If you want or have a need to see President Obama's Certificate of Live Birth (what a world we live in), go to this White House blog posting and click on the link provided therein.
Why does Donald Trump's fantasy and other conspiracy theories about the President (he did not write his books, his real father was not Barack Obama, Sr., etc.) continue to persist? Consider this from David Remnick: "Let's say what is plainly true (and what the President himself is reluctant to say): these rumors, this industry of fantasy, are designed to arouse a fear of the Other, of an African-American man with a white American mother and a black Kenyan father. . . . Let's be even plainer: to do what Trump has done . . . is a conscious form of race-baiting, of fear-mongering. And if that makes Donald Trump proud, then what does that say of him?"
Trump a race-baiter? I'm sure The Donald would disagree with that view. After all, he's told us this: "I have a great relationship with the blacks. I've always had a great relationship with the blacks." Oh.
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Russ Douthat's Thinking About Black And Brown Folks
In his April 17, 2011 "The Middle-Class Tax Trap" op-ed in the New York Times, columnist Russ Douthat drops this gem:
"[T]he working-age America of the future will be far more diverse than the retired cohort it's laboring to support. Asking a population that's increasingly brown and beige to accept punishing tax rates while seniors receive roughly $3 in Medicare benefits for every dollar they paid . . . promises to polarize the country along racial as well as generational lines."
Commenting on Routhat's piece, Hendrik Hertzberg writes that Routhat thinks that "taxophobic people of color will take out their Ayn Randian anger on the old, sick, and the white. (Never mind that brown and beige seniors will be just as 'entitled' as white ones to a ride on that three-bucks-for-a-dollar Medicare gravy train.)"
Colorblind my . . . well, you know the rest.
"[T]he working-age America of the future will be far more diverse than the retired cohort it's laboring to support. Asking a population that's increasingly brown and beige to accept punishing tax rates while seniors receive roughly $3 in Medicare benefits for every dollar they paid . . . promises to polarize the country along racial as well as generational lines."
Commenting on Routhat's piece, Hendrik Hertzberg writes that Routhat thinks that "taxophobic people of color will take out their Ayn Randian anger on the old, sick, and the white. (Never mind that brown and beige seniors will be just as 'entitled' as white ones to a ride on that three-bucks-for-a-dollar Medicare gravy train.)"
Colorblind my . . . well, you know the rest.
On Red Lobster And Black Diners
Steven Barboza asks, "Why is Red Lobster so popular, particularly among African Americans?"
46 Percent
That's the number reported in a poll of Mississippi Republicans who were asked about their views on interracial marriage and answered that such marriages should be illegal.
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
A Racist Image Of The President
Check out this story and the racist image of President Obama. No worries, though, the person who sent it out apologized.
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