Donald Trump's racist attacks on President Barack Obama shows that he is the leader of a twenty-first century lynching party.
Donald Trump's racist attacks against President Obama remind me of the racist lynch mobs of my Mississippi youth. Even though his attacks are baseless, millions of Americans will respond to his not so subtle racist phrasing because they are willing to believe that no black man is innocent when accused of a wrongdoing.
Donald Trump is the leader of a twenty-first century lynching party and his mode of attack is vicious words. How could the President of these United States, the leader of the "free world", and the most powerful man in the world have to respond to the most crack pot attacks on his character? I believe it is because he is black. Plain and simple.
Trump doesn't need a hood and robe or a hangman's noose because his words are reaffirming the already-racist views of the "birthers" and others who have never accepted the black President Barack Obama as their president. First, Trump questioned Obama's citizenship. Shown yet another copy of his birth certificate today, Trump, the buffoon, not only took credit for its release but like any good racist, he shifted his attention to questioning how the President got into Columbia University when some of his wealthy friends children and he could not (Trump probably went to the Wharton School on affirmative action). Trump cannot fathom that President Obama has the gray matter to become head of the Harvard Law Review, the signal honor of being the best student in a Law School.
The reason Trump is effective is because he and his ilk believe that an accused black man is guilty and no amount of due process will change it. He is no different than thousands of other black men who only need to be accused to be viewed as guilty. No amount of logical and factual evidence will change the minds of some of the so -called birthers because in their view, President Obama is guilty first and foremost of being black and male. It doesn't really matter to them whether he was born in Nairobi or Hawaii, or if he headed the Harvard Law Review. Although the President produced a second and more extended birth certificate today, the critics are moving with the shifting sand: Trump is now questioning how President Obama was accepted at Columbia and Harvard Universities.
Republicans tend to believe that no Democratic president is worthy of the presidency. Consider the attacks on the character of President Bill Clinton and the manufactured scandals such as Whitewater and Vince Foster's death. I don't know anyone who understood what Whitewater was about. Consider how Newt Gingrich led the vicious attack against President Clinton in the Monica Lewinsky case. It was later revealed that at the same time he attacked Clinton, Gingrich was also having an affair with a Capitol Hill staffer in the Department of Agriculture who was about Lewinsky's age. At least Clinton didn't allow Lewinsky to sleep in his marital bed and eat from his wife's china like Newt Gingrich did. Republicans are capable of a level of personal viciousness toward others when they are guilty of even worse transgressions. By the way, Calista the home-wrecker is now Calista Gingrich. At least President Clinton didn't try to make Monica Lewinsky our First Lady, as presidential candidate Newt Gingrich is doing with Calista.
President Obama doesn't deserve the vicious attacks. I hope we who care about truth, integrity and honesty will speak out against the racist Donald Trump and all his minions who refuse to accept the President as the legitimate leader of this country. To turn the country over to the racists, birther, ignoramuses would be to surrender decency as an important personal and collective value. The media must also stop reporting all the craziness of these people. Donald Trump, Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachman do not deserve to be treated as intelligent and legitimate potential candidates. We should all say enough is enough.
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