<div style="color: #666666">In Birther: Answer added in topic Politics.</div><br /><div id="ld_2q3Uai_5076"><div style="font-weight: bold; color: #000000"><a class="user" href="/Peter-Ireland">Peter Ireland</a><span class="rep">, </span><span id="__w2_cmFz1pi_link"><span class="rep" id="__w2_cmFz1pi_sig">Yeah, well, you know, that&#039;s just, like, your o...</span></span><div class="hover_menu hidden" style="display: none" id="__w2_cmFz1pi_menu"><div class="hover_menu_nub"></div><div class="menu_contents growl_notification" id="__w2_cmFz1pi_menu_contents"> </div></div></div><br />Racism is still alive but it&#039;s just been forced underground. Today if you say something blatantly racist people will look at you with the same degree of disgust normally reserved for someone exposing himself at a middle school. So racists have to find creative ways of being racist publicly. One way is to accuse President Obama of being a Muslim. Another closely-related strategy is to insist that his American birth certificate must be fake. <br /><br />It&#039;s a generational thing, IMHO. There are old white people who can&#039;t handle the fact that we now have a president with a very deep tan. Moreover they probably blow a fuse over the realization that he is a lot smarter, better educated, and more accomplished than they could have ever hoped to be. I don&#039;t think that I have ever seen a Birther under 60. <br /><br />Their leader, Orly Taitz, is <i>crazier than a shithouse rat</i>, to use the official APA terminology. <br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vNpXJxpu48" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" class="external_link">http://www.youtube.com/wa<wbr />tch?v=6...</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold" href="http://www.quora.com/Birther/Does-the-Birther-movement-provide-cover-for-people-who-are-not-comfortable-with-President-Obamas-mixed-race-ancestry-to-express-their-disapproval">See question on Quora</a></div>