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-- Were the birth questions about Ted Cruz and Mccain also racist? --

That exact question came up yesterday, and Don Lemon and Van Jones said the only time an inquiry is racist, is when it is raised against a black person. The same inquiry against whites is not racist. CNN September 15, 2016

ANDY DEAN, TRUMP SUPPORTER: Well, Van, I just think that, you know, I like van as a person but I feel like he's factually incorrect. I mean, I think maybe liberals on television may think it's a race issue but if you look at American history, the histories are very clear. There have been five major birther controversies in the history of our country, the first was 1881 with Chester A. Arthur, who was a white republican, then 1916, Charles Evans Hughes.
LEMON: Andy, Andy, if I can just stop you from -- Andy -- if I can just stop for a moment.
HILARY ROSEN, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: Wow. Why are you doing that?
DEAN: OK.
ROSEN: You're defending it now?
LEMON: Yes, OK, listen.
DEAN: No, I'm not defending it. What I'm saying...
ROSEN: You are.
DEAN: The question of a person's birthplace has nothing to do with race. And throughout American history there been many of these issues...
LEMON: Andy, here is the whole point that I was making in earlier segment about the campaign being tone deaf. Are you listening?
DEAN: OK.
LEMON: I'm African-American. Look at your monitor, Van Jones is African-American, we speak with a lot of African-Americans, we live with them. There are mothers, there are fathers, we got the barber stores, we live in the neighborhoods, and two of those people who we interact with every single day, it is an issue that they have a problem with that they see as racist, as they see as deligitimizing the first African-American president...