Election Race-Baiting in America and How the Democrats Thrive Off of Slander

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President Obama released his long-form birth certificate yesterday after a recent push by the so-called “Birthers” and possible presidential candidate Donald Trump to prove his citizenship. Within an hour of President Obama’s press statement, the media began to suggest that racism was behind the ordeal. I have come out of my writing hiatus to strike down these absurd claims and to reveal the true driving force behind the quest to prove that President Obama was born within the United States.

The Birther movement came to life thanks to the silent inquiries of our current Secretary of State Hilary Rodham Clinton when she was a Democratic presidential candidate in 2008. After learning of President Obama’s interesting family situation and his habitation around the world, her campaign was hoping to discredit his candidacy and leave the door wide open for her to stroll into the White House. However, Obama’s campaign and his team of lawyers were able to deny the release of his long-form birth certificate and informed America that his certificate of live birth was legitimate proof that he was born within the United States. Two and half years later, following repeated requests and denials of definitive proof of his citizenship in the form of his actual birth certificate, President Obama has finally released it to the public. I, for one, have never believed he was a foreign national living in the White House. However, his repeated refusal to release something so important to the United States and our Constitution reeks of the arrogance that characterizes his persona and has always made me wonder what he is trying to hide. The media has been reporting that no president in our entire history has had to show their birth certificate to the public. This is completely false. As recent as 2008, John McCain had to go before a Senate hearing to prove his citizenship due to his birth in the Panama Canal Zone in 1936. All presidential candidates are vetted and must provide documentation or allow documentation to be seen by Congress to prove his or her birth occurred within our borders. Barack Obama is no exception.

The request to see his long-term birth certificate is neither racist nor is it the result of racism. It is the result of a super-nationalist movement that has spread across much of the country in the wake of the September 11th terror attacks. Americans want to be positive that our commander in chief, the person who is making all of our important decisions and running our country, has his citizens’ priorities in mind. Throughout Obama’s presidency, time and again we have seen situations in which he has been completely and utterly disconnected from the voices of the people. In addition to his haughty disconnect, President Obama carries an arrogance so profound that it leaves a bad taste in your mouth after some of his speeches. These characteristics, in addition to our society leaning on nationalism to get by during tough times, have created this debate. We would not be discussing this today if Obama had simply released his long-form birth certificate years ago.

The Left and the media in particular have begun to use this as a way to continue the classification of conservatives as racists who hate minorities and who want the poor, the sick, and the elderly to perish. Liberals are extremely good at bringing out the race card before up-coming elections and during debates over major legislation in order to rile up their base. If people want proof of Obama’s birth, that must mean they can not believe a BLACK person can be the leader of our country, therefore he MUST not be a citizen. I’ve heard a lot of nonsense coming from the Left, but this is ludicrous beyond belief. The vast majority of liberals I know are educated whites who believe conservatives are racist and want to bring down blacks and Hispanics in this country (blacks by legislation targeting Welfare, Medicaid, or other entitlement programs; and Hispanics by making them be like everyone else and enter the country legally, with documentation to prove it). I know very few white, educated liberals who even have a black or Hispanic friend! How can you be the champion of our two largest minority groups if you never interact with them?!? Taking pity on a race of people by throwing billions of dollars at them via programs that have done nothing to help them seems pretty racist to me. I find it incredible how many people fall for this slanderous rhetoric during every election cycle, but it is clear why the Democrats do it- it empowers their base and maintains the idea that conservatives, who wish for prosperity for all, are racists. I strongly believe that if you utilize the race card in order to purposely convince people to keep you in office or to help propel you into office, then you are the real reason why the United States is having a difficult time moving into the future and overcoming our past. You are the reason why we still have underlying racism in our society. Granted, overt racism is still around, but as the years go by and our country becomes more diverse, we will move away from such ignorant practices.

Once again, I want to reiterate that I am not a Birther and I have always believed President Obama is a US citizen who was born in Hawaii. However, his blatant refusal to release his birth certificate to anyone has always made me question what he was trying to hide. If he had released it two and half years ago when Hilary began the probe, then there would have never been any of this debate and discussion. I truly believe he did not release it because of (1) arrogance and (2) keeping it from the public eye created a movement of crazy people who believe he was born in Kenya and that, in turn, has allowed his party to play off of the race card (par usual) and keep the divide between Right and Left centered on racism and hate.

We should not be wasting our time and energy calling each other destructive names for the sake of politics. We should be striving to make this country better and focus on  eradicating the legitimate sources, ideas, and events of racism that occur today. It is shameful that Democrats take advantage of their base this way. Truly shameful.  I am actually offended when members of my party are called racists with no basis for the accusations. When you have been the victim of real racism, you are able to make the distinction between reality and fiction.

I leave you with a story of actual racism, one that has helped make me into the man that I am today and places emphasis on the overt racism still present in America.

When I was in high school, I was really big into sports, the Boy Scouts and academics. I did my very best to excel at all three and thoroughly enjoyed my relationships with my peers and the staff. Everything in my life was ideal and I was living the American dream (thanks to wonderful, supportive parents) until I began to take interest in certain females in my school. This is when all hell broke loose. I was playing football at the time and wanted to take one of our cheerleaders to the Homecoming Dance. We had been talking and doing the whole high school flirting thing and I thought we were in the clear. After saying yes to my request, she went home and told her mom, who happened to be our guidance counselor. This woman was someone who I had looked up to and who was always pleasant to me in the hallways and incredibly helpful to me when it came to my academics. Upon hearing that her daughter would be going to the dance with me, she was immediately told to inform me that she could not go to the dance with me because I was black. The girl in question drove to my house and proceeded to tell me this, crying, while we were sitting on my front porch. This was my first taste of racism.

Fast forward to the spring. My senior year is almost over and I am searching for a date to prom. I ask a girl who I was in youth group with at my church and who was a good friend of mine. I had been to her house and interacted with her parents in their home and at church and everything seemed great. That is, until I asked their daughter to prom. As if the incident in the fall wasn’t enough, I was rejected again because of the color of my skin.

To say that I was angry after both of these incidents would be an understatement. Anger seethed from every pore of my body and hate, something my religion states should never enter your mind, welled up inside of me and I carried it with me for a long time. If this had originated from people I had never met, I would have been extremely upset and I would have cast it off as just another ignorant hick who lives in my area. The fact that these people were able to routinely look me in the eye, smile, and carry on conversation with me as if I were a human being and then refuse to allow their daughters to attend a school dance with me based on the color of my skin is the ultimate slap in the face, one of the most emotionally painful things anyone can ever endure. It has taken me years to get over those two experiences and my hate has now turned into pity. I can honestly say I feel sorry for their lack of intelligence and pray for the salvation of whatever trace of soul they may have. The most important thing I learned from the entire ordeal is that you must search for the real motivations of people and learn about their character. Many people try to hide their inner feelings but if you develop a trained eye, you can begin to notice when people are being dishonest with you or acting condescending. This is why I have essentially washed my hands of my home town. Even with a trained eye, it is difficult to see through the film. I am well aware that many of you who know me and are reading this will know exactly who I was referring to earlier. If I have made anyone angry, so be it. To the rest of you,  just know that I have maintained relationships with the people who passed the test (although I have not kept in contact with some of you who are my friends due to the busy nature of my life right now. You know who you are and I apologize for being absent).

Ladies and gentlemen, this is a story of real racism. It exemplifies the disgustingly vile and vicious nature of the ignorance that breeds the hatred necessary to harbor racist beliefs. This is what we should be advocating against! We should not be wasting our time and money on frivolous accusations of racism perpetrated by the likes of Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton. They pad their pockets with your frustration and suffering. We need leaders who will stand up for you and help you make your life better, not make you dependent on the government and a slave to the system!

If you think that the majority of people who questioned President Obama about his refusal to release his birth certificate are racists, then you are sheeple and there is no hope for you. Although a small percentage are indeed overtly racists, I truly believe that most just wanted to know why he was never forced to release it and what, if anything, he was hiding. Now that his long-form birth certificate has been released, the Birther movement will die down. Now we will have to put up with the Left and the media calling us racists until Nov. 6, 2012. Stay strong America and let’s vote Obama out of office!

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