Comments on: Obama: Bush Ignoring Blacks' "Quiet Riot"

Democratic Presidential Candidate Says Hurricane Katrina Has Fueled Resentment Among Blacks

[gunnerv1]

The Blacks are P O ed because they are no longer the "Super Minority", It's now the Mexicans that are the super minority and have the larger voice.

[xzavierbrown]

Posted by swearingster at 02:24 PM : Jun 06, 2007

you are right..it's just a bunch of opportunists who are just bent to destroy and loot.. it just happens to be all latinos and blacks. *humm its mostly blacks that were looting in N.O. coincidence?*

[swearingster]

Born and reared in LA, I was there in the riots of '92 and '65!!! You're wrong to suggest that in '92 it was a "Black" riot. The civil insurrection that occurred then was a complete breakdown, that included both Latino and African American segments of the city! It was not racially motivated as much as economically motivated. If this Forum, or even Obama (whom I support) suggests otherwise, then this is totally disingenuous! Get it right Folks!

[infidel_us]

How can money really change that.
Posted by lestb35 at 02:02 PM : Jun 06, 2007

You're right....it can't. It's a sad thing. Blacks make up about 15-16% of the US population. If you look at the proportions of crime, they are WAY over represented in prison.

What's the answer? Hey, let's adopt the "gangsta" culture....that's cool! Let's look, dress, and act like they do. Yeah.....that ought to help our situation.

[lestb35]

Teh demise of the family unit and kids growing up without dads is a huge problem facing our society. The black prison population come from broken homes and drug addicted moms. How can money really change that.

[malcolmx2007]

NOWHERE in his speech did Mr. Obama say anything about the quiet riot being specific to black people. This is a gross misrepresentation of Mr. Obama's message.

READ THE SPEECH FOR YOURSELF!

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The media is notorious for spinning stories, misquoting people, and quoting out of context.

This article is a very disgusting attempt to sabotage Mr. Obama's campaign, I find it sickening.

[infidel_us]

The kid was 14.
Posted by mikealford3 at 11:37 AM : Jun 06, 2007

And that kind of thing has been going on since the early 60's. Blacks used to care about their families. Their kids were sent to school clean, fed, and ready to learn. Then it began to change. LBJ's Great Society robbed blacks of their dignity. The "welfare" mentality took over and dominated their culture. The breakdown of the family, high teen and out of wedlock birth rates......and lets not forget teh poverty pimps Jackson and Sharpton fanning the flames.

Imagine the snowball effect and how much worse it is now? I agree with Obama on one thing: there IS an underlying race war simmering under the surface. It will be coming out at a most inopportune time.

[stevepdx1]

To rushlimpdrug: - it shouldn't be assumed that because you want to address issues regarding race in this country that you are automatically playing the "race card". I'm sure people who don't like Obama were waiting for him to talk about african americans so you could trash him

Basically you are saying that black people are ok as long as they don't talk about the problems that black people face

To mikealford3: Yes, sometimes I think that people need a reminder that some people struggle to get by in this country. It is easy to tune into our own lives and forget about that.

But more important, it is not that we know about it, but what we choose to do about it

we shouldn't just expect our leaders to tell us what THEY are going to do about it. WE should be willing to help out our fellow man as well. That isn't socialism, that is just being human. and you could even say, being Christian.

[infidel_us]

NOWHERE in his speech did Mr. Obama say anything about the quiet riot being specific to black people. Posted by MalcolmX2007 at 11:32 AM : Jun 06, 2007

"The first-term Illinois senator said that with BLACK PEOPLE from New Orleans and the Gulf Coast still displaced 20 months after Hurricane Katrina, frustration and resentments are building explosively as they did before the 1992 riots."

And he was in front of blcak clergy. Are you blind, stupid, or both? Wanna have a riot? Bring it. They got lots of crazy, armed coonasses down there just itching for some trouble. And you KNOW the NOPD (the most corrupt PoPo in the country) isn't going to do a thing when the lead begins to fly.

[bellal-2009]

But then again, if a kid drops out of school after the 8th grade, why should he/she expect to have any better job?

Posted by mikealford3 at 01:29 PM : Jun 06, 2007

Well, I'm not a good person to discuss this because I have radical views on public education. But maybe we can agree on this. We need apprenticeship programs available and they've been tied up by the labor unions.