It's hard to know how much is media hype, how much is real... but the supposed plot to kill 102 African Americans and then assassinate Barack Obama by White supremacists does seem real, (however loopy the plot itself). Check your local paper.
On NPR's Morning Edition today, evidence that Senator McCain's accusations that Obama wants to "redistribute wealth" (socialist implications) has gained at least a bit of traction. A (White) woman interviewee says she thinks an Obama administration will "take money from people who are working and give it to people who aren't working." While it's possible that this comment has no racial aspect at all, it's also possible that it reflects something another White interviewee expressed during NPRs York, PA focus group session on race: that if Obama takes the White House, there will be "pay back"--Blacks against Whites. "It used to be that a Black person couldn't stay on the sidewalk if he saw a White person walking towards him; [under Obama], I think it might be the other way around."
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