Posted on 10/29/2019 11:32:27 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Michelle Obama says she "can't make people not afraid of black people," but can "pick away at the scabs of discrimination" through her life's work.
"As people doubted us coming through — 'Are you Princeton material? Can you really make the grade?' Can you cut it?' — what do you do in those instances? All you can do is put your head down and do the work and let the work, your truth, speak for itself," the former first lady said Tuesday at the Obama Foundation Summit in Chicago.
"I can't make people not afraid of black people. I don't know what's going on. I can't explain what's happening in your head," Obama, 55, continued.
"But maybe if I show up every day as a human, a good human, doing wonderful things, loving my family, loving our kids, taking care of things that I care about — maybe, just maybe that work will pick away at the scabs of our discrimination. Maybe that will slowly unravel it.
"That's all we have," Obama said to applause. "Because we can't do it for them, because they're broken. Their brokenness in how they see us is a reflection of this brokenness. And you can't fix that. All you can do is the work."
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It's interesting.
The advice she's giving black people so white people aren't afraid of black people is for black people to act responsibly.
When white people see blacks acting responsibly, white people will no longer be afraid of blacks.
This is apparently how black people can help 'broken' white people.
Michelle is still thinking about it.
Jess Jackson implied he was afraid of Black People.
“There is nothing more painful to me … than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery, then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved.”
Big Media needs him in the closet for another five years, so they can keep telling us how much more beautiful he is than Melania Trump.
people are individuals. nobody was afraid of Bill Cosby, back before his scandals. Nobody is afraid of Oprah, even if they don’t like her. But people naturally are afraid of those who try to look intimidating and tribal, in the sense of being hostile to people outside the tribe, regardless of skin color.
Don’t be a person who scares old people and little kids, and the world will look at you better.
Double negative = Scrambled Moochbrain.
How many times is the woman going to whine about someone thinking she wasn’t Princeton material? You know what, Michelle, you weren’t Princeton material. You’re an affirmative action case whose brother was a basketball star at the school. Get over it.
If she is an example black person then why wouldn’t people be afraid of blacks. I mean, she’s a white-hating and anti-American racist.
Am I a Blackophobe?
Is Blackophobia gonna be a thing now, Mike?
Who is safer, a White Kid walking through a Black Neighborhood at night or a Black Kid walking through a White Neighborhood at night?
Just askin’...
Knowing that if she does, she'll have to go up against Trump. That scares the living crap out of her. Trump would tear her apart and kick her in the balls.
Two of my children are black. No one we come in contact with is afraid of them.
You certainly do not help.
...but does she really want to have her life’s work described as “picking scabs”? I thought the left idolized the Obamas as the people who embodied grace and dignity.
Unfortunate imagery that leaves people recoiling in disgust.
From Christopher Hitchens:
"I direct your attention to Mrs. Obama’s 1985 thesis at Princeton University. Its title (rather limited in scope, given the author and the campus) is ‘Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community.’ To describe it as hard to read would be a mistake; the thesis cannot be ‘read’ at all, in the strict sense of the verb. This is because it wasn’t written in any known language."
I'd say she has her work cut out for her.
Because people can detect manors/respect almost instantaneously.
First thing that popped in my head..
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