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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump is saying exactly what they are telling the right to think. It's Obama's fault.
Barack Obama is to blame: 13 Alabama conservatives on CharlottesvilleJeff Stein Aug 15, 2017, 9:50am
DECATUR, Alabama Several Alabama voters blame President Barack Obama for the white supremacist violence in Charlottesville this weekend because, they say, he sowed division in American politics.
Attendees at a rally for Rep. Mo Brooks, a conservative House Republican running for Senate, in Decatur on Monday said they were confident that philanthropist George Soros was bankrolling both sides of this weekend's violent clashes.
And on conservative Alabama talk radio, Black Lives Matter activists quickly emerged as a top culprit in the bloodshed. Callers, citing Facebook posts, claimed that BLM protesters had thrown bricks at the car that then hit and killed Heather Heyer.
Theres a lot of wrong on both sides, and unfortunately all the liberal media talks about is the wrong on one side, said Tom Cowles, 61, a retired engineer from a wealthy section of northeast Alabama.
On Tuesday, I talked to a few dozen people at three campaign events for three conservative Senate candidates about Charlottesville. I also listened for three hours to 101.1 FM Yellowhammer News, a conservative talk radio station in Alabama. While nearly all decried the acts of violence and said they rejected white hate groups, the Alabama conservatives also blamed the mainstream media for ignoring the violence of the left, argued that the Ku Klux Klan was originally an organization of the left, and complained about Black Lives Matter.
I recorded our conversations; the transcripts of their answers are below. ................
Attendees at a rally for Rep. Mo Brooks, a conservative House Republican running for Senate, in Decatur on Monday said they were confident that philanthropist George Soros was bankrolling both sides of this weekend's violent clashes.
And on conservative Alabama talk radio, Black Lives Matter activists quickly emerged as a top culprit in the bloodshed. Callers, citing Facebook posts, claimed that BLM protesters had thrown bricks at the car that then hit and killed Heather Heyer.
Theres a lot of wrong on both sides, and unfortunately all the liberal media talks about is the wrong on one side, said Tom Cowles, 61, a retired engineer from a wealthy section of northeast Alabama.
On Tuesday, I talked to a few dozen people at three campaign events for three conservative Senate candidates about Charlottesville. I also listened for three hours to 101.1 FM Yellowhammer News, a conservative talk radio station in Alabama. While nearly all decried the acts of violence and said they rejected white hate groups, the Alabama conservatives also blamed the mainstream media for ignoring the violence of the left, argued that the Ku Klux Klan was originally an organization of the left, and complained about Black Lives Matter.
I recorded our conversations; the transcripts of their answers are below. ................
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Trump is saying exactly what they are telling the right to think. It's Obama's fault. (Original Post)
L. Coyote
Aug 2017
OP
forgotmylogin
(7,530 posts)1. What they are implying is Obama has more power as ex-President
Than 45 does in office.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)2. The inference is that everything was fine until we had a black president.
In fact their racism only became more apparent while having a black president, the problem is an old one. They have a problem when people of color vote and expect equality.