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A couple of days ago I came across a well written letter to the editor of the Philadelphia Daily News addressing “birthers.”  I’ve been trying to ignore the birthers.  Too crazy to waste time on.  But of course I do have an opinion, and Rev. Weathers echoes it.

THERE are many who aren’t going to agree with my assessment of the questions about the citizenship of President Obama.

But the questions say to me as an African-American that whatever President Obama does will not be accepted by a certain faction in this country because of his race.

Hawaii became part of the U.S. in 1959. President Obama was born in Hawaii in 1961. The state of Hawaii has confirmed that Barack Obama was born in the state, which answers the question and places a period at the end of the story. Yet we still have some on the extreme right who continue to perpetuate this propaganda because they have never accepted the fact that America has elected its first African-American president.

If the critics of President Obama don’t believe he was born in the state of Hawaii, they have a right to sue Hawaii for falsifying records and committing fraud. Would they go this far? No, because they know they don’t have a case. The birthers’ story illustrates that they will not accept President Obama because of the color of his skin.

Rev. Dr. Wayne M. Weathers, Philadelphia via

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biracial comedienne sued

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By her mother-in-law! I sure wouldn’t want to be at their Hanukkah celebration this year.

Comedienne Sunda Croonquist sued by her mother-in-law over mother-in-law jokes

Legal News ExaminerWilliam Pfeifer, Jr.


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Sunda Croonquist, a comedienne whose comedy routine often includes jokes about her family, has been served with prime new material that she probably won’t  use.

Croonquist has been sued by her mother-in-law over her mother-in-law jokes.

The lawsuit against Croonquist alleges that Croonquist made false, defamatory, and racist jokes about her mother-in-law, Ruth Zafrin.  Zafrin is joined in the lawsuit by her daughter, Shelley Edelman, and Edelman’s husband, Neil.  In the lawsuit, they demand that Croonquist remove the offensive statements from her website, comedy routines, and recordings.

Croonquist, the biracial child of a Swedish father and an African-American mother, married into a Jewish family.  She asserts she is clearly not an anti-semite because she converted to Judaism before even meeting her Jewish husband.

Croonquist states that she will drop the allegedly offensive jokes from her comedy routine, but she flatly refuses to pay any monetary damages.