Posted on 12/17/2014 6:44:24 PM PST by Steelfish
MICHELLE OBAMA ONCE GOT ASKED FOR HELP AT TARGET, THINKS IT WAS PROBABLY RACIST By Emily Zanotti 12.17.14
Look. I honestly believe that yes, there are lingering vestiges of racism in our society. You don't exorcise something that pervasive in modern culture in less than a century. Occasionally - not regularly, but occasionally - we've all been known to make varying assumptions about other people based on existing stereotypes.
I have no doubt that, in their lifetimes, the Obamas have experienced lots of instances of discrimination based on skin color, and I think that's a tragedy. However, I do not think being asked to reach something on a high shelf at a big box retail store is one of those instances.
"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," Michelle Obama, who is 5'11", said.
Frankly, speaking as someone who is, shall we say, a perfectly-formed miniature human being, sometimes we short people just need something off a really high shelf. And when that happens we have two choices: climb the flimsy Target infrastructure in pursuit of the comically-oversized budget bag of toilet paper and risk getting a concussion from Extra-Soft Charmin, or ask someone who is of normal human stature to reach it for us.
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Here in Texas, people ask me all the time to get things off the top shelf. No matter what shirt I have on.
I am grateful to God I am able-bodied and can help.
I am always glad to help. It’s called being neighborly.
I’ve had people ask me to get items off high shelves a fair number of times. Always thought it was because I could reach the items and the shorter people asking could not. Maybe taller than average Michelle should also consider that possibility, rather than looking for racism under every bush and rock.
Is it now racist to ask a tall person to take something off a shelf?
so big deal. She was asked to help a short person get something off a shelf (I’ve asked people to help me, and also been asked by others to do the same thing.)
What is surprising is that Michelle was in Target. ???? you mean she was rubbing shoulders with the common folk?
But then she noted it was a political stop, not a visit to buy stuff. Figures.
But how were you able to continue on with your life, given the vicious, racist attack you had suffered? :)
How is it racist to assume that a Black person might be employed? It seems to me she is making sure that Black women know that it is demeaning to work at K-Mart and ensuring that they stay in the hideous condition the liberals have led them into.
Asked once? Hell, I’ve been asked more times than that just this week! Racist? HELL NO! Just someone looking for a store employee to help them with something.
Good people in America have a tradition of helping others, without question.
If blacks are gonna call every minor interaction with whites an example of racism, then whites are justified in having as little interaction with blacks as possible.
If you as a group persist in calling me names, treating me as evil, then I will shun you. I will not speak to you or even acknowledge your presence. I wouldn’t give Sharpton, Jackson, & Moochelle the time of day.
Words & actions have consequences.
Blacks are the biggest racists in America.
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