Posted on 05/12/2015 9:31:29 AM PDT by jazusamo
First lady Michelle Obama may know the names of the worlds most famous clothes designers, and she may even know how to dance the Uptown Funk, but judging from her commencement speech to the graduates of a historically black university in Alabama, Americas race-baiting FLOTUS knows nothing about great American civil rights leader, accomplished scholar, and founder of Tuskegee University, the late Booker T. Washington.
Michelle Obamas remarks at the commencement sounded more like she was paying homage to W.E.B. DuBois, who believed in civil rights via agitation and political activism, than DuBois adversary, ex-slave Booker Taliaferro Washington, who wrote in 1911:
There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.
In a message that smacked of thin-skinned ungratefulness and hostility, Obama complained about the emotional toll shes endured as Americas first black first lady. If Mrs. Obama had taken the time to read Booker T.s autobiography, Up from Slavery, she would have known that stirring up racial animosity is an approach the author shunned.
It was Booker T. who once pointed out that great men cultivate love, and
only little men cherish a spirit of hatred. Yet the FLOTUS clearly thought that a Tuskegee commencement was as good a place as any to bring up the on-stage celebratory fist bump between [her] and [her] husband
that was referred to as terrorist fist jab.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
This is a very telling snippet regarding the FLOTUS, snipper...
Key quote... “There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.” — Booker T. Washington, Founder.
Truth be told, her intended audience outside the Tuskegee walls also have never read BTW, btw.
Had they both been white she’d never get in.
I wonder if her audience was disgusted with her remarks. The bobble head sitting next to her was agreeing. I hope that the young college graduates (which is no easy feat) have been raised to learn that you use your brain and not your skin color to get where you want to go. It’s very hard to feel sorry for the Mooch who uses their very own taxpayer money like an ATM machine. I would like to hear an audience member interviewed to see what they really thought of her self serving pathetic speech.
Thank you so much for posting the article...no need to ever apologize. Blessings to you! Jeannie
Thank you, Jeannie. I do feel bad for forgetting to list you as the author.
It’s an excellent article!
No worries...it’s the message getting out that I’m most concerned about.
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