Life is too short. Hair must be washed. Fingernails must be clipped.
But there happened to be wild political news last Wednesday.
President Obama released his birth certificate. Donald Trump took credit for this extraction and then changed course to suggest that maybe Obama, even if a real American, didn’t deserve by grades and scores to get into Columbia and then Harvard.
This was racist, of course. First this hideous being, this thing called Trump, questioned the natural-born Americanness of a president who was of a different skin color and of an uncommon, vowel-ending surname. Then, foiled, Trump essentially was given to wonder publicly how a man of that complexion could get into an elite school.
So I wound up surfing that evening onto MSNBC, where Lawrence O’Donnell was going off deliciously on Trump for this offensiveness and racism. source swtimes.com
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