My limited research also revealed, alarmingly, that during the presidential campaign last November, racist attacks against the idea of a black president had grown more heated. Here are just some of the blog posts reported by SPLC at the time: "If we get a n-word President all you NIGGERS will think you've won and that the WHITE people will have to bow to you. One chilling post called for the assassination of Mr. Obama. Another said, "LOOK OUT n-word. THE KLAN IS GETTING BIGGER! In Pennsylvania, a telephone canvasser was told to "Hang that darkie from a tree, while Rory Kennedy, daughter of the late Robert Kennedy, was told "White people look out for white people, when she was campaigning.
If I could ask the late psychologist Carl Jung what was going on here he would probably say it represents our nation's "shadow self, that part of us that is the dark side of our psyches, the ignoble within us that we choose not to acknowledge, if we even know it's there. Others of lesser renown would probably just say I was making spurious, hyperbolic connections between a few books and a few crazies. I'd like to think they were right. But I have to admit I'm worried. People showing up with guns to events where ordinary folks simply want to express differing opinions scare me. Irrational, uninformed, frenzied mobs scare me too. So do politicians who fuel those flames.
Like the guy from BATF said, all it takes is a spark. In my view, too many among us " even though they are in the minority " are playing with fire.
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