2016 Postmortem

EffieBlack

(14,249 posts) Fri Jul 22, 2016, 10:35 AM Jul 2016

If in 2008, Sen. Obama's acceptance speech audience was filled with screaming, snarling black people

yelling for McCain's head as their candidate ran through a litany of what was wrong with America ...

What would the reaction have been?

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If in 2008, Sen. Obama's acceptance speech audience was filled with screaming, snarling black people (Original Post) EffieBlack Jul 2016 OP

Well, quite. nt auntpurl Jul 2016 #1

The reaction? There would have been lynchings in the Deep South that night. Moostache Jul 2016 #2

auntpurl

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1. Well, quite. nt

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Fri Jul 22, 2016, 10:35 AM

Jul 2016

Moostache

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2. The reaction? There would have been lynchings in the Deep South that night.

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Fri Jul 22, 2016, 10:52 AM

Jul 2016

The freak out from the right would have been echoing still today. Go watch the end of Triumph of the Will, when Hess is leading the Party in the "Seig Heil! Seig Heil!" chant after declaring Hitler is Germany and Germany is Hitler.

The racist, fascist scum sucking bums that make up the GOP and its adherents would have torn their garments, beat their brows and then gone out and started pre-emptively attacking brown people within hours if Obama's speeches were 1/10th as odious as Trumpster Fire's.

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