Quite Riot Among Blacks

[razorsharp]

<p>Obama has now officially played the race card and is now an honored member of the divide America crowd.</p>

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Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama said Tuesday that the Bush administration has done nothing to defuse a “quiet riot” among blacks that threatens to erupt just as riots in Los Angeles did 15 years ago.
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.

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<p>I don’t see how a Black leader threatening Black violence will get him any votes.</p>

[Northstarmom]

<p>More of what he said,
"Repeatedly, he referred to the riots that erupted in Los Angeles after a jury acquitted four police officers of assault charges in the 1991 beating of Rodney King, a black motorist, after a high speed chase. Fifty-five people died and 2,000 were injured in several days of riots in the city’s black neighborhoods. </p>

<p>“Those ‘quiet riots’ that take place every day are born from the same place as the fires and the destruction and the police decked out in riot gear and the deaths,” Obama said. “They happen when a sense of disconnect settles in and hope dissipates. Despair takes hold and young people all across this country look at the way the world is and believe that things are never going to get any better.” </p>

<p>I don’t think that Obama’s correctly saying that there are black people who feel anger and despair due to the Bush administration’s incompetence is inciting black people to riot, just stating the facts.</p>

[mini]

<p>There has been no more divisive leader in America in the past 50 years than President Ding-Dong.</p>

[frrrph]

<p>He’s right on. I just wish the riot wasn’t that quiet, and could erupt in some high-energy civic engagement movements that could push towards making a difference.</p>

[frrrph]

<p>Also, since when did stating the fact that America IS divided along racial lines become divisive? Are we supposed to just sweep the problem under the rug in order to be able to pretend everything is a fine, “We Shall Overcome”-singing unity? The first step to addressing division is to acknowledge that it EXISTS.</p>

[hereshoping]

<p>I was VERY disappointed to hear that this afternoon. Really, really disappointed.</p>

[higherlead]

<p>I think we may be heading towards a major political realignment in this country. Politicians in both major party are playing to the extremes in their parties and the vast center of the political spectrom feels powerless and ignored. It might not be this election cycle but I suspect it is coming.</p>

<p>The vicious partisanship is by no means at an all time high but it is heading there and rational compromise on anything seems to be impossible. It may not be 1859 yet - the last time there was major party realignment but we are heading there.</p>

[WashDad]

<p>I never thought Obama would machine-gun his own foot this way. Just another politician.</p>

[mini]

<p>So why doesn’t anyone address his question? What HAS President Ding-Dong done to defuse the quiet riot?</p>

[WashDad]

<p>What quiet riot?</p>

[GAclassof2008]

<p>let’s all be serious… just cause everyone hates bush… it doesn’t mean that our country is ready for a woman or an african-american president. personally, i would like to vote 4 neither. i wish a good republican candidate could come along or maybe even a 3rd party… but if i must say…hilary has the better chance in winning, only because all the racist ppl who don’t normally vote, will do anything to make sure there is no black president. i heard on a radio station that black ppl aren’t even supporting him that much anyways… kind of sad.</p>

[razorsharp]

<p>Obama’s comment suggests it is ok for Blacks to riot if they don’t get what they want. No group has that right regardless of how legitimate that group may think its cause is. Obama harms African Americans by promoting the sterotype that a disproportionate number of blacks are violent. He should be finding ways to do the opposite. </p>

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The disproportionate representation of black Americans in the U.S. criminal justice system is well documented. Blacks comprise 13 percent of the national population, but 30 percent of people arrested, 41 percent of people in jail, and 49 percent of those in prison. Nine percent of all black adults are under some form of correctional supervision (in jail or prison, on probation or parole), compared to two percent of white adults. One in three black men between the ages of 20 and 29 was either in jail or prison, or on parole or probation in 1995. One in ten black men in their twenties and early thirties is in prison or jail. Thirteen percent of the black adult male population has lost the right to vote because of felony disenfranchisement laws.

<a href=“http://www.hrw.org/reports/2000/usa/Rcedrg00-01.htm[/url]”>http://www.hrw.org/reports/2000/usa/Rcedrg00-01.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>The figures may not be completely up to date but they show the real problem Obama and the rest of the candidates should be trying to solve. Instead, Obama is encouraging and justifying violence. Shame on Obama.</p>

[GAclassof2008]

<p>but… if hispanics get to vote… they’d probably go for obama…and he’d win… as long as the government doesn’t pass some special resgistration requirements like they mentioned in georgia.</p>

[ucsd_ucla_dad]

<p>So I guess the NOLA city governement (mayor) and LA state government (governor) is off the hook regarding any responsibility for the situation in NOLA - i.e. it’s all Bush’s fault/problem?</p>

[barrons]

<p>Most Hispanics feel little in common with most AA’s. They might happen to vote the same on some candidates but it won’t be for the same reasons.</p>

[conyat]

<p>I don’t see him threatening or inciting violence. It’s really twisting things to get that out of “quiet riot.” </p>

<p>One of the right wing pundits on Fox said yesterday that Paris Hilton was being treated like a prisoner at Abu Girah because she won’t be allowed to use her cell phone during her stay.</p>

<p>Same kind of histrionics.</p>

[weenie]

<p>Actually, I’ve been wondering when someone was going to notice that. </p>

<p>If, for instance, you had any idea of the growth and prevalence of gangs you’d be worried too about the violent counter-culture that is HUGE. Unfortunately, while the suburbs are not immune, it is, at this point, largely a black and Hispanic urban problem. (But make no mistake - it’s spreading.)</p>

<p>There are some angry, disenfranchised, violent, and VERY well organized bad guys out there. And I’m not talking about al Queda!</p>

<p>If you know anything, you would know that Obama is right to a large extent. Sad but true.</p>

[barrons]

<p>Gangs are mostly economic organizations and have been around for decades. They come and go a bit but the drug trade has lawyas been lucrative and they don’t ask too many questions about degrees and stuff.</p>

[weenie]

<p>Barrons, believe me, you have no idea…</p>

[conyat]

<p>As long as we’re being histrionic, should we interpret this statement as the head of the Arkansas Republican Party wishing for more attacks like 9-11 so Bush could regain his popularity?</p>

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At the end of the day, I believe fully the president is doing the right thing, and I think all we need is some attacks on American soil like we had on [Sept. 11, 2001 ], and the naysayers will come around very quickly to appreciate not only the commitment for President Bush, but the sacrifice that has been made by men and women to protect this country,” Milligan said.

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