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Barack & Michelle Obama: We’re Victims of America’s Racism …Update: Michelle Obama Busted
Gateway Pundit ^ | 12/17/14 | Jim Hoft

Posted on 12/17/2014 8:30:46 PM PST by Nachum

This discussion was necessary after the grand jury decisions on Michael Brown and Eric Garner that had nothing to do with racism. People reported:

The protective bubble that comes with the presidency – the armored limo, the Secret Service detail, the White House – shields Barack and Michelle Obama from a lot of unpleasantness. But their encounters with racial prejudice aren’t as far in the past as one might expect. And they obviously still sting.

“I think people forget that we’ve lived in the White House for six years,” the first lady told PEOPLE, laughing wryly, along with her husband, at the assumption that the first family has been largely insulated from coming face-to-face with racism.

“Before that, Barack Obama was a black man that lived on the South Side of Chicago, who had his share of troubles catching cabs,” Mrs. Obama said in the Dec. 10 interview appearing in the new issue of PEOPLE.

“I tell this story – I mean, even as the first lady – during that wonderfully publicized trip I took to Target, not highly disguised, the only person who came up to me in the store was a woman who asked me to help her take something off a shelf. Because she didn’t see me as the first lady, she saw me as someone who could help her. Those kinds of things happen in life. So it isn’t anything new.”

In a 30-minute conversation, the president and Mrs. Obama candidly added their stories to the national discussion of race and racial profiling that was sparked by the deaths of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and Eric Garner in Staten Island, New York.

“There’s no black male my age, who’s a professional, who hasn’t

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KEYWORDS: barack; michelle; mythmaking; obamalies; racism; revisionisthistory; waronerror
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To: Nachum

“I think people forget that we’ve lived in the White House for six years,”

Trust me, I haven’t.


61 posted on 12/17/2014 11:10:45 PM PST by Politicalkiddo ("How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts!" - Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Nachum

Oh holy hell, you freaking wench. I have helped people small or elderly in a grocery store reach things 1000 times. I have asked strangers — tall strangers -— if they could reach something for ME. Where I live, people in the helping professions aren’t automatically black, like in the racist enclaves you seem to frequent. Also, if you didn’t have a freaking red shirt on, the woman did not think you were an employee. She saw a very tall woman, that is all, bitch.


62 posted on 12/17/2014 11:15:06 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: Gasshog

Barack had no trouble at all hopping into the limousines of wealthy gay white men, back in the day.


63 posted on 12/17/2014 11:17:05 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: tired&retired

Most cities you find few white cab drivers but you will find————

Pakis
Afghanistanis
Haitians (like Miami)
Nigerians
other Africans

Blame their “racism” or what have you for not picking up hoody looking young black males


64 posted on 12/17/2014 11:21:50 PM PST by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: Nachum
I was in Tucson at a 5 star resort - dressed somewhat like a valet, and some black guy handed me the keys to his Escalade and asked me to park it thinking I was a valet. Since I was leaving anyway, I graciously accepted his keys, slid into the drivers seat and took the car to Las Vegas instead of the bus. He was kind enough to leave a full tank.

Just kidding.

65 posted on 12/18/2014 1:44:55 AM PST by Bon mots (American Exceptionalism becomes American Acceptionalism under this regime... :()
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To: Nachum

The victims here are millions of Americans.


66 posted on 12/18/2014 2:08:03 AM PST by Calpublican (It's the first time in my life I've been ashamed of my country)
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To: tired&retired

It’s called canine profiling.


67 posted on 12/18/2014 2:40:09 AM PST by HotKat (Politicians are like diapers; they need to be changed often and for the same reason. Mark Twain)
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To: Gasshog
“No one knew that was me. Because a woman actually walked up to me, right? I was in the detergent aisle, and she said — I kid you not — she said, ‘Excuse me, I just have to ask you something.’ And I thought, ‘Oh, cover’s blown.’ She said, ‘Can you reach on that shelf and hand me the detergent?’ I kid you not. And the only thing she said — I reached up, because she was short, and I reached up, pulled it down. She said, ‘Well, you didn’t have to make it look so easy.’ That was my interaction. I felt so good.” I dont believe EITHER story.

I read her account and started laughing...she's trying to equate her height with race. What an idiot.

Ha! I'm a 6 ft tall female and I've been asked or I've offered many times to assist an elderly person retrieve an item off the top shelf at Walmart or the grocery store.

Geez, I feel so discriminated against because I'm white and tall...oh the humanity!(/sarc)

Seriously, I'm blessed with height and I'm only glad to help those who cannot reach things they need.

68 posted on 12/18/2014 2:52:52 AM PST by Florida native
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To: Nachum

I’m starting to think these two would have been locked away back when we locked people away. For being insane, not black and half black.


69 posted on 12/18/2014 2:59:24 AM PST by John W (Al Gore Global Warming King frozen stiffer)
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To: Nachum
a black man that lived on the South Side of Chicago, who had his share of troubles catching cabs,

Funny how every time I catch a cab in Chicago, the driver seems to be a recent African, Arab, or Indian immigrant.

70 posted on 12/18/2014 3:00:58 AM PST by fso301
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To: Nachum

They’re both leftwing communists & racists in a beard “marriage”.


71 posted on 12/18/2014 3:20:56 AM PST by newfreep ("Evil succeeds when good men do nothting" - Edmund Burke)
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To: aposiopetic

So, if that person had ignored her and waited on a white person to come by, would Moochelle have also called her racist?


72 posted on 12/18/2014 3:30:06 AM PST by Real Cynic No More (Border Fence Obamacare!)
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To: Nachum

It’s not just Michelle Obama busted here; it’s a big part of the whole racial grievance paradigm that’s exposed. “It happened to me because I’m black.” No, it happened because that’s life.


73 posted on 12/18/2014 3:38:16 AM PST by gusopol3
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To: Nachum

I ca’t recall where it was posted, Townhall perhaps, but there was a very interesting article about how the progressives don’t really know what truth is. They basically live in a fantasy world and their words are essentially stories they make up to match their version of reality.

This story of Michelle’s is a case in point.


74 posted on 12/18/2014 3:53:47 AM PST by IamConservative (If fighting fire with fire is a good idea, why do the pros use water?)
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To: Nachum
Nothing these two say isn't a lie. I'm sure if you do some more digging you'll find other birth narratives for this clown.
75 posted on 12/18/2014 3:58:39 AM PST by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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To: Nachum
 photo incognito_zpsaa9c3c66.jpg Get over the lie that she goes 'shopping' alone.
76 posted on 12/18/2014 4:15:29 AM PST by RetSignman (Obama is the walking, talking middle finger in the face of America)
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To: TigersEye

I’m 6’3”, and have been asked by short women on numerous occasions to grab an item from a high shelf. They say thank you, I say you’re welcome, and that’s that.


77 posted on 12/18/2014 4:31:27 AM PST by Freestate316 (Know what you believe and why you believe it.)
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To: RetSignman

As usual, Mooch looks miserable.............because?

1. SS made her carry her own bag
2. The disguise hat is hurting her head.
3. has to push her own cart
4. No one recognized her at Target
5. Her sunglasses make everyone look black.
6. Some short white person thought she worked there.


78 posted on 12/18/2014 4:33:34 AM PST by Toespi
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To: Nachum

They make themselves MORE irrelevant with every single lie they tell...


79 posted on 12/18/2014 4:37:41 AM PST by SMARTY ("When you blame others, you give up your power to change." Robert Anthony)
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To: Toespi

If that lie wasn’t bad enough, try 0’s lie. A guy walks up to the President of the United States with an outstretched hand with ‘something’ in it.

In the real world, the guy would be on the way to the morgue.


80 posted on 12/18/2014 4:58:04 AM PST by RetSignman (Obama is the walking, talking middle finger in the face of America)
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