Posted on 06/04/2009 9:03:35 AM PDT by Tolik
So Michelle Obama describes the fear that Sotomayor felt at Princeton — and its lasting effects to this day — and then compares it, of course, to Michelle's own ambiguous feelings toward the same Princeton campus (cf. Michelle's thesis for the details), that one is willing to put up with for the education and prestige it gave, but does not really like for the presence of apparently so many stuck-up, rich, preppy kids and their ubiquitous exclusive campus culture.
Three or four observations:
One would have thought with the presidency, or nomination to the Supreme Court, or with the office of Attorney General, or First Lady, such hurt feelings and old grievances might wane; but instead the resentment seems to be ubiquious, and growing, and the lectures will be with us for the next four years in almost every imaginable circumstance. If the administration is not careful, millions of Americans are going to begin feeling that they are caricatured pretty much as those once were in rural Pennsylvania
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Is It Going to Be Race and Resentment — All the Time?
Is this a rhetorical question?
If the administration is not careful, millions of Americans are going to begin feeling that they are caricatured pretty much as those once were in rural Pennsylvania
I'm hoping the Supreme Narcissist remains true to form and succeeds in alienating a huge percentage of the living dead who voted for him.
Why should we be the only ones to suffer?
Of course the rage and bitterness will grow as the “Others” seize more and more power. The question is whether the “silent majority” will do anything, or just suck their thumbs in the corner.
Obama is remaking the nation as fast as he can. Will he get away with it, or are there still enough actual Americans to take back their country?
Was California’s anti-tax spasm a one-off? Or the beginning of a meaningful awakening?
>>>If the administration is not careful, millions of Americans are going to begin feeling that they are caricatured pretty much as those once were in rural Pennsylvania.<<<
Those of us who spent most of our adult life working in the media and academia having been feeling this for decades. In fact, let me do a little Sotomayor right here and use my own ethnic background - Russian Jew - as a filter through which I see these attitudes about race and ethnicity.
White Christian men are the Jews of multicultural America. White Christian men are accused of all sorts of crimes, both real and imagined, and the worst accusation against them is that they have attained wealth, power, and prestige using the labor and property of their neighbors. The multicultural left has stereotyped the white male using the same kind of libel and myth that central and eastern Europeans used against the Jews.
Just like the Jews were accused of all sorts of perversions and conspiracies, white men are accused of a foggy “patriarchy” and portrayed in the media as killers, highly-placed psychopaths, or dunces.
This accounts for the slavering stories, repeated since the 1980s, that someday “whites” will be a minority in the United States. It’s a timeline set by the multicultural left which informs them when they can finally take their hatred to their final solution.
Like Orwell pointed out, the left always needs an enemy. Tell a person for their entire lives that white men have stolen their land, property, prosperity, and ability to succeed, and it’s no surprise you get twisted race hatred from some of those people, and some of those people achieve positions of power. As Rush is saying right now, these people are angry - at those who don’t look like themselves.
God help my son, whose Italian-Jewish ancestry makes him a target for their hatred.
I wonder if she resents the part of her children that is white?
I wonder if she hated Obama's grandparents who raised him and were white, and if she had known his mother, would she have hated her too?
It is Michelle's open disdain for those with whom she had problems and her continued cataloging all white Americans in the same category that is creating more problems. I never cared about race, I never used that as a point to judge others...but obviously Michelle, Barack and their minions do. So instead of soothing relations, helping to build a more united future, giving thanks that our country has come so far...the Obamas are continually reflecting on the past, making the African American race more angry by pouring oil on dead fires, and causing white Americans to have little trust in the Obamas' intentions.
They are one angry couple and have evidently decided to strike back at everyone every time they can for injustices they felt that probably only a few caused. I am tired of their whining and spiteful attitudes. They need to grow up. Forgive. And get on with living in the present where there are those who would like to do so with them and never had a problem with race in the first place.
I think that Michelle Obama inwardly realizes how boring she really is.
So, it’ll be the race game, the identity politics, the gender thing and all the rest — to declare, “Don’t ignore me, and if you find me boring, I’ll just pore it on more and more and make you listen.”
I don’t think she’ll ever come out of her closet of knowing how boring she is and how people really, really don’t care a hoot about who she is and what she says.
Her Princeton paper reeked of that “I shouldn’t be here feeling, and only through affirmative action did I ever get here in the first place” — and so it continues.
“millions of Americans are going to begin feeling that they are caricatured pretty much as those once were in rural Pennsylvania”
Albiet a year too late- pisser ain’t it.
excellent post - you put a vague feeling I’ve had for awhile into concrete words.
I’ve got 4 white boys I’m raising and I’m determined they should not feel guilty and ashamed just for being born.
One would have thought with the presidency, or nomination to the Supreme Court, or with the office of Attorney General, or First Lady, such hurt feelings and old grievances might wane...
The problem is that "hurt feelings" and "old grievances" are merely an extension of the useless and destructive (indeed, demonic) emotion of "self-pity".
Self-pity cannot be satisfied or rectified. It can only be overcome by courage and self-responsibility for one's state in life.
That is why Michele, even as she is now FLOTUS, still harbors feelings of anger for her alma mater, her country, and those of other races. At the root of her personality and emotional relationship with life is that sour, negative, ugly little childish emotion of "why me?"
That's the very thing that Jeremiah Wright tapped into during those 20 years of "G-d D*mn America" and "let's get whitey." The reason, to state the obvious, that Obama and Michelle loved this church was that all this talk of victimhood fit them like a comfy old shoe.
This is what Obama and Michelle are leading America and the world to...this is their example! And this will be their legacy!
It also means that if the First Lady is injecting herself into policy matters, then she becomes fair game for politicing.
Is It Going to Be Race and Resentment — All the Time?
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YES. What do you expect from them? It has served them well. Here is how he spent that big date in New York with Michelle.
“The nation’s first black president was in town for a date night with his wife Saturday night that included a play about the sons and daughters of newly freed slaves.”
My parents are Indian, and I went to Harvard. I did not feel “alienated”, and I don’t remember other Indians feeling that way either. Maybe that’s because we were academically qualified for the schools we attended and had real majors to keep us busy!
God help all our children.
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