My guess is the right wing would hate President Obama if he were white, red or green, but the fact that he is a black man is bringing out the worst in conservatives.
A photo of Obama's daughter Malia wearing a t-shirt with a peace sign on the front practically sent right-wing blog site Free Republic into full meltdown last week.
"A typical street whore." "Ghetto street trash." "Wonder when she will get her first abortion."
And some folks on the right have the nerve to say racism is dead in America and that we shouldn't be considering it anymore.
Malia Obama doesn't need me to defend her, and I'm enough of a product of the '60s that I don't see a peace sign as something shameful. But it's obvious that the trailer parks of America are filled with people who still do.
Until recently, a lot of the racism from the right had been relatively subtle. But read some of the other comments in this Vancouver Sun article and you'll see that the Freepers have jumped the shark, so to speak.
You won't find the Malia Obama thread there anymore. After hundreds of racist comments and a few complaints, it has been removed.
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