This is just my opinion, in response to the article
on, “birther buffoonery”.
In this article you have those with nothing better
to do than to set around and contemplate about the nativity of the President:
Those same groups of small minded individuals, who most likely, come from an ancestry
of bigotry and oppression, who still believe that the color of their skin gives
them the right to be held as a majority over those of darker skin.
Let’s face it America, bigotry is still alive and
kicking, it just go under fancier terms. There are too many other problems that
our nation has to face every day, within and beyond its borders that should be
addressed, instead of trying to break down the nativity of an elected leader
because one is appalled by the color of the elected skin tone.
Before this article, I had no idea what a birther
was or what the whole birtherism movement was in regard to. Now that I do know,
I find the entire made-up, so call justification requirements of an individual’s
nomination into an electoral presidential office laughable.
Not to step on anyone toes, but in my opinion there
will only be two races of natural born Americans: Those that were already here,
“the Native Americans”, when the first settler set foot upon these shores, and
the “slaves” in which were brought to these shores against their will and
stripped of their country and heritage.
Nevertheless, there will always be those who will maintain
their reasoning that it is by the skin color of one’s skin being the determining
factor of one’s superiority or minority and in the eyes of one who see
themselves as being a superior, a minority will never be accepted as being
their superior.
Not sure where the bigotry statement plays into this whole statement. However, I do agree with the fact that the color of one's skin and birth place shouldn't have anything to do with the ability to "run" the country.
ReplyDeleteThe other statement of the different types of Americans...let's face it we our all "American" mutts, we are all blended from one cultural background with another. Again, the nationalality of an individual should have nothing to do with their ability to make important decisions.
SARAH,I always enjoy reading your post. This article may not spell out the word bigotry but we all know that it is in full effect. Although we are different in some ways, we are all as equally important. when I think about the pledge of allegence, I can truly say that we are not one nation because if we were it wouldn't matter what color we were but that we would be united in love.
ReplyDeleteGood post Sarah. I agree with you 100%. If Obama was white, would this birther thing ever have come up? I'll never forget when Donald Trump jumped on that bandwagon and he said he sent his people to Hawaii to investigate, and what they uncovered was historic and shocking. Then later the President issued his long form birth certificate and Trump pretended like he never said a thing, pretty typical. The only thing I wish I could change about the whole birther hype was that the President should never have acknowledged them and kept on with business as usual.
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