Re: Ding, Ding, Ding, Ding...
Johne Cook <[email protected]>
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I've spent a fair amount of time challenging Birtherism on Facebook. Race wasn't the reason. I saw plenty of other conspiracy theories, but not so much racism. Johne Cook | http://raygunrevival.com | http://authorculture.blogspot.com |* * On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 3:34 PM, Bruce Geerdes <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 2:00 PM, pcg <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > Enough? Need more? >> >> Nah, I think the point has been made. :) > > > Funny, just ran across this via Twitter. > > Let's not pretend for a moment that birtherism isn't steeped in racism. > I'm willing to concede that not *every* conspiracy theorist asking for > Obama's long-form birth certificate is a bigot. But it's worth asking: Is > there any way any of this would have happened if the president were a white > man with an Anglo-Saxon name? At the heart of it, most of the people > demanding evidence of Obama's citizenship were just taken aback by the fact > that a black guy could be president. How could an African-American attain > the nation's highest office without cheating? Impossible. And so, "Prove > it, Barack *Hussein* Obama—if that is your real name." > When Obama won the election, it naturally thrilled the African-American > community, which had long been told—tacitly and outright—that it couldn't > achieve greatness. In 2008, a black man beat a white man fair and square, > and nobody could say anything about it. Three years later, the White House's > deference to Trump proves that somebody *can* say something about it. The > heartbreaking lesson of April 27, 2011, is that, as a black man, you better > always be ready to justify your success. Even if you're president of the > United States. > > > > http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/AY5mvr/www.good.is/post/the-day-a-race-baiting-tv-clown-hijacked-the-white-house/ > > -- > dadl-ot mailing list > http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot > -- dadl-ot mailing list http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot