Michelle, is that you?
No good deed goes unpunished.
Instead of impugning a whole race, which is wrong, let’s resort to paraphrasing the old Salem cigarette commercial from now on!
You can take Michelle Obama out of the ghetto but you can’t take the ghetto out of Michelle Obama!
Michelle, is that you?
What a horribly racist thing to do.
Off with her head!
Well then. By now you should have a garage full of cool cars, eh?
Imagine if that had been Laura Bush lamenting that a peasant didn’t recognize her and asked her to reach something on a shelf. This woman is every bit as narcissistic as her husband. And perhaps she never heard of Google to help her keep her stories straight. And what incompetent staff the Obamas must have to allow them to continually put their feet in their mouths.
What is most amazing is that this is the only example of Racism against her she can remember.
Little old ladies ask me to help them get things off the top shelf ALL THE TIME! I am mostly white. I enjoy helping them, common human courtesy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have both been asked by strangers for help and have asked strangers for help. Never really occurred to me to tell folks about it. But then it must be because I’m a white guy.
Being 1st lady doesn’t preclude her from helping someone. Her choices were:
a) Help, it’s what most of us would do.
b) Don’t help as obviously this person didn’t know she was the high and mighty Queen of the USA. Maybe she wasn’t carrying her scepter and wearing the tiara.
c) Don’t help and claim racism - because obviously a tall woman being asked to help with something on a shelf is waaaaaysis.
A couple months ago while walking through Home Depot an older gentleman in a wheel chair asked me where something was located in the store. I said, “Sorry Sir, I don’t work here and don’t know” The man said, “Well dammit you should, it’ll keep you busy and out of trouble” Laughed with him, talked a moment, and left the store thinking what a cool old guy he was. I suspect in the same scenario, Mrs. Obama would have asked Eric Holder to launch a civil rights investigation...
I had on a business suit the day after Christmas and went shopping at Bloomingdale.
A lady walked up to me seeking assistance.
Informed her I didn’t work there and we laughed.
Stupid contrivance.
Racism can be a ‘thought crime’, evident to the offended but not necessarily to the ‘perpetrator!’ Yes, history has shown us OVERT racism in ‘de Jure’ laws, separate facilities and inferior schools, but that is NOT what is spoke of today as racism. Now it is the victimhood, the police violence against violent youth and adults, the ‘subtle’ denial of prejudice when confronted with statistics about black-on-black violence, rape culture in rap music and other evidence of self-suicide! Uncle Tom accusations of the ones striving to make it better for themselves and their families by succeeding academically.
Yes, we must all make the effort, but the current leaders of the ‘racism’ causes must look, in THEIR mirrors for those making the situation worse, not better. I seem to remember a President who claimed ‘stupid cops’ as a cause before even hearing the full story! Almost all religions (I don’t know all so I keep from absolutes) council that one must FIRST look in the mirror before charging evil to a perceived antagonist!
New rules? What if you can’t find an employee, can you ask a fellow shopper for help? Not if they are black? If you are white, you can’t ask a tall black person to help you get something down? If I’m black, can I ask a tall white person for help? If I’m black and a white person asks me for help, I should rant a rave and claim racism?
Perhaps Target should post the rules.
Yeah, but she prolly took Air Force One to get there!
Oh good grief. As a short person, I ask the nearest approachable taller person to reach stuff on the top shelf. But, sure, go ahead and pretend you’re insulted because you seemed approachable.