History shows that it was mostly RATS doing the oppressin'.
Sarah Palin teases that she might run for president. But she is unqualified - not just in the (let me count the) usual ways, but because she does not know the country.
Does she know more about the country than the rookie Kenyan? I do believe so.
I think when you have to use more then one “GREAT” it's time to put it in the past.
Here I thought that Michelle grew up in a middle class Chicago neighborhood and then went to an elite Ivy League school. I didn't know her 'experience' included slavery.
Instead of celebrating what the woman accomplished as an individual, Cohen just puts her in a box with millions of others who likely have little in common with her experience.
Typical leftist blather. There is no such thing as an individual -- only groups. For all it's warts and past sins, the American experience has been about individuals and what individuals accomplish. That is why the left hates America. You can't micro manage and control hundreds of millions of individuals. They would put us all in little group boxes and control what the boxes can do, say and think -- while of course they get to play God with our lives.
I hate the left.
LLS
Michelle may have been “more aware of my ‘blackness’ than ever before” but she didn’t live through anything like her ancestors did. I am sure I would be “more aware of my ‘whiteness’ than ever before” if I were dropped off in certain neighborhoods.
I can’t imagine that an affirmative action black woman (who go a law degree and somehow “lost” it) in this day and age never saw a “proud of her country” moment before her knucklehead husband got elected.
This article says a lot more about Richard Cohen than it does Sarah Palin. For people like Cohen, the glass is always half empty. As if white Americans didn’t know about the evils of slavery. The fact is Michelle Obama was not born a slave and has basically had many things handed to her. A great percentage of Black Americans live better than many middle class whites of the fifties and sixties. There is today a black middle class something that couldn’t be said forty or fifty years ago. Because in this country history doesn’t stand still. Cohen fails to grasp that obviously.
The brilliant, really really smart intellectual genius, whose intelligence is incomprehensible, speaks.
/s/
IMHO
“It was the government that oppressed blacks, enforcing the laws that imprisoned them and hanged them for crimes grave and trivial, whipped them if they bolted for freedom”
Sounds like a good argument for limited government to me! (Don’t these morons ever listen to themselves?) FWIW-as an American of British/Saxon lineage, my ancestors were also enslaved, but I’ve managed to come to terms with the trauma.
It’s hardly possible that she is not knowledgeable about the history of African Americans - no Ellis Island for them, immigrants in their colorful native dress waving at the camera.
Apparently Mr. Cohen needs a history lesson himself. Ellis island was opened in the 1890’s. Had Michelle’s relatives come over at that time, they would have gone through Ellis island just like everyone else. The rest of us had no Ellis Island either.
Btt
Did Palin’s great great grandparents not own slaves like Barack’s did?
Is that why she doesn’t understand our history? That, or not have a marxist history prof in college?
BTW, correct response ... “You Betcha!”
Sarah rightfully focuses upon Michelle's revealing remark that exposes the hostility of the ruling elite. Despite her private feelings, even Michelle will not publicly defend her resentment against the country. Cohen apparently feels equal or greater malice and is not shy about proclaiming it. He is betting that shouts of racism will stop Sarah from shining a light on the unpatriotic hostility of the established elite.
Richard Cohen’s got his head up his ass.
The Democrats are the party of the single party state today, but over time have been the party of the Klan, the party of Jim Crow, and the party of slavery. And they were the only such party in America.
I wonder what his American ancestors were doing about 150 years ago?
Thanks Libloather.