Posted on 03/26/2008 8:15:50 AM PDT by jdm
Jim Hoft links to this speech from January of this year by Michelle Obama to students at the University of South Carolina, presumably just before their primary. It shows how Mrs. Obama can utter some truth but put it in such a tone-deaf manner that she obscures the truth with hostility and sneering condescension. In this case, she starts by challenging students to actually embrace diversity by having the courage to reach beyond their social comfort zones, and winds up calling America ignorant:
We dont like being pushed outside of our comfort zones. You know it right here on this campus. You know people sitting at different tables- you all living in different dorms. I was there. Youre not talking to each other, taking advantage that youre in this diverse community. Because sometimes its easier to hold on to your own stereotypes and misconceptions. It makes you feel justified in your own ignorance. Thats America. So the challenge for us is are we ready for change?
Anyone who spent time at a college or even a high school with a diverse population knows that the first part of her statement is absolutely true. I discovered this for myself in college, ironically when I took an African-American Studies class at Fullerton State. We had a debate over diversity in public schools, and I said that my high school was a good example of how diversity could work and I got challenged by a student who had gone to my school whom I had barely known. Despite the diversity, the populations didnt interact much socially at either level of school.
However, the second part of the statement doesnt follow from the first. America is not about being justified in our own ignorance, no matter how Mrs. Obama feels about campus life. America has been about fixing its flaws, sometimes haltingly and imperfectly, but always working towards that end. If she feels otherwise, then how can we explain the efforts made by many people of all backgrounds to end racism and protect civil rights? If anything, America is about hope, not ignorance. Her husband didnt invent hope and change.
Besides, after the exposure of Rev. Jeremiah Wright as a racial demagogue, the Obamas are the last people to talk about reaching beyond their comfort zone. They financially support a church that excoriates black conservatives such as Clarence Thomas and Condoleezza Rice by using playground-level names such as Clarence Colon and Condoskeeza. The Obamas supported Wright as he called the nation the US of KKK-A, not exactly a formula for outreach and understanding. The Trinity United Church can hardly be considered an inclusive environment, given the nature of its pastors tirades.
The Obamas want to be seen as agents of hope. Calling America ignorant and framing the situation so that Obamas election will be the only cure doesnt sound very hopeful to me. Perhaps this is why weve seen so little of Michelle Obama on the campaign trail of late.
This article from the Asia Times was somewhat illuminating beyond the current reporting of this whench.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/JB26Aa01.html
If she becomes First Lady, we’ll look back fondly on Hillary.
Barack HUSSEIN NObomba = racist hypocrite
Michelle HUSSEIN NObomba = racist hypocrite
They deserve each other.
I don’t think America will warm to the idea of Omarosa as First Lady.
You mean like Al Gore, without the charm.
I’m sure there is a tape somewhere of either Obamahammod or his fearless leader “Reverend” Wright calling Clarence Thomas ‘Uncle Tom’>
Princeton - - then Harvard Law - - earns $360,000 per in a figurehead job - - married to a U. S. Senator and presidential candidate.
Yup, she sure has a lot to complain about.
Just wait until she’s First Lady! She’ll still be bitching about how tough it is to be black in America.
Memo to Michelle: Since I’m a mere “typical white person”, I guess that makes me “ignorant” in your holy-@ssed “righteous” eyes! You just added this to your “finally proud of America” remark, and the rantings of your ex-”pastor”, and your hubby’s “typical white person” remark, and have given me reason 500 why I will vote for a bald skunk to keep you and hubby out of the White House.
Obama a “uniter”....feh, puleeeeeeeeeze!
There's a difference between harranging and leadership, and Michelle Obama is a perfect illustration.
Harranging I have no use for...an example of leadership, however, I'm always open to.
So, Mrs. Do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do, how long have you been a member of that black supremecist church in Chicago?
Yeah - like "typical white person" for example. BTT.
PSA: Have you hugged a gang banger today?... < :D
Michelle Obama makes Hillary look really good.
Michelle’s “social comfort zone” = Rev. Wright’s church.
At least Michelle Obama looks, acts, and dresses like a woman.
Anybody seen hillary in a dress in the last ten years?
Hussein Obamas racist pseudo minister has turned the Dems' run for President into party's train wreck!
Devastatingly, Shelby Steele writes: Obama has fellow-traveled with a hate-filled, anti-American black nationalism all his adult life, failing to stand and challenge an ideology that would have no place for his own (white) mother."
Just What Did Obama Know About Wright's Past Sermons? (Plenty)
Barack Obama either agreed with what was preached from the Trinity pulpit, or he tuned it out and stayed around pretending to for political reasons. To say he stayed for 20 years but doesn't agree with Wright's preaching is incredible denial. It'd be like a man buying White Sox season tickets for 20 years, attending the games, and saying he's not a fan.
Obamas supporters want us to ignore this story just push it under the rug. While theyll align Republicans with any obscure pastor who does or says something controversial, theyre trying to convince us that Obamas 20-year long close relationship with Wright, including his effective endorsement of him, his church and rhetoric with a $22,500 donation in 2006 is irrelevant.
When Obama decided against wearing an American flag pin, we may all have been a bit too quick to accept his rationale, too quick to find that issue unimportant. Now, that American flag pin has gotten a lot bigger for a lot of us, especially in light of what may have been and may still be Obamas deeper, and, perhaps, secret, less than patriotic beliefs about America.
Wright says that blacks cant be expected to sing God Bless America because of racism. Obama doesnt salute the flag during the National Anthem. That sure strikes me as an amazing coincidence since Obama swears he never heard Wright say anything against America.
Here is the link to the Star Spangled Banner video with obama standing there without his hand over his heart...
Notice her ear ring!
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