re: #6 majii

This is why so many of them have a serious problem with accepting the fact that Barack Obama is a legitimate POTUS. The constant obstruction, nit-picking and birtherism are the “tells” that let me know that despite what many republicans may say, the president’s race matters a whole lot to certain people in this country. If you’ve experienced a certain thing, you recognize it when you see it happening again.

The way President Obama is treated really upsets me a LOT. It’s one of the reasons that I almost always refer to him as President Obama instead of POTUS or just Obama. It’s bad enough that we have the stain of slavery and institutionalized racism on our history (the latter not being confined to blacks), but now we’re faced with the unconcealed disrespect of a freely, democratically elected president simply because of his skin color. It’s shameful and embarrassing and I cringe when I think of how it’s going to look 50 or 100 years down the road when our grandchildren & great-grandchildren look back at how our first black president was treated.

What bothers me most is that the disrespect comes from the top down, from politicians and others who are in a position of leadership and should be more responsible. They set the tone and could have nipped all this ugliness in the bud if they’d wanted to, but they clearly didn’t. They were more interested in keeping/getting back power. Being a “brown person” I’ve experienced bigotry, so when President Obama was elected I knew it would get ugly, but I never dreamed it would be this bad. It has certainly taught me a thing or two.