Fear for Obama's life
I was reading this article.
It is amazing as to how many people are afraid that Obama will be killed.
When he won, I, and later on I discovered many others, had a fear that some whako somewhere will "take him out". I don't know whether the threat is real; my wife keeps assuring me that he is perhaps the most secured man in the free world; but I cannot but feel a sense of fear for his life.
For all of us who love the man and what he represents: what people like me and others like me look up to America for, the fact that the son of an immigrant can become the president of this country, the hope that his election has given to so many people - all this could be dashed if some nut white supremacist were to whack him.
Thus there are those of us who remind ourselves that Jena 6 can still happen in this country, that whites still treat the rest differently, and race still exists. Much as we pray and hope that this will be the place in history that future generations will look back on as the turning point in the path of America, when the beacon on the hill that was nearly extinguished by Bush was once again relighted, we also live in fear for the life of what Obama represents and what it would mean if he were lost.
It is amazing as to how many people are afraid that Obama will be killed.
When he won, I, and later on I discovered many others, had a fear that some whako somewhere will "take him out". I don't know whether the threat is real; my wife keeps assuring me that he is perhaps the most secured man in the free world; but I cannot but feel a sense of fear for his life.
For all of us who love the man and what he represents: what people like me and others like me look up to America for, the fact that the son of an immigrant can become the president of this country, the hope that his election has given to so many people - all this could be dashed if some nut white supremacist were to whack him.
Thus there are those of us who remind ourselves that Jena 6 can still happen in this country, that whites still treat the rest differently, and race still exists. Much as we pray and hope that this will be the place in history that future generations will look back on as the turning point in the path of America, when the beacon on the hill that was nearly extinguished by Bush was once again relighted, we also live in fear for the life of what Obama represents and what it would mean if he were lost.
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