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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLast night's Race Riot:
Conservative bloggers had been predicting riots by blacks if Obama lost and worse riots if he won (like sports team win riots).
The only riot last night was a Southern conservative race riot in Mississippi:
The Clarion Ledger reports that students were heard shouting racial epithets about Obama and African Americans in general.
Police were called to the scene and the crowd broke up around 12:30 a.m.
Ironically, as reported by Buzzfeed, prior to Tuesday night conservative bloggers had warned of plots by black youth to riot if Obama lost the election,
Police were called to the scene and the crowd broke up around 12:30 a.m.
Ironically, as reported by Buzzfeed, prior to Tuesday night conservative bloggers had warned of plots by black youth to riot if Obama lost the election,
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/07/university-mississippi-students-riot-obama-election_n_2088176.html
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Last night's Race Riot: (Original Post)
Bernardo de La Paz
Nov 2012
OP
WTF??!! what ths hell is this supposed to mean? I'm black as are MANY other DU'ers and we know
Ecumenist
Nov 2012
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lapfog_1
(29,227 posts)1. Projection and paranoia are both requirements to be republican - n/t
librechik
(30,677 posts)2. removed by poster
Ecumenist
(6,086 posts)3. WTF??!! what ths hell is this supposed to mean? I'm black as are MANY other DU'ers and we know
that the VAST majority of black folks don't call one another that name as some sort of twisted compliment....You need to rethink that comment....SERIOUSLY
librechik
(30,677 posts)6. my apologies. My remark was poorly phrased.
Ecumenist
(6,086 posts)7. I'm sorry I misunderstood your comment. when I first read that statement, I was surprised to
at the name behind it. Knowing what I know about you after reading your posts over the last few years tells me that you did't mean what I took it to mean.
librechik
(30,677 posts)8. gosh, thank you for your trust, Ecumenist
right back atcha!
Eddie Haskell
(1,628 posts)5. Looks like there's blood on Wall Street.
The Republicans are selling out and moving to Canada.