I Almost Want to Rip Up My Own Birth Certificate

[libmom74]

Source: Crooks & Liars

I am a white Jewish American. My family escaped--often in a sprint, sometimes prostrate on the bottom of a rowboat—Cossacks and communists and Nazis so that I might be here today. Many of them didn’t make it.

I live in the middle of Los Angeles. Gay people are everywhere and considered as normal as anyone else. Black people too. Persians, Buddhists, Sikhs, astrologers and witches are ho-hum. My mechanic is Pakistani. I probably run into more Latinos everyday than I do white people. When I grew up, our mayor was black. Today our mayor is Hispanic. No one seems to notice.

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I should have known better. About ten years ago, I went to a wedding in Memphis, Tennessee, which included a preliminary lunch at the home of some fantastically polite and generous white people in the suburbs. They fed us lavishly. Laughed at our jokes. Expressed real interest in our pursuits and lives back home. They loaned us their car. They offered us a place to sleep “anytime.” They were basically the nicest people I had ever met in my life. Then the 40-year-old woman who lived in this beautiful house asked what we had planned that night. “We’re going to check out Beale Street,” I answered like a typical tourist. Her face flinched a fraction in disappointment and concern. “Oh,” she said. “Don’t you think it’s a bit dark down there?” “Dark?” I smirked like an idiot. “The whole place is lit up like high noon in neon lights.”



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I know racism persists. Arizona, “Ground Zero Mosque” and “Mau Mau” are ominous signs of this despicable cancer. But I was not prepared for this buffoon, this nauseating jester of unflagging privilege, to amplify this revolting malice. To feed his ugly sucking egomania, Donald Trump opted to speak for those people in Tennessee and so many others. Black people, he lied again and again, are not good enough to be president. Black people are not good enough for Harvard. Black people are lesser. Illegitimate. Frauds and Conmen. It is high time that these people relearned their place. In short, he raved, “The Blacks” are Not Us.



Read more: http://crooksandliars.com/steve-weinstein/i-almost-want-rip-my-own-birth-cer

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"Donald Trump opted to speak for those people in Tennessee and so many others. Black people, he lied again and again, are not good enough to be president. Black people are not good enough for Harvard. Black people are lesser. Illegitimate. Frauds and Conmen. It is high time that these people relearned their place. In short, he raved, “The Blacks” are Not Us."

Perfectly stated Mr. Weinstein, that is exactly what Trump has been saying and what those who believe him have been hearing and believe themselves.

[LadyHawkAZ]

1. Proud to rec this. Beautifully expressed. n/t

[TransitJohn]

2. This isn't really braking news and should be in editorials. n/t

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[Keith Bee]

3. Seconded

This is definitely not LBN material.

[libmom74]

4. sorry, i'm new to posting

[Keith Bee]

5. zaright!

K&R

[Bluenorthwest]

6. The author is nearly as self serving as the bigots he writes of.

He is a resident of a State that recently voted to revoke rights from a minority he claims are 'considered normal'. Considered normal, treated to unfair laws and discrimination. The author claims a righteousness for CA that is not authentic. Prop 8, that was authentic, that was CA in action, that showed exactly how gay people are 'considered' in CA. Considered to be unworthy of equal rights by the same people who point fingers at others while claiming they are not oppressing those they do in fact oppress.
I think the author should rip up his birth certificate, the original is on file and not his to destroy anyway. Of course, the author would never rip up his marriage certificate. Oh, no, that's to be Defended, and Prop 8 did that. Yet the author wants to claim GLBT people, lacking basic human rights, are treated just like everyone else. What a steaming pile of heterosexualist droppings.

[libmom74]

7. While I believe that Prop 8

was a steaming pile thrust on CA by outsiders (Mormons from Utah) I'm not sure how this author voted on Prop 8. Personally I believe there was a lot of manipulation on that vote.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/24891801/New-Study-Shows-Proposition-8-Election-Results-Appear-to-Have-Been-Corrupted

[SunDrop23]

8. I have felt that way for several years now...

...ripping up my own birth certificate, I mean.
I simply don't consider anything great about being from the US any more.