[NTA] FW: AMERICA--MUST SEE VIDEO--- HUMILIATION-- RIDING ON A CARPET OF RACISM---REPUBLICANS & DONALD TRUMP'S RACE BAITING

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April 27, 2011 04:00 PM
Humiliation, Riding On A Carpet of 
Racism<http://crooksandliars.com/karoli/humiliation-riding-carpet-racism>
By karoli
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I want you to hear Baratunde Thurston's heartfelt 
message<http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/2011/04/video-with-president-obamas-birth-certificate-klansman-trump-reminds-blacks-they-will-never-be-american/>
 to Donald Trump and the media who enabled him. Control & click
Be forewarned, it's NSFW in places. While it will likely have no effect on 
those who most need to hear the message, it had a profound impact on me, and I 
think it will have one on you, too.
In his intro he writes this:
I then thought of this fetid, smug, hate-filled, wealthy white man taking 
credit for the release and yet still not being satisfied.
It does not matter how long we've been in these United States. We will never be 
American.
I was especially moved by his direct message to Donald Trump, a man who "was 
given everything" and lives the life he does with the freedom to do what he did 
because he was given everything.
I don't want to hear about The Apprentice. I don't want to hear about your new 
cologne. I don't want to hear about the new tower you're building in whatever 
f--king town.
That cologne smells of racism. That tower is built on the blood of disrespected 
slaves and freedom fighters.
And that show is merely a showcase for the dishonor you have brought on anyone 
who would call themselves an American.
Adam Serwer 
writes<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/an-embarrassment-to-the-country/2011/03/04/AFQk22xE_blog.html>:
Aside from being one of the most idiotic moments in American political history, 
this marks a level of personal humiliation no previous president has ever been 
asked to endure.
Other presidents have been the target of crazy conspiracy theories, sure, but 
few have been as self-evidently absurd as birtherism.
None has been so clearly rooted in anxieties about the president's racial 
identity, because no previous American president has been black.
B-Serious<http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/2011/04/it-has-come-to-this-president-presents-long-form-birth-certificate-media-should-be-ashamed/>:
He has been called everything but a child of God and, in two short years, has 
been portrayed as anything but what he truly is . . .
A man, worthy of the respect and dignity of his own words and reputation.
Instead, people have sought to attack the very foundation of his existence . . 
. his birth. And the sad part in all of this? It's become par for the course.
Not because President Obama has never answered his critics. Not because the 
President has never released information. Not because the President has allowed 
others to shape the debate.
It's because there never should have been a "debate" in the first place. It was 
never a real story to begin with.
Oliver 
Willis<http://www.oliverwillis.com/2011/04/27/obama-releases-long-form-birth-certificate-a-nation-laughs-at-the-gop-clods/>:
This is hilariously sad. It's dumb that Obama had to go to extraordinary 
lengths to release his long-form birth certificate,
but hilarious because it now shows that the leading presidential candidate of 
the Republican party has gotten to his position on what is an even now more 
thoroughly debunked conspiracy theory.
David Remnick (The New 
Yorker)<http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2011/04/trump-birtherism-and-race-baiting.html>:
Let's be even plainer: to do what Trump has done (and he is only the latest and 
loudest and most spectacularly hirsute) is a conscious form of race-baiting, of 
fear-mongering.
And if that makes Donald Trump proud, then what does that say for him? Perhaps 
now he will go away, satisfied that this passage has sufficiently restored his 
fame quotient and television ratings.
The shame is that there are still many more around who, in the name of 
truth-telling, are prepared to pump the atmosphere full of poison.
After watching Baratunde's video and reading some of these comments, do you 
think these people
really give a damn about Jake Tapper's self-aggrandizing 
equivocation<http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2011/04/president-obama-tells-untruth-in-birth-certificate-press-briefing.html>
 or
Orly Taitz' coked-up Soviet-style 
BS<http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/04/orly_taitz_obamas_long-form_birth_certificate_should_say_negro_not_african.php>
 or Eric Cantor's Orwellian 
flip-flop<http://politicalcorrection.org/blog/201104270003>?
I'm sure the president understood that it wouldn't satisfy the True Believers. 
But he smelled a swiftboating and decided to deal with it head-on. Corporate 
media have been put on notice now.
They can make these wingnuts irrelevant or continue to flog the narrative.
I suggest we begin to hold them accountable for flogging the narrative in a way 
that will cost them. Viewers, readers, advertisers, whatever it takes.
[NTA] FW: AMERICA--MUST SEE VIDEO--- HUMILIATION-- RIDING ON A CARPET OF RACISM---REPUBLICANS & DONALD TRUMP'S RACE BAITING

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