The Austin terror attack shows crazy people can get really angry due to issues not related to race

[ohiodemocratic]

Wingnuts hate Obama with passion. But I am careful not to assign much of the weight of this hatred to race. Wingnuts would not think about it twice before killing a white or asian abortion doctor, simply because they are not black (See George Tiller). The Austin terrorist hated the IRS. He " raged against everyone from President George W. Bush to deceased New York Senator Patrick Moynihan" according to news reports.

Timothy McVeigh was not motivated by race. Francisco Duran was jailed for 40 years after shooting dozens of rounds into the White House.

If President Obama (God forbid) is attacked by a pissed-off lunatic, we should not jump into conclusions that the attack was race-related.

[Zoeisright]

1. There's a big difference between abortion providers and politicans.

All the repukes see when they see an abortion provider is a killer. All they see when they look at Obama is an uppity black man. Don't kid yourself. They hate Obama because he is black first, and a Democrat second.

[leftstreet]

2. K&InvisibleR

[MadMaddie]

3. Your point is well taken

In the case of the Austin domestic terrorist you are probably right. In the case of the Timothy McVeigh domestic terrorist attack you may be partially right.

America has a problem with working within a square, any individual that has pigmentation in their skin is deemed a terrorist and are part of a bigger conspiracy. In the cases where the individual is white and commits a crime of the magnitude of Austin and Oklahoma they are deemed criminals and for the most part the acts are usually considered acts of one individual versus a conspiracy.

This leads us to your point of an attack on leadership in this country, we have to look at the broader picture versus an individual. When you have a tea party cult and their propaganda and rhetoric have an underlying tone of violence, and then you add the Overt racial hatred in the mix. On top of that you have Beck, Hannity, Limpballs, Coultergeist and others who are subtly promoting violence because the president is black......well now we have something else.

This country has to acknowledge that Janet Napolitono was right in the fact we have homegrown domestic terrorist within our borders. Many of these groups and individuals have followed the above mentioned hacks and read their books and attended events espousing the destruction of the government.

Yes, not every act of violence is an act of racism, however; when an individual that commits crimes everything must be examined. If it is determined that race played a factor then we as a country must admit to it and aggressively address it.

My two cents...

[kestrel91316]

4. I think people who DON'T see how racist some of the hatred of Obama is

are just naive. It's so blatant.

[MineralMan]

5. You underestimate the racist attitudes towards Barack Obama.

You underestimate them to a very large degree.