re: #364 doubter4444

Sire is to father or beget not to copulate. I agree that use of the term, which is usually reserved for breeding stock is meant to imply Obama’s father as less than human. I saw that as an attack on his father’s nationality. But upon further reflection I agree it is racist.

I doubt the term would not be used if his father were a black man from Chicago or London, or Montreal. I doubt it would have been used if his father was a white man from Nairobi, or Addis Ababa, or Lagos. However as his father was both black and from Kenya the term got used. I concentrated too much on the foreign aspects to see the racism. I still believe the remarks in total have much more to do with where Obama’s was raised than his race.