The RACIAL CODE WORDS Used To ATTACK Obama’s Americanism

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" When Fox News pundits were fighting health care reform, their favorite derogatory term describing President Obama’s plan was that it was socialism, and they beat that drum unmercifully. Although opponents of the health law learned that police, fire, schools, and roads were socialistic, they still opposed anything Republicans called socialism; even if they benefited from it. Many of the Republican candidates in the 2010 midterm elections were straightforward in their promise to repeal the health care law as well as privatize Medicare and Social Security. So why did voters elect Republicans who promised to eliminate programs they depend on to exist? It is racism, pure and simple.


The birther movement is not about whether President Obama was born in America, but that he is not American because he is Black. When the teabags preach returning to the Founding Fathers’ intentions for the country, it is not because they are Constitutional ideologists, but because the Founders were white. There is a dysfunctional thought-process in many Americans that refuses to believe America is not a white Christian nation, and the thought of a Black man in the Oval Office is intolerable. Birther devotees are able to say Obama is not one of us because he is not American, but their real message is the he’s not American because of his race, and Republicans are using that race-hatred to their political advantage.


Donald Trump is riding the birther sentiment for all it’s worth because although the man is a carnival freak show, he knows that racism is alive and well in America. Trump has demanded to see President Obama’s birth certificate every time he opens his mouth regardless that it has been in the public record since before the 2008 elections. Trump’s response as of late is that the president is hiding something as if he is a criminal. The implication that President Obama is illegitimate or an alien who is sitting in a place he doesn’t belong is not lost on Americans who harbor racist sentiments, and Republicans are dancing around the birther issue to keep the racial divide intact.


Whether or not Republicans in Congress are racists, they know that President Obama is an American but they are complicit in keeping the birther movement alive. If they were decent Americans, they would put the issue to rest once and for all, but they desperately need a wedge between Obama and voters with racist tendencies. If Republicans let voters make decisions on the merits of the president’s policies, they would lose every battle. Most Americans need health care, but Republicans branded “Obamacare” as a foreign, socialist policy that originated from an alien man in the White House and they got the opposition they wanted. Republicans kept the issue alive for the midterm elections with promises to repeal the socialist takeover, and they won landslide victories. If a white president provided health care for 30 – 40 million people he would be lauded as a hero and have his image enshrined on Mount Rushmore. But it was a Black man, an alien, an interloper who provided health care to millions and that is too much for half of America.


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http://www.politicususa.com/en/obama-race-code



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[RKP5637]

1. I would also add to this that bigotry is very much alive and well in America. Somehow over

the decades I had thought bigotry and racism had died down, was I ever wrong. Many in America are extremely apt at wrapping in the flag, thumping the bible and talking about the white christian nation. As usual, we all look like fools to the rest of the world.

[ehrnst]

2. Birchers had "Communist." Birthers have "Socialist".

Neither one knew what they were actually saying. They meant "Not White, Not Christian."

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5. Dog-Whistle politics.

[damntexdem]

3. The teabagger slogan "impeach the Kenyan" says it all.

If he were actually not a natural-born American by dint of being born to an ineligible mother in Kenya, he would not be president, so could be removed but not impeached. But since his mother was an American citizen who HAD lived in the U.S. for five years before giving birth, he is a natural-born American, even had he been born in Kenya. And since his mother was a white American, while his father was a Kenyan, the slogan focuses on an irrelevancy of his parentage with regard to his citizenship and natural-born status. The only reason for either the focus on his father or the claim that Obama was born in Kenya is, then, racism -- a racism that sees nonwhites as not "true Americans," no matter what the mix of their parentage or the location of their birth.

[obxhead]

4. The funny part is

the Republicans got everything they wanted in the HCR. The only thing they would have changed is allowing insurance companies to deny coverage. Otherwise the plan has everything they proposed.

[SpiralHawk]

6. "If you ain't Red, y'all can stop pretending to be Amuriguns." - Ye Olde Indigies

[MisterP]

7. "health care for 30 – 40 million people" d'oh!