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UPDATED - A disturbance broke out on the University of Mississippi’s campus early Wednesday, after students angry at the reelection of president Barack Obama took to the streets to vent their displeasure.
WMCTV reports that students interacted initially on social media, which resulted in 300-400 young people participating in the disturbance.
Pictures posted on Twitter showed people burning Obama campaign signs. The Clarion Ledgerreports that some students were heard shouting racial epithets about Obama and African Americans in general.
Police were called to the scene and the crowd broke up around 12:30 a.m. It’s unclear exactly who was there to protest and who came outside to watch.
UPDATED - A disturbance broke out on the University of Mississippi’s campus early Wednesday, after students angry at the reelection of president Barack Obama took to the streets to vent their displeasure.
WMCTV reports that students interacted initially on social media, which resulted in 300-400 young people participating in the disturbance.
Pictures posted on Twitter showed people burning Obama campaign signs. The Clarion Ledgerreports that some students were heard shouting racial epithets about Obama and African Americans in general.
Police were called to the scene and the crowd broke up around 12:30 a.m. It’s unclear exactly who was there to protest and who came outside to watch.
That was wrong too. But 100 students is hardly thousands of idiots. And those were not stopping the flow of traffic, jumping onto passer by vehicles, cussing and yelling at passer by cars. Throwing and hurdling rocks at store front's. And hurting innocent people for no reason.
That was wrong, but two wrongs don't make a right. These idiots, are by the thousands and need medication or a shrink.
That did not go on for days. Not the same thing at all. I have friends who live in Mississippi my best friend lives there.
There's no law that says a citizen has to recognize or accept a person as their president if they have convictions otherwise. I never once recognized Barack Obama as President given that he was never fully vetted with his background ( the college records) and he would never gotten through the primaries let alone been elected. I accepted that George W. Bush also had some help winning Florida. Heck, Al Franken had help winning, too. So voter fraud and backroom deals taint both parties and the very highest offices of the land.
I never protested, though. never damaged property or turned violent.
The same people who said we should respect the will of the electorate and the INTEGRITY of our election process when Trump was talking about rigged elections, refuse to accept the results when it's not to their liking and say things like "He's not MY president"!
If you had said that when Obama was elected, the left would have called you racist and unpatriotic!
Also, the same people who derided and condemned the violence at Trump's rallies are setting fires, smashing windows and overturning cars or at the least, refusing to condemn those who do.
The same people who called Trump the candidate of hate or derided him for hate speech burned him in effigy and chanted vulgarities directed at him just hours after he gave a speech calling for healing and reconciliation.
The rampant hypocrisy of the left is on FULL display.
Honestly, it's just the same thing all over again. When Obama won, Republicans whined and moaned and refused to accept him. When George W won, Democrats whined and complained and refused to accept him as well. Both D's and R's completely lose the ability to think and act rationally when confronted with victory by the hated opposition.
It is that very irrationality, anger and angst that keeps America divided and stupid. And more often than not, the things that each side hates the most are things that they are guilty of themselves.
Violence and destructive riot is going too far though. Both are signs that we've pushed the irrational division between D & R close to the point of no return. Honestly, the best thing that could happen for America is for the big two parties to just die. At this point, they're just manufacturing excuses for drama and violence. Dems have let things get out of control and need to talk their people down at this point ... but will they? Past experience says that they won't. If anything, they'll just throw fuel on the fire.
Well then why freak out now over this particular backlash, if even death threats are no big deal?
Why all the clothes-rending oh the humanity angst about the terrible libs being just so darned mean to poor Donald? And all the whimpering cries of "oh the hate, it is so bad"?
Which is it?
Because you are saying the very few threats against Obama (which is the least that happens to All presidents) is similar to what Bush got and Trump is getting. Which is a lie.
We should accept the results. Trump is the president.
But we are not required to bow to him and say "Our dear leader".. er... I meant "My president".
I also don't believe that everyone who voted for Trump is a racist. But that is irrelevant to the discussion around Trump's views around racial lines.
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