Dear President Obama: “We are not racists”

President Obama continued by telling his guests that race was probably "a key component in the rising opposition" to his presidency from conservatives, especially the right-wing activists in that Tea Party movement.

...The Tea Party movement has nothing to do with race. It’s about out-of-control government spending and debt.

The Tea Party supported many of the 32 African-Americans who ran in 2010 for Congress as Republicans; the largest number since Reconstruction...In November 2009 Republican African-American candidate Charles Lollar addressed several hundred thousand Teapartiers at the US Capital. He said: “Some are wondering why an African-American is speaking at a Tea Party gathering. Well I’m NOT an African-American – I am an American”...Perhaps the most popular of all Teapartiers today in Congress is Republican African-American Col Alan West. In response to charges of racism in the Tea Party, West has stated: "The Tea Party is a constitutional, conservative grassroots movement — and that’s it –the Tea Party stands for three things: they want to see effective, efficient constitutional government, they stand for national security, and they stand for free market, free enterprise solutions. That’s it."

Teapartiers have earlier been called racists by the likes of Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann and others in the media. Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid have cast more subtle but still offensive aspersions. I hope that President Obama has been mis-quoted in Walsh’s book, that he understands Teapartiers are not racially motivated, and that he will now use his bully-pulpit to put an end to these despicable and totally unfounded accusations.

I am a member of the Tea Party of West Michigan. I am not prejudiced...I HATE EVERY COMMUNIST F#CK EQUALLY, INCLUDING THE COMMUNIST MUSLIM KENYAN IN THE WHITE HOUSE. The communist losers in this country are a bunch of pot-smoking, plant-loving, flag-burning, Muslim loving, granola-munching, lazy-assed PUSSIES.

No need to hold back, Patriot. We're allowed to express our feelings here.

Just kidding.

Why do you say it’s ‘fraud’?

The piece as it originally appeared here on FR makes the error of assuming that having an Arabic name, using Arabic language, or being Muslim are characteristics of those from Arab descent. This is simply not true. First, there are many Muslims who have no Arabic background at all. In fact most Muslims are not Arabic. Two, there are many Muslims in Africa with Arabic names that are blacker than any black here in the United States. They may be Muslims with Arabic names for many generations. It doesn't follow that they are Arabic in genealogy. Following the logic of the original writer of this piece anyone named William Green who speaks English must be white because he has an English name and speaks English.

It's true that Barry is at least 50% white, whatever that means, because his putative mother was white. But if Barack Obama was Barry's dad, anyone who looks at a picture of him could not possibly come to the conclusion that he was of less black parentage than Barry if Frank Marshall Davis had been Barry's dad. Besides, if someone considers himself black, he's black. If someone considers himself white, he's white. THAT is the definition by the federal government for racial self-description. And why should putative conservatives be doing the racial fractionization game invented by racist Democrats to be able to still call blacks black. They are the ones that came up with stuff like quadroon, octaroon, etc., to describe people in terms of their racial background. Martin Luther King, Jr. was right when he hoped that people would judge others not on the basis of the color of their skin but on the content of their character. The only thing that matters about Barry Soetoro is the content of his character, which, as we have seen, is one of manipulation, divisiveness, deceit, anti-technology, and anti-Americanism.

I see. I just had not really read anything on the piece of filth having arabic (or not having arabic) in his geneology. His name is not his birth name but changed to what it is now. I’ve noticed many who convert to Islam/muslim change their names to an arabic name so a name is not an accurate indicator of descent.

Thanks for the response.

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