More Brooding Fear

Ashley Todd, a McCain volunteer claimed she was attacked by a tall dark skinned man at an Atm in Pittsburgh.  She said he was provoked by the McCain sticker on her car and he pinned her down to her car and carved a backwards B into her face. This story was fishy to begin with but it soon began to unravel. As soon as her story got online bloggers from the left and the right began to investigate. They looked at her myspace and facebook and soon came to a conclusion that her story was a complete hoax. The backwards B pointed a lot of arrows to the possibility that she did it herself while looking in a mirror, forgetting it was a reflection. Police reports did not stack up either. Her whole story has now been reported as false, but is that enough?

I know that there are some people in our country that will listen only long enough to hear what they want to hear then roll out, not waiting for any follow up. Some people will ignore the fact that this story is merely a tale of fear and take it as a warning that "the black community will rise up and take over our country." 

Yesterday on NPR i was listening to a woman who prefaced her beliefs with the statement "Im not racist but..." Then the went on to say that if Barack won the presidency then they,  the black people, (then she looked around the room she was sitting in and saw an African American man sitting across from her) , But not you" she said, "those out on the streets, you know causing trouble, will rise up with revenge." The man across the room who was a republican and had voted for bush in the last two elections, but was now swayed to vote Obama replied "Im not sure i know what your talking about, if Obama is elected that there will only be celebration and dancing on the streets, not violence." 

Personally, i believe that there will only be more instability and  danger in our country if Obama is NOT elected. 

But, as Sy Safransky writes in the Sun, 

"No matter whose elected president, daffodils will still bloom in the spring...No matter who's elected president, life will hand us the invisible thread that connects us all; love will hand us the needle."

xoxo hEn