you remember some of the racist caricatures of obama as a monkey, gorilla. overt and ugly displays of racism became common. afro leninism coming to you on a silver platter, barack hussein obama. why doesn t he give us his birth certificate? the incendiary charge that obama was not born in this country. no other american president was badgered to prove he was an american. the idea of whether he was born in the united states, i think that s a metaphor. is he one of us? answer, no. obama combined the two fires that feed white supremacy. attitudes towards blacks and fears about immigration. whether our forebearers were
overt and ugly displays of racism became common. afro leninism coming to you on a silver platter, barack hussein obama. why doesn t he give us his birth certificate? the incendiary charge that obama was not born in this country. no other american president was badgered to prove he was an american. the idea of whether he was born in the united states, i think that s a metaphor. is he one of us? answer, no. obama combined the two fires that feed white supremacy. attitudes towards backs and fears about immigration. whether our forebearers were strangers who crossed the atlantic or the pacific or the rio grande, we are here only
attitudes towards blacks and fears about immigration. whether our forebearers were strangers who crossed the atlantic or the pacific or the rio grande, we are here only because this country welcomed them in. throughout the history of this country, immigration has reinvigorated the united states. but it has also awakened the darkest american impulses. one little remembered chapter holds a frightening reminder of where those impulses can lead. ellis island 100 years ago. immigrants were pouring into the count, at times 100,000 a month, packed body-to-body on rickety boats, penniless, hungry, desperate to become americans. these newcomers were
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last night kathleen and i saw to kill a mockingbird up in new york. what struck me about a black man in alabama being railroaded on a trumped up case is the power of race, the power that lets otherwise people adjust the worst imaginable behavior to someone they both fear and condemn on the basis of his color. it s the electric chair or the rope for the black man for breaking the rules of jim crow. here we are in the 21st century almost 100 years after harper lee s story took place and the issue of color rears its head again, this time focused on the people coming from our southern border. it s the color of those people whose fore bearers were native to this continent. yes, there were other issues, but the angry behind this call for a wall is so blatantly about color that both sides can feel it in their bones. so we push on. but on this martin luther king day, we should take this moment to admit, all of us, that the