Time to Stop Candy-Coating It: Birtherism Is Racism
John Cole reaches a state of fed-up-ness with Birtherism:
I think the thing that pisses me off the most about the birtherism and the coverage is that no one will come out and state that what is obviously motivating this crap is racism. Period. End of story.
If Obama was white, we wouldn’t be politely rebutting lunatics questioning his birth certificate for four fucking years. But because he is black, we can spend tens of thousands of hours listening to drooling idiots wonder whether or not he is a real Murrikan.
It’s really that simple.
I’m not shy, and I’m not afraid to say it: Birtherism is racism.
The real fear is that Barack Obama is either: a) a sekrit Muslim, or b) a sekrit Kenyan African. Either way, it’s xenophobic bigotry dressed up in a conspiracy theory, pretending to hide right out in the open.