tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20389448.post7911198074211465214..comments2024-03-20T06:44:28.606-05:00Comments on TransGriot: Stop Tripping Conservatives-Obama IS A US CitizenMonica Robertshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09702533200851174728noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20389448.post-77755036806653945402008-12-09T14:19:00.000-06:002008-12-09T14:19:00.000-06:00We are still a looooooong way from being a so call...We are still a looooooong way from being a so called 'post-racial' nation.Monica Robertshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09702533200851174728noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20389448.post-90714194407113333672008-12-09T11:15:00.000-06:002008-12-09T11:15:00.000-06:00I was doing some research this weekend about what ...I was doing some <A HREF="http://sanguinity.livejournal.com/467451.html" REL="nofollow">research this weekend</A> about what the word "citizen" did and did not mean at the time that the Oregon Constitution was adopted (1857), and one thing became crystal, crystal clear: for quite a long stretch of U.S. history, "citizen" was explicitly understood to mean "white." Sure, the whiteness of citizenship was maintained through 1001 legal technicalities, but if you made general public statements about what rights were reserved for "citizens," everyone understood that you were making statements about what rights were reserved for white people alone.<BR/><BR/>In that light, these people who are sure that a loophole <I>must</I> exist in Obama's citizenship look like people who still believe in the cultural equivalency between "citizen" and "white." This is more than just looking for a straw to nullify is election; the obsession with this <I>particular</I> straw is people who still don't quite believe that "citizen" is no longer a set of privileges reserved for white people.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10078429871886421077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20389448.post-56860939294088058102008-12-08T23:56:00.000-06:002008-12-08T23:56:00.000-06:00Natasha,Damn.....That mans they'll be pushing him ...Natasha,<BR/>Damn.....That mans they'll be pushing him as the GOP poster child now for diversity along with Caribou Barbie.Monica Robertshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09702533200851174728noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20389448.post-33044974262438852982008-12-08T19:53:00.000-06:002008-12-08T19:53:00.000-06:00Oh it is good to see that and confirm my fears wer...Oh it is good to see that and confirm my fears were not true. I thought that perhaps Obama was some sort of zombie citizen but that certificate of live birth shows he is alive. That is good. I don't want any zombie presidentNicolehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17470827285798535875noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20389448.post-61236837613843574112008-12-08T15:26:00.000-06:002008-12-08T15:26:00.000-06:00Unfortunately Bobby Jindal can run for president a...Unfortunately Bobby Jindal can run for president as he was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He is also a around the bend creationist nut case. Not to mention governor of the least healthy state in the union. <BR/><BR/>You know these loons are going to keep on muttering about Obama's citizenship for the next four to eight years no matter how often the courts slap them down. They never let little things like reality get in thier way.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03283688066639808009noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20389448.post-38068511717061532272008-12-08T13:30:00.000-06:002008-12-08T13:30:00.000-06:00Now Monica, why you diss our girlfriend Sarah like...Now Monica, why you diss our girlfriend Sarah like that? The funny thing too is that Clarence Thomas and Alan Keys wanted to know about our Prez-Elect's birth place status. There is smething seriously wrong with those two guys.Jackiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14802989264619041023noreply@blogger.com