Singer John Legend: Trump your a RACIST

[bigdarryl]

About time someone took this troll to task http://sofurious.com/2011/04/08/john-legend-calls-donald-trump-racist/

[trumad]

1. More and more celebs need to step up and say the same thing......

Birhters are nothing more than racists. Period.

[lunatica]

2. that's just one of his shortcomings as a human being

And the topping, other than that rat nest he calls hair, is that he's as vain as they come. He's a Narcissist worshipping all things himself.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

3. sounds like a bridge game. you're, not your.

[HipChick]

4. Palin has now jumped on the Trump bandwagon...I hope this widens the Babygate scrunity..

[JaneQPublic]

5. "you're" not "your" (nt)

[slackmaster]

6. Auto-Unrec for posting "your" instead of "you're" in the subject line

:nuke:

[ecstatic]

8. I'm sure it was just a typo. People make mistakes nt

[slackmaster]

9. That would be TWO typos - A missing apostrophe and a missing letter 'e'

I'm not buying it.

[yellowcanine]

16. That's not a typo. It is improper usage. Could be a brain freeze but not a typo.

[Travelman]

10. Yep, and for making the (faulty) assumption

that birther=racist just because a birther doesn't like/believe in Obama, and therefore swallows this birther crap. Is some of it based in race? Yep. Is all of it based in race? Not even close.

By and large, the birthers are just in denial. They didn't win, they got a shitty candidate in the GOP, a few of them are disaffected Hillary supporters, they don't like Obama's policies, whatever, and because of that they think that they can just wish away Obama's election by declaring him "illegitimate" as a President. They've got a SERIOUS case of denial and have decided to wrap themselves up in a fantasy world of an illegitimate Obama Presidency so that they can feel better about themselves.

[bullwinkle428]

11. For as much as the RW hated Clinton, they never attempted to question

his legitimacy via the lack of or a tainted birth certificate. Racial component? All signs point to the affirmative.

[Travelman]

15. Not really comparable, though

Bill Clinton didn't have a parent from a far-away land to introduce some sort of confusion (even where there shouldn't be) into the equation. If William Jefferson Blythe, Jr. had come to Hope, Arkansas from ... I dunno, England, then I think things may well have taken a different turn, just as if bill Clinton had been taken by his grandparents to Bermuda for a few years. The Blythes/Clintons were dirt poor, though, so there wasn't much hope of Bill possibly having been born outside of the country. I strongly suspect that neither his father nor his mother had ever left the United States before Bill was born.

I think that a fair amount of this denial is the exotic (for lack of a better description) nature of Kenya. People in the US can generally envision France or England or even Italy. They've seen Big Ben and the Eiffel Tower and whatnot on TV a lot, so even if it's someone who has never personally left the country, foreign places like those are not quite so ... well, foreign. But you don't ever see Kenya on TV. No nighttime sitcom shows the family in question going to Mombassa. Relatively little TV news is reported from Nairobi, at least since the embassy bombing there, and that's hardly much of a mental image that people will associate with a country. A surprising number of people in this country, many of whom are reasonably well-educated, can pick out European countries on a map, but show them a map of Africa and they don't even know where to begin looking for Kenya. Kenya (and most of Africa in general) is just "more foreign" to a whole lot of people. "Foreign" often equates to "distrust," and when you combine that with someone who already has some animus towards Obama just due to his policies, it becomes super-easy to say "See? AH HA! I knew we couldn't trust him!"

Is that fair? Not really, no. Is that bigoted? Probably, although I think more if it comes from good, old-fashioned ignorance rather than some feeling that Kenyans are inherently lesser human beings. And, like I said, there most definitely are some people out there who are trumpeting this solely because it's a Black guy in the White House. They just can't stand the idea of their precious White House being despoiled by *gasp* Coloreds living there (*clutch pearls and faint*). These particular people most definitely are racists. But I really, genuinely do not believe that this is the majority of birthers. I believe that a lot of them have just been spoon-fed this garbage from one side only and never bothered to go investigate the facts for themselves, and then when the facts are presented, they're already so emotionally invested in clinging to this idea of an illegitimate President that they can't let go.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

13. Yeah I'm pretty sure if his dad had been Barry Winthorpe from the UK you wouldn't be getting all thi...

foaming at the mouth about citizenship coming from the Pukes. Even if not racist they're at least bigots because this is all tied up to his supposedly secret Muslim faith.

[Travelman]

17. Bigots, most likely. Profoundly ignorant, some of them.

Others truly are racists. I think that there's a pretty high number of bigots in the overall composition of birthers: people who simultaneously spout the "secret Muslim in the White House" nonsense. But I think that these people spouting the nonsense are simply good recruiters (intentional or not) of the truly ignorant. People get these chain e-mails talking about the "secret Muslim" and generally just breed suspicion, and then it's off to the races when someone else brings up a birth certificate. They've been made to be gullible.

[BklnDem75]

14. Oh no, that part is right

Birthers are racists.

[fishwax]

19. nah, that part is accurate n/t

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

7. '

Apostrophe

The apostrophe ( ’ , often rendered as ' ) is a punctuation mark, and sometimes a diacritic mark, in languages that use the Latin alphabet or certain other alphabets. In English, it serves three purposes:

The omission of one or more letters (as in the contraction of do not to don't).
The marking of possessive case (as in the cat’s whiskers).
The marking as plural of written items that are not words established in English orthography (as in P's and Q's, the late 1950's). (This is considered incorrect by some. See Use in forming certain plurals.)

According to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), the word comes ultimately from Greek ἡ ἀπόστροφος <προσῳδία> (hē apóstrophos , “ ‘turning away’, or elision”), through Latin and French.<2>

The apostrophe is different from the closing single quotation mark (usually rendered identically but serving a different purpose), from the similar-looking prime ( ′ ), which is used to indicate measurement in feet or arcminutes, as well as for various mathematical purposes, and from the ʻokina ( ʻ ),which represents a glottal stop in Polynesian languages.

[roguevalley]

12. this man is one elegant youngin'. I love him and all else who speak out.

[RichGirl]

18. I take pride in the fact that......

I NEVER could stand that steaming pile of....you know. Varification that my instincts about people is good.

He's a rich used car salesman. Not even rich. If you consider how much debt the man has, I probably have more actual money in the bank than he does.

[butterfly77]

20. Correct!!!