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marmar

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Sat Jul 9, 2016, 11:24 AM Jul 2016

Some Want a Race War, But Dallas Won't Deliver


(Bloomberg) The first e-mail, with the subject line "Race War," arrived in my inbox, from a regular, unbidden correspondent, at 7:31 this morning. The term was already floating in the ether. The Drudge Report headline was "Black Lives Kill," painting tens of thousands of peaceful protesters in cities across the country as murderers. The New York Post went with the always provocative "Civil War" for its cover. A former congressman skipped the "civil" part, declaring on Twitter "This is now war" and telling the president to "watch out." (He deleted the tweet, thus immortalizing it.)

There is a virulent quarter of America that seems disappointed that we haven't had a race war. They're the people who listen to President Barack Obama's thoughtful, restrained and measured concern for black victims of hair-trigger police officers and swear they hear the president say it's time to kill whitey. They insist that Black Lives Matter and Blue Lives Matter are somehow mutually exclusive.

They jump at these moments of tension and tragedy not merely because they are haunted by their own churning racial aggression. They jump because they are impatient. After all, we've had seven years of a black man in the nation's most powerful office. Yet still no mass roundup of white patriots, no greenlight for black-on-white crime, no comic-book clash worthy of their juvenile imaginations.

Dallas will disappoint them again. The city of 1.3 million people should be as ripe as any for racial strife. Almost a third of the population is white. One quarter is black. More than 40 percent is Hispanic and about 3 percent is Asian. One quarter of Dallas, once an insular enclave, is foreign-born. ...................(more)

http://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-07-08/some-want-a-race-war-but-dallas-won-t-deliver




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Some Want a Race War, But Dallas Won't Deliver (Original Post) marmar Jul 2016 OP
Obama carried Dallas county 57.3% (2008) and 57.1% (2012) struggle4progress Jul 2016 #1
Dallas is strongly liberal/progressive, a shining oasis amongst a sea of red hell. nt ChisolmTrailDem Jul 2016 #2
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