After some thought I have come up with an explanation for why people cannot hear a Black President when he talks. It's based on history. For many years Black people misled much of the nation by pretending that they were happy to be obedient slaves in the fields and bedrooms of the South. Whippings and murders were--they seemed to agree--the price of learning civilized ways. To placate the masters, Blacks pretended they couldn't read or think or dunk a basketball.
Historical falsity of such magnitude lingers. It explains why so many white people today don't hear President Obama when he says he was born in Hawaii. Their deafness is based on 200 years of inauthentic connections between peoples.
Moral: It always pays to be honest with other people, unless it gets you whipped or killed.
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