It has come to my attention that not only with the recent election, coupled with the reaction for said election, that racism is still very previlent in the United States. Could this be by design?

Race issues have been quiet and a topic not to be tread on since the L.A. Riots (a sad time for the African American community due to the fact that most of the buildings and businesses that were damaged and looted were owned by African Americans). It seems as though with a media "no fly zone" on the subject as well as the Jimmy Carter like rise of our president elect.

So here we are, perched upon a presipace, destined to make fools of our selves on a global stage. Or was it all by design...?

How could we have fabricated a better situation for either side to say "In your face!" A white Vet versus a very charismatic colored man (I am not demeaning Obama, only that with the birth certificate is still in question so I cannot pinpoint an origin).

After the stage was set... THEN the media started the circus it's best at... Makng the issuses not the election process or the issuses, they seemed hidden under a vaneer of prejudice.

Here on ATS has been non-stop conversation about prejudice as well as all out rasicsm. I have the believe if people as open minded as we here at ATS {should be/} are... the less then forgiving world may be gearing up for a clash. Could there be a seconsd Civil War in the near future of the United States? I hope not, but I am starting to think otherwise...

The police beat up 12 year girls and say they deserve it. The boss steal your paycheck then goes for a government bail out while you can't pay your mortgage. The winter is cold and the utility trucks have no gas.

Of course their will be another civil war and it will have nothing to do with race and everything to do with corrupt government.

As far as the conventional picture of what a civil war is, (i.e. tanks in the streets)I don't see it as very likely. After all, there's no need. With the movement of both capital and control done at the electronic level, intentions can be hidden, and blame or discourse deflected. After all, the best way to take over a country is never let the population become aware there being invaded in the first place. From with in or with out. As for reasons disgrunteled people blame all their problems on another race, religion, or life style; people always have picked some one they think is "different" from them selves because bigotry does not require some one have a brain.

It won't be a civil war, at least not in its historical context. Nope, this one is more likely to be a revolutionary war with people taking to the street to ouster our corrupt and deficient government. The politicians and bankers will believe (erroneously) that "their" military will protect them - and some will. But the majority of our brave servicemen and women will NOT turn a gun on their friends, their neighbors or their family members. Especially when it is painfully obvious who caused this mess and how their families will be suffering as result of it.

No, this will clearly be revolutionary. Blood will be shed in the streets and lives lost. Politicans, bankers and corporate masters will be strung up from light poles and signs; publicly lynched. Social order will not return for years. People will instead live in pockets resembling clans to provide for their own needs and protection. We will become, for a time, agrarian again, and will live simply until a new social order emerges. I believe that this all a part of the 2012 apocolypse. Remember, Apocolypse means "New beginning".

I think there will will some civil unrest, protests, perhaps a few riot, stuff like that in a few places. But an all out civil war like before...no way. Americans are way too mind controlled for that to happen, and way too drugged to have the will to fight. Personally, I would love to see the bankers and rich elite strung up from light poles, but as I said, Americans are too complacent to really do anything. If this were not so, it would have happened after the passing of the Patriot Act.

I have to think that an obscure (but very well thought out) 80's movie "V" would have it correct.

I have a feeling that as long as they are not directly persecuting their lives directly, people (majority anyhoo) will not care and lay low. There might be a few cells of resistance being formed, but nothing major.

Also, a novel called Illuminati had wonderful detail on how people might react.

The only prejudice I have ever had is against the government, and I'll never change it seems.

I took my buddy to get his social security card recently after police took all of his identification and "lost it." As the clerk was stating that you needed more than a birth certificate, indeed you needed at least an I.D. card to get a social security card (mkay?), there was a man behind her with an evil little grin. You could see he was getting real pleasure out of my bud's predicament. I asked him what was so funny in as intimidating and boisterous a voice as I could muster. It was substantial, I admit, but he just stared at me, and kept that "I want to slap it off his face!" smile until the clerk said she'd call security and have me removed if I caused a problem. First how are you supposed to get an I.D. card without a social security card in the first place? You can't - at least in Kentucky. And second who the hell was this perversion of humanitarianism? It truly didn't matter as long as I remember his face (which is hard to forget). I thought to myself that very second, "I'll see you soon enough scum." - thinking the revolution isn't far away.

I have always despised controller over controlled...especially when the controlled don't know they are being led along by seemingly incognito means. There is something going on, and they seem to know more than they are telling anyone. I have no doubt what those coffins are there for, and somewhere deep down, neither do any of you. I also have no doubt there will be a Revolution. Indeed, with the weapons they have now, we may lose, but it would have been worth every single life finally liven if only for that short brightest match time period.

It doesn't matter what they do to people, for as soon as people realize on mass that they've been backed into a corner (smart and not so smart alike), instinct and reaction will take over. It's supposed to be this way. It has always been this way. It will always be this way. People have a disposition to Freedom, whether they know they have to pay for it or not, and it isn't given up easily. That's why they've been drugging us for the last 80 some-odd years. However, I think their drugs have simply caused their own fates far worse destinies when it comes face to face with them. I know I'll remember that face for as long as it takes...

Viva Le Revolutione!

The United States is the most racially integrated nation on the planet. Far too many of us have friends of every race so I do not see that as the flash point for a new civil war. I see the flash point as an economic one. Poverty is growing at an alarming rate and poverty is not racially divided any longer in the US as it was in the past.

Go out to a labor corner in the US more white faces are appearing than in the last 20 years.

We might end up in a civil war or revolution but it will be because the government can no longer provide the social safety net they did in the past because they simply will not be able to afford one any longer. The starry eyes socialist will find their programs can not be sustained. A few more Katrina scale disasters is all it will take and the economic pressure will explode the nation.