Posted on 12/17/2014 6:40:04 AM PST by COUNTrecount
The Obamas talked with People magazine about dealing with their "own racist experiences," as the magazine described.
Michelle Obama told one story that recently took place, even as she was first lady of the United States.
"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.
She also said that her husband, Barack Obama, was asked to get coffee when he was wearing a tux. "He was wearing a tuxedo at a black-tie dinner, and somebody asked him to get coffee," she told People.
The president told his own experiences. "There's no black male my age, who's a professional, who hasn't come out of a restaurant and is waiting for their car and somebody didn't hand them their car keys," Obama told the magazine.
Maybe your "son" shouldn't saunter down the middle of the street with stolen blunts and crawl into a cop car and go for his gun. Maybe your "son" shouldn't sneak around apartment complexes looking like a robber, bash people's heads into cement sidewalks and go for the neighborhood watch's gun. Maybe your criminal "son" should have learned from his past offenses not to continue breaking the law over and over and over again. Maybe your "sons" shouldn't loot, burn down businesses and destroy their neighborhoods.
True Dat!!
certainly qualifies for the Nobel Peace Prize
Someone asked the tall, poorly dressed person to help her get something off a high shelf, and that was racist because Michelle Obama is black?
I’m surprised. I’ve been the tall, poorly-dressed person in Target who was asked to help reach things many times. I always assumed it was because of my height. Does that request mean I’m black and never knew it?
Good news, you are at least as black as Barry !
certainly qualifies for the Nobel Fiction Prize
There, I fixed it.
That’s even worse.
If someone asked me to get something off the shelf at Target, I’d help them. I am 5’11’, too.
She has an enormous chip on her shoulder.
What a bunch a lying idiots. I have been asked to get something off the shelf at Walmart myself a couple of times. It was because the little old ladies could not reach it. These idiots expect to be treated like kings and queens. I say we treat her the same way the French treated their queen.
Yeah, white people don’t work at Target.
White folks should have their own pity party with blacks as the criminals, violent offenders and plain old jerks.
I have three or four interactions with blacks (over the years) that would show them to be assh*les - and me to be an innocent victim.
What do you think Liz - should be do a ‘white pity party’ thread.
Go away.
Oh, and bring me a coffee.
Mooch, after you deliver coffee to Coyote, ESAD.
ANYTHING any Cracka says to a Holders Person is racist, don’t ya know?
Of course its bullshite. Da Ho was surrounded by guys in suits with dark glasses. Doubtful anyone got within 30 feet of her.
Everything these bullshite artists say is pure BS.
Lots of white folks work at Target. Is she saying it’s beneath her to do that kind of work.
I’ve asked people taller than me to reach items on a top shelf. I’ve also handed items to children or those who are in wheelchairs.
Michelle, it’s called being nice!
I am also thankful when someone holds a door open for me.
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And here we would think that the term
“elitist victims”
would be an oxymoron.
You just have to wonder what it will take for these people to stop using the frickin’ race card——it’s used non-stop-—solely to impose their will on the rest of us.
They act like this was the Deep South several generations ago.
The man was elected president, for God’s sake. Isn’t that enough?
Americans have thrown zillions of tax dollars at the problem—enacted hundred of laws-—stood by while affirmative action gave some mental defective preference and white kids were thrown under the bus.
Frankly, Americans have just about had it.
From the way she looks in this picture, the lady probably thought Mochilla was a fellow shoplifter. The lady that asked her for help was probably black also thereby doubling down on the racist comment.
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