Obama and racism

President Obama has competition from black Republicans (Elizabeth Cromwell)

It is inevitable that racism would become part of the discussion about Barack Obama’s presidency. After all, President Obama is the first black president of the United States. As the son of a Kenyan father and an American mother, he is an authentic African-American and that makes him unique among American presidents.

Many liberals and Democrats present the flap over President Obama’s birth certificate as a racial issue. This is partly true, but it is essentially a constitutional question. Most black candidates would not be subject to the question of whether they were a citizen. It was Obama’s unique background, and his refusal to provide the long form birth certificate for three years, that fueled the fire of the birther movement. Further, a white president, Chester A. Arthur, was opposed by a similar birther movement that believed he was ineligible to be president because he was born in Canada. (He was actually born in Vermont.)

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Part 2: The return of the black Republicans

Herman Cain is challenging President Obama (Gage Skidmore)

Rep. Allen West (R-FL)

Rep. Tim Scott (R-SC)

Rep. Jefferson Franklin Long (R-GA), the first black congressman to speak on the floor of the House of Representatives

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