why are people so stupid?

A kid was shot while walking through an upper class neighborhood. The implication is that since he was black the resident felt he was a criminal and felt threatened. President Obama remarked "If I had a son he would look like Trayvon." Newt Gingrich responded to these words, "Is the president suggesting if it had been a white who had been shot, that would be OK because it wouldn't look like him? That's just nonsense. I mean, dividing this country up, it is a tragedy this young man was shot."

What does that even mean? Anyone with half a brain can piece together what Obama meant - "my son would not look like a hoodlum, and neither did this kid." But I'm having trouble figuring out Gingrich arrived at this strange conclusion. And Santorum said a similar thing. "What the president of the United States should do is try to bring people together, not use these types of horrible and tragic individual cases to try to drive a wedge in America." How is Obama's comment dividing people?

People just get dumber and dumber.

I posted that on facebook. I would have used more profanity otherwise.