Just as in late 19th Century France, where Alsacian and other jews thought they were in France's mainstream what with the declaration of universal rights that had been the great hallmark of the French revolution and the spread of revolutionary values of egalite and fraternite throughout Europe (albeit forcibly by Napoleon initially and later through the agitation and empowerment of middle classes), nonwhite Americans have thought themselves liberated and included in the American mainstream as a result of the post World War II civil rights struggles (and labor struggles on California farms), Court rulings and progressive legislation. And yet when fabricated evidence was used to falsely label Dreyfus as a traitor, the entire French establishment piled on and let loose a wave of antisemitism that undermined civil society throughout Europe culminating in the atrocities of the Second World War. Isn't that what is happening now in the United States? Instead of there being a "Have You No Decency Moment", the American media establishment, at the behest of oligarchs and playing to prejudice, is attacking Obama as the other and judging him by standards never before applied in US history. One would think the forgeries and lies behind much of these attacks would be shouted from the mountain top and stop this cancer affecting our government and society. But they are ignored as the media and the Village attack the President for basically being black, while the legal and political foundations of our country are being rapidly undermined. J'Accuse.