Most people are aware of our racist tendencies – all of us – and awareness creates its own antidote. As Mark Twain is said to have said (who knows – it’s off the Internet)
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.”
Racism exists in a minority, but social pressure has suppressed its open expression. It still comes out, but in non-obvious ways. For one, some people, as at the Bozeman Tea Party on July 4th, referred to President Obama as a “Nigerian”. Get it?”Nigerian?
I am beginning to agree with those, including Bill Maher, who say that the “birther” movement is an expression of racism. It’s subtle, never been used before against a sitting president, and has an element of ‘foreigner’ in it that can easily be applied to his race.
I suspect that’s where the low-brow, low intellect, stupid, scared and paranoid racists went to hide.
Piece of Mindful 
Graofalo said it even better.
“Let’s be very honest about what this is about,” actress/comedian Janeane Garofalo said on Keith Olbermann’s MSNBC show. “It’s not about bashing Democrats. It’s not about taxes. They have no idea what the Boston Tea Party was about. They don’t know their history at all. This is about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism straight up. That is nothing but a bunch of tea-bagging rednecks.”
As far as the birthers are concerned, seems they could be marginalized with proper documents instead of a million dollar defense.
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That’s what is interesting – no other president has had this kind of scrutiny, and his bona fides have been demonstrated over and over again, but it doesn’t satisfy you. You keep harping and harping, which leads me to believe it is something else. I’m guessing racism, but if it is something else, tell me.
It is not about his birth place. That much I know.
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Mark, didn’t they question McCain’s citizenship?
Damn racists.
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My spy inside your house told me that after you posted that you walked away from the computer muttering “Naaaaailed it!”
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I can just hear Swede now singing PP&M, “If I had a hammer, I’d hammer in the morning…”
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