(289) Kỳ thị gây sốc sau khi Obama tái đắc cử

 

Chửi thề, gọi Obama là thằng mọi, là con khỉ, đốt bảng vận động tranh cử của Obama... và chửi luôn cả những người yêu thích Obama

The Racist States of America: Shocking map reveals hateful tweets following Obama's re-election

• Map shows how concentration of racist tweets about Obama were from heavily Republican states of Mississippi and Louisiana
• However, there were also racist tweets recorded in states like West Virginia, Ohio, and Missouri
• Map comes two days after massive riot at Ole Miss
• Administration condemned racial epithets and called for students to recommit themselves to tolerance

By Beth Stebner
PUBLISHED: 19:29 EST, 8 November 2012
A great deal of Americans were justifiably upset when Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney lost the election.
But rather than using social media to express their frustration and disappointment in an elegant way, many Twitter users instead used the platform to post shockingly racist tweets, calling President Obama a ‘n*****’ and a ‘monkey.’
A map collected by Floating Sheep, a collective of geography academics, shows the shocking demographic of racist 'hate tweets,' many of them collected from states that were won by Romney.

Vitriol: Floating Sheep mapped out racist tweets about Obama across the country, starting on November 1; Arkansas and Mississippi had the highest concentration of such tweets

Look back in anger: Another Twitter user tweeted his thoughts

Profanity: Another Twitter user wrote that Americans were a bunch of 'G** d*** n***** lovers'

Popular vote: Many of the racist tweets came from heavily Republican areas that were won by Romney

The majority of the tweets, as Jezebel noted, were often from young white residents in southern states. MailOnline has chosen not to name these social media users.
One male user wrote on Election Day following Romney’s loss: ‘Ok we pick a worthless n***** over a full blooded American what the h*** has our world come its (sic) called the white house for a reason.’
Another wrote: ‘F*** you, Obama. Your (sic) a stupid n***** and you don’t do anything good for our country.’
Using geodata called DOLLY (Data On Local Life and You), Floating Sheep mapped out tweets beginning November 1. They then calculated the percentage of each state’s so-called hate tweets in relation to the gross number of tweets coming out of that state.

Their results showed that states like Arkansas and Mississippi were relatively inundated with racist tweets. However, they measured only the quantity of tweets, noting that a lone Twitter user could be sending out dozens of vitriolic tweets all on their own, thus adding to the location-inspired measure, or LQ.

The map also reveals other southern states like Tennessee, Georgia, and the Carolinas had their fair share of people tweeting bigoted things. Floating Sheep noted that both the East and West coast had a lower number of such tweets.

Vigil: A crowd participates in a candlelit vigil titled 'We Are One Mississippi' at Ole Miss Wednesday night in response to the Election Day protests

Causality: The vigil was in response to protests that happened on campus after President Obama was re-elected as president

The site noted, too, that the phenomenon wasn’t only in the south – a series of racist tweets trickled up the Eastern Seaboard, and could also be found in Utah and Missouri.
While it was not openly addressed by the candidates on the campaign trail, political pundits have insisted that demographics and race played a huge role in helping Obama keep the White House.
On Election Day,  a riot broke out at The University of Mississippi - known as Ole Miss - as more than 400 students yelled out racial slurs and burned Obama-Biden campaign posters after the Democratic incumbent was crowned the victor.
Emotions ran high among the angered college conservatives in Oxford, Mississippi, with university police being called in shortly after midnight to diffuse the crowd.

Riots: Ole Miss students took to the streets, burning Obama campaign posters after his reelection was announced

Outrage: Students chronicled the demonstrations against Obama's win on social media

The incident began as a small gathering of frustrated voters, meeting to share their misery at Obama getting another four years in office, shortly after midnight.
But word soon spread over social media and the crowd began to swell to hundreds of students, yelling out racial slurs, chanting anti-Obama rhetoric and some reportedly throwing rocks at cars.
Police were called and told the crowd to go home but their presence only attracted more attention and the mass began to multiply.
Two students were arrested in the fracas, one for public intoxication and one for failure to comply with police orders, the university confirmed.

Disorder: Two students were arrested in the campus riot at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Miss. on Tuesday night. An Ole Miss police officer escorts one student away from the protest

'Disperse or go to jail,' University Police Department officers told the crowd, according to the student newspaper, The Daily Mississippian.

But Ole Miss student Nicholas Carr tweeted that the whole thing was being overblown, saying that more people were taking pictures of the so-called riot than actually joining in on the chanting.
'I was there the whole time. No rocks were thrown. There was 1 sign lit on fire. For about 45 seconds,' Carr wrote.
'Mostly, it was 100s of college kids who heard the word riot and ran to take pictures and see what it was about. Again, no rocks or missiles thrown.'
But the school's administration confronted students on Wednesday and blasted Tuesday's behavior as 'a very immature and uncivil approach to expressing their views about the election,' University of Mississippi Chancellor Dan Jones said in statement
'The gathering seems to have been fueled by social media, and the conversation should have stayed there.'

Protest: Two people were killed and 75 injured in a riot on October 1st that erupted as James Meredith was ushered into the University of Mississippi by federal marshals in 1972

Read more:

• Jezebel: Racists react to that n***** getting reelected
• Floatingsheep.org: Mapping racist tweets

Bị đuổi việc, viết trên Facebook là Obama có thể bị ám sát

 'Maybe he will get assassinated this term!' Woman, 22, fired and reported to Secret Service after Facebook threat to Obama

• Denise Helms is under investigation by the Secret Service over her angry comment that also caused her to lose her job
• Helms has not apologized and claims no wrong doing
• She later said if the president were killed: 'I don't think I would care one bit'

By Nina Golgowski
PUBLISHED: 14:08 EST, 9 November 2012
A 22-year-old woman has been fired from her job and reported to the Secret Service after writing on her Facebook page her hopes that President Obama is assassinated in his second term in office.
'And another 4 years of the n*****. Maybe he will get assassinated this term..!!' Denise Helms of Turlock, California wrote immediately after the president's re-election on Tuesday.
It didn't take long for her post to circulate, angering enough readers to report her to authorities who accuse her of threatening the president's life.
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Under fire: Denise Helms has been fired from her job at an ice cream shop and reported to Secret Service after writing this post on her Facebook page hoping the president is assassinated

I'm innocent: Speaking about the incident on Thursday Ms Helms, 22, was visibly shaken by it but said she was surprised while believing she hasn't done anything wrong

'I didn't think it'd be that big of a deal,' she told KTXL on Thursday while visibly shaken up, but unapologetic and unsure of what she did wrong.
'The assassination part is harsh and I'm not saying that I would go and do that or anything like that by any means but if it was to happen I don't think I would care one bit,' she said.

Now fired from her job at a local Cold Stone Creamery on Thursday, the post was described as disgusting by the store's director who told the Modesto Bee that when he arrived to work he had more than 20 angry voice messages on his company’s machine directed toward Ms Helms.
‘We made the decision because of her comments, but also the community feedback,' said Director Chris Kegle who had employed Ms Helms for less than one year.

Standing alone: Cold Stone Creamery called her action disgusting and no reflection of their own views after receiving angry calls to their store

Not taking it back: Ms Helms, seen behind the ice cream counter, had worked for the company for less than a year before being fired for something she hasn't apologized for

'We are very into working with the community and doing community service. So when your community does not like you because of an employee, that's bad. We have a business to run.'
Despite all this, she said she wouldn't take her comments back.

Not registered: Ms Helms said Obama hasn't done anything for the U.S. while according to state records she is not registered to vote

'He has done absolutely nothing for this country,' she explained.
The Modesto Bee reports Ms Helms being a fan of Republican rival Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan’s campaign according to her Facebook page but report her not registered in the state’s registry to vote.
Asked by KTXL if she’s racist after additionally using the N-word in referring to Obama, she defended herself as not, but also didn't disagree with herself using it.
That disagreement was in sharp contrast to Twitter users across the country, however, who angrily branded her Facebook post among a list of others titled: 'Yes, You're Racist.'
Some even shared their own hinted threats against Ms Helms as well.
‘I jst [sic] got a sweet tooth! how does ice cream from Cold Stone in Turlock California in the month of November sound?’ one woman wrote.

Secret Service Agent Scott Gillingham in Sacramento says Ms Helms’ post is being investigated with threats against the president having the potential to lead to felony charges.

Papa John's CEO to cut worker's hours because Obama was re-elected

PUBLISHED: 20:53 EST, 10 November 2012
With failed presidential candidate Mitt Romney unable to repeal health care reform, Papa John's CEO John Schnatter said he plans on taking the costs out of his workers.
Schnatter said he will probably cut worker's hours because President Obama was re-elected, according to the Naples News.
'That's what you do, is you pass on the costs,' Schnatter told Naples. 'Unfortunately, I don't think people know what they're going to pay for this.'

Cutting more than pizza: In the wake of President Obama's reelection Papa John's CEO John Schnatter said he'll cut worker's hours to pay for health care reform

Though Schnatter has waffled on the Affordable Care Act, alternately agreeing that 'the good news is 100 per cent of the population is going to have health insurance' and throwing fundraisers for Romney as the then-candidate promised to repeal Obamacare,
Still, his announcement should not shock his employees as Schnatter has said he would find a way to make up the costs of health care reform on several occasions, telling shareholders this summer that the cost of a Papa John's pizza could increase by 11 to 14 cents.
'I got in a bunch of trouble for this,' he said, referencing that promise.

Losing jobs: One Applebees owner said he wouldn't hire anyone else after Obama was re-elected while a Georgia businessman laid off people who thought voted for the Democrat

Passing the cost to you: This summer the CEO said he'd raise the price of a pizza 11 to 14 cents if Obamacare wasn't repealed

Schnatter isn't alone among chain restaurants looking to balance the costs of health care reform.
As the program mandates that only employees working more than 30 hours a week are covered under their employers health insurance plan, chains like Olive Garden and Red Lobster are already considering reduced worker hours.
Even harsher reactions came from Zane Tankel, an Applebee's franchisee owner who said he would go on a hiring freeze and a Georgia business owner cut employees he believed voted for Obama.
Read more:

• Pizza Chain CEO: 'I Don't Think People Know What They're Going To Pay For' Obamacare
• Papa John's CEO: Obamacare likely to raise costs, result in employee's hours being cut 

Cán chồng suýt chết vì Obama thắng cử

Thứ ba, 13/11/2012, Một phụ nữ mang thai điên cuồng lái xe đuổi theo chồng và cuối cùng cán qua người anh này, trong cơn giận dữ vì Tổng thống Barack Obama tái đắc cử.
> Kẻ khóc, người cười vì bầu cử> Trăm nghìn người đòi ly khai vì Obama

Holly Solomon. Ảnh: opposingviews

Huffington Post cho hay tối 10/11, Holly Solomon, 28 tuổi, và chồng là Daniel Solomon tranh cãi gay gắt về chuyện anh này không đi bỏ phiếu bầu tổng thống tại bang Arizona hôm 6/11.

Theo kết quả bầu cử, Mitt Romney dễ dàng dẫn điểm ở Arizona trước Obama với tỷ lệ là 52% so với 44%, mà không cần đến phiếu bầu của Daniel. Tuy nhiên, sự thật này dường như vẫn không làm Holly hài lòng.

Các nhân chứng cho hay họ nghe thấy tiếng la hét rồi nhìn thấy Holly lao lên chiếc xe jeep SUV của mình, đuổi theo Daniel quanh bãi đỗ xe. Một lúc sau, Daniel núp vào một cột đèn, trong khi Holly vừa điên cuồng lái xe vòng quanh anh vừa tiếp tục gào thét.

Khi Daniel tìm cách tháo chạy ra phía đường, cô vợ lập tức đuổi theo và cuối cùng, anh bị cán qua người.

Daniel hiện đang được chữa trị tại bệnh viện địa phương trong tình trạng nguy kịch. Holly đã bị cảnh sát bắt giữ và buộc tội bạo lực gia đình. Cảnh sát cho biết không có dấu hiệu của chất kích thích trong vụ việc.

Theo ABC 15, Holly đang mang thai 6 tháng. Cô rất giận dữ trước tin ông Obama tái đắc cử nhiệm kỳ thứ hai bởi cô tin rằng tổng thống là căn nguyên dẫn đến những khó khăn của gia đình mình.

Trăm nghìn dân Mỹ đòi ly khai vì Obama

Hơn 100.000 người dân Mỹ gửi đơn tới Nhà Trắng để yêu cầu chính phủ cho phép bang của họ tách khỏi liên bang, sau khi Tổng thống Barack Obama tái đắc cử.

13/11/2012- Người dân Mỹ gửi hơn 20 đơn tập thể tới trang "We the People" của chính phủ Mỹ. Phần lớn người gửi đơn sống tại 20 bang ủng hộ ông Mitt Romney, ứng cử viên đảng Cộng hòa trong cuộc bầu cử vừa qua, như Arkansas, Nam Carolina, Michigan, New Jersey, AP đưa tin.

Hiến pháp Mỹ không có bất kỳ điều khoản nào cho phép các bang rời khỏi liên bang. Phần lớn đơn chỉ trích dẫn dòng đầu tiên trong Tuyên ngôn Độc lập Mỹ, theo đó người dân có quyền xóa bỏ các mối liên kết chính trị và lập một quốc gia mới.

Lá đơn từ bang Texas có tới hơn 25.000 chữ ký - số lượng chữ ký lớn nhất trong số các đơn. Trong cuộc bầu cử hôm 6/11, ông Romney giành được nhiều hơn Tổng thống Obama 15% số phiếu tại bang Texas.

Tình trạng các bang ly khai khỏi Mỹ từng xảy ra sau khi Tổng thống Abraham Lincoln thắng cử vào năm 1860. Nó đã dẫn đến cuộc nội chiến Mỹ vào năm 1861.