{"id":9216,"date":"2009-08-03T09:51:36","date_gmt":"2009-08-03T16:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=9216"},"modified":"2009-08-03T09:51:36","modified_gmt":"2009-08-03T16:51:36","slug":"birther-controversy-exposes-ongoing-american-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2009\/08\/03\/birther-controversy-exposes-ongoing-american-racism\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Birther&#8217; Controversy Exposes Ongoing American Racism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-080309\/2009_08_03_segura.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-080309\/2009_08_03_uprising.MP3\"> the entire program<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=55% src=\"http:\/\/badfiction.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00e553b3b3a78833011572235e65970b-800wi\" alt=\"racists\" \/>A new survey has found that more than half of Republicans either think that President Obama was born outside the United States or doubt his actual birthplace. Some of these Americans, called &#8216;birthers&#8217; have been making their case for Obama&#8217;s ineligibility to be President since before last year&#8217;s election. A lawyer named Orly Taitz even filed lawsuits and canvassed the country meeting with elected Republicans to convince them of her case. But several courts including the Supreme Court itself have thrown out all the lawsuits. Obama has made his Hawaii birth certificate available to the public and the Honolulu hospital where he was born has repeatedly confirmed his birthplace. Despite hard proof, the birthers have not disappeared. Rather their ranks have increased over the months, fueled in part by a so-called &#8216;birther&#8217; bill sponsored by nine Republicans in Congress that would require any future presidential candidates to prove they were born in the United States before running a campaign. Additionally, recent broadcasts by CNN anchor Lou Dobbs and Fox News&#8217; Sean Hannity, have hurled the controversy from the margins of conspiracy theories into a national discussion in the mainstream media. Even though most reports in the media have thoroughly dismissed the birthers&#8217; claims as illogical, irrational, and defiant of reality, very few have overtly linked this movement to a deep-seated, widely held collective racism that refuses to accept that a Black man is president of the United States. <\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Liliana Segura, staff writer at Alternet.org, and and editor of their Rights &#038; Liberties and World Special Coverage<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read Liliana Segura&#8217;s article at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/story\/141587\/\">http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/story\/141587\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| the entire program A new survey has found that more than half of Republicans either think that President Obama was born outside the United States or doubt his actual birthplace. Some of these Americans, called &#8216;birthers&#8217; have been making their case for Obama&#8217;s ineligibility to be President since before last year&#8217;s election. A lawyer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}