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THE BLACK HOUSE: CIVIL WAR TWO
Now it’s getting ugly. The two fellows who would be President have abandoned Hope and are engaged in dueling with Fear.
Obama extremists threaten to riot in the streets if McCain wins.
McCain extremists are codifying racism to evoke a Planet of the Apes.
As someone with close ties to the Los Angeles black community as well as a history with the African Americans of Washington, D.C., I am hearing some alarming noise.
“If they do Obama like they did Gore in 2000, things are gonna burn,” a brother said last month. “It’s gonna make Rodney King look like nothin’.”
“Ain’t puttin’ up with none a’ that chad shit,” said another. “They gonna have Civil War Two on they plate.”
Meanwhile, evidence amasses that cornered closet segregationists [at the time of this writing, particularly those located in SW Pennsylvania and large portions of SE Ohio] are getting mighty nervous, and the closet doors are creaking open. Able to latch on to Sarah Palin’s symbolic guns (2nd Amendment), Down Syndrome child (Anti-Abortion) and pregnant teenage daughter, her tolerance (Anti gay marriage) and family sacrifice (hawkish pro-military Big Defense) as well as her charming good looks (traditional femininity), and to McCain’s color (chalk), the segregationists are gearing up the Old White Vote like it has never been ass-kicked before. The very idea of a reality where they might wake up one morning with a Negro president is absolutely intolerable. Their White House will never be a Black House.
Lost in this emotional muddle is the fact that McCain and Obama will be working together – or better be – next year anyway. Why? Because one of them will be President and the other will be the most influential member of the U.S. Senate. Neither is going away.
Are either of these extreme factions powerful enough to tip the election? Will the youth vote poop out as it almost always does? What will drive more people to the polls? Hope? Or Fear?
I guess it’s odd that I – who share Obama’s mixed heritage – find myself actually wondering if I want a non-white President. It’s not an intellectual dilemma, my rational self understands the ridiculousness of such a concern. It’s in the gut, it’s the background noise of generations of racial strife. In part, I’m starting to understand that I’m afraid of what might happen if a non-white is elected. I see a few million individual secessions from the Nation. I see bitter divisions hardening and polarizing. I see some real crazy folk with nothing left to lose.
On the other hand, if a white candidate beats the First Black Hope, I see a few million individual secessions from the Nation. I see bitter divisions hardening and polarizing. I see some real crazy folk with nothing left to lose.
Is there the possibility – for real – that violence will boil over after this election no matter what?
- OO –
