[net-gold] UNITED STATES: POLITICS: POLITICAL PARTIES: REPUBLICAN PARTY: 'Birthers' and Mr Trump Pandering to the Ugly Side of America
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- Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 07:48:31 -0400 (EDT)
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UNITED STATES: POLITICS: POLITICAL PARTIES: REPUBLICAN PARTY:
'Birthers' and Mr Trump Pandering to the Ugly Side of America
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'Birthers' and Mr Trump Pandering to the Ugly Side of America
Friday, April 29, 2011
Jamaica Observer
Editorial
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/editorial/Birthers-and-
Mr-Trump-pandering-to-the-ugly-side-of-America_8724107
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/3c9l3ec
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Anyone who came to the conclusion that racism is at the heart of the
present attacks on United States President Barack Obama could not be
faulted.
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For even after Mr Obama provided proof on Wednesday that he was born in
the United States, we are still seeing the so-called 'birthers' casting
doubt on the authenticity of the document.
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The ridiculous argument put forward by the birthers' leader, Ms Orly Taitz
-- who, ironically, was not born in the United States -- is that in 1961,
the year when President Obama was born in Hawaii, officials there would
have classified him as "Negro" rather than using the designation
"African", which, in her view, suggests a more contemporary concern for
"political correctness".
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What balderdash!
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But, then again, what else should we expect from a movement of blinkered
individuals who appear angry that the majority of the American people in
November 2008 exercised their democratic right to elect Mr Obama as that
country's 44th president, creating history in the process and giving the
world hope that the US had matured beyond the dark days of Jim Crow.
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We take comfort in the fact that these people are in the minority in
America, as we still hold to the belief, so eloquently expressed by Mr
Obama on the night of his election, that his country has never been a
collection of red and blue states, but rather the United States of
America.
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Thankfully, there are very bright and influential voices in the US and
British media who are willing to speak out against this nonsense. Among
them is Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the Miami Herald, Mr Leonard
Pitts Jr who last month wrote that the birther nonsense is "not just
claptrap, but profoundly racist claptrap".
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The complete articles may be read at the URLs provided for each.
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Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
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