NAACP: Coffin near voting site is intimidation
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NAACP: Coffin near voting site is intimidation
The North Carolina NAACP says a New Bern man who is displaying a casket outside a polling station has crossed the line.
Bill Harper, a former commissioner in Craven County, displayed this coffin with Barack Obama stickers on it.
The NAACP says it intimidates voters and appeared to be an obvious threat to Senator Obama and a warning to him to stay away from North Carolina.
The group says they will be filing formal charges with the justice department on Monday.
Harper said earlier this week he has used the coffin before during the Bush - Clinton election.
The NAACP says they are contacting the State Board of Elections, Justice Department and the Attorney General for an investigation.
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I just heard about the situation of a coffin being displayed in front of a voting place. If I recall in just this week, there was a house in California that had a manaquin dressed like Sarah Palin with a noose around her. Nothing was done because it was seen as a Halloween decoration. I don’t see how a coffin with stickers on it can be any different. It is simply someones perception.
The Issue of Race
Barack Obama is a biracial man, having received 50% of his DNA from his “white” American mother and 50% of his DNA from his “black” African father.
Barack Obama looks more like his father than his mother because for unknown reasons the part of DNA that controls skin color, hair type, and other characteristics of physical appearance is generally more dominant in “black” DNA than in “white” DNA.
His father happened to be very intelligent and passed that potential along to his son through the part of his DNA that directs brain building. His mother was no intellectual slouch either and half of her son’s brain building DNA came from her.
Barack Obama barely knew his father who left when Barack was 2 years old. Young Barack was raised and nurtured primarily by his mother and his maternal grandparents, and he received a first rate education.
Perhaps the example of Barack Obama will help the human race begin to understand that the brain of each individual is built by a new combination of parental DNA whose brain building capability is independent of whatever characteristics of physical appearance other parts of that DNA happen to produce; and once built, that new human brain, in combination with the nurturing, education, and experience it receives, develops functional capabilities that are equally independent of whatever characteristics of physical appearance that individual’s DNA produces.
In short the quality of brain building DNA matters; nurturing, education, and experience matter; but characteristics of physical appearance produced by other parts of one’s DNA are unrelated to the functional capabilities of one’s brain. They don’t matter.
Senator Barack Obama is an intelligent, articulate, and insightful 47 year old American whose best years lie ahead of him; a man who graduated near the top of his class at Harvard Law School and was president of its Law Review; a man who understands and respects the American constitution because he was an instructor of constitutional law for 12 years at the University of Chicago Law School; a man familiar with the American legislative process because he served 3 terms as an Illinois State Senator and the past 4 years as a US Senator; a man acquainted with Washington but one who also brings fresh ideas and a passion for bringing about important and necessary changes in Washington.
Senator Barack Obama is the man America needs today, and he is the man who can lead America into the future.
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