Racist Incidents Give Some Obama Campaigners Pause »

Posted By Aidenag 1 year, 1 month ago in News

For all the hope and excitement Obama's candidacy is generating, some of his field workers, phone-bank volunteers and campaign surrogates are encountering a raw racism and hostility that have gone largely unnoticed -- and unreported -- this election season.

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    scott42611 year, 1 month ago

    This is no surprise to me. Just look at the vitriol expressed by the bigots residing on this site!

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    Goppy1 year, 1 month ago

    For us Christian Conservatives, wed be Okay with Obama if he repeated often that God is his co-pilot ... or that 'Jesus is the philosopher who most changed his life' ... liek GW.

    See, we are okay givin a chance to a Master of Mediocrity, a Draft Dodger, a Cocaine Consumer, an Admitted Alcoholic ... those are all things we can forgive. After all, dont all them weaknesses prove that the love of Jesus can cure all?

    Course, we dint know at the tiem that GW was fakin it.

    Nevertheless, unless Obama convinces us hes a Born Again Christian ... and advertises it liek GW ... I doubt we will look past the color of his skin.

    You got to think about he roots of this Political Party we invented knowed as the Christian Conservative Party. Only then will you understand.

    Only then will the scales be lifted off your eyes.

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      koranagirl1 year, 1 month ago

      I really didn't get the story very much. Was the point that a European woman gets votes cuz she's not an African American man? Or was it that the dems should have a European man run so we can see if Obama is really discriminated against.

      Maybe the WP also has to do a story on how a lot of guys in the locker room say she's just a c-word, w-word, b-word, I could go on and on with those. OMGss--there's more derrogatory terms for a woman than an African American you can't say.

      My favorite is someone calling out to Hill "wash my shirt" and no one said boo, but you know if someone called out to Obama "shine my sh___", you'd have a mass inquiry.

      Hill apparently gets comments like these all the time, and she deals with it.

      But then again, women have to be tough, very tough, to survive in the world and not make a fuss about gender.

      I bet Hill's had to make the coffee and do laundry many more times than Obama was called to do something lowly.

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      koranagirl1 year, 1 month ago

      I mean, if you want to talk discrimination, it's a better bet we can all envision Hillary being responsible for groceries, laundry, doing dishes. Now maybe she has others do most of this for her lately, but no one would say boo if they saw it.

      On the otherhand, I bet Obama either rarely changed a diaper or he balked at it.

      Is this discrimination?

      Just asking. If we can all envision Hillary doing more housework than Obama, and it's not an issue, then why is what's going on in this article any different?

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      gamahuche1 year, 1 month ago

      "On the otherhand, I bet Obama either rarely changed a diaper or he balked at it"

      Why would you bet that??

      I'd very strongly bet the opposite.

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      2sidestoeverything1 year, 1 month ago

      Good find aidenag, very interesting article but not to surprising.

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        TechnologyExpert1 year, 1 month ago

        Unsurprising, though worrisome. I often wonder why we are the "United States" of America when in fact there is very little that unites many red / blue states, aside from the fact that most of the states are on the same continent.

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          AbuAmirah1 year, 1 month ago

          I'm not surprised on bit. Hell the racist, bigoted powers that be can attack the dude 2 ways. They can always play up the fact that he is black, never mind the fact that he pulled himself up with his bootstraps. Dude has worked hard his whole life and now its paying off. When I was a kid, i was told that if i studied hard and got a good education, then I would be president of the United States. When I told my dad that, he laughed and said that studying hard would allow me to have a good life and enjoy many things, but as far as being President, he said that they didn't call it the White House for no reason. A second avenue is Islamophobia. I heard on Good Morning America, that 15% of America still believes that he's a Muslim, even though he has stated time and time again that he isn't. If he wins the nomination, that will put America on stage. Are we really the bastion of racial tolerance? Or are we no better than the rest of the world?

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          tkyrchncs1 year, 1 month ago

          This stuff sounds pretty trivial. Shouting racial slurs at teenagers who are setting themselves up as targets (that is, they are CAMPAIGNING) seems to be the worst of it. As for the headquarters vandalism, there is no indication in the article or picture that it is any more racist than political, and unless there were unreported remarks in the bomb threats, well, Hill had bomb threats too. I'll bet everyone doing door-to-door in anyone's campaign has had the door slammed in his face. Seems to me that we have come a long way from lynchings and cross-burnings.

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          cowboygrandpa1 year, 1 month ago

          Racism exists no doubt.

          Obamas going to face it. The question is.

          Is the reason Obama is receiving these racist remarks and threats because some people sense he could really win. Do a good job and thereby disprove their unfounded racism?

          That is how I see it. Now I don't know if he has enough experience. That has always been my one big doubt about him.

          He is showing some strength and wisdom in what he is doing lately. Talking about McCain instead of Hillary so much.

          I'm starting to like the way he is handling himself. If he continues and shows his maturity and wisdom I'll be more than glad to support the man.

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          not2needy1 year, 1 month ago

          Not surprising, yet i will say, i am surprised that there hasn't been more of it reported.

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          Grrr1 year, 1 month ago

          I have encountered the same line, though.

          "He'll hand the country over to the blacks."

          Some entity is disseminating this line en masse. I have run across it in passing just overhearing it in public places three or four times now. I honestly think that this is organized Klan activity. You guys on the coasts probably don't realize it much, but... they're still here. Unfortunately. And the more likely it becomes that he is the nominee, the more brazen they will become.

          Watch for flyers. Report them. To Feds, not local authorities. Catch anybody disseminating, get their plates and descriptions. FIGHT BACK! Stop it as soon as you see signs of it in your community.

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          raza91 year, 1 month ago

          I wouldn't care if the damn president was purple, so long as he/she is a GOOD pres. McHilama, all voted FOR the 'war', all voted FOR the 'patriot act' and all voted FOR Nafta. They are all affiliated with the CFR. *shudders* If you don't know much about the council on foreign relations do some research. They all rub elbows with corporate lobbyists and all take money from Big Business. These are facts but don't take my word for it. As they say, money talks and BS walks. Research the top campaign contributors of all the candidates, all four. That's right Ron Paul is still in the race, much to the dismay of the establishment. Anyways research the top campaign donors, do it now. Do you see? See who Big Business supports? See who the regular men/women in the military support? Who will you support and most importantly, ask yourself why?

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          tbkennedy531 year, 1 month ago

          Racism in any form is disgusting and shows utter stupidity.

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          Mutainia1 year, 1 month ago

          Is it racism that is confronting Obama now, or, his perceived sitting through 20 years of hateful rants against the US that he earlier claimed he never heard? Perhaps it's now both these things.

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          newbie04201 year, 1 month ago

          My mother and little brother went to DC last week. My brother was wearing a McCain t-shirt on the train and after receiving some rather dirty looks a black lady came over to him and said:

          "You'd better put on your jacket, when in Rome...."

          My brother being a smarta$$ said:

          "This ain't Rome lady, maybe that's why Rome fell."

          Imagine the outcry of racism had it been a train packed with rich white folk who support McCain and a white lady told a black kid to cover an Obama t-shirt.

          The racist double standard in this country is, well, sickening.

          Funniest thing is he was sitting next to my mother who was wearing an Obama t-shirt.

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            taciturnman1 year, 1 month ago

            This stuff sounds pretty trivial. Shouting racial slurs at teenagers who are setting themselves up as targets (that is, they are CAMPAIGNING) seems to be the worst of it. http://www.youtube.com/user/BuyBedroomFurniture As for the headquarters vandalism, there is no indication in the article or picture that it is any more racist than political, and unless there were unreported remarks in the bomb threats, well, Hill had bomb threats too. I'll bet everyone doing door-to-door in anyone's campaign has had the door slammed in his face. Seems to me that we have come a long way from lynchings and cross-burnings.

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              automan9091 year, 1 month ago

              The biggest example of racism are the Obama fans.

              They obviously vote for him just because he is black.

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              ETproductions1 year, 1 month ago

              With a KKK alive and well, with all the racism buried in the "reporting" of the MSM, is anyone surprised?

              If we are ever to become the United States of America, this is what we must confront and overcome.

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                Mdiar1 year, 1 month ago

                I don't believe the race is as racially charged as other side would like to spin it. The whites who don't vote Obama, by and large, are doing so because they believe experience trumps ideas. Look at it like this:

                You work hard all day in a factory. A new guy comes in and has a bunch of good ideas that sound good. You consider him intelligent and able. The first day on the job, while he's thinking about something, he cuts off his hand in an accident. That is how they see Obama. Not in racial terms, by and large. They see Clinton as the 20 year veteran of the job, who learned and learned the hard way.

                I tend to agree that a few extremists out there will refuse to vote Obama due to race and even vandalize his headquarters and may make an attempt on his life. However, for actually winning the election, it won't be a major factor. In the end the experience voters will decide the new, smart guy who learned his lesson on the job is better then the one who never has learned his lesson.

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