Today- or, by now, yesterday- U.S. President-elect Barrack Obama was inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States of America.
Soon after, I began researching threats that had been made on his life for various reasons, and the threats that he would most prominently have to deal with during his career and President, and one that I happened to stumble across gave me no surprise at all.
A very prominent member of the KKK (Klu Klutz Klan) made an indirect threat to Obama's life, stating that he wouldn't be the one to pull the trigger, but that someone would almost as soon as he was inaugurated.
He also went on to explain how he was a racist, and how he took alot of pride in his racism and race in general.
Honestly... these people must have no respect or common sense if they think like this.
For one, it would be more then extremley unfair to forcefully take Obama out of office despite the fact that the majority of Americans wanted someone like Obama to lead, African American or not.
For two, by doing so, they would throw the entire country into a violent political unrest where racists, non-racists, blacks, whites, and others would all be fighting in a sort of cold war against eachother. That's at the least.
At the most, the political unrest and anger towards skinheads, members of other hate groups and just racists in general would boil over and the entire country would go to hell.
Well, truthfully, most of the Americans would just be the bigger person and not use violence to solve the problem.
But what if these racists keep trying and keep failing to kill Obama, and so instead they set up full-fledged resistance movement throughout the United States, thus starting a second civil war?
Ok, truthfully, that's a bit farfetched, but obviously, as the one and only American Civil War did show us, it's definately possible for things like racial tensions to be blown completley out of proportion.
I, personally, wish all the best to Obama, and want him and others to know that, if given the chance, I would give my life to protect President Obama.
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Live deliberately. You are free.
All meaning is man-made, so make your own, and make it well.
Do not treat life as a way to pass the time until you die.
Do not try to "find yourself", you must make yourself.
Choose what you want to find meaningful and live, create, love, hate, cry, destroy, fight and die for it.
Do not let your life and your values and your actions slip easily into any mold, other that that which you create for yourself, and say with conviction, "This is who I make myself".
Do not give in to hope.
Remember that nothing you do has any significance beyond that with which you imbue it.
Whatever you do, do it for its own sake.
When the universe looks on with indifference, laugh, and shout back, "Fuck You!".
Rembember that to fight meaninglessness is futile, but fight anyway, in spite of and because of its futility.
The world may be empty of meaning, but it is a blank canvas on which to paint meanings of your own.
Live deliberately. You are free.
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