re: #205 weave

Armed man in Donald Trump shirt intimidates mom with 9-year-old son at Virginia polling site

Another story on it.

Remember how big of a deal the wingnuts made about a Black Panther intimidating voters at a Philadelphia polling place in 2008? He had a night stick.

Here’s the thing with that: given the amount of racial tension still present in Philadelphia, if that incident was as bad as the rest of the country says it is, it would have been front page news.

It wasn’t. I read the Inquirer online almost every day and have for years. The cops shooed the guys along after an hour. It was a non-incident.

The only thing that incident is useful is what you describe in your post: an illustration of how white people can walk around armed to the teeth and no one says boo, but a black guy with a night stick is somehow a race war.