First African American President

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5. It's an utter disgrace! A DISGRACE! And in my opinion it's NO coincidence whatsoever.

All roads lead to racism in this regard. I'm ashamed by this behavior. TOTALLY ashamed.

I think that's how the teabaggers got started. Everybody kinda swallowed their deeply inbred revulsion to and resentment of African Americans when Obama got elected. I suspect many of them thought - oh, okay, fine, whatever. OR they figured it was just a bad dream and somehow they were going to wake up and see that it wasn't true.

And then time passed, and the problem wouldn't go away. And they just couldn't ignore the fact that our President is dark-skinned. And I think that when reality started to sink in - that OH-SHIT-it's-TRUE!-We-really-are-stuck-with-this-black-guy-in-OUR-White-House - they all reached a critical mass point in their hatred and just couldn't suppress it anymore or pretend it didn't exist.

And I think there were some people who thought they could swallow their racism or that they could get over it, and then when this "nightmare" did not end, they went over the edge. I think this segment of the population came to a collective realization that "no, it's really NOT okay with me, after all, to have a black guy in the White House - who isn't the janitor." And then they did something about it.

I CANNOT see the teabagger movement as being about anything BUT racism. I think all this "don't tread on me" crap is just a cover. I've always felt that. I believe racism fuels their every move.