Quote Originally Posted by NawzDawg!!1!
Its not just racism toward African Americans, its racism toward other minorities as well. So many of you are quick to point out "Obama's Muslim roots", and point fingers to terrorism. What about the American terrorists? Timothy McVeigh, Eric Robert Rudolph, The Unibomber, Lee Harvey Oswald, etc etc. We are all in an outrage over terrorists sporting beards and turbans but quick to forget that we have been attacked by our own terrorists more often.
There's a lot of deep seated racism towards middle eastern people. Notice almost every villain in non-science fiction action movie/TV show is an Islamic extremist of Arabic descent - and they're always called terrorists. Its interesting how there are plenty of other bad people out there who utilize the exact same tactics but aren't called terrorists - various groups in South America come to mind. They're always called much friendlier names like paramilitary groups or guerillas, even though they commonly target police and civilians in bombings, intentionally destabilize the government, etc. I'm fairly confident the Cali and Medellin cartels managed to rack up a higher body count than Al Qaeda even when you do include 9/11.

Along the same lines, I like people who insist they don't hold anything against anyone for religious/racial factors but intimate Barack Obama is a Muslim of Middle Eastern lineage like its a bad thing (aside from the fact that this is totally false claim).