Image by Getty Images via @daylifeFor a brief moment in 2008, we caught a glimpse of the madness that some white folks would be driven to if a black man managed to make it into the White House.
In October of that year, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms uncovered plans by two neo-Nazis to assassinate then-candidate Barack Obama and gun down hundreds of black students in Tennessee.
Those plans, of course, were foiled – and as criminals, the neo-Nazi nuts who planned it would have flunked out of pre-school.
Still, that discovery accelerated fears among black people that a President Obama might meet the same fate as President Kennedy.
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