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I hate painting with a broad brush, but I think the birther thing, at its root, is racist. The guy was born in Hawaii. A black guy is president. It's cool. Get over it. Just deal with it. There's nothing you could show these birther people that would shut them up.

— Henry Rollins

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Yeah, I did see where the people dissing me were coming from. But, it's like, anything that happened in the past between black and white, I can't really speak on it, because I wasn't there. I don't feel like me being born the color I am makes me any less of a person.

— Eminem

I really wanted to be born a woman. It all started there. A South American woman. And I'm upset that I was born a white Jewish male. I've been angry since.

— Fisher Stevens

Barack Obama could solve this problem and get the birthers to back off... by showing his long form birth certificate.

— Trent Franks

The thing is, when you paint somebody in all of their colors, they're never all bad or all good. Even the worst person has humanity in there somewhere.

— Terence Winter

Being born, especially being born a person of color, is a political act in itself.

— Andres Serrano

There was a while when I was feeling like, 'Damn, if I'd just been born black, I would not have to go through all this'.

— Eminem

✗Opposing Perspectives

Racism isn't born, folks, it's taught. I have a two-year-old son. You know what he hates? Naps! End of list.

— Denis Leary

People aren't born racist.

— Edward Furlong

I can't discriminate? Oh, that's ripe, coming from a straight white man. What's the matter, baby doesn't feel like he belongs? Well why don't you try a place that was set up just for you? Like the world!

— Lea DeLaria

I think a lot of people have a problem with the fact that I've adopted an African child, a child who has a different color skin than I do.

— Madonna Ciccone