Birthers or Bigots?
Has America really become more tolerant since the sixties? In the sixties Rosa Parks got thrown in jail because she didn't sit in the back of the bus. In the sixties blacks couldn't eat at white restaurants or go into a white restroom.
Many people fought these laws and some even died so that minorities could gain the same privileges as white people. True, this mostly happened in the south, but black people and other minorities were discriminated against everywhere in America.
We fought and won in the sixties. How are things today?
We have people questioning the president's birth certificate. It has become so silly that President Barack Obama felt he had to release the long form of the birth certificate in order to put to rest this nonsense.
But it has not stopped. Some birthers are claiming the long-form certificate (and the previously released birth certificate, and the reports of baby Barack's birth in a Hawaiian newspaper, and verifications made by the U. S. government years ago) are all fake. Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal brought the issue up a few days ago when he supplied his own birth certificate even though no one was questioning his birth. And within the last 24 hours Psychology Today published an article looking for the true reasons behind the birther issue.
It can never be put to rest because the real issue is not the president's nationality, or how he got into Harvard, or his religion. No! The real problem is the president has the unforgivable temerity to be Black. The real issue is that President Obama is African American and many conservatives cannot handle it.
They cannot understand how an African American could win the presidency. They cannot get a grip on reality. So they resort to extreme racist tactics like questioning his citizenship; his religion; and creating crude pictures of Michelle Obama looking like a monkey. Donald Trump practically did everything but call President Obama the N word. We are in a new age. It is time for some people to come into the 21st Century.
Birther Nonsense.
LINKS
Barack Obama reveals long-form birth certificate http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_theticket/20110427/ts_yblog_theticket/birth-certificate-wont-end-race-related-attacks-on-the-president
Michelle Obama racist picture at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/michelle-obama/6928791/Michelle-Obama-racist-monkey-picture-reappears-online.html
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal article is at http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/08/us-birther-jindal-idUSTRE74701F20110508
Read a Psychology Today report about birthers, paranoia, prejudice, and why Obama may have taken so long to show the certificate at http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-global-grapevine/201105/barack-the-birther-0
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