Posted on 05/10/2015 4:48:40 PM PDT by SkyPilot
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"As potentially the first African-American first lady, I was also the focus of another set of questions and speculations, conversations sometimes rooted in the fears and misperceptions of others," she told the class of 2015. "Was I too loud or too emasculating? Or was I too soft? Too much of a mom and not enough of a career woman?"
Directing her remarks directly toward her African American audience, Obama spoke from her own experience on how racial inequality impacts opportunity.
"The road ahead is not going to be easy," Obama said, "It never is, especially for folks like you and me."
Obama then aired a laundry list of slights she said black Americans deal with on a regular basis.
"We've both felt the sting of those daily slights throughout our entire lives. The folks who crossed the street in fear of their safety, the clerks who kept a close eye on us in all those department stores. The people at formal events who assumed we were the help," Obama said. "And those who have questioned our intelligence, our honesty, even our love of this country, and I know that these little indignities are obviously nothing compared to what folks across the country are dealing with every single day. Those nagging worries about whether you're going to get stopped or pulled over for absolutely no reason. The fear that your job application will be overlooked because of the way your name sounds."
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No, I didn't! I thought I was falling even more hopelessly behind than ever :-)
Nothing new here. This is her MO. Not pun intended.
The truth finally comes out
She and the DiC are commies through and through
People are feed up to the eye teeth with this Race Race Race and will be happy to see these criminals Hit The Road
You know we will never work hard, and that you and your children if minorities or black will get to go to college free, with lower scores... that you will be given preferences for hiring in the workplace and then once hired you will be given promotions race based. You will come to know that through your own personal mediocrity that you have been undeserving in most cases for all that this great County, America, has given to you. YOU WILL RESENT AMERICA.
She is Caucaphobic - an irrational fear of whites.
I didn’t know graduation speeches were autobiographical. I thought they were inspiring, congratulatory, positive, etc.
Didn’t you?
I disagree. I think she thinks her race is inferior and she is trying to make up the difference.
And the New Yorker cartoon? Well, she should thank her husband for his Muslim comments and his terrorist buddies Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn. Sheesh, what an immature, whiny, boring, unempathetic, shallow person Madam Obama is.
I AM SO SICK OF HER CONSTANT WHINING ABOUT RACISM!!!
My kids are white and have been watched in stores when they were teenagers.
And people assumed “they were the help”??? Really, when did that happen, you dumb sow.
I cannot wait until these two are gone!!! HATE THEM!
Contrast with the commencement speech given by Denzel Washington, who happens to be black.
Academy Award-Winning Actor Gives College Grads His No. 1 Piece of Advice: ‘Put. God. First!’
Academy Award-winning actor Denzel Washington’s very first piece of advice Saturday for graduates of Dillard University consisted of just three words.
“Number one,” he said slowly and resolutely. “Put. God. First!”
“Put God first in everything you do,” Washington continued to loud cheers. “Everything I have is by the grace of God. Understand that. It’s a gift.”
The actor, who received an honorary doctorate from the New Orleans’ school, told a story about his life 40 years earlier. He had a 1.7 grade point average and was sitting in his mother’s beauty parlor when a woman gave him “a prophecy.”
Washington said the woman told him he would “travel the world and speak to millions of people.” But he added that while her words came true, “the most important thing that stayed with me since is that I’ve been protected, I’ve been directed, I’ve been corrected. I’ve kept God in my life and it’s kept me humble.”
“I didn’t always stick with him, but he’s always stuck with me,” Washington said. “Stick with him in everything you do.”
The folks who crossed the street in fear of their safety, the clerks who kept a close eye on us in all those department stores.
Well if you live near 47th Street and State, in Chicago, you'd be stupid not to if it's a bunch of young black dudes and you are a girl. You are telling me Madam, you'd tell your daughters NOT to cross the street? Really? BTW, Madam, did you ever go to Italy? When you are a young lady, those all Italian male wolf packs are pretty aggressive, and my advice? Cross the damn street.
As for the clerks in department stores watching you? YOU obviously never ever shopped in a German Department Store or any Germanic store (yes, I'm including Swiss and Austrian where they according to your Harvard educated husband they speak Austrian). Those clerks graduated from some kind of GESTAPO customer service school. It is NOT a pleasant experience no matter who you are and what your skin color is. Grow a skin Madam FLOTUS and you too Oprah.
The fear that your job application will be overlooked because of the way your name sounds.
Oh, please! You think immigrants and Americans whose ancestors came from countries with very foreign names don't go through the same thing? It seems to me that Mrs. Obama and other Liberal/Victim Blacks never walked in the shoes of other fellow Americans/immigrants. What a stupid, unempathetic, shallow statement from a First Lady. “I am the only one who suffers. Poor little black me. No one loves me as much as I think they should.” Madam you bore me.
I think that is an internet rumor.
I looked it up on the Illinois bar website. It is inactive, which a lot of attorneys do when they are not actively practicing law. Keeps them from having to keep up with CLEs and paying license fees.
If you have information showing she “lost” her license, please let me know. Same with Obama.
Is that for real?
I worked at a nursing home for two and a half years and they employed a lot of black men and women. Some were nurses or in supervisory positions. They had names such as Mary, Sheila, Kevin, Eddie, David, Brooke. All were smart and hard workers. Names do matter.
It is obviously racism that whites do not want to rape blacks.
If a white guy named his son “Turd Head” you can safely assume the kid’s daddy is a dummy. And since nuts don’t fall far from the tree you can safely assume the kid has some of his daddy’s genes.
Now, if the kid is named Richard he’ll have to prove that he’s a dummy. But at least he gets the chance to prove it. Bobi-Ma-Ha-Ha and his sister Miraclewhip ain’t gettin’ hired.
I have never bought that theory where an arrogant person is really suffering from a feeling of inferiority. I think it is what it looks like: Arrogance.
I think Michelle was raised on and thrived by hating and blaming whites. She has now found herself in a life that proves the opposite. So she is desperately clinging to that familiar crutch. She does not know how to let go of it. But make no mistake, part of that crutch theory is that blacks are better than whites.
Wow! Good for Denzel!
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