What do the slippers have to say about all of this? Are the slippers on peoples feet because they don’t have work?
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.