Apparently the “Magic Negro” is not above playing the race card:
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.
“This administration was colorblind in its incompetence,” Obama said at a conference of black clergy, “but the poverty and the hopelessness was there long before the hurricane.
“All the hurricane did was to pull the curtain back for all the world to see,” he said.
Obama’s criticism of Bush prompted ovation after ovation from the nearly 8,000 people gathered in Hampton University’s Convocation Center, particularly when he denounced the Iraq war and noted that he had opposed it from the outset.
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.
“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.”
I don’t know, but it seems to be that playing the race card is . . . well . . . just so cynical.
Hat tip: Drudge
Filed under: African-Americans, Barack Obama
BO is a manipulative (don’t forget articulate) skank. THE CURTAIN WAS PULLED BACK FOR ALL THE WORLD TO SEE, all right. To see the cess pool of corruption, laziness, incompetence, and the DISPAIR created by the web of dependence on the government teat that the left always leaves in the wake of its promises to do it for you and buy it for you and think for you and stick it to the guy who’s got more than you.
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This is will pick people up, Book. A great example of leadership, inspiration, and morale raising.
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Bookworm,
I’m beginning to think I fear Obama even more than Hilary. Hilary does everything according to politics. Obama and his crowd actually believe the silly stuff he says. Get a load of this quote.
“The danger of using good verses (sic) evil in the context of war is that it may lead us to be not as critical as we should about our own actions,” Obama said to applause.”
Now, that is complete nihilism and even more disturbing is that the audience enjoyed this talk and clapped.
Beware, beware….
Make no mistake, the race card will never go away. Never. It is the perfect Granscian tool.
No matter who is in presidency, He’ll always be just a puppet to those who rule the house. Unfortunately, Bush stood in front of the world and announced plans of action that the “whole” house voted on and decisions that he “and” his party brought to fruition. We’ll see how the next one will do.
June 6,Race Card,Timely Topic
On this day June 6,1966 ,James Meredith,(the first black student to be enrolled (Oct.1,1962)at the University of Mississippi was shot and wounded by a white sniper in Mississippi.And Stokely Carmichael(credited for coining the phrase institutional racism) launched the “Black Power” movement on this day June 6,1966.
According to Meredith on CNN,Larry King,2002 he said with regards to entering U of M ,”I was engaged in a war from day one.And my objective was to force the federal government- the Kennedy Administration(Democrat)into a position where they would have to use the United Sates military force to enforce my rights as a citizen”.They did.
March 3,1991,Rodney “choir boy,aren’t we all” King pulled over after a high speed car chase with the LAPD.He was subsequently tasered,tackled and pummelled with batons.
April 29,1992. Four police offices aquitted by a nearly all white jury.
April 29,1992.LA race riots begin that night.
Conclusion,there are bad people and $&!* happens and some people will give you as much crap as you are wiling to take!
Do something about it !!
Geez, Nance – complete nihilism? I didn’t think it rose above the level of gibberish…
Dear Bookworm,
First of all, it is not a well-known fact that riots do not just happen. There is no such thing as an impromptu, grassroots riots except when there is widespread famine. This is one of the maxims they taught people in intelligence schools; that riots do not happen in a vacuum and that there is almost always someone manipulating riots into being.
Second of all, anyone, and I mean anyone, who has ever visited New Orleans wouldn’t have been surprised at the mayhem that erupted from New Orleans from Hurricane Katrina. In New Orleans, you had the one of the most corrupt populace in the entire United States. Top to bottom.
For most people visiting New Orleans, they would probably stay in the French Quarter, get drunk, watch the street performers, marvel at the lascivious activities going on in seedy alleyways or in the open and stumble back to the hotel about 2 or 3 in the morning. And this is not Mardi Gras. This is a normal Tuesday night!
For those daring to venture outside the French Quarter, aside from the hundreds of graveyards, you’d see mostly rundown corroded homes. You almost think that much hadn’t changed since the Great Depression except for all the electricity and occasional store. I had never seen such destitution and depravity before or since, and I’ve visited poverty stricken Indo-China. Of course, there were good people living there, but the environment as a whole was dysfunctional to the extreme. Worst I’ve ever seen.
For Barack Obama to equal riots and the tragedy in New Orleans just betrays his ignorance on the subjects and his inexperience. To say that the ingrained, centuries long culture of depravity that is New Orleans is induced by an uncaring, racist American people is just plain ludicrous.
I think there is a quota on permissible gaffs for a presidential candidate and Obama is rapidly reach that quota.
Nice exposition, Thomas, though in my day it was: “there’s always a driver: a riot isn’t a spontaneous event.” (We were simple guys: we used drivers, not manipulators!)
I am sick of hearing about the civic disaster that is – and always has been – New Orleans. Coastal Mississippi, let us remember; Gulfport, Pascagoula, Biloxi – they were all just as smashed as New Orleans was. But there was minimal pissing, moaning, and whining, and just about NO blaming. The Mississipians just said, “well, damn – hurricanes happen,” put their heads down, got to work, and Mississippi is over Hurricane Katrina.
New Orleans continues to be the bad joke and paragon of civil ineptitude it always was. Obama has that part right: the hurricane certainly exposed New Orleans, but I don’t think in quite the way he thinks he means. And if he’s too dense to have figured out what was really going on in the LA “riots,” then he’s even dumber than I think he is.
I think bringing LA in puts him over his permissable quota.
“I think there is a quota on permissible gaffs for a presidential candidate and Obama is rapidly reach that quota.”
You are applying rational standards that I don’t believe apply any more. The zealous support for Obama has been out of all proportion to his experience or the content of his “message” (which to me is fairly standard liberal boilerplate). Why should any quota on permissible gaffs apply? A propensity for demagoguery did not seem to diminish Al Sharpton’s stature among Democrats in 2004. Obama’s appeal seems to entail an unspoken sine qua non. You remember poetess Helen who used to post here occasionally? She was gaga over Obama but couldn’t say why.
Zhombre,
I think Obama would have been someone more substantial had the Democratic party seasoned him. They moved him forward too fast. Had the Democratic Party appointed him to minor positions of responsibility, say, in the Senate and had they push him forward into an office exercising executive authority, such as a governorship, he would have been a much better candidate to me.
As it is, I don’t like a man leaping from a city councilman into the Presidency. That’s just patently absurd. Obama has been in the Senate for two years, and he’s just been running for the Presidency for those two years, which to my eyes, negates his Senator credentials right there. We sometimes forget that Obama has only just recently reached national attention. Because of the accident of his birth from interracial parents, his butt has been kissed all the way. He’s been treated as the “Wonder-boy” all along.
This does not suggest Presidential material to me. Like I said, if he’d been more seasoned, he could have been Presidential material. But by moving him forward to national attention too fast, Obama is being destroyed before our eyes. In my opinion, wishy-washy convictions and conducting political expediency makes for poor leadership.
I agree with you, Thomas. Things moving too fast is apt description of the current news cycle and Presidential horse race. It’s news & politics on steroids.
Thanks Brad (#5). Everything else faded away as I wandered off trying to find a definition of “Gransican”.
On the up side, I learned my new thing for the day. Now I can enjoy a cold beer.
Of course, when I searched I spelled it right. Geeze.
Oh hell, now I’m making an ass of myself in book’s comment section. Maybe I started the beer too early?
Greg…you are referring to Antonio Gramsci, correct?
Sorry Kurt, didn’t notice the mistake until you pointed it out.
Kurt …you are referring not to Greg but to Brad, correct?
Maybe I started the beer too early?
Yah.
Hope I can make a further gesture on my point of Obama’s speech being nihilistic in its gibberish. Yes, it is gibberish to us, however there was an audience lapping it up as meaningful. But if that gibberish were put into policy,…God help us all!
In my own life I got creamed by the – as Solzhenitsyn called it – The Red Wheel. It’s like Scooter Libby’s situation. When the Red Wheel of stupid nihilistic policy comes down the pike…you are going down. It is scary. Your life is not your own and you forever wear the brand on your forehead. Obama is scary. Beware!
Yes Kurt I was reffering to Gramsci, one of the most brilliant thinkers of the 20th century. He saw what was to come in the spread of collectivism, well before most others did. We now face problems from afar and in our institutions at home. I’m a prof at a major university and I see this cr*p every day. We are losing the “march” in a very bad way.
Thank you Brad. This is why I love the web. This morning I had never heard of Gramsci. Now, through the web, not only have I been given an introduction, but I’ve put on hold some of his writings at the local public library.
I still prefer to really read in a comfy chair under a nice light. The computer can’t match that. Yet.