This is really getting careposty, but it was something I thought of while urinating that I think is an important addendum, also I wanted you to know I peed.
It's regarding how blacks are by and large considered Americans, which was a point I was getting at in my post above.
And I wanted to answer an obvious question that would be asked of why Obama wasn't. BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA. His name is foreign sounding, it has HUSSEIN in it, he lived outside the United States for much of his childhood, his background was murky, he "suddenly" appeared nationally, much of the birther stuff was built around his being a SECRET MUSLIM more than his being black. That's not to say none of that helped. Especially say the Kenya stuff. But it was more because he was "foreign" than because he was black.
Jesse Jackson, when he ran for President twice (and once did pretty well), in a more racist time, was never questioned about being American because there was nothing "foreign" about him like with Obama. Al Sharpton, etc. didn't go through any of that. Even Michelle notably did not receive the same treatment as her husband. (Instead, as Alex Jones proved, it was her gender that she was hiding, having been born a man.)
Anyway, this was one of those things where a single post by someone on ERA helped encapsulate some stupid ideas that I had about ERA's weird American-media-focused hangups that I rambled off, and then this further post was a clarification I thought was necessary. To be clear, I'm not denying or downplaying racism as a whole or concept or that it's not a problem in the U.S., I'm expressing skepticism about the specifics of the racism we're facing. In particular with Trump's 1930's Germany racism.
Also, I am expressing a history of history.
