Fatimah Ali: 'Race War' in America
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Fatimah Ali: 'Race War' in America
Race; Posted on: 2008-09-16
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Multicultural booster gets an ear full.
At least 2 million readers visit DrudgeReport.com daily, and, for the last two
weeks, it seemed like most of them were steamed at me.
Thousands of hostile messages flooded my e-mail after my Sept. 2 column that
the Daily News"We Need Obama, Not 4 More Years of George Bush." called
Drudge cleverly headlined it: "Philadelphia columnist warns if McCain wins,
look for a full-fledged race war."
I stand by the column - but after all of that backlash, I realize I was dead
wrong. We don't have to wait until after the election for a race war. We're in
one now.
I know that putting the words "race" and "war" together is like hurling an
incendiary device. But I wasn't issuing a call to arms, it was a metaphorical
prediction.
I hate violence, but I do see a growing wave of intolerance sweeping the
nation. And most of the responses were hostile, like one from someone who
identified himself as Dennis Van Pelt: "Obama runs like a porch monkey in
Alabama during a KKK concert." But, not all white Southerners feel like
Dennis. Russ Nelson wrote: "I am a white male who was proud to cast my vote
for Barack Obama in the Alabama state primary. He inspires me!"
Nelson sounds more like the liberal whites I grew up with in West Mount Airy,
a community that pioneered integration in Philadelphia and kept me wearing
rose-colored glasses. I didn't personally experience racism until I was 40,
and then it hit me like a ton of bricks.
The recent onslaught of hate mail I received is a cruel reminder that racism
is a like a simmering pot ready to boil over. But it's diametrically opposed
to what democracy should represent.
I move in diverse circles and was raised in an upper-middle-class family with
parents who exposed us to a wide range of experiences. My family includes
several races and religions and a range of political views.
But from what I've been seeing lately, including the reaction to my column,
the racial, economic, cultural and religious divides are getting wider. Most
of the 2,000 negative responses used language so foul my ears curled.
These excerpts are some of the milder ones: Jerry Caruso threatened:
"Pleeeeease bring it, we'll extinguish you." Michael Babich from Wichita,
Kan., accused me of "calling for rampant crime and a plague of locusts."
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