1. People in America can be stupid. Just look at some of the forwards that go around about Senator Obama. (
http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/obama.asp) People discriminate based off of a person's skin colour, accent, sex--why wouldn't a name be fair game?
I feel that this is a question that could be better suited to the Lounge, as Senator Obama's name is only peripherally related to the larger issue of anti-Arabic sentiment.
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