re: #62 Sol Berdinowitz

To paraphrase Joan Walsh: “When people criticize Obama for things that wee perfectly acceptable under a white President, there is only one real reason I can see.”

It’s clear racism in that case, the idea being that a white man should not hold an umbrella for a black man.

I was going to call it “simple racism” originally, but the motivational factors behind it are anything but simple and some of them have been present in America since before the Revolutionary War.