They were asking for a little respect for somebody who got into the kind of situation that some people then or now do get into and asking that people listen to her story and not attack her in a knee-jerk fashion -- not running down a whole generation.
So many people respond to just about anything by calling the person who tells a personal tale of woe an idiot. It doesn't take much brains to slap on labels like that either.
FWIW, Obama's mom, a 50s girl, apparently got married to a guy who already had a wife. Things like that did and do happen to people in every generation, and Chesler is telling her story (one more time) in the hope that fewer women will go through the same experience.
Obama’s mom and her family were nuts
Outliers and then some
How many white cornfed girls in 1960 at barely 18 would find themselves knocked up by a black African man already married
And abandoned by him runs off with a Muslim oriental man to the third world dragging Barry along only to dump him later in Hawaii with her red diaper parents
These folks were kooks insofar as white middle Americans go....man just look at the company they kept....but like all of it the media ignores
And just look what fun it has brought us all
By comparison this naive Jewish woman seems sane
Pity Ann Dunham couldn’t have just been happy singing folks songs in some coffee shop in Honolulu
Obama acts like he is totally unaware of his inner racial conflict but methinks it defines him
As it does so many push come to shove....
Anyhow I sure always knew Islam was primitive and dangerous....and I’m a 60s kid