by Eyck Freymann
Truthout reports that two young men have been arrested for an attempt on the life of Barack Obama. The two racists reportedly planned to then rob a gun shop and massacre black students at a local high school.
It is a flat out lie to say that this campaign has not become almost entirely about race. Developments such as this shed light on the urgency with which anti-Obama groups (not necessarily including but with the tacit consent of the McCain campaign) are spreading fear and mistrust between the black and white communities.
All I can say is that these recent events show a Republican party, desperate to hold some power in Washington, resorting to their dirtiest smearing hatred-mongering tactics. They hope to reach the inner bigot in Americans to prevent a vote for Obama.
More than ever, Americans have to stand up to the Southern Strategy. With luck, on November 5th the racial divide that has cleaved this country apart for four hundred years will begin to heal.
I say this earnestly and without remorse: if McCain wins, I will leave the country. Not permanently, mind you, but I will indeed go to Canada or elsewhere. Politics is ugly, but this is as dirty as it gets. I don't see how the nation can stand it.
One week left.
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Racial Massacre Prevented
Labels: assassination, Barack Obama, race, Young Sentinel
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I think that judging the entire party from the actions of a couple of neo-nazis is wrong.
We're not saying that all Republicans are Nazis. (We might think that way...) It's only to draw attention to the fact that race is crucial. But there's another factor: we need to trust in Joe Biden, because Barack Obama may well get assasinated. The guy isn't even in the White House yet, and TWO times, people were planning to kill the guy. This grout panted a hundred others dead, and they could've gotten away with it if they didn't paint swastikas on their car. McCain needs to answer for this. I expect a statement from Obama. I also wonder what out non-liberal blogger has to say.
If McCain wins, I will either move to Iceland, (the nation with the highest proportion of people who accept evolution via natural selection as scientific fact,) or France, (if Iceland falls into irreversible economic ruin) once I head off to college.
As I have previously stated: I will have lost all faith in the intellect and tolerance of the American people if McCain wins.
On the topic of moving to other countries, even if McCain wins I'll probably stay in the US. Why? Because as bad as the US is when it comes to racism and intolerance its still better than nearly every other country (with the exceptions of Canada, the Netherlands, and Britain)
According to this poll: http://pewglobal.org/reports/display.php?ReportID=262 20% of French people have negative views towards Jews, and 38% towards Muslims. Of course the US and Britain are up there too, but they're at the bottom of countries polled.
As the child of immigrants these views disturb me greatly. For better or for worse the US is still probably one of the best if not the best countries in the world to be an immigrant, and that's why I'll probably end up staying here.
@washcddemocrat: If I'm the "non-liberal blogger" mentioned, then of course this was a despicable act, but I don't think McCain should have to answer for it any more than Obama should have to answer for William Ayers (and he shouldn't)
You are not the "non-liberal" blogger I was talking about. And if McCain doesn't want to lose any credibility he has, he'll shot some sympathy for his opponnent and contempt for these criminals.
"show".
Rishubhav:
First, it is not solely because of rampant racist sentiment in this country that I would think about leaving, (there is a sixty percent chance [without using mathematics] that I would stay here.) My main motive would be the lack of intellectual, social, economic, and scientific progression caused by a McCain Presidency.
Polls are not viable tools to measure racist or xenophobic sentiment, for their contents are commonly inaccurate, and they do not take into account the large portion of the population that harbors antipathy but does not call itself "racist." Furthermore, as a student in semi-rural Iowa, I have witnessed such antipathetic sentiment firsthand, (especially in regard to religion.) A medium-sized portion of my peers thinks that all Muslims are terrorists, and that all Jews are infidel atheists, (for the record: I do not think that atheism is wrong in any way, and I consider myself a liberal agnostic,) though they do not think of themselves as racist or xenophobic.
The U.S. is one of the best countries in the world for immigrants, I am not denying that, (a large part of my family is made up of Jewish Latvian immigrants,) but I fear that John McCain and Sarah Palin will cause this country to recede rather than progress in that regard.
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