The Secret Service Just Became Much More Important

On November 4th there was a call from the public for big changes to occur in the direction that this country is going. So much so that the constituants were willing to make an historic change by electing the nations first black president. Consider how important that makes the Secret Service now in light of that fact. They have always been important and even vital but never more so than now. The installation of the first black president still will not change the reality that the United States is still in many ways a nation divided by race. There are certain elements of the population that were not interested in having a black president and they are still not. It would not be shocking to anyone to believe that there are likely to be individuals or groups who are plotting already to reverse the change that the country has made with this historic election. Protecting every president is important but this one is a special case in many ways as we all know. If this particular president were to be asassinated it would be a disaster for the nation especially in terms of race relations. When Martin Luthur King Jr. was killed in April of 1968 there were race riots in over 100 U.S. cities that lasted for the better part of one week. The amount of damage was estimated to be in the billions. This time around such an occurance would likely be worse. The African American community would not react in such a way upon the assassination of a white president. They may well react this way if such a fate were to meet Obama. That makes the Secret Service and their work infinately more important guarding this president than perhaps any other. If they fail this country faces the possibility of tearing itself apart from within and inflicting upon itself a wound from which it may never recover.