{"id":1965,"date":"2012-11-07T13:14:02","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T13:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.temp.shooflysolutions.com\/obama-wins-second-term-mississippi-whites-riot\/"},"modified":"2012-11-07T13:14:02","modified_gmt":"2012-11-07T13:14:02","slug":"obama-wins-second-term-mississippi-whites-riot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.idavox.com\/index.php\/2012\/11\/07\/obama-wins-second-term-mississippi-whites-riot\/","title":{"rendered":"OBAMA WINS SECOND TERM; MISSISSIPPI WHITES RIOT"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-1964\" style=\"border: 1px solid #000000; margin: 10px; float: left;\" alt=\"Burn \" src=\"https:\/\/archive.idavox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/images_image.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" \/>You know how conservatives kept saying that if President Obama lost blacks would riot? Well this stark evidence of projection comes courtesy ofthe reddest state in the Union<\/h3>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<h2>Clarion Ledger<\/h2>\n<p><strong>OXFORD, MS<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014 Shortly after midnight on Wednesday morning a disturbance started near the center of the University of Mississippi campus, where students gathered to protest the Tuesday night re-election of President Barack Obama.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: -webkit-auto; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding-left: 160px;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: -webkit-auto; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding-left: 160px;\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><span class=\"pp\"><\/span>Initial reports on Twitter labeled the gathering as a \u201criot,\u201d but observers said it was simply angry students assembled in protest.<span class=\"aa\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: -webkit-auto; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding-left: 160px;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: -webkit-auto; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding-left: 160px;\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><span class=\"pp\"><\/span>Students were heard shouting racial epithets about Obama and African Americans in general.<span class=\"aa\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: -webkit-auto; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding-left: 160px;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: -webkit-auto; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding-left: 160px;\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><span class=\"pp\"><\/span>Police were called to the scene and the crowd broke up around 12:30 a.m.<span class=\"aa\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: -webkit-auto; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding-left: 160px;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: -webkit-auto; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding-left: 160px;\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><span class=\"pp\"><\/span>A dispatcher with the university police department said he could not release any details on why police were called to campus.<span class=\"aa\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: -webkit-auto; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding-left: 160px;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: -webkit-auto; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding-left: 160px;\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">One Twitter user, @BIGSMOOV012, shared a photo that showed several students crowding into an intersection where police allegedly responded. The crowd did not appear to be doing anything but mulling around.<span class=\"aa\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: -webkit-auto; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding-left: 160px;\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><span class=\"pp\"><\/span>Twitter user @CaMeshaLaShay tweeted another photo showing young males burning an Obama\/Biden 2012 sign. It is unclear if this photo was taken on the Ole Miss campus.<span class=\"aa\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: -webkit-auto; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding-left: 160px;\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><span class=\"pp\"><\/span>News Watch 99, the student-run news station, said there were no riots as once reported.<span class=\"aa\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: -webkit-auto; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding-left: 160px;\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><span class=\"pp\"><\/span>The Daily Mississippian, the student newspaper, reported students were throwing rocks at cars and using racial slurs.<span class=\"aa\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know how conservatives kept saying that if President Obama lost blacks would riot? 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