I am pleased that finally, after stirring up so much fear and hatred of Barak Obama, that Senator John McCain did correct a few of his supporters who called Obama and Arab, or expressed fear of living in America if he were elected President.Many of McCain’s supporters are simply blind to the implications of their words because they are caught up in the battle to win the election. When McCain asks his crowd of supporters to be civil, respectful, and that while he disagreed fundamentally with many of Obama’s positions that he respected Obama who is a good American and a loving husband and father., the Senator was being a civil, opponent.
Assassination is not argument.
~Emilio Castelar y Ripoli
My most recent objection to the McCain campaign was that it looked like they were purposely making inferences about Obama that were not true, things they knew were untrue, and the McCain people should have been able to anticipate the fear, and hate they would inspire. If you do something that causes bad, and you figured the bad would happen, then you are guilty of complicity. The McCain people should also have known that when people are stirred by fear and hate they just might do something to destroy what they fear and hate.
Yes, we grow up American people should not kill people just because we hear stuff that says they are dangerous, have bad ideas, and black skin, but the truth is we do exactly that sort of stuff way too often. The United States has a history of murder, and assassination.
Between 1880 and 1951 the Tuskegee Institute recorded lynchings of 3,437 African-American victims, as well as 1,293 white victims.
One of the main implications from the McCain campaign was that Obama hangs out with terrorists and traitors so Obama himself must also be a terrorist and traitor. The last time I know that a national political figure was called a traitor was in November 1963, a couple of days before John F Kennedy was assassinated.
Is there any proof that calling a leader treason will end with that leader’s assassination? No. It isn’t proof. But it is dog-gone sooky, don'juh think?
McCain can’t control what is said by his supporters, but McCain did implement a strategy of trying to lower Obama’s lead in the polls by getting the masses to fear, and distrust his opponent. His ability to stir the crowds to hate and fear Obama was too effective, and finally the crowds became so vocal that McCain had to tell his crowds that they were going too far, and that they needed to be respectful and civil.
There is an unspoken fear among many of us that White Americans will not allow a black man to be President.
Remember when Mike Huckabee, a former contender for the Republican nomination, gave a speech to the National Rifle Association and someone in the background dropped something causing a big bang. Huckabee made a joke that the noise was a gunshot, and Mr. Obama was diving for cover. See how the joke speaks to the assassination notion? And remember where Mr. Huckabee was when he made this assassination joke: the National Rifle Association.
They won't let him become president, but if they do, it will be for a short time, maybe less than a month. ~ Bernard Hopkins
Doris Lessing, the novelist and Nobel laureate, was discussing the life-expectancy of Barack Obama, should he win the race to the White House:
He would probably not last long, a black man in the position of president,” she mused. “They would kill him. ~ Doris Lessing
Just look at a brief and incomplete history of America’s tendency to kill people we fear and hate:
1955
August 1955 Fourteen-year-old Chicagoan Emmett Till is visiting family in Mississippi when he is kidnapped, brutally beaten, shot, and dumped in the Tallahatchie River for allegedly whistling at a white woman.
Rev. George Lee--A minister in Belzoni, Miss., died May 7, 1955, of gunshot wounds after organizing a voter-registration drive.
1957
Willie Edwards Jr.--A deliveryman killed Jan. 23, 1957, near Montgomery, Ala., when the Klan forced him to jump from a bridge into the Alabama River.
1961
Herbert Lee--A cotton farmer and voter registration organizer shot in the head Sept. 25, 1961, by a White state legislator in Liberty, Miss.
1962
Paul Guihard--A French new s reporter shot in the back Sept. 30, 1962, during grace riots at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Miss.
Cpl. Roman Ducksworth Jr.--A miliary policeman shot to death April 9, 1962, in Taylorsville, after refusing a police order to sit in the back of the bus.
1963
Addie Mae Collins--A schoolgirl killed Sept. 15, 1963, in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham.
Medgar Evers--A civil rights leader shot June 12, 1963, in the driveway of his home in Jackson, Miss.
Denise McNair--A schoolgirl killed Sept. 15, 1963, in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala.
1964
Louis Allen--A farmer shot Jan. 31, 1964, in Liberty, Miss., after witnessing the murder of Herbert Lee, a civil rights worker.
James Chaney--A civil rights worker abducted and shot at point-blank range June 21, 1964, by Klan members in Philadelphia, Miss.
Henry H. DEE--A civil rights volunteer abducted, beaten and thrown into the Mississippi River in Natchez, miss., May 2, 1964, by the Klan.
Andrew Goodman--A civil rights worker abducted and shot at point-blank range June 21, 1964, by the Klan in Philadelphia, Miss.
Rev. Bruce Klunder--A White minister from Cleveland, Ohio, run over by a bulldozer April 7, 1964, while protesting a segregated school.
Charles E. Moore--A civil rights volunteer abducted, beaten and thrown into the Mississippi River near Natchez, Miss., May 2, 1964, by the Klan.
The murders of James Chaney, a 21-year-old black, Andrew Goodman, a 20-year-old white Jewish anthropology student from New York, and Michael Schwerner, a 24-year-old white Jewish CORE organizer and former social worker. These three people were participating in the Civil Rights Movement in what became known as Freedom Summer, dedicated to voter registration.
1965
Viola Gregg Liuzzo--A White civil rights worker from Detroit fatally shot in the head March 25, 1965, by Klan members near Selma, Ala.
Willie Brewster--A factory worker died July 16, 1965, in Anniston, Ala., from a nightrider's bullet.
Jonathan Daniels--A white seminary Student shot dead Aug. 14, 1965, by a deputy sheriff in Hayneville, Ala.
Wharlest Jackson--Ar NAACP treasurer in NAtches, Miss., killed Feb. 18, 1965, by a bomb after his promotion to a job once reserved for Whites.
Oneal Moore--A Black deputy sheriff fatally shot after his nightly patrol June 2, 1965, during an ambush by nightriders near Varnado, La.
Malcolm X was a black nationalist and founder of the Organization of Afro-American Unity. He is shot to death while giving a speech in Harlem NY.. It is believed the assailants are members of the Black Muslim faith, which Malcolm had recently abandoned in favor of orthodox Islam. [Died on March 7 1965]
1966
Vernon Dahmer--A community leader died Jan. 10, 1966, from a firebomb in Hattiesburg, Miss., after volunteering to pay Black voters' poll taxes.
1967
Benjamin Brown--A truck driver and civil rights worker killed May 12, 1967, when police fired on demonstrators in Jackson, Miss.
14 Samuel Hammond Jr.--A South Carolina State College student fatally shot Feb. 8, 1968, when police fired on demonstrators in Orangeburg, S.C.
Jimmie Lee Jackson--A farmer died Feb. 18, 1965, after being beaten and shot in the stomach by state troopers following a march in Selma, Ala.
1968
Martin Luther King Jr.--Famed civil rights leader assassinated April 4, 1968, during an organized campaign by garbage workers in Memphis.
Delano H. Middleton--A high school student fatally shot Feb. 8, 1968, when police fired on demonstrators in Orangeburg, S.C.
People who win, people who take on the world and become real contenders for world recognition, and who win big, are people that do not give up easily. When most people would throw up their hands and go, “This just ain’t gunnuh work and I’m goin’ to the house for a beer,” those people don’t become President of the United State. McCain is a contender. McCain is not one of those people that gives up easily. McCain has been way behind, and kept at it, until he won the nomination of his party.
The fact that McCain appears to be behind could be blamed more on the falling economy than on anything else. Sadly, I feel that the plan to distract the media and the people from the economy by casting aspersions on Obama was ill-advised and irresponsible. This is a violent country. We have among us people who kill what they hate, fear, or don’t understand.
There are moral as well as physical assassinations. ~Voltaire
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