# Hey, remember how the blacks were going to riot if Obama lost? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [November 7, 2012, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-remember-how-the-blacks-were-going-to-riot-if-obama-lost/640227 "2012-11-07T15:59:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-remember-how-the-blacks-were-going-to-riot-if-obama-lost/640227/1 "2012-11-07T15:59:23Z")
[Guess what?](http://www.buzzfeed.com/johnstanton/university-of-mississippi-students-riot-over-obama) > [@](#): > > Students from the University of Mississippi took to the streets late Tuesday night to protest President Barack Obama’s re-election, blocking streets and burning Obama campaign signs until police broke up the mini-riot. Sore losers indeed . . . ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-remember-how-the-blacks-were-going-to-riot-if-obama-lost/640227/2 "2012-11-07T16:38:05Z")
I was hoping this thread was going to be about a Mormon riot. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-remember-how-the-blacks-were-going-to-riot-if-obama-lost/640227/3 "2012-11-07T16:41:33Z")
> [@Simplicio](#): > > I was hoping this thread was going to be about a Mormon riot. **That** would be something! ---
**Author:** ![Tatterdemalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/43a26b/32.png) [@Tatterdemalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tatterdemalion)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-remember-how-the-blacks-were-going-to-riot-if-obama-lost/640227/4 "2012-11-07T16:50:11Z")
> [@Simplicio](#): > > I was hoping this thread was going to be about a Mormon riot. Well there was thinking RV caravan that stopped at a place called Mountain Meadows … ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-remember-how-the-blacks-were-going-to-riot-if-obama-lost/640227/5 "2012-11-07T16:51:18Z")
> [@Simplicio](#): > > I was hoping this thread was going to be about a Mormon riot. > [@BrainGlutton](#): > > **That** would be something! It would be the most polite riot you ever saw. ---
**Author:** ![AlohaBear32](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e47774/32.png) [@AlohaBear32](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlohaBear32)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-remember-how-the-blacks-were-going-to-riot-if-obama-lost/640227/6 "2012-11-07T16:51:38Z")
Count me in on expecting a mormon riot as well…watching Salt Lake City burn would be an intresting picture… However they were mostly just dissapointed…I think the biggest thing a majority of them did was actually drink a Cola last night… ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-remember-how-the-blacks-were-going-to-riot-if-obama-lost/640227/7 "2012-11-07T16:55:19Z")
Many of the Mormon’s I know didn’t want him to win. They preferred that the church remained out of the national political scene. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-remember-how-the-blacks-were-going-to-riot-if-obama-lost/640227/8 "2012-11-07T17:04:51Z")
Mormons can still celebrate that one of their own is still leader of the US Senate. The only consolation I have for those idiots at Ole Miss is that their ilk still knows how to light stuff on fire… ---
**Author:** ![enomaj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/59ef9b/32.png) [@enomaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enomaj)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2012, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-remember-how-the-blacks-were-going-to-riot-if-obama-lost/640227/9 "2012-11-15T14:38:08Z")
> **[Racial slurs at college protests prompt a deeper look](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2012/11/10/racial-slurs-at-colleges-show-progress-still-needed/1696475/)** > > Students at two colleges yelled racial epithets and taunted others after President Obama was elected to a second term. It’s a little late but I didn’t see a thread about it. Not a full blown riot like we Blacks would have thrown had Obama lost but we’ve had much more practice being oppressed. Romney lost fair and square if you can still call it that when the side that lost tried to game the system. If Obama had lost, I’d have been much more disappointed than I was over Gore or Kerry But I wouldn’t have gone out to “protest”. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2012, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-remember-how-the-blacks-were-going-to-riot-if-obama-lost/640227/10 "2012-11-15T15:02:00Z")
I think I may have found the very subtle reason for their anger It’s hidden in the first sentence of the article: > [@](#): > > It was almost midnight when Ole Miss police officers came across a large crowd of students “shouting racial slurs and taunting other students with chants about the recent presidential election.” So some racist privileged college students were unhappy with what the majority of the American public decided in a democratic election. Keep it up boys and girls. I’m starting to think that within a few years Republicans will be unelectable in much of the country. ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2012, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-remember-how-the-blacks-were-going-to-riot-if-obama-lost/640227/11 "2012-11-15T15:12:41Z")
> [@enomaj](#): > > Not a full blown riot like we Blacks would have thrown had Obama lost Would Blacks really have rioted if Obama lost an election? > [@](#): > > Romney lost fair and square if you can still call it that when the side that lost tried to game the system. If Obama had lost, I’d have been much more disappointed than I was over Gore or Kerry But I wouldn’t have gone out to “protest”. So you would go for a full on riot, but not a “protest”? What happens if the next president isn’t Black (Obama can’t run again)? ---
**Author:** ![enomaj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/59ef9b/32.png) [@enomaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enomaj)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2012, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-remember-how-the-blacks-were-going-to-riot-if-obama-lost/640227/12 "2012-11-15T15:21:27Z")
> [@Duke\_of\_Rat](#): > > Would Blacks really have rioted if Obama lost an election? > > So you would go for a full on riot, but not a “protest”? What happens if the next president isn’t Black (Obama can’t run again)? No. No. I assume the next president will probably not be Black. Not a lot of senators and governors in the pipeline. ---
**Author:** ![Oedipus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Oedipus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oedipus)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2012, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-remember-how-the-blacks-were-going-to-riot-if-obama-lost/640227/13 "2012-11-15T15:26:15Z")
> [@duke of rat](#): > > would blacks really have rioted if obama lost an election? > > So you would go for a full on riot, but not a “protest”? What happens if the next president isn’t black (obama can’t run again)? _ **whhoooooosshhhhh** _ ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2012, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-remember-how-the-blacks-were-going-to-riot-if-obama-lost/640227/14 "2012-11-15T15:27:01Z")
> [@Duke\_of\_Rat](#): > > Would Blacks really have rioted if Obama lost an election? In 2008 and in 2012 we heard a lot of speculation about how that was going to happen if he lost. I can’t for the life of me understand why some people felt Obama’s supporters were more likely to riot than the supporters of any other presidential candidate. ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2012, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-remember-how-the-blacks-were-going-to-riot-if-obama-lost/640227/15 "2012-11-15T15:28:45Z")
Honestly, a few decades ago I doubt people would believe Mississippi would accept a black person being elected President without at least a few people getting murdered in the process. So I’ll look on the brightside and chalk this up to being a sign of progress. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2012, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-remember-how-the-blacks-were-going-to-riot-if-obama-lost/640227/16 "2012-11-15T15:33:02Z")
> [@enomaj](#): > > No. No. I assume the next president will probably not be Black. Not a lot of senators and governors in the pipeline. Well, Allen West is likely to have a lot of free time on his hands in the next four years… ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2012, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-remember-how-the-blacks-were-going-to-riot-if-obama-lost/640227/17 "2012-11-15T15:44:59Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > In 2008 and in 2012 we heard a lot of speculation about how that was going to happen if he lost. I can’t for the life of me understand why some people felt Obama’s supporters were more likely to riot than the supporters of any other presidential candidate. And yet here we have Romney supporters threatening to secede, roaming around a campus shouting racist crap, running their husbands over, and the candidate himself blaming others and refusing to acknowledge that people might not have actually liked the policies he espoused. Like maybe his offer of a gift of tax cuts to the wealthy did not convince the not-wealthy to vote for him. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2012, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-remember-how-the-blacks-were-going-to-riot-if-obama-lost/640227/18 "2012-11-15T15:45:53Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > In 2008 and in 2012 we heard a lot of speculation about how that was going to happen if he lost. I can’t for the life of me understand why some people felt Obama’s supporters were more likely to riot than the supporters of any other presidential candidate. Well, if you offer them free stuff…:rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2012, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-remember-how-the-blacks-were-going-to-riot-if-obama-lost/640227/19 "2012-11-15T15:58:04Z")
> [@enomaj](#): > > It’s a little late but I didn’t see a thread about it. Not a full blown riot like we Blacks would have thrown had Obama lost but we’ve had much more practice being oppressed. And those college students weren’t looting either. They were finding supplies. ---
**Author:** ![enomaj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/59ef9b/32.png) [@enomaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enomaj)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2012, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-remember-how-the-blacks-were-going-to-riot-if-obama-lost/640227/20 "2012-11-15T16:02:59Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > And those college students weren’t looting either. They were finding supplies. Oh, I’ll show you Black Friday! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-remember-how-the-blacks-were-going-to-riot-if-obama-lost/640227.md?page=2)