QUESTION: Why are white folks more mad about the Birtherism than all the other racist shit

[LWolf]

36. I'm not.

Of course, I only speak for myself, not all of the rest of the white folks.

I'm not really "mad" about Donald Trump. He's despicable, and I've known that all along. What's to be mad about? Well, there are plenty of things to be mad about, but Trump being Trump is a drop in the bucket, and business as usual. If I'm "mad" about anything related to him, it's the pus-filled underbelly of the racist, xenophobic, hateful American public that he's feeding, and that is feeding his candidacy. Maybe it's a good thing that he rips off the covers and brings it to the surface to be dealt with? One way or another, we can't stuff it back under the rug to hide; we, and by we I mean all of us, including and especially the white folks, need to confront it, to deal with it, to eradicate the hate like the disease it is no matter what happens in November.

I'm mad about a whole bunch of other things that DU as a whole doesn't much care about, but that's business as usual, too.