What would we ever do without you taking every opportunity to browbeat Americans of pallor on their inherent racism?
First lady Michelle Obama used a speech Monday that was supposed to be celebrating the opening of a new museum to instead dig deeper the racial divide that’s been growing ever wider during her husband’s presidency.
“Museums and concert halls,” she said, just don’t welcome non-white visitors – especially children – the way they welcome whites.
Speaking at the new Whitney museum in New York City’s meat packing district last week, Obama said she grew up thinking that museums were not places “for someone who looks like me.”
“You see, there are so many kids in this country who look at places like museums and concert halls and other cultural centers and they think to themselves, well, that’s not a place for me, for someone who looks like me, for someone who comes from my neighborhood. In fact, I guarantee you that right now, there are kids living less than a mile from here who would never in a million years dream that they would be welcome in this museum.
“And growing up on the South Side of Chicago, I was one of those kids myself. So I know that feeling of not belonging in a place like this. And today, as first lady, I know how that feeling limits the horizons of far too many of our young people.
Who was the git that invited this no-talent CHORF to speak at an art museum?
That’ll come as a shock to the majority minority students in my eldest’s class, which is going to an art museum for their class trip next week. I guess the “coloreds” will have to wait on the bus while the five or six white kids go into the museum.
Surely she isn’t angry that museums and concert halls weren’t invented in Gabon, say, among other places? Still, her message would be surprising to many a happily employed non-white fella or gal in museums or concert halls all over the land.
I’m her age. In 1972, I visited Chicago with my parents during the school year and we did all the museums. They were packed with school classes of all races. I recall sharing the U-505 with a class of black students who marveled how small the captains bed was.
Anybody ever ask her who told her museums weren’t a place for people like her? Everything I hear from her sounds like she was brought up very strictly in the “never act white” ethos.
And growing up on the South Side of Chicago
Was she friends with Leroy Brown…?
If she called him Treetop Lover, I don’t want to know.
I think this is her telling a “Hillary Tale.”
It’s a stylistic thing among powerful Democratic women to tell personalized storytime tales that are designed, scripted for particular audiences. Worked much better before the internet.
All the men just called her ‘Sir’.
phony whore is phony
she’s looking at the river and she’s thinking of the sea, thinking of the sea, thinking of the sea
The stories my mother told about how blacks were treated in rural Oklahoma in the late 40s and early 50s sound like paradise compared to the racist world poor Michelle grew up in.
And, apparently, BG, it really hasn’t gotten any better in Lady Michbeth World – note: she speaks of these ‘disadvantaged’ youts in the present tense.
O, wonder!
How many evil creatures are there here!
How hideous racekind is! O brave new world,
That has such white people in’t!
The Tempest Tantrum by Saul Shakespeare-Manson, Act DCLXVI, Scene: Far Out, Man
If she called him Treetop Lover, I don’t want to know.
Sounds like you and/or Jim Croce are making a vile “darkies == apes” insinuation, and I for one won’t stand for it, sir!
#bannedFromAoSHQ
I can’t tell. Is she still proud of her country?
The question then becomes: what is ‘her country’, because it ain’t The United States Of America [which, fortunately for her, is dead].
Anybody ever ask her who told her museums weren’t a place for people like her? Everything I hear from her sounds like she was brought up very strictly in the “never act white” ethos.
My first reaction, as well. It wasn’t that the people at the museum wouldn’t make her feel welcome; it’s that her classmates would beat the crap out of her for expressing an interest in culture outside the ‘hood.
I grew up on the South Side of Chicago and visited ALL the museums during my school years: 1963-1976. That covers 1972 and like Shermlaw, there were students of all races and ages in those museums, but especially the Museum of Science and Industry that was near Hyde Park neighborhood of Michele and Obama’s “home” in Chicago. BTW, the University of Chicago, a world class University is just blocks away from the Museum….
C’mon. This is about Michelle’s feelings not your little anecdotes.
Nothing limits the horizons of young people more than progressive policies and grievance mongering.
You go, girl!
You’re wrong Cranky. Sorry, I gotta say it.
Read your quote again and you’ll see. Key word: “feeling”.
Emotions are very malable, woe to any that let feelings be thier guide. They be the igno passionate ones, likely to end up a SJW for some Proggs cause or another.
Mrs O is no doubt employing her husbands methods of compiling multiple stories and then making them her own.
I mean golly, she grew up around people telling stories like that, her pastor preaches racist claptrap about Jews and Caucasians holding the black man down, her college taught how to be a victim and she got a degree in it, she couldn’t very well admit how very privileged and always have been she is and stay authentic, now could she?
mrs o! has toned arm privilege and too big butt privilege
So, things racist preachers say aren’t grievance mongering. I did not know that.
Cranky, I don’t understand, the good (for nothing) Rev Wright is a master grievance monger.
Uh-oh, I was afraid of misunderstanding.
Just kidding around my friend. Kinda like a chicken/ egg thang. What came first, the progg or the emotional “don’t hurt people’s FEELINGS” shrew.
Anyway, I just gotta go with Ms O’s quote, it’s letting feelings dictate your thoughts rather than the other way around that is the more limiting aspect to quality of life.
Ms O very well knows this, and the ones that respond with approval and respect to her message are the useful ones.
And growing up on the South Side of Chicago, I was one of those kids myself. So I know that feeling of not belonging in a place like this.
That’s your parents’ fault, not the museums or “Whitey”.
More likely the fault of her peers. Don’t get caught actin’ white, yo.