Lots of erstwhile "birthers" and birther sympathizers feign shock and indignation when they are accused of racism. They claim they are "just asking questions." Right. So have a lot of other people throughout American history, as detailed here...
The salient point is that the tradition of attacking the citizenship rights of African-Americans extends from slave codes to state-wide bans on black residence to black codes to debt peonage to literacy tests, to felon disenfranchisement. You literally can trace attacks on black citizenship from the very origins of American citizenship itself, up into the present day.
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