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Michelle Obama: Blacks have been 'frustrated and invisible' for 'decades'
Washington Examiner ^ | 9 May 15 | Zack Coleman

Posted on 05/09/2015 6:14:54 PM PDT by SkyPilot

First Lady Michelle Obama urged students at Tuskegee University, a historically black university in Alabama, to remain involved in civic life during a time of tension regarding race relations across the country.

At the school's commencement address, the First Lady listed scenarios in which African-Americans feel they encounter systemic discrimination, such as "nagging worries that you're going to get stopped or pulled over for absolutely no reason." She said those feelings are "real," but disengaging is not an option.

"I want to be very clear that those feelings are not an excuse to just throw up our hands and give up. Not an excuse. They are not an excuse to lose hope. To succumb to feelings of despair and anger only means that in the end, we lose," Obama said.

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Obama noted that events like those in Baltimore and Ferguson have generated feelings of futility amongst black men and women who believe the institutions of civil society aren't designed to protect or represent them.

"They're rooted in decades of structural challenges that have made too many folks feel frustrated and invisible. And those feelings are playing out in communities like Baltimore and Ferguson and so many others across this country," she said.

Obama pressed the students to vote to ensure those institutional systems work more equitably.

"The first thing we have to do is vote. Hey, no, not just once in a while. Not just when my husband or somebody you like is on the ballot. But in every election at every level, all of the time,"

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"There are six things that the Lord hates, seven that are an abomination to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil, a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers."

Proverbs 6: 16-19

I attended a Christian service today, with a very diverse congregation of believers in Jesus Christ. African-Americans, Christians from Africa, people from Central America and Mexico, believers from Korea, China, and Indonesia.

We were united in one thing: belief that Jesus Christ is our Savior, rose from the dead, and is coming again soon.

Michelle Obama, like her husband, has an evil, perverted heart, who only chases after wickedness and sows discord.

She should know that God is not mocked; we reap what we sow (Galatians 6:7).

1 posted on 05/09/2015 6:14:55 PM PDT by SkyPilot
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To: SkyPilot

She’s such a hateful witch


2 posted on 05/09/2015 6:18:12 PM PDT by uncitizen (Pamela Geller - Peaceful Protestor)
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To: SkyPilot

,,,,,, every weekend in Chicago they become more invisible .


3 posted on 05/09/2015 6:18:24 PM PDT by Lionheartusa1 ()-: 0bamanomics is the equal distribution of adolescent propaganda & indoctrination :-)
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To: SkyPilot

Poor choice of words.


4 posted on 05/09/2015 6:18:42 PM PDT by Usagi_yo (Police are just armed bureaucrats.)
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To: SkyPilot
More stupid RACE baiting. FUMO!

She obviously isn't talking about HARD WORKING black families because those
Americans like all other hard working Americans are respected, and not
because of their color.

This upside down idiocy works when the economy is flourishing, times are getting
tougher and people will stop listening to this garbage. Just like Gbull warming garbage!

5 posted on 05/09/2015 6:20:00 PM PDT by MaxMax (Call the local GOP and ask how you can support CRUZ for POTUS, Make them talk!)
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To: SkyPilot

She is willfully lying, playing the race card and it always seems to work.

The fact is the real world is precisely, exactly and clearly the opposite of what she is saying. Blacks are being treated as if they are Gods, just about perfect in every way.

They are being over represented on all types of media and not by a little bit. They are given priority in every way over Whites.

I would bet my bottom dollar that she and her Muslim husband were both beneficiaries of affirmative action.


6 posted on 05/09/2015 6:21:15 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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To: SkyPilot; uncitizen; Lionheartusa1; Usagi_yo; MaxMax; yarddog

7 posted on 05/09/2015 6:22:42 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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To: SkyPilot
Michelle Obama, like her husband, has an evil, perverted heart, who only chases after wickedness and sows discord.

Well said and very true.

8 posted on 05/09/2015 6:26:25 PM PDT by beaversmom
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To: SkyPilot

She is absolutely correct. Blacks have become invisible during the past 50 years of mob rule by democrats.


9 posted on 05/09/2015 6:26:29 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell (This is a wake up call. Join the Sultan Knish ping list.)
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To: SkyPilot

She’s gone full retard.


10 posted on 05/09/2015 6:27:27 PM PDT by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I think Meshyell might be happier on Ebonics Airways!!


11 posted on 05/09/2015 6:27:56 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: SkyPilot

No - your mind has been closed for decades.


12 posted on 05/09/2015 6:32:59 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am ...)
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To: yarddog

[[I would bet my bottom dollar that she and her Muslim husband were both beneficiaries of affirmative action.]]

I would bet a lot more than that. Michelle Robinson, a mere cum laude grad in college, miraculously managed to get into Harvard Law School. How many other cum laudes have managed that?


13 posted on 05/09/2015 6:33:32 PM PDT by heye2monn
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To: yarddog

Think of the continent of Africa, and how not a single nation on that continent is functional.

Now think of Cities, States, and even Federal government agencies that are governed by blacks.

Not a single one of them is functional either.

There is a pattern here that should not be minimized.


14 posted on 05/09/2015 6:34:18 PM PDT by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA)
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To: uncitizen

She’s caucaphobic - afraid of white people.


15 posted on 05/09/2015 6:35:59 PM PDT by raybbr (Obamacare needs a deatha panel.)
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To: SkyPilot

Blacks are 100% visible in Africa and govern it. Look at the result. BTW Moochelles father had a plum job with the city of Chicago in the water works department. He was a hack for old mayor Daley and helped get out the vote come election time for the Democrat machine

Moooooch grew up very very nice in Black terms. She prolly resents she didn’t grow up very very nice the way a white hacks child would have in the white section of Chicago. Actually Chicago had many great white ethic neighborhoods


17 posted on 05/09/2015 6:39:07 PM PDT by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: Usagi_yo

We dont know what happened in Baltimore yet.
But, mrs zer0 is pushing the hands up dont shoot lie.


18 posted on 05/09/2015 6:41:59 PM PDT by Sasparilla (If you want peace, prepare for war.)
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To: SkyPilot

I see the hate-filled witch has been stirring up trouble in my backyard. I guess they want Tuskeegee to be the next Baltimore or Ferguson.


19 posted on 05/09/2015 6:45:50 PM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Blog: www.BackwoodsEngineer.com)
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To: Louis Foxwell

my question is who has been bouncing all those basketballs?


20 posted on 05/09/2015 6:46:03 PM PDT by Breto (Stranger in a strange land... where did America go?)
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