Obama Campaign Office Vandalized

[my2sense]

Looks like the haters are coming out of the woodworks. A campaign office was vandalized with spray paint in a Longview, Texas. Perpetrators wrote "A Racist" on vans and on the outside of a building being used as a phone bank and where Samuel L. Jackson had spoken in support of Obama a few hours earlier.

http://clipsyndicate.com/publish/video/526752?wpid=1904

[TheDoorbellRang]

1. Actually, the knucklescraper(s) wrote "A RACITS" on the building

Looks like there's yet another another village in Texas missing its idiot.

An Obama presidency will go a long way towards reducing this sort of blatant stupidity. Or so I hope.

[my2sense]

4. Not Sure How

His winning office will reduce these types of incidents. Folks with this type of mentally will not change.

[Maddy McCall]

6. Very true. Will make it worse.

People with this mindset cannot be changed, thrive on hate, and will buck having a black president by acting out against local people.

Terribly sad that progress hasn't affected areas like Longview.

[my2sense]

7. I Agree

Folks with this mentally will go ballistic if he wins this thing. This is something that I'd not considered before, but I think you raise a valid point.

[yardwork]

11. That's not a reason to vote against Obama, though.

Sometimes change has to be forced on people. Anyway, the same kind of people who are racists won't support a woman for the presidency either.

[Maddy McCall]

12. Did I say it was a reason to vote for Obama?

I certainly didn't say that. I don't think that. I don't believe anyone should cater to racists.

[yardwork]

15. I know you didn't. I'm on your side, remember?

I was just adding my two cents.

[Maddy McCall]

17. Sorry.

I'm a little edgy because it seems to be a common MO at DU these days...for people to put words in my mouth....

I'm sorry if I jumped at ya. :)

[yardwork]

28. It's ok, I understand. It's been very strange in here lately and we're all on edge.

[The Anti-Bush]

16. I hope you are wrong.

I got into an aruement with my father over this just the other night. Still waiting to hear back from him.

The problem with someone telling you "you gave me something to think about" is that you never really know what they are thinking about.

[Horse with no Name]

22. Have you ever been to Kilgore or Gilmer?

:scared:

[Maddy McCall]

24. Yes! What about Gladewater?

All those little towns in that part of east Texas are uberconservative, segregated places.

(I did used to love to drive to Gilmer for Doc's Hot Links at the hotlink shack...good food--that's what I miss most about living there was some of the great food over there.)

[Johnny__Motown]

27. Prejudice is rooted in ignorance, you fight ignorance with knowledge

Showing these ignorant racist bastards that people are people regardless of race or gender etc is tho only way to combat this type of behavior.


A President Obama will help educate these people to that very simple fact.

[TheDoorbellRang]

13. Look at how America has changed just in the past forty years

I know there are still huge inroads that need to be made, but I can think of one (grantedly) superficial difference between now and then:

Remember back in the 70's when they started having commercials with an African American in them and they were sneered at for having the "token black"? Nowadays commercials have mixes of every ethnicity, and I doubt the old expression "token black" even occurs to anyone watching. The youngest generation of Americans simply does not have the same level of bigotry against African Americans as my generation. It's a step in the right direction -- maybe a small step, but a step regardless.

The past seven years have seen two African Americans in positions of power in the government: Rice and Powell. Regardless of how one feels about their performance there, Americans have perforce become more "comfortable" with African Americans in these positions.

With Obama as president, that "comfort" level will have a ripple effect thruout the American psyche. Sure, we'll always have bigots, but I think this particular form of bigotry will be dealt a heavy blow.

[yardwork]

9. Figures. Reminds me of the morans holding "Speak Engilsh" signs.

[Cha]

18. I think so too...there are people like

this who need some educatin'.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

2. Proud2BAmurikan?

[Maddy McCall]

5. No. Probably some of the majority of conservatives who inhabit Longview.

It's a really conservative town. The religious right is rampant in the Longview area.

[TheDoorbellRang]

14. Ha! Could be!

:spray:

[Cha]

19. Hang Wringers..

poor things.

[Maddy McCall]

3. I lived in Longview in the early 90s. It's a very, very conservative area.

This was done by the conservatives there, NOT other Democrats.

[rinsd]

8. Assholes...

:mad:

[elixir]

10. OMG, it's just like when BClinton left the WH and *'s people found everything was missing..NOT.

[berni_mccoy]

20. Mark Penn decides to get his hands dirty...

[Horse with no Name]

21. Outrageous

Sadly...more of what is to come.
I had a conversation with a friend in Alabama.
She had no doubts that obama will be the target of an assassination attempt from people like this.
SO much for wanting a president who could walk through the masses again without worrying.

Maybe we can get him a Popemobile?

(see this disgusting piece of tripe I lifted off the internet while trying to find a pic of the Popemobile?)

[Maddy McCall]

23. LOL. Love that photo.

it could be photoshopped into something REALLY funny.

[anigbrowl]

29. What's disgusting about it?

I don't think you're for real.

[Horse with no Name]

30. You don't see the racial undertones?

"Any color as long it's white"?

[JimGinPA]

25. I'll Never Forget Living In Georgia In The Late '80's...

Oprah came to join in an anti-racism march on Forsyth, GA, and ther were pictures on the evening news of these guys holding signs that said "Opera Go Home".



:rofl:

[cooolandrew]

26. Let's not be hard on Texas as a whole they are working good for Barack just a few nuts.

Texas has been great for Barack let's give them al our support and well wishes in being his eyes and eyars down there. All Barack supporters down there watch his back for us. We need to be his secret service eyes and ears. Thoughts of love.