SOUTHFIELD, MI

— Southfield-based trial attorney Geoffrey Fieger released a new commercial accusing some of his "white brethren" of racism.

The 1-minute, 5-second commercial was posted on the Fieger Law website last Tuesday with the title, "Racism."

"I know damn well that it really bothers my white brethren that a black family is occupying the White House," he says in the commercial.

He alludes that race is the driving motive for "birthers," who question whether President Barack Obama was actually born in the United States.

Fieger draws comparison between the concerns of some regarding Obama's birthplace and his religious beliefs to Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's father, George Romney, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 1968.

George Romney was born in a Mormon colony in Mexico.

"Can we speak honestly about racism?" Fieger asks as the commercial begins. "If President Obama was white, do you really think there would be people questioning his birth certificate and whether he was born in the United States?

"Perhaps you don’t remember that Mitt Romney’s father, George Romney, ran for President in the 1960’s. George Romney wasn’t born in the United States. He was born in Mexico.

"And do you remember anyone questioning whether he was a real American citizen or whether he could run for President?"