforts, such as “No Justice, No Peace!” Worst of all, it sounds as if he’s hoping those targeted will actually resort to violence so that he — Obama — can try to lay the blame for the social unrest at the feet of Bush and, more importantly, his Republican opponent in the 2008 general election.

If I was Senator Clinton, I would be eating this up, satisfied that the junior senator from Illinois had blown his chance and, in so doing, improved mine.

“Worst of all, it sounds as if he’s hoping those targeted will actually resort to violence so that he — Obama — can try to lay the blame for the social unrest at the feet of Bush and, more importantly, his Republican opponent in the 2008 general election.”

Only if your interpretation is one of a drama queen.

Now, according to an Associated Press report, Obama tossed out words like “Katrina” and “Rodney King” before accusing President George W. Bush of doing nothing to defuse a “quiet riot” among blacks that threatens to erupt just as riots in Los Angeles did 15 years ago.

The AP story made most of that up. There’s nothing in his speech that supports that interpretation.

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In his speech there’s absolutely nothing that can be construed as any kind of threat. This whole thing is just ridiculous. Your liberal media, I guess.