Black People Politics : "The Official Obama Threats & Racism" thread

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How Campus Racism Is a Postelection RealityGiven recent cases at Ole Miss and Towson U, Obama's win still rankles some young voters.​

• By: Nsenga K. Burton, Ph.D. | Posted: November 24, 2012 at 12:53 AM

...Announcing that we now really must live in a postracial society because of the re-election of one black man to the nation's highest office is as irrational as ignoring the proliferation of hate speech and actions aimed squarely at President Obama. And even as many have been celebrating his historic win and assuming that youth voters don't see race, high-profile incidents on college campuses demonstrate the opposite.​

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You may recall the response to President Obama's re-election at Hampden-Sydney College, a small all-men's college in Virginia, where opponents shouted racial slurs, threw bottles and set off fireworks outside the Minority Student Union just hours after President Obama's re-election. Some even threatened bodily harm to members of the union. What's so surprising about this incident?​

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In 2009, shortly after Obama's presidential win, Hampden-Sydney welcomed its first black president, Christopher Howard, in the college's then-230-year history. Howard, who was just 40 years old, had also been a Rhodes scholar and president of his class at the U.S. Air Force Academy. He received his Ph.D. from Oxford, is a Harvard MBA and was a vice president at General Electric.​

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How sad is it that a school that saw fit to finally hire a black man as president has students who are so small-minded that they cannot imagine a black man as president of the United States? Hampden-Sydney students have the opportunity to experience on a micro level what the rest of us are experiencing on a macro level, and this is what some choose to do with it?​

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A similar incident was reported at Ole Miss, where racial epithets were shouted after the announcement that President Obama had been re-elected. The Daily Mississippian student newspaper reported that hundreds of students "exchanged racial epithets and violent, politicized chants" as the nation learned that President Obama had beaten former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney....​

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...COMPLETE ARTICLE HERE: http://www.theroot.com/views/how-campus-racism-postelection-reality​

 

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TUESDAY, OCT 16, 2012 1:26 PM UTC
Nine most racist moments of the 2012 election

The "47 percent" is only the tip of the iceberg -- and the election is still weeks away

BY ALEX KANE, ALTERNET

complete here:
http://www.salon.com/2012/10/16/nine_most_racist_moments_of_the_2012_election/

1. Wisconsin Senate Candidate’s Son: We Can Send Obama ‘Back to Kenya’
The website Buzzfeed reports that yesterday morning, Jason Thompson told a crowd of supporters at a brunch that “we have the opportunity to send President Obama back to Chicago — or Kenya.” Thompson is the son of former Wisconsin governor Tommy Thompson, who is now running for Senate. In attendance at the brunch was Reince Priebus, the chairman of the Republican National Committee.
After Thompson said the Kenya remark, a woman in the audience shouted out, “we are taking donations for that Kenya trip.” A tenet of so-called birtherism is the belief that Obama was born in Kenya instead of the U.S.
3. Newt Gingrich on Obama: ‘The Food Stamp President’
Back when Gingrich still thought he had a shot at becoming the GOP’s standard-bearer, he tried tapping into white racial anxiety and ginning up racist lies. Perhaps the biggest one was when he claimed that Obama was “the best food-stamp president in American history.”
Gingrich was referring to the fact that food stamp use has increased in the midst of a devastating economic recession. But Gingrich was playing on the racial stereotype that blacks are dependent on government aid–a stereotype that is dead wrong, given the fact that “about 34 percent of food-stamp recipients are white,” as Bloomberg News reported at the time.
4. Racist Slogans on Stickers
In March 2012, the Christian Science Monitor reported that racism “appears to be rearing its head higher than in the 2008 election campaign.”
One example they point to is the popularity of racist stickers. The news outlet reports on a viral video showed “a car sporting a bumper sticker that says ‘Don’t Re-N– in 2012’ (fill in the blanks with half of the word that many African-Americans consider to be perhaps more inflammatory than any other). Some question whether the video depicts a real or a photo-shopped car and slogan, but the fact remains that the bumper sticker is the No. 1 best-seller at Stickatude.com, where it sells for $3.”
6. Lynching Empty Chairs
In September, incidents of mock lynchings of President Obama emerged in the news media. As NBC News reported at the time:

At least two recent incidents in which empty chairs were hung from trees by rope have critics decrying what they say are racially offensive displays meant to symbolize the “lynching” of President Barack Obama.
In Austin, Texas, a homeowner hung an empty folding chair from a tree branch in front of his house and later attached an American flag to it. He reportedly told a Democratic political blogger who said she had concerns, “You can take it and go straight to hell and take Obama with you.”
In Centreville, Va., an empty chair with a sign reading “Nobama” was strung from a tree in or near a park. “In short, this appears to be a crude metaphor for the lynching of President Obama,” wrote the blogger who posted the photo.
The image of an empty chair has been associated with Obama ever since Clint Eastwood’s headline-grabbing, non-conformist speech at the Republican National Convention three weeks ago in Tampa, Fla.
9. Throwing Nuts at Black Camerwoman
The Republican Party’s convention in Florida was supposed to inform the public about who Mitt Romney is. While the convention attempted to do that, it also revealed the GOP’s racism.
The most blatant example of this occurred to a black CNN camerawoman. At the convention, attendees started throwing nuts at her and said, “this is how we feed the animals.”​

 

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Racist e-mail aimed at Obama raises hackles in Tennessee

June 16, 2009

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....Obama's image is in the last square of a collage containing portraits of the previous 43 U.S. presidents. The e-mail, which was sent to other GOP staff members, was posted on the Internet Monday.​

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Sherri Goforth, an administrative assistant to state Sen. Diane Black, R-Gallatin, has admitted she sent the e-mail May 28 with the title "Historical Keepsake Photo." She said, without elaborating, that she mistakenly sent it "to the wrong list of people."

..There was no comment from the White House as of Tuesday afternoon.

Black rebuked Goforth but didn't dismiss her.

"I want to be sure that everyone understands that the communication was sent without my knowledge," Black said Tuesday afternoon. "It absolutely does not represent the beliefs or opinions of my office. I want to be very clear about that."

"Ms. Goforth did get a verbal reprimand as well as a very strongly worded reprimand, written, that was put in her file that if this should ever occur again, that she would be terminated," Black said. The senator said as soon as she found out about the e-mail, she consulted the Legislature's human resources office, then followed their advice...

COMPLETE HERE:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/06/16/tennessee.email/index.html