Guys, chill on the rhetoric. I’m no Obama supporter, but what she said sounded reasonable to me. Up until the 1960’s the game was fixed against minorities and she explained that correctly.
With that said, since about 1965 minorities have had zero to complain about in terms of equality and have still not made the progress we all would have expected. MLK’s speech, in my opinion was a Civil Rights victory speech......not the ‘call to arms’ that it still gets potrayed as.
The ‘Black’ condition as it is in America today, is on blacks themselves.....and has nothing to do with white people or ‘the man’ or the government. That’s just a fact that most troubled minorites still can’t accept.
You think Michelle sounded reasonable? What are you smoking?
Michelle Obama: Barack And I Welcome Criticism From The Media
In China, Michelle Obama touts freedom of speech, religion
http://news.yahoo.com/china-michelle-obama-touts-freedom-speech-religion-130206442.html
Are you familiar with the Hobby Lobby case? And freedom of speech? Really?
NYT reporter: Obama administration ‘the greatest enemy of press freedom’ in a generation
James Brown was a success (and ran businesses, he wasn’t just a performer/band leader) prior to 1965. And he said openly that it could only have happened in America for him to go from shining shoes on the steps of a civic auditorium to being able to headline inside there.
The Black Panthers and other Marxist separatist groups were resentful of his wealth and capitalist enterprises.