Wednesday, April 27, 2011

It's time to grow up, America


Listen to this message. And remember one thing: the birther message that Donald Trump was able to ride was only possible because Barack Obama was black.

Would it have been possible for anyone, at any time, to make an ignorant claim like this, that Obama wasn't truly an American, if he had, in fact, been white? If his father had been Barry O'Bama, an Irishman, who'd gone back to the ancestral shores of Ulster, would anyone have been able to carry this ignorant, racist message as far as Donald Trump (and his media representative, Joseph Farah) were able to flog it?

Would anyone have cared if Obama was a white man?

(OK, I'll even add a caveat - "a white man with no Russian background"? Because, yes, they're that stupid...)

If Barack Obama wasn't different from "you and me" - if he wasn't "the other" - if he didn't seem "foreign"...

GOD DAMN IT!! If he wasn't black!

If Barry O'Bama was a white man raised in Chicago, would anybody have gone to the ignorant, racist extremes that the GOP has gone in the last 4 years?

Yes, if you ever worried about the birth certificate of the duly elected president of the United States, you are a useless, inbred racist fuck. You might as well pull out your bed-sheets with the eye holes cut out.

Slit your throat now, you fuck. America doesn't have time for you.

Welcome to the 21st Century.

1 comment:

Charlene said...

Ignorance is taking over the minds of lots of people. A state debating a "birther" law today said the law was about a candidate for President proving their citizenship.

- be a natural born citizen of the United States;[27]
- at least thirty-five years old;
- have been a permanent resident in the United States for at least fourteen years.

For groups who scream about the constitutions these guys sure don't know the rules well.