DENVER – We always knew it was a possibility from the day he announced he was chasing history and threw his hat into the ring. What black man ever led a movement without the threat of death?
Some days, it’s hard to think about Barack Obama without remembering Martin Luther King or Malcolm X. In the early months of Obama’s campaign, even black people who said they loved the man argued they wouldn’t vote for him because they would be sending him to his death.
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Look at what happened to John F. Kennedy and his brother Robert. They just sympathized with black people, and look what happened. Then Obama started winning, really winning, and the talk went away for a while. Then he got to Denver, and all hell broke loose. Local authorities busted a bunch of assassin wannabes – meth heads who dreamed of shooting Obama. Later, cops said that there had been “no credible evidence” of a threat but that they are continuing their investigation.
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) said we should be careful not to give these losers more attention than they deserve.
The threat remains. But there is no reason to be paralyzed by fear. It’s never the bullet that kills the dream. It’s the fear.