I agree, the president’s race has nothing to do with anything. Being black will not help him fix the economy or defeat terrorists. But this was the first lady, and first ladies traditionally take up causes that are less partisan and closer to home: literacy and saying no to drugs, for example. In this case, she was talking to a bunch of predominantly black school kids from a poor part of Washington D.C. If she can show them that it’s okay for a black kid to speak proper English and study hard, that’s all to the good.
So if someone says that you “talk like a black girl”...is that racist?