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If we thought President Obama silenced all the birthers by releasing his long form birth certificate last year, think again. Apparently, some folks still have doubts and are taking it one step further: to court.
Tuesday, Gordon Warren Epperly filed a lawsuit in Alaska challenging President Obama's inclusion on the 2012 presidential ballot. What's Epperly's beef? Apparently, he feels Negroes and mulattoes can't be president because they aren't really citizens.
His lawsuit states:
Barack Hussein Obama II, a.k.a. Barack Hussein Obama, a.ka. Barack H. Obama has the race status of being a "mulatto." Barack Obama's father (Barack Hussein Obama I) was a full blood Negro being born Nyang'oma Kogelo, Nyanza Province, Kenya and raised in the Colony of Kenya. Barack Obama's mother (Stanley Ann Dunham) was a white Caucasian woman being born in Wichita, Kansas on November 29, 1942 and raised in the state of Washington and in the state of Hawaii.
The petition concludes:
As stated above, for an Individual to be a candidate for the office of president of the United States, the candidate must meet the qualifications set forth in the United States Constitution and one of those qualifications is that the Candidate shall be a "natural born citizen" of the United States. As Barack Hussein Obama II is of the "mulatto" race, his status of citizenship is founded upon the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Before the [purported] ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment, the race of "Negro" or "mulatto" had no standing to be citizens of the United States under the United States Constitution.
More: http://www.thegrio.com/politics/lawsuit-claims-obama-cant-be-president-because-hes-mulatto.php
mucifer
(23,559 posts)wandy
(3,539 posts)that gavel thingy on the bench. Could he not just bang the dufus on the head with it a few times.
Just a thought.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)For not doing enough to protect us from UFOs...Because you know; they have weapons that can strike us from orbit with little or no warning!!
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)...say the Republicans.....
DearAbby
(12,461 posts)thelordofhell
(4,569 posts)DearAbby
(12,461 posts)MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)Laurian
(2,593 posts)Lord, it's embarrassing that there are morons willing to verbalize such absolute ignorance.
izquierdista
(11,689 posts)Octoroon n. (1) A person whose ancestry is one-eighth Black.
USAGE NOTE The terms mulatto, quadroon, and octoroon originated with the racial policies of European colonizers in the Americas, especially the Spanish. Because civil rights and responsibilities were based directly on the degree of European blood that a person had, such classifications were highly elaborated, and minor distinctions in ancestry were carefully recorded. While these terms have highly precise definitions, in actual practice they were often used based on impressions of skin color rather than definite knowledge of ancestry.
Read more: http://www.answers.com/topic/octoroon#ixzz1nKdq1xIU
(2) a song by Harry Warren, performed below by the Artie Shaw orchestra
The rotating object in the video was called a 'record' and the instrument for decoding its analog signal is a 'turntable'. They can be found in basements and attics collecting dust, a vocation that Mr. Epperly should aspire to.
NBachers
(17,135 posts)Thanks, izquierdista
thelordofhell
(4,569 posts)Chipper Chat
(9,686 posts)I still have a collection of over a thousand 78s from Alma Gluck to Chuck Berry. (Maybelline was the last 78 I ever bought) It's fun to retreat to my den and put a stack on my old RCA "Orthophonic HiFi." It is an excursion into the past and I don't mind the 'hiss' at all.
jenmito
(37,326 posts)come out and say they don't want a Black man to be their President.
Hutzpa
(11,461 posts)signs of desperation from the republicans.
Lil Missy
(17,865 posts)Buns_of_Fire
(17,191 posts)And then, can "Epperly & Taitz, PC" be far behind?
Golden Raisin
(4,612 posts)for the N-word.