How long until riots begin in the U.S.?

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if blacks start rioting while Obama is president, he can forget about 2012

[Swing low, sweet chariot. Comin' for to carry me home.]

if blacks start rioting while Obama is president, he can forget about 2012

No, you can forget about electing a black president for the next 50 years.

i dont think other black pols of the future would suffer because of Obama, but the King riots hurt Bush in 92 and they would destroy Obama's whole mantra of "hope and change"...in fact, large scale riots would certainly give him a primary challenger

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yo, i's keeps forgettin you's a brotha, JJ 

...JJ, do you a sizable section (>15%) of the black community would blame Obama if there were large scale riots like those of the Rodney King era?

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thought about this for a while last night and how easy it is to use social networks to start a riot...after seeing what happened in London, this has to be keeping Obama up at night because I dont see what Obama could do in response that wouldnt cause a fatal blow to him in 2012...fair or unfair.

if it is perceived that his response is too harsh, he could lose the support of the youth vote.  if it is perceived that his response is not harsh enough, then he is seen as being even less in control of an America that is spiraling out of control - a la Jimmy Carter 1980.  In fact, the whole Obama ascension could be seen as one of the main facilitators that encouraged and unleashed the upheaval (fair or unfair)