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KingNothing
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The "birther" movement: racist? total crap?
There exists a group of people who seek to cast doubt on the legitimacy of Barack Obama's citizenship and his birth certificate. I have searched very diligently and still have not found a single quantum of credibility to this theory.
Sure, any document can, in theory, be faked. People can be manipulated and evidence can be tampered with. The same could be said about the documents of every other president, congressperson, or senator. Certainly when the quality of the allegedly fake document exceeds the limitations of your ability to detect it's falsehood, one must concede.
Though it is undoubtedly just a political maneuver, I cannot help thinking that it is also an appeal to racism. I am rarely one to blow the racism whistle, but come on: we all know that if Barack was white and had a more traditional American name, none of this would have come up.
There exists a group of people who seek to cast doubt on the legitimacy of Barack Obama's citizenship and his birth certificate. I have searched very diligently and still have not found a single quantum of credibility to this theory.
Sure, any document can, in theory, be faked. People can be manipulated and evidence can be tampered with. The same could be said about the documents of every other president, congressperson, or senator. Certainly when the quality of the allegedly fake document exceeds the limitations of your ability to detect it's falsehood, one must concede.
Though it is undoubtedly just a political maneuver, I cannot help thinking that it is also an appeal to racism. I am rarely one to blow the racism whistle, but come on: we all know that if Barack was white and had a more traditional American name, none of this would have come up.