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I don't get why people think Obama is in so much danger of assassination. Why a greater chance than any other president? Is it just that he's young and theref
by dfranke 18y ago
I don't get why people think Obama is in so much danger of assassination. Why a greater chance than any other president? Is it just that he's young and therefore reminds people of Kennedy?
- donw 18y agoObama is the first black President of the United States, and there are a lot of racist idiots who would love to make his tenure as short as possible.
- PieSquared 18y agoIt's slightly sad that racism still has a part in world-wide culture. In some countries, it's even pretty much accepted - I read a Russian newspaper recently saying, "Well, the Americans have finally got themselves what they deserved", implying that nothing is lower than having a black president. And I was just thinking this was the 21st century.
- dchest 18y agoNot defending the newspaper, but there is a certain image of African Americans created by a) Hollywood, b) history, I guess. 95% of Russians haven't seen any black people ever. Racism is a difficult thing to discuss. Not only it's sad that racism still has a part in world-wide culture, it's also sad that crazy political correctness becomes a part of the culture. (e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_Then_There_Were_None http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_Then_There_Were_None)
- asdflkj 18y agoWhich newspaper?
- xenophanes 18y ago> Obama is the first black President If you google something like: black US presidents You will find out that isn't true. Plus Obama isn't black, if black means African American.
- dgordon 18y agoKenya was in Africa last I checked.
- opticksversi 18y agoKenya was in Africa last I checked. American blacks tend to be (mainly; averaging 83%) Bantu, whereas Barack Obama is (half) Nilote. http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aisteve.blogspot.com+nilotic http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aisteve.blogspot.com+ni... http://isteve.blogspot.com/2008/01/east-africas-tall-vs-average-war.html http://isteve.blogspot.com/2008/01/east-africas-tall-vs-aver... The tall black Nilotics generally see themselves as more intelligent than the shorter brown Bantus. Obama's Luo relatives in Kenya told him: "The Luo are intelligent but lazy." The Bantus tend to fear that they will be outsmarted by the Nilotics if they give them a fair shake, so they often treat the tall people like the Jews tend to be treated in Eastern Europe. The dividing lines between the Nilotics and Bantus are not sharp. There's been lots of interbreeding. (This is Africa, after all.) But, they still exist. The situation is rather like that in Latin American, where after five centuries of interbreeding, the economic elites are still pretty white-looking, and the indigenous masses occasionally organize under demagogues like Hugo Chavez to fight back.
- thomasmallen 18y agoI'm disgusted that they would use a term like "interbreeding" as though they were referring to animals. The correct word is "miscegenation."
- opticksversi 18y agoas though they were referring to animals Are humans not animals?
- thomasmallen 18y agoBy "animals," I mean that one would only use the term "interbreeding" when referring to wild or domesticated animals mating. It's an inherently zoologic term, much like the word "mating."
- snprbob86 18y agoThere have been conflicting reports (just Google it a bit), but it appears that the secret service has been notified of significantly many more death threats than usual.