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Michelle Obama In Hot Water Over Racial Slur
Mad World News ^ | JUNE 26, 2014 | AMANDA SHEA

Posted on 06/26/2014 7:56:38 PM PDT by kingattax

It seems as though the racist accusations have turned on First Lady Michelle Obama after she made a grammar gaffe on Monday while speaking about part-time job salaries. Unlike when she inappropriately slanders someone or something for being racist, in her recent offending comments she was in fact acting the part.

The First Lady used the word “gypped” while describing the earnings for part-time jobs, with specific regard to when she herself was a working mother as an ABC news reporter at the White House Summit on Working Families. The remark is now drawing some criticism from media outlets for the racial slur.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: flotus; flotusmichelle; gypsy; romani; slur
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To: kingattax

Michelle Obama was a news reporter? When?


2 posted on 06/26/2014 7:59:18 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: kingattax

I’ll be the first to admit, I did not know ~gypped~ was a racial slur. Learned something new today.


3 posted on 06/26/2014 7:59:57 PM PDT by deoetdoctrinae (Gun-free zones are playgrounds for felons.)
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To: kingattax

After everything she’s done, this is what she’s in “hot water” for? That’s a common phrase that I’ve heard throughout my over five decades.


4 posted on 06/26/2014 8:00:08 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
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To: kingattax

Yeah, I’m sure her mindless followers will leave her in droves. Come on.


5 posted on 06/26/2014 8:02:21 PM PDT by Politicalkiddo (The more helpless the victim, the more hideous the assault.)
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To: kingattax

“Gypped” is a word I and most I knew used now and then as kids and young adults and we had no idea where the word came from. It just meant cheated to us.

But Moochelle and most adults now should well know where it comes from in these PC times.


6 posted on 06/26/2014 8:03:20 PM PDT by Will88
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Give me a break. Whoever it is that is upset needs to get a life. MO should NOT apologize. Her comment clearly was not intended with malice.


7 posted on 06/26/2014 8:06:21 PM PDT by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. ~Steve Earle)
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To: deoetdoctrinae

Yeah, she said “gypped”. She meant to say ‘jewed”.


8 posted on 06/26/2014 8:06:26 PM PDT by fhayek
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To: afraidfortherepublic

They put the demonstrators into a Paddy Wagon and drove them off to jail.

How many people complain about this term..?

None, because Irish have LIVES.


9 posted on 06/26/2014 8:07:12 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: deoetdoctrinae

in her defense, no one knows where that comes from. It’s like when you say there is a “chink in the armor”


10 posted on 06/26/2014 8:07:51 PM PDT by equalator
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11 posted on 06/26/2014 8:08:53 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

At one point she gave the Romani some respect, but it turns out she’s an indian giver.


12 posted on 06/26/2014 8:09:11 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy ("Harvey Dent, can we trust him?" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBsdV--kLoQ)
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To: deoetdoctrinae

Gypped is supposed to be derived from Gypsy. Today, that’s considered racist against Gypsies or as they are otherwise known the Roma. As another poster indicated, it is akin to saying someone “jewed you down.”


13 posted on 06/26/2014 8:10:30 PM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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I’ll be the first to admit, I did not know ~gypped~ was a racial slur. Learned something new today.

I still don't see how it's a racial slur. Just one more thing for someone in the 2% to whine about.

14 posted on 06/26/2014 8:11:25 PM PDT by bgill
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Seems pretty niggardly of them to go after her for that.


15 posted on 06/26/2014 8:12:10 PM PDT by dfwgator
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“gypped” comes from “gypsy” which comes from “egyptian”.


16 posted on 06/26/2014 8:15:19 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (We have met the enemy and he is us.)
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To: fhayek

how many gypsies are there left to offend? gypsies aren’t just one race of people. they came from a bunch of different countries and peoples. and for the large part they earned that reputation.

if she had said jewed, that’d be a different story.


17 posted on 06/26/2014 8:16:09 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: fhayek

Yeah, she said “gypped”. She meant to say ‘jewed”.

At least it wasn’t “welshed.”


18 posted on 06/26/2014 8:16:49 PM PDT by kaehurowing (FIGHT BULLYING, UNINSTALL FIREFOX)
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To: gaijin

Well I hope they don’t get off scot-free!


19 posted on 06/26/2014 8:17:19 PM PDT by kaehurowing (FIGHT BULLYING, UNINSTALL FIREFOX)
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...or WASPed


20 posted on 06/26/2014 8:17:35 PM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights
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