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Article Source: The Defenders On Line
If you think the Birthers have been chastened into silence, think again – and look to the past.
If you want to view the spiritual parents of the Birthers and their “carnival barkers,” look to the early 1960s – the years before the legislative victories of the Civil Rights Movement, when democracy in America was on the line.
It stands to reason, then, that for those whites still clinging to that bundle of pathology, Barack Obama (and Michelle Obama, too) represents the ultimate “threatening” black American: no one better epitomizes the progress black Americans have made since the civil rights victories of the 1960s expanded “opportunity” across the Color Line....
In that way, this bit of “silliness” will show that Karl Marx’s adage about what happens when history repeats itself still obtains.
For what we’re now watching is farce.
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