Publisher offers to pay black Hawaiians for copies of birth certificates

[meegbear]

Source: RawStory.com

The publisher of a homespun conspiracy newspaper has several black activists in Hawaii alarmed after he offered to pay them each $50 for copies of their birth certificates so he can expose that President Barack Obama is secretly not American. The scheme, hatched by “Molokai Advertiser-News” publisher George Peabody, came to the attention of reporter Anita Hofschneider with the Honolulu Civil Beat.

Hofschneider noted that Peabody contacted the Martin Luther King Jr. Coalition, the African American Heritage Foundation of Maui and the Hawaii NAACP on August 25, asking each groups’ leaders for copies of their birth certificates.

If you or your Negro members were born in Hawaii between 1955 to 1965, I will pay $50 for a copy of your Hawaii long form certified birth certificate,” he reportedly wrote.

A photo on the paper’s Facebook page shows a man smiling as he holds a copy of Jerome Corsi’s “Where Is The Birth Certificate,” a conspiracy tome that claims no lawful authority has ever verified the president’s birth certificate. Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie (D), who knew both of Obama’s parents at the time of the president’s birth, apparently doesn’t count.

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Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/08/30/publisher-offers-to-pay-black-hawaiians-for-copies-of-birth-certificates/

[liberal N proud]

1. They are still playing this game while Romney still has not provided his TAX RETURNS!

[AllyCat]

2. And this will prove what? That he's a birther?

And by the way, where are Romney's tax returns?

[Beowulf]

3. Are they denying Obama's mother is a U.S. citizen?

EOD

[sofa king]

7. They're trying to prove he's black.

And then, I presume, they will present the Butthole Surfers to show that if President Obama is black, he is also a space alien.

(I'm not even going to try to defend this strange song from one of the world's strangest bands, but I think it is about being so racist and unfamiliar with another sub-culture that they appear to be aliens from outer space, or something. If you were to ask Gibby Haynes what he meant, he wouldn't remember, anyway.)

[tanyev]

4. $50 measly bucks?

That's insulting.

[msanthrope]

5. Ah..this is about how BO's Dad had 'African' on the birth certificate....this

apparently proves a forgery. He wants other AA certificates because they will say 'Negro.'

[DinahMoeHum]

6. That Peabody still says "Negro" in this day and age. . .

. . .only confirms his racism, AFAIC.

[Nine]

8. What a charmer

I go back and forth between wishing birthers would go away forever because they're just so mind-numbingly boring at this point, and hoping they stick around forever because they're such a perfect illustration of the ugliness and absurdity of the right wing.

[Judi Lynn]

9. Such a creepy little man. There are photos of him at a link at his paper:

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Link: http://www.hawaiigovernorgeorgepeabody.com/