RAW Story<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00abDemocratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama said Tuesday that the Bush administration has done nothing to defuse a quiet riot among blacks that threatens to erupt just as riots in Los Angeles did 15 years ago.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThe first-term Illinois senator said that with black people from New Orleans and the Gulf Coast still displaced 20 months after Hurricane Katrina, frustration and resentments are building explosively as they did before the 1992 riots.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThis administration was colorblind in its incompetence, Obama said at a conference of black clergy, but the poverty and the hopelessness was there long before the hurricane. All the hurricane did was to pull the curtain back for all the world to see, he said.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbObama’s criticism of Bush prompted ovation after ovation from the nearly 8,000 people gathered in Hampton University’s Convocation Center, particularly when he denounced the Iraq war and noted that he had opposed it from the outset.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbRepeatedly, he referred to the riots that erupted in Los Angeles after a jury acquitted four police officers of assault charges in the 1991 beating of Rodney King, a black motorist, after a high speed chase. Fifty-five people died and 2,000 were injured in several days of riots in the city’s black neighborhoods.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThose ‘quiet riots’ that take place every day are born from the same place as the fires and the destruction and the police decked out in riot gear and the deaths, Obama said. They happen when a sense of disconnect settles in and hope dissipates. Despair takes hold and young people all across this country look at the way the world is and believe that things are never going to get any better.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbHe argued that once a hurricane hits or a jury renders a not guilty verdict, \u00a0\u00bbthe frustration is there for all to see.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tC’est la premi\u00e8re fois que Obama prend en charge le facteur racial avec tant de vigueur et autant d’insistance revendicatrice. Il met ainsi en \u00e9vidence la sp\u00e9cificit\u00e9 raciale de sa propre candidature. Jusqu’ici, Obama \u00e9tait en g\u00e9n\u00e9ral per\u00e7u hors du facteur racial, comme un candidat jeune et r\u00e9formiste. S’il confirme son engagement, sa candidature pourrait prendre une forme diff\u00e9rente et introduire un \u00e9l\u00e9ment nouveau dans la campagne \u00e9lectorale. Depuis le 11 septembre, le facteur racial de la communaut\u00e9 noire a compl\u00e8tement disparu au profit d’une union de fa\u00e7ade, entretenue par la propagande de la guerre contre la terreur.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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\tMis en ligne le 6 juin 2007 \u00e0 08H53<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Le s\u00e9nateur Obama a, pour la premi\u00e8re fois, pris une position qui le rapproche d’une fa\u00e7on sp\u00e9cifique de ce qu’on pourrait juger \u00eatre sa communaut\u00e9 d’origine (son p\u00e8re est un noir du Kenya) en lan\u00e7ant un avertissement \u00e0 l’administration Bush sur la situation des rescap\u00e9s (essentiellement noirs) de la catastrophe de la Nouvelle Orl\u00e9ans. Obama… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6744,1368,3256,3387,6208,4760,6745],"class_list":["post-68871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-emeutes","tag-katrina","tag-new","tag-noir","tag-obama","tag-orleans","tag-race"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}