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Romney Campaign Racism: Obama Doesn’t “Appreciate Our Anglo-Saxon Heritage”

Posted by on Jul 25, 2012 in Oh Hell No! | 6 comments

Somebody must have slipped something powerful into my drink cup of tea last night, because I totally slept through being loaded up into a time machine and hurtled backward 100 years into the past.

Because there really just cannot be any other excuse for this type of ugly racism coming out of the Republican campaign for the presidency.

In remarks that may prompt accusations of racial insensitivity, one suggested that Mr Romney was better placed to understand the depth of ties between the two countries than Mr Obama, whose father was from Africa.

“We are part of an Anglo-Saxon heritage, and he feels that the special relationship is special,” the adviser said of Mr Romney, adding: “The White House didn’t fully appreciate the shared history we have”.

First of all, there is no “may prompt accusations of racial insensitivity, Mr. John Swaine. We’re all adults in the room, and even though nobody handed us a pair of 3D glasses as we entered, we don’t need to squint to see the bombastic racism flying at our faces. Let’s call a spade a spade and a racist a racist here.

So gross. So, so gross. Gross and wildly inaccurate, by the way.

Not that you have to have pilgrim ancestors to understand our special relationship with England, but it should be remembered that President Obama is descended, on his Mother’s side, from pilgrim Deacon John Dunham of the Plymouth Colony.

The Romney campaign would have you believe that just one drop of African blood negates the other half of President Obama’s family tree. That’s how they used to defend their racism, you know – “just one drop of blood.”

Now they say you don’t “fully appreciate our Anglo-Saxon heritage.”

I’m going back to bed for another 100 years.

(via Telegraph)