After Obama's win, white backlash festers in US

After Obama's win, white backlash festers in US

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Atlanta - In rural Georgia, a group of high-schoolers gets a visit from the Secret Service after posting "inappropriate" comments about President-elect Barack Obama on the Web. In Raleigh, N.C., four college students admit to spraying race-tinged graffiti in a pedestrian tunnel after the election. On Nov. 6, a cross burns on the lawn of a biracial couple in Apolacon Township, Pa.

The election of America's first black president has triggered more than 200 hate-related incidents, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center – a record in modern presidential elections. Moreover, the white nationalist movement, bemoaning an election that confirmed voters' comfort with a multiracial demography, expects Mr. Obama's election to be a potent recruiting tool – one that watchdog groups warn could give new impetus to a mostly defanged fringe element.

Most election-related threats have so far been little more than juvenile pranks. But the political marginalization of certain Southern whites, economic distress in rural areas, and a White House occupant who symbolizes a multiethnic United States could combine to produce a backlash against what some have heralded as the dawn of a postracial America. In some parts of the South, there's even talk of secession.

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Well...we knew this would happen. The nasty and small minded are coming out in force. I think that we are going to see the racist underbelly of the country rear its ugly head. On the up side, the issue is going to be out in the open like never before--and that, potentially, could provide a chance to educate and enlighten these people.

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I agree that it's a good thing and that it's expected. Let the cockroaches come out of hiding and get squashed like the bugs they are.

I'm all for education, but people who do the things described in this article aren't usually open for education. They are willfully ignorant.

Let us not forget all the accounts of attacks on non Obama supporters that have been detailed here at ATS since the election. This type of ignorance goes both ways, don't make it out to be a partisan issue.

I'm beginning to notice that these types of threads are only coming from Obama supporters now. It seems like the ones who didn't support Obama are the ones trying to come together now.

For some reason I'm not surprised.

Well, I don't believe they're "bugs", but I do believe our country is headed for an age of greater understanding for other races and cultures. Prejudice will eventually be a thing of the past, as soon as we get some kinks our of our system. It'll get worse before it gets better, as said.

reply to post by Benevolent Heretic


True...they are called close-minded for a reason, but I think there is a good percentage who have just not been exposed to the world outside their little town. These people are impressionable, and so far have only had negative examples. If a national discussion is begun on the issue of race, they may see that their perspective was very limited and totally fear-based. My hope, anyway.

[edit on 17-11-2008 by Silenceisall]

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This is a discussion about racism, and not which candidate you supported. There are many McCain supporters who are disgusted by these actions.

Originally posted by Silenceisall


Well...we knew this would happen. The nasty and small minded are coming out in force. I think that we are going to see the racist underbelly of the country rear its ugly head. On the up side, the issue is going to be out in the open like never before--and that, potentially, could provide a chance to educate and enlighten these people.

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"educate and enlighten" Please elaborate 'comrade'. You act as if concerns over race and leftist leanings are some sort of mental illness or can be attributed to a 'lack of knowledge'.

The multi-ethnic policies of the last 20 years have marginalized all whites, not just poor southerners.

You need a reality check. Blacks and Hispanics are very racist against white people. Policies such as affirmative action have led to a groundswell of rage against aggressive socialist policies that dumb down our schools and allow criminals to arm themselves with impunity while taking gun rights away from law abiding citizens.

VICAP stats are a good marker; crimes perpetrated by blacks and hispanics against whites is far higher than the reverse. Many urban areas of the US are little more than war zones.

Eventually, this going to lead to mass chaos, and Obama, nor anyone else, can do a damned thing to stop it.

And one day, a mushroom cloud will appear over a US city or two, and it will be because MS13 brought a backpack nuke or rogue warhead across our useless US-Mexican border.

Face facts, multiculturalism has destroyed every great civilization since ancient Greece, and even before that.

I await the onslaught of posts calling me a 'racist'. I don't care though, it needs to be said. Race is not the soul issue with the 'mighty' Obama. For me, my concern is in his exaltation to the status of messiah. I don't give a damn that he's black.

Pull your head out of the clouds long enough to see the rain.

And I am one of them.

However, you're making it seem like this is only happening one way, and it isn't.

There have been just as many reports of violence against those who didn't and do not support Obama.

reply to post by Silenceisall


Yes, the racism is coming from black Obama supporters as well. People getting beat up and called racist, simply for wearing McCain shirts or saying they are Republicans. Its almost a worse problem, simply because many people apparently fail to recognize it for what it is.

Oh my GOODNESS!
Some teenagers wrote on a blog against obama, some spraypainted and another burned a cross on a bi-racial couples' lawn.
Ayers bombed a family car, he thought it wasn't far enough and thank God nobody died!

Honestly, you know about the bi-racial couple in California who were killed by blacks, because they were mixed?No? it was called a robbery until the truth came out.

The South started as a penal colony, then bore the brunt of American taxes, without representation, which spurred the Civil War. We overcame the forced depression on us and now, we have civil rights and that doesn't matter, because if we don't also love Obama(Not referring to 'us' as stormfront, white supremacists, etc...) and his communism, we are racist, cockroaches?
Pencil-necks in the southern poverty Law group, and others are certainly trying to stir the pot of racism, by ignoring crimes against whites and then painting the whole south as ignorant racists!
Of course, here at ATS, you're calling us cockroaches, how intelligent!
I am not racist, but, I don't like Obama, am I in the KKK?

Originally posted by Marcus Calpurnius
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Yes, the racism is coming from black Obama supporters as well. People getting beat up and called racist, simply for wearing McCain shirts or saying they are Republicans. Its almost a worse problem, simply because many people apparently fail to recognize it for what it is.

And not just from black obama supporters either. I just had to point out on another thread that mmariebord's post there was just as racist as she(?) claims that white people are. thread Really, how many times have we seen on ATS people calling anyone that didn't support obama a racist? What people making that claim fail to see is that what they are saying is just as racist (if not more) than what they are complaining about.

[edit on 11/17/2008 by centurion1211]

And as I also pointed out on that thread, it's all about attitude. I have no problem with obama's supporters wanting to celebrate his victory - as long as it doesn't include in your face, "get even with whitey" rhetoric, or violence.

Obama supporters would do well for themselves and their candidate to pay heed to this. Remember that gays lost support for their issues when they also decided to adopt an in your face attitude. It has cost them elections on their key issues, with only liberal judges legislating from the bench keeping gay marriage from being banned just about everywhere in the U.S., for example.

Remember, obama will need white support if he plans on having more than one term.

[edit on 11/17/2008 by centurion1211]

One issue has not yet come to light yet. Obama is Mulatto, mixed race, African-Caucasian. Right now Obama is a hero but, once the dust settles and he begins to break in his new office chair, he will be criticized for not being black enough. He will be criticized for his biracial lineage.

I lived in South Carolina for five years and witnessed this biracial criticism against a coworker of mine at the time. My coworker was the daughter of a Black military man and a Polynesian woman. She was light skinned, like Obama, and dated a darker skinned Black man. Their relationship was never approved by his family or friends because his girlfriend was not Black enough.

In the long run, will Obama be viewed as being Black enough?

Come on now,for years I heard all sorts of things about George Bush,now because people don't care for Obama it's a race issue? give me a break,with the liberals always 1 sided

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I guess the shoe is on the other foot now.

When J Edgar Hoover was in charge of security, his biggest fear was a black messiah rising up.

Now we are watching white supremacist groups as the conspiracy...

Gotta love the pendulum!

Originally posted by Oldtimer2
Come on now,for years I heard all sorts of things about George Bush,now because people don't care for Obama it's a race issue? give me a break,with the liberals always 1 sided

yeah.. its called the KKK.

Ever heard of it?

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Oh come on, this is clearly a racial issue. Burning crosses? Is that a political message? no, of course not, it's a well known tactic the KKK used to use.

I just can't get my head around how racially intolerant the US is. The rest of the free world can handle minorities in power without raising racist agendas, why does the US have such a hard time with things like this?

I should have known this would happen, when people in the US treated the possibility of their first black president as if it were something huge... no, it's just another human in power. Other countries have mixed cultured governments, why is this such a big thing for the US?

lol... I always said the US has a black and white attitude... I wasn't implying race back then... but it fits.

Everytime I see someone call him black I only see retardation.
Hes half white half black, hes not the first black president.
Hes the first mixed president.

Originally posted by Memysabu
Everytime I see someone call him black I only see retardation.
Hes half white half black, hes not the first black president.
Hes the first mixed president.

Not to cause issues here, but the majority of "Black America" is mixed. Not necessarily by virtue of their parents, or their grandparents, but at some point in the lineage, most of Black America is mixed.

The issue of racism doesn't have to do with being mixed, it has to do with having a different color skin.

So yes, by that fact alone, he is Americas First Black President.

[edit on 17-11-2008 by HunkaHunka]