I grew up in the same little town where my parents grew up. Because of this there were histories at play. Some people liked my parents and some didn’t.
I didn’t grow up disliking anyone because my parents didn’t like them. In fact in some cases people with longstanding rivalries with my parents became people I liked. Others who chose to treat me poorly because of past rivalries with my parents are people I grew to dislike.
I saw similar longstanding emnity from many whose families had been around nearly as long to a fraction of that time, and some strains of bitterness even within the extended family.
While I knew the reasons, I did not permit the actions of people as much as a couple hundred years ago affect my interaction with others descended from them, although the same cannot be said for others on both sides of the fence.
Character, it may be said, is learned at mother's knee and father's hand, and seems to be passed as a standard from generation to generation. There are those who decide at some point in life that they desire to be of better character (or worse) and act accordingly.
Despite the prejudices I have been exposed to (which incidentally, were decidedly not racial, but oriented toward individual families), I thankfully inherited/embraced my parent's tendency to grant a civil amount of common respect to people and let them advance or diminish that from there.
That has served them well with anyone from the lowest to the uppermost social strata, and in the absence of prejudicial hostility by others has greatly aided them in life.
As for the Obamas and others of their general political philosophies, there is enough grist for the mill without ever mentioning things which can be construed as "racial" or "racist".
In reality, the things being done to this country are an abombination, regardless of who is doing them.
If we stay focused on the actions of the actors rather than the immutable attributes of the actors themselves, we will have plenty to discuss.
That includes inappropriate dress, and we can find a way to state that without hounding the obvious and being branded as racists for our efforts.
IMHO, everyone needs to go back and re-read Ann Coulter's comments on liberals and "victims" and avoid falling into that trap.
As for their children, no matter how 'savvy' they seem, they are still being used to make political points, and even trotted out as 'victims' of our emnity, even though they have been set up to be such when the inevitable comments ensue.
What other family of standing, much less the "first family" would sally forth abroad dressed in what appear to be garments salvaged from the goodwill bin?
Why would anyone in their right mind permit their children to represent America thus?
Why would their 'handlers' and protocol people not quit their jobs in frustration over such attire?
The only reason I can come up with is that this was planned and the results (reactions) are in...enabling the press to consume airtime and sound bytes and column inches and webpages with what awful "haters" we are while obscuring the actual events of the meetings of State.
In so doing, a mere handful of posters, who may be trolls planting 'evidence' have provided the smoke for the smokescreen.