Saturday, April 30, 2011

A New Yorker article by editor David Remnick gives away the game in the headline, “Trump, Birtherism, And Race-Baiting.”
According to Remnick, the “irrepressible jackass” Trump has inspired idiot America to believe a series of fantasies about Barack Obama: “There is the birther fantasy; the fantasy that Bill Ayers wrote “Dreams from My Father”; the fantasy that the President has some other father, and not Barack Obama, Sr.; the fantasy that Obama got into Harvard Law School with the help of a Saudi prince and the Nation of Islam.” Remnick adds as a Harvard subset the fantasy that Obama is “intellectually incapable.”
“The cynicism of the purveyors of these fantasies,” Remnick continues, “is that they know very well what they are playing at, the prejudices they are fanning.” Bottom line, concludes Remnick, these fantasies “are designed to arouse a fear of the Other, of an African-American man with a white American mother and a black Kenyan father.”
Forgive me for taking this personally, but Remnick considers me one of the purveyors. Trump is at least worthy of his public scorn. I am apparently not. From the perspective of our Ivy-educated, Pulitizer Prize-winner, I and others like me are “the Other,” unmentioned and unmentionable. To set the record straight, let us tackle these “fantasies” in reverse order.View rest of article . . .

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