Jack & Jill Politics

MUG SHOT OF MAN THREATENING ELECTION OFFICIALS IF HE CAN’T GET HIS REGISTRATION TO KEEP OBAMA OUT OF OFFICE.  WTH?

Good Lord.  From Americablog via The Smoking Gun (warning, get ahold of an alcoholic beverage before reading):

Angered by a delay in the receipt of his voter registration card, a Louisiana man today threatened to shoot election officials, claiming that he urgently needed to cast a ballot to “keep the nigger out of office,” according to police. Wade Williams, 75, was arrested this morning on a felony terrorizing charge after allegedly calling the Registrar of Voters and warning that he would come to the state office and empty his shotgun unless he got his registration card. Using profanity and racial slurs, Williams told a state official “about needing to vote to ‘keep the nigger out of office,” according to an Ouachita Parish Sheriff’s Office affidavit, a copy of which you’ll find here. Though the document does not name the candidate to which Williams is so violently opposed, it seems likely he was referring to Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.

Guess ol’ Wade thought he was still in Jim Crow days.  This is just plain sick. And he’s too old for this shyt to be excused.

Folks, my mom was born and raised in Monroe, before my grandparents packed up and moved into Shreveport.  No wonder I haven’t bothered to visit Louisiana since 1991 – and I thought the plight of the Jena 6 was icing on the cake.  I grew up sensing shyt like this as a child who spent summers in Shreveport, and there was certain areas of the town Blacks, by tacit agreement, did not go into for fear of being jacked by the Klan.  Even in the 1970s.  If my parents were alive, my father would be oiling up that Winchester rifle my grandfather left him in safekeeping for my brother (all of the grandsons got the Winchester rifles when my grandfather died, and those under 21, their fathers got them for safekeeping.  My granddad had 10). And this is what my grandfather would have had ready for guys like ol’ Wade:

“Keep the N-gger Out of Office,” huh, Wade?  Well, if you get sent to Angola State Prison for your little stunt, you’ll get to know a whole lot of “N–ers”, up close and personal.

And it’s only October 8th….jeez