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Bernardo de La Paz

(49,047 posts)
Wed Nov 7, 2012, 02:50 PM Nov 2012

Last 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,


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/07/university-mississippi-students-riot-obama-election_n_2088176.html
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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
Wed Nov 7, 2012, 03:23 PM
Nov 2012

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

Ecumenist

(6,086 posts)
7. I'm sorry I misunderstood your comment. when I first read that statement, I was surprised to
Wed Nov 7, 2012, 04:24 PM
Nov 2012

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.

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