Posted on 06/20/2008 11:52:07 AM PDT by theothercheek
The MSM is at a loss to understand why Michelle Obama got tagged as an “angry black woman,” and is bending over backwards to disabuse working class men and woman - in particular - of this notion. Case in point, this fawning profile in The New York Times, which was unintentionally revealing in ways that support the lingering concerns some voters have about her takeaway message from 20 years of listening to Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s sermons.
Here’s Michelle Obama in action as VP of Community Affairs at the University of Chicago Medical Center in 2001:
Hospital brass had gathered to break ground for a children’s building when African-American protesters broke in with bullhorns, drowning out the proceedings with demands that the hospital award more contracts to minority firms. …But were these firms the most experienced in hospital construction? Were their bids the most competitive? The Times doesn’t say, leading the reader to wonder whether factors such as these entered into the contract-awarding process at all.She revised the contracting system, sending so much business to firms owned by women and other minorities that the hospital won awards.
A “Community Affairs” executive is typically part spokesperson for his or her employer and part ombudsman. Michelle Obama expanded her role and “altered the hospital’s research agenda,” according to The Times:
When the human papillomavirus vaccine, which can prevent cervical cancer, became available, researchers proposed approaching local school principals about enlisting black teenage girls as research subjects.Anyone who knows the facts about the Tuskegee experiment understands that (a) the government did not infect black men with syphilis, as Rev. Wright so often charged; (b) the men under observation had gotten the STD the typical way and were in the tertiary-stage, thus were no longer contagious; (c) one of the reasons the men weren’t treated was that no proven remedies were then available; and (d) the experiment was carried out “with the full knowledge, endorsement and participation of African-American medical professionals, hospitals and research institutes,” according to University of Chicago professor Richard Schweder.Mrs. Obama stopped that. The prospect of white doctors performing a trial with black teenage girls summoned the specter of the Tuskegee syphilis experiment of the mid-20th century, when white doctors let hundreds of black men go untreated to study the disease [emphasis, The Stiletto].
The Times elides Michelle Obama’s motivation for putting the kibosh on the vaccine trial by informing readers that the participants in the Tuskegee experiment were untreated, but not stating whether she believed they had been deliberately infected. Reading between the lines, one can surmise that Michelle Obama halted a medical trial aimed at slowing the spread of a potentially fatal STD amongst the black population – exactly what the Tuskegee experiment was aiming to accomplish – because she did not understand the facts as her colleague Schweder does, but as her now-ex-pastor Wright does.
But wait, there’s more:
“I hate diversity workshops,” she says. “Real change comes from having enough comfort to be really honest and say something very uncomfortable.” …Michelle Obama can’t possibly hate diversity workshops more than white Americans who are continually on the receiving end of a “brutally honest” approach where only one side is allowed to be brutal and there isn’t all that much honesty about just what – if anything – whites today “owe” blacks for slavery and Jim Crow, injustices that occurred two or more generations before they were born or their ancestors even got here.Mrs. Obama has already had to check her brutally honest approach to talking about race. Now she co-stars in a campaign that would as soon mute most discussion of race.
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Everyone here at FR knew the makeover of Michelle’s “Attitude” was in the works. I doubt you will see her giving anymore speeches because she just can’t help but reveal her true self.
She is what she is, and most clear thinkers in America know exactly what that is.
Any makeover will only appear disingenuous and contrived.
Queue the video...
It’s because she is “an angry black woman” who hates Whites and the USA.
Michelle and Barack are on the cover of US magazine this week, with the quote, ‘Why I married Michelle’. And if that isn’t enough to turn your stomach, Newsweek, I think, has an article about John Kerry, in which an unnamed source hints that he’d like to be Obama’s Secretary of State! Oh, boy!
She's in it till election night... and it's because of her “tude”... that she will be caught again and again in revealing her true “personality”.
“Big Mouth” Michelle (a term she called herself in MSM) who attended Harvard by using minority preference status at taxpayer dollars expense is “just now proud of her country” after all these years of milking the system. MSM feels compelled to make Big Mouth Michelle acceptable to the American voters by political spinning. Yuck!
What are you on about, everyone knows black people aren't racist.
I saw some of her appearance on The View. She looks like a clenched fist, comes off as very angry and extremely STUPID too. Her sentences don’t track. She used the word diversity three or four times per sentence. She is a TOTAL IDIOT.
Nothing they can do to, for, or with her will make her seem ladylike, gracious, or intelligent. She is, I swear, the worst of the worst. Unimaginable that she’d ever live in the White House.
If she'd lived most of her life having to deal with "others" she might be prepared. I'd imagine she finds DC's socio-political culture to be absolutely frightening since it does not follow her rules.
Nothing follows the rules she has made for herself and expects the rest of us to follow. She fond this out at Yale and beyond.
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