Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Hannan / Presidential Politics Nashville Curiously Silent When it Comes to Spontaneous Political Celebrations
Posted by Caleb Hannan on Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 11:27 AM
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We had a BBQ next door to a polling place in West End. Hollered at the news trucks as they were doing their thing, waved to the cops. Some folks in our hood were also lighting M80's. Good times!
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The Fisk campus was pure jubilation, I hear. And the crowd gathering outside the headquarters on Rosa Parks Blvd. was about the happiest I've ever seen.
Had McCain won and a spontaneous celebration broken out in a predominately white neighborhood it would have been immediately labeled racist and the news media would have scoured the area for discarded white capes and the smoking ramains of a burned cross.
Emmett Flatus,
That was a really dumb thing to say.
But in any case, rich white folk are really talented at hiding skeletons inside their walk-in closets so I doubt the media would find anything anyway...
Doesn't it get exhausting always playing the victim, Emmett? Especially when that victimhood is usually hypothetical rather than based on real life?
I, on the other hand, was a real victim last night. When the Obama win was officially announced at 11 or so, fireworks started going off all over Antioch. I thought it was a shoot-out between the Bloods and Crips, so I hid under my bed and trembled. Okay, maybe it was closer to a whimper. Either way, I felt very scared and quite possibly oppressed.
I was leaving the Obama HQ at around 5 yesterday afternoon after doing some phone-banking, & there was quite a spontaneous-celebration atmosphere even before results started coming in. Would love to have seen how happy the crowd there got later.
