This is not the first time in recent weeks that racism has been directed towards President Barack Obama.
On Tuesday, The Huffington Post reported that “a spate of symbolic protests against [the president] that have featured empty chairs and racist imagery continued this week in California, with an arrangement featuring a noose, watermelons and a birther sign.”
“Go back to Kenya you idiot,” read the sign that was reportedly set up along a remote road in Santa Clara County, Calif.
Am I surprised? Yes and no. I sure shouldn’t be since I have an,ex- friend who says worse than what’s printed on this shirt. What does surprise me is that people are so emboldened to talk like this publicly. For those of us who function in the workplace and in polite society, this kind of low class rudeness is shocking. I forget that there are people out there like that, even though I know there are. Some people simply don’t care and are proud of their rudeness.
