The White House is outraged at a “lengthy and racist North Korean screed against President Obama, calling the rhetoric from Pyongyang ‘particularly ugly and disrespectful,’” according to the Washington Post.
Some of the insults hurled by the Korean Central News Agency against the President were “clown,” “dirty fellow” and somebody who “does not even have the basic appearances of a human being.”
Another part of the tirade declared, “It would be perfect for Obama to live with a group of monkeys in the world’s largest African natural zoo and lick the breadcrumbs thrown by spectators,” says the Post, and “He is a crossbreed with unclear blood,” and later: Obama “still has the figure of a monkey while the human race has evolved through millions of years.”
The Post goes on to “explain” why such vicious racial vitriol might be expected from North Koreans who, according to some academics, “fundamentally have a ‘race-based’ worldview, showing more similarity to fascist Japan during World War II than Joseph Stalin’s Soviet Union.”
OK, I get it.
But, how does one explain the even more vicious attacks against the President of the United States by our own people?
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The author is a retired U.S. Air Force officer and a writer.