Posted on 05/13/2015 8:46:35 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
Michelle Obama’s commencement speech at Tuskegee Institute was a shameless litany of all the problems Blacks HAD over their history in America and those she felt had personally harmed her. Allowing that Blacks have made ANY progress whatsoever, especially in the past fifty years, would be absolutely not possible in the world she and her husband inhabit.
Tuskegee Institute is a relative success story among the Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU.) It was founded in 1881 and one of its driving forces was a former slave named Booker T. Washington, a man who recognized the opportunities that were presented to him, other former slaves and their decedents in post-Civil War America. Washington was a leader of the African American community until his death in 1915.
One of Washington’s strongest enemies was W.E. B. Dubois who Washington saw as a fake who was more interested lining his pockets than helping Black people. If he was alive today Washington would be revolted by Michelle Obama’s “Woe is me and thee” speech, given at his beloved Tuskegee Institute. Here’s what Washington had to say about people like her and DuBois more than one hundred years ago.
“There is another class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.”
Michelle’s speech played on the fact that over the past fifty years...
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There is no irony. It’s a calculated attack on the psyche of the U.S.
Michelle is Caucaphobic - she has an irrational fear of whites.
Thanks for the heads up.
“See who you are not allowed to criticize, and you will know who lords over you.”
Hilary is ready to take that baton from the Obamas.
Booker T. Washington is a hero. People like the Obama couldn’t hold a candle to him.
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