Why is it considered racist?

Question

Why is it now considered racist if you question where some one was born?

Answer 1

A lot of people just like pulling the race card for the hell of it

Answer 2

It's racist because someone asks a simple question such as "where is your birth certificate if you want to be president?" to someone who is half black, and has birth records in both Hawaii and in Kenya, and has supposedly denounced his citizenship to become an Indonesian citizen when he was a preteen to be adopted by his step-father. Yes, because it's ok to question a 60+ year old white man who served in the US military and was born on a military installation overseas (making him a natural born citizen) before an election, and he has no problem providing the US birth certificate, but said half black man would rather spend hundreds of thousands of dollars HIDING his birth certificate behind a wall of BS and bureaucracy, while still claiming he was born in Hawaii, instead of getting it over with and providing a legitimate birth certificate is racist. That's why it's considered racist. He's only being asked for his birth certificate because he's black. It has NOTHING to do with the hospital in Kenya who claim he was born there, or his grandmother who said how proud she was to be at his birth in Kenya, or the records of his adoption in Indonesia, or even his name which is distinctly un-American (Barack Hussein Obama?). Because none of that could have any reason for doubt, right?

Answer 3

Well, I'm Asian American, and from Indiana, and people always ask where are you from? And when I say Indiana, they will ask the same question again, and this is after hearing my perfect English. I can understand if they ask someone who spoke with an accent. So, they're basically saying anyone thats not white cannot possibly be from the US. Racism is judging someone for the way they look (race).

Answer 4

Racism is one of the last taboos. Any indication of racism is simply unacceptable (as it should be) and any accusation of racism used to be enough to stop the discussion. But those accusations have been used so often, and with such little evidence that they're quickly becoming meaningless. While I don't believe that Obama was born outside the USA, asking the question is certainly not racist, especially when he has fought so hard to avoid disclosing that, and other records.

Answer 5

i guess in the wrong context it could be considered racist. i mean if ur sittin there talkin about immigration, then you turn to a mexican and ask where they were born... that'd be pretty racist... but im assumin ur prolly lookin at more the whole obama birth thing and dems callin reps racist...

Answer 6

Because you never asked anyone of a different race (i.e. Reagan or Bush) that question.

You only ask it of a black president not of white ones, that behavior is racist.

Answer 7

It is racist only if you question where a liberal someone was born.

Answer 8

Because the people that you ask that too, are asked that question every day of their lives and they're tired of it.



It's not racist, just offensive to sensitive people.

Answer 9

It's not...



Are you sure you didn't ask..."what country are you from ?"...



Some, non white, Americans tend to get offended by that, understandably...



Asking where someone was born, doesn't imply they are immigrants. Asking what country they are from, does.



Americans like to be recognized as such.

Answer 10

Because no one ever asked to see any presidents birth certificate until a black man was elected.

Answer 11

It is ironic that people who support a man that attended a racist hate church for twenty years, call other people racist. They need to look in a mirror.

Answer 12

I actually didn't know it was. Never heard of that before, but I would assume that some people can take offense to it when you ask them depending on what your talking about.

Answer 13

Intent!

Answer 14

Generally its not but it may depend to whom that question was asked , the manner and way you asked and the time when it was asked .

Answer 15

That's racist?

Answer 16

it's not racist asking where someone is born.

Answer 17

Only if its Obama

Answer 18

It's not.

Answer 19

Its not why should it be.

Answer 20

its not

Answer 21

i dont think it is.