A Helpless Unsettling Feeling is Slowly Growing

spyguy

you live in a bubble. how many people in your town? few hundred? how many miles to the next town? 20?

Strangest Tribe

spyguy wrote:

ok so you live in some small hick town that has a few racists around. I suggest taking a vacation. see the country you live in. its pretty nice. the area you live represents 0.000000000001% of america. chill the fuck out

Not true...sorry

Strangest Tribe

spyguy wrote:

you live in a bubble. how many people in your town? few hundred? how many miles to the next town? 20?

Don't be naive please.

I live on the Missouri Arkansas border 17000 in my hometown and small towns all around plus about 6 colleges within an hour drive.

spyguy

Strangest Tribe wrote:

Don't be naive please.

I live on the Missouri Arkansas border 17000 in my hometown and small towns all around plus about 6 colleges within an hour drive.

and you think the KKK is alive and well around you? you think they are going to take over the country and rise up if Obama gets elected?

JordyWordy

hmmm....im not from the states obviously, and this is the first suggestion ive heard anywhere of Obama getting shot / riots / civil unrest setting in.

BUT that being said, racism abounds quite extremely where i work everyday with people who can subject our black & asian staff to racist treatment quite regularly (refuse to talk to / physically attack / spitting at).

In what is a fairly moderate country, we had small riots around Dublin when there was an Orange march held here less than 2 years ago. General public opinion = whats the threat? Irelands been independent for over half a century...so who gives a shit.
But many republicans louts decided to go in and riot, rip up the city centre and attack the peaceful marches. go figure.
most people in the country wouldnt have believed that could happen, and neither did i...but it did. I know its not an assasination, but the principle is the exact same.

i trust Strangest to know his area better than other posters who do not live there...it doesnt take a whole population to kick up civil disturbances, it just takes people who are determined to do it. Thats why its scary.

Strangest Tribe

spyguy wrote:

and you think the KKK is alive and well around you? you think they are going to take over the country and rise up if Obama gets elected?

No that's not my point at all. We got sidetracked from my original post somehow. I don't see the KKK or any one group rising up to seize power in this country.

My point was... I see there being enough hate groups that someone could cross that line and place Obama in their crosshairs. Reality check... This is a potential problem... Like a local radio personality recently states that he sees the McCain commercial with Paris Hilton and Britney Spears as a thinly veiled prejudiced commercial showing a black man with two white women.

If allowed, the ignorant racists could easily send this country back 40 years...possibly revolution... It could get bloody, because how many more heroes can we have fall to an assassin's bullet?

fuck

bottom line:
if Obama wins the election, a white-supremacist revolution will NOT be something to worry about.

Strangest Tribe

JordyWordy wrote:

hmmm....im not from the states obviously, and this is the first suggestion ive heard anywhere of Obama getting shot / riots / civil unrest setting in.

BUT that being said, racism abounds quite extremely where i work everyday with people who can subject our black & asian staff to racist treatment quite regularly (refuse to talk to / physically attack / spitting at).

In what is a fairly moderate country, we had small riots around Dublin when there was an Orange march held here less than 2 years ago. General public opinion = whats the threat? Irelands been independent for over half a century...so who gives a shit.
But many republicans louts decided to go in and riot, rip up the city centre and attack the peaceful marches. go figure.
most people in the country wouldnt have believed that could happen, and neither did i...but it did. I know its not an assasination, but the principle is the exact same.

i trust Strangest to know his area better than other posters who do not live there...it doesnt take a whole population to kick up civil disturbances, it just takes people who are determined to do it. Thats why its scary.

It's amazing how blind or naive we are. People from metropolitan areas tend to believe racism is dead. Hey this is the new millenium aren't we past all these skincolor issues?

I wish it was that simple.

Racism isn't just a Southern problem either. The short time I went to the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana I was astonished to find out that there were numerous outlying towns around that college where "whites-only" lived... towns of 2-3 thousand people that had zero minorities. And this is in the North!!!!! Not the south.

Same can be said about many northern states, Indiana, Ohio, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota and on and on.

The town I live in has 17000 people and about 4000 of those are black but I can name at least 20 towns around us that have zero blacks. There's even a town 20 miles west of me that has 8000 people and 0 blacks. UNBELIEVABLE but true.

Sorry

spyguy

tribe, seriously. you are over reacting.

Strangest Tribe

_outlaw wrote:

bottom line:
if Obama wins the election, a white-supremacist revolution will NOT be something to worry about.

That's not what I'm talking about... get a clue please

I'm sorry but I don't know how to put this any other way to you....I'm saying that if Obama would get assassinated there will be uncontrolled uprisings in this country.

For a quick history lesson Wiki (Martin Luther King assassination) and you will need to read about the riots that followed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Washington,_D.C._riots
Thank you

Strangest Tribe

spyguy wrote:

tribe, seriously. you are over reacting.

you don't think there will be rioting if something happened to Obama?

fuck

Strangest Tribe wrote:

That's not what I'm talking about... get a clue please or stop posting in this thread.

I'm sorry but I don't know how to put this any other way to you....I'm saying that if Obama would get assassinated there will be uncontrolled uprisings in this country.

For a quick history lesson Wiki (Martin Luther King assassination) and you will need to read about the riots that followed.

Thank you

No, you said "if Obama wins", not "if Obama is assassinated."

if you're talking about him being assassinated, then it's really pointless. how about we see him win first, atleast. discussing his assassination right now is just so far-fetched and ridiculous.

JordyWordy

Strangest Tribe wrote:

It's amazing how blind or naive we are. People from metropolitan areas tend to believe racism is dead. Hey this is the new millenium aren't we past all these skincolor issues?

Racism isn't just a Southern problem either.

The town I live in has 17000 people and about 4000 of those are black but I can name at least 20 towns around us that have zero blacks. There's even a town 20 miles west of me that has 8000 people and 0 blacks. UNBELIEVABLE but true.

Sorry

unfortunately you have a lot of merit in those points...i dont know directly if lack of minority groups gives tendencies towards adverse treatment of the minority groups if encountered, but i do know that you're spot on when you say things could kick off. COULD......and racisms/discrimination will exists in some form everywhere....

Probably its not discussed as majority arent of that view....but its funny that racism is still relatively stong in places yet this hasnt really been discussed lately in light of the election.

im probably rambling, but to some up, i think you shouldnt be too pessimistic in people, but you raise a very interesting possibility.
even if people disagree, who are they to say its impossible?

Strangest Tribe

_outlaw wrote:

No, you said "if Obama wins", not "if Obama is assassinated."

if you're talking about him being assassinated, then it's really pointless. how about we see him win first, atleast. discussing his assassination right now is just so far-fetched and ridiculous.

ok



I'm just being paranoid

stuckinline

strangest tribe, i understand what you are saying. i actually heard someone say that they would NOT vote for obama, because they were concerned if he was elected he would be shot. btw, i live 10 miles away from a major city.

fuck

Strangest Tribe wrote:

ok



I'm just being paranoid

yeah, i say worry about issues now. we'll get to everything else once they become more relevant...

Strangest Tribe

_outlaw wrote:

yeah, i say worry about issues now. we'll get to everything else once they become more relevant...

Yeah

whoever said I need a vacation was probably right on.

It just kinda freaks me out to hear and witness how some people think.

spyguy

Strangest Tribe wrote:

you don't think there will be rioting if something happened to Obama?

rioting? geez I dont know maybe? I'm really not that concerned that Obama will get shot

TDMize15

I don't think Obama getting elected will be bad for race relations in the United States... I think it will be the best thing to happen for race relations in the last 30 years.

There has been remarkably little progress post-MLK, and I think having a black man as our president will only help end racism in this country.

acoustic guy

Strangest Tribe wrote:

Something wicked this way comes

Not to get off topic but Great movie...I have not seen it in a long while.
Thread idea for another room.