At the risk of being labled “racist,” I will confirm that some African Americans do wear slippers in public. I have seen several young African American women wearing slippers, mainly at malls. It is a type of fashion. My wife, a public school teacher, told me that it got to be so common that the schools had to ban the practice. And some in the African American community do not like the fashion - can’t say that I blame them. Maybe that was what Obama was actually refering to and what some took offense to - airing the African Community’s own “problems” in public.
“it got to be so common that the schools had to ban the practice”
ROFL - this reminds me of my youth.
1 day I somehow forgot I was still wearing slippers well after I got on the bus. Being a teenage girl, I was majorly embarrassed (in that time, I guess, doing such a thing was no fashion). I was practically hysterical when I got to school and insisted the office call my mother (she happened to head the “special” school affiliated with my high school) to have her take me to get my proper shoes! Well, she wouldn’t do it (I guess she figured as the head admin and a teacher she was not going to disrupt things for stupid slippers), but her secretary did come and take me home!
How pathetic. I probably could’ve lived with it, but being 15 I guess I had to be melodramatic about it!