14 Lies About Black People That Have Us in Danger

Back in 2016 and 2017, former President Donald Trump questioned the authenticity of former President Barack Obama’s birth certificate, touting more than several times that Obama was born outside of the United States. Though, anti-Obama trolls ran with some unfound claim that he was born in Kenya and made further assumptions about his religion – all rooted in racism. He was born in Hawaii in 1961, for clarification.

However, Trump doubled back and used former First Lady Hillary Clinton as a scapegoat, claiming she was the origin of the birther suspicions because of an anonymous email from 2008 claiming Obama’s mother gave birth to him in the African country, per The Atlantic. These racist lies were nothing other than an attempt to discredit Obama as a presidential candidate and soon, VP Kamala Harris as well.