Melissa Harris-Perry: "I don’t know if he was there to kill me"

[steve2470]

http://ajccenter.wfu.edu/2016/02/02/5756/

I don’t know if he was there to kill me.

Monday night I was sitting in a hotel lobby in downtown Des Moines with my back to a wall of windows, my eyes fixed on the TV, my attention wholly focused on early caucus results. I didn’t notice until he was standing right next to me, much closer than is ordinary or comfortable. When he started he speaking it was like he was picking up in the middle of sentence, finishing a conversation we had begun earlier, but I couldn’t remember ever meeting him.

“…So what is it that you teach?”

“I am a professor of political science.”

much more at link. Got this via dailykos. MHP is ok, but she was badly scared by this disturbed angry man.

[randys1]

1. Saw this here today I think. Or maybe it was somewhere else, yeah, it was.

We know how she feels, to some degree.

We know just how deeply righty hates all minorities and all liberals who support minorities.

Most are not violent, of course, but it only takes one.

[steve2470]

2. you're so right, it only takes one

I'm so thankful that President Obama and his family have been safe! *knock vigorously on wood* I'm so glad Dr. Perry is safe also but she could have easily been murdered by this disturbed man.

Trump is ramping up the white nationalism on the right, and he sounds way too much like that Austrian corporal for my comfort level. If he keeps it up, a lot of bad stuff is coming to come to pass to minorities and we liberals that support them.

[Digital Puppy]

3. Scary, Powerful, Uplifting...

Thanks, Steve for posting this. I like MHP as she seems like a sister that I attended college with...she has that kind of vibe for me. She's not perfect, but I like her writing and her delivery and her background.

This was a crazy story!! (The reaction from security was disappointing to say the least). The story resonated with me on a couple of different levels, but the feeling of empowerment from her responsibility to her students was noteworthy and very impressive.

Thanks again, for posting!

[JustAnotherGen]

4. Thanks for posting

I saw it on Shine earlier today.

That said -

Who the hell does he think he is? Who ARE these arrogant asswipes!?!?

[randys1]

5. They are the people who became filled with rage the day Obama was elected.

You would think after all these years, the rage would have subsided some, but it has increased.

This typical white non liberal is furious that a Black person, and a Woman at that, has such a position of influence, prestige and money.

Tens of millions of white Americans want you to know that if they cant have that exact thing, you sure AS HELL cant.

[JustAnotherGen]

12. Nailed it!

[Number23]

7. "Who ARE these arrogant asswipes!?!?"

The same psychotic, privileged, arrogant assholes that lead black women to do stuff like this just so they can exist in peace in the online world and don't have to hear their shit:

http://www.xojane.com/issues/why-im-masquerading-as-a-bearded-white-hipster-guy-on-twitter

[Number23]

6. Do you guys remember when the black female attendee at Netroots Nation talked about

her interaction with a couple of Sanders supporters and how she felt incredibly unsafe? She said something very similar that MHP is saying here, that these guys invaded her space, were loud and incredibly insistent and when she tried to walk away, that they actually came after her for a while before they finally stopped.

I am so glad that MHP was able to get away safely. Whether you want to call that bullying, harassment or what it just shows that there are alot of men that have no value whatsoever for a woman's personal space. They have "decided" that their right to talk/yell at a woman is a thousand times more important than a woman's right to not feel bullied, intimidated or in MHP's and this woman's case, actually frightened.

And let's not pretend that this only happens from people on the right. The woman at Netroots was accosted by Sanders supporters and when I posted about her experience here, one Sanders supporter actually said that he was having to "hold his sides from laughing so hard." Her feeling unsafe and frightened was FUNNY AS HELL to him. Hell no, this type of pyschotic behavior is not limited to one side of the political spectrum or part of the world. It seems that alot of men believe that because they disagree with someone, that it is their God-given right to inflict themselves in some way on the ones they disagree with. And the fact that so many of the ones being inflicted upon are minorities and/or women is extremely telling.

[randys1]

8. Well, you know my theory. All men, by definition, are misogynistic even if they are aware of it

and work daily to shred it.

Myself included.

In fact I think misogyny is every bit as big an issue as racism, but then I am neither so it is not up to me to say.

[Number23]

9. As a black woman, I've personally had far more problems with racism than with sexism

And being perfectly honest, alot of the biggest problems I've had -- particularly professionally -- have been with white women.

I struggle with both isms as you'd expect, but racism has had far more impact on my life than sexism.

[randys1]

10. Like I said, I am in no position to make the call. I just know that I am just as

potentially bad with both given my condition of being a white male.

On this subject, my fantasy is to see someone like Michelle Obama as president, it would make the angry white population go even further off the deep end.

Now if only she could become a Lesbian first

oh, and ps

if you say racism is worse, then that is the answer...i learn something everyday...

[JustAnotherGen]

11. I do

And I remember the poster.

Another one who better get off my front step at a pretty fast clip when I slam the door in his face.