Posted on 05/08/2015 8:55:50 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
1.) Michelle Obama: “Museums And Concert Halls” Just Don’t Welcome Non-White Kids
First lady Michelle Obama used a speech Monday that was supposed to celebrate the opening of a new museum, to instead increase the racial divide that’s been growing ever wider during her husband’s presidency.
“Museums and concert halls,” she said, just don’t welcome non-white visitors – especially children – the way they welcome whites.
“You see, there are so many kids in this country who look at places like museums and concert halls and other cultural centers and they think to themselves, well, that’s not a place for me, for someone who looks like me, for someone who comes from my neighborhood. In fact, I guarantee you that right now, there are kids living less than a mile from here who would never in a million years dream that they would be welcome in this museum.
“And growing up on the South Side of Chicago, I was one of those kids myself. So I know that feeling of not belonging in a place like this. And today, as first lady, I know how that feeling limits the horizons of far too many of our young people.
My Opinion: She’s right. There are black children who feel that way. It isn’t that the museums wouldn’t welcome them, it’s what they are hearing at home. Things like being told that wanting to learn makes you “too white,” or “education is for sissies, join a gang instead.” Even “Who do you think you are, you’ll never make it out of here.” But it’s just so much easier to blame Whitey isn’t it? In fact, for the left it’s a Win-Win!! Blacks are encouraged to remain on the Democrat Plantation, Win #1; and Whites are encouraged to spend yet another generation wallowing...
(Excerpt) Read more at coachisright.com ...
I am mentoring a beautiful young lady of mixed race.
While in conversation about friends, one of the first things she was to tell me when I asked if she was having trouble being accepted at school, her answer was some but not much. Then she replied that blacks were more biased than anyone. Always comparing the color of her skin saying “ you aren’t black enough, you haven’t suffered! “. Well, she has suffered & it hasn’t all been because of the color of her skin.
What will it take to get past how we look? Shallow couldn’t have a better description.
About a decade ago, here in So Cal, a science teacher had the NERVE (read ‘courage’) to say, “The thing nobody talks about in these inner-city schools (where he taught) is that the black kids are out of control. They act up, they fight... etc.”
You should have heard the uproar. He was fired. However, he was elected to the school board shortly thereafter, and is now finishing up a PhD in Education at a local University here in LA.
Oh wait. They do.
It's called the Modern Art collection
Michelle likes to blame society for the lack of cultural experiences for black children. She said that growing up in Chicago she did not feel welcome in concerts or museums. The last I looked, Chicago is an integrated city, and there are no boundaries for anyone....even when Michelle was a child.
Perhaps her uncomfortable feelings can be traced to the fact that her parents did not take the opportunity to bring her to museums and concerts...many of which are free and open to the public.
I do understand, on a certain level, what she is trying to say. So many children truly are disadvantaged. But, she and all Democrats have encouraged much of this disparity by their policies which keep them in generational poverty and family crisis.
serial hit and run poster strikes again
Don't believe that for a second. . .but if true, perhaps it is because these sons and daughters of obozo don't know how to behave respectfully and reverently when in a museum. . .heck, ever go to a movie where a bunch of sons and daughters of obozo are there? Noisy, yakking, shrieking, texting and acting up.
Same with museums, I imagine.
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