The Birther Issue is Only a Racist Issue

Those of us who lived through the 1950s or even before can see it clearly. Those younger might not. But the Birther thing ONLY has been a racist issue. Since it is no longer polite to hang blacks from trees as was done at times by mobs of men in pointed hats in the South mainly from the end of the Civil War until the 1950s, people who are naturally racists need a way to vent their anti race bias. This time around it is the birther  issue. Would white people put up with any white President being treated this way? Think about it.

There is another phaze to this as well. Many Republicans wanted Arnold Schwarzenegger
to be President and they were very upset that someone like Arnold because he was born in Austria couldn't be President, as it is quite likely he could have been elected.  

When I grew up and went to   High School I knew of boys from the Football team and others that went out on Friday and Saturday nights with baseball bats and looked for Black men and Gay men to kill or injure on the streets. This was in the mid 1960s and this kind of thing was still going on then. 

The Birther issue is just a way to put down a black President short of assassinating him. Because he is so good natured about it and classy and sophisticated it is the best the birthers(racists) can do. The world loves Obama because he means hope to the world. Even the revolutions in the middle east likely wouldn't be taking place if he weren't president. Obama gives the whole world hope like no other president since Clinton and Kennedy. In fact, when I was in Paris a year and a half ago someone selling me a ticket to an entertainment venue said "Merci pour Obama" which basically translates to "Thank you for Obama". There were some conservative republicans traveling with us in the tour and they couldn't understand this at all from foreignors.

This is also true from many americans who don't travel abroad (about 70% of the U.S. don't have passports so they don't travel abroad). And so people who don't visit other cultures have no idea how important people like Obama or Clinton or Kennedy are all over the world. It gives people hope because many feel that if people can have the rights they do here then maybe some day in their countries they might have these rights and opportunities where they live too.

Though they might have better social services in their countries, there is no country on earth that one tends to have the financial opportunities that we do here in the U.S.  There is likely no country that could have had a Bill Gates or a Stephen Jobs in the 1980s. Now, since they existed here there can be people like that other places. But before that there weren't people like that anywhere that could succeed anywhere on earth before that moment in time.

Obama is a breakthrough person for the whole world. His very existence as president gives hope to everyone, just like when Bill Gates and Stephen Jobs started their businesses they gave hope to the whole world and look how far things have come the last 30 years!