damselfish | (no subject)

Speaking of racism, I got my mail today to find Dreams From My Real Father waiting for me.* Oh the joys of being in a swing state.

Dreams of My Real Father posits that Obama's mother posed for nudie pics and was promiscuous (and this matters because...?) and that is real father is Frank Marshall Davis. The two only look alike if you think all black people look alike-- which, well, racists. All black people are the same, amirite? Also why Davis I don't know; by all rights he seems like he was a pretty cool dude (oh wait, I know, because we are still in thrall of the Red Scare and McCarthy's ghost plagues us rather than teaching us not to be like that anymore).

I guess it's time to write the Republicans and tell them that I, as an independent voter in Florida, am disgusted that they haven't denounced this racist claptrap and that it makes me rethink supporting their candidate due to their tacit approval of this scaremongering most foul.

I mean, he didn't have a chance in hell of winning my vote to begin with, but they don't know that....

*Right on top of my A Woman's Place is in the Firebase t-shirt. The DVD's target audience, I am not.