Michelle Obama gave a commencement speech to the graduating class at Tuskegee University over the weekend, a historically black college. In what many are calling a truly powerful speech, the first lady stood in front of the podium and left it all out on the stage. She opened up about her inner-most feelings, and revealed struggles that she personally battled growing up, despite the criticism that has been continuously levied against her, and despite all her challenges.
And, yes, you guessed it — race was also a part of the speech. But, it’s an historically black college — one such college created, you know, because blacks weren’t allowed into white schools back in the day. They have a history, black colleges. This can’t be denied.
So, what do angry white conservatives do? They took this small portion of her speech and immediately began crying “double standard,” shouting at the tops of their lungs that Michelle Obama is creating a “further racial divide in America.” But, “What about the white people?” they say.
Every conservative media outlet is accusing Michelle Obama of playing the race card now. Every one of their conservative readers are just dumbfounded by her speech. “We’re not racist!” they say. “How dare you, Michelle Obama!”
They madly took to the internet to voice their disbelief about the continued existence of racism in America, with you guessed it, more racist comments:
Doors56:
I know I’m shallow but how does anyone find her/she/it attractive?
Pic via The Blaze.
Chris L. had this to say:
That creature looks like she just stepped off of a planet of the apes movie set.
This next racist comment was so badly written that we are including it as comical relief:
so blacks made white people be racist to them? If one of blacks problem is racism, then who started the problem bigot. your to high strung on your male feminine emotions to understand. go drown yourself in something chocolate ice cream, think oprahly.
THE HATE RUNS DEEP IN THAT ONE. WE REST OUR CASE.
Pic via You Tube.
Despite all the hate coming from the right, Michelle used the “race rhetoric” to give a truly positive message to the young crowd:
All of the chatter, the name-calling, the doubting, all of it was just noise. It did not define me, it didn’t change who I was, and most importantly, it couldn’t hold me back.
Watch First Lady Michelle Obama give one of the best speeches of her entire life:
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Wonderful inspiring, truthful speech, Michelle. Why are the conservatives screeching like banshee’s? Probably because conservative hate the truth.
The speech was indeed “RACIALLY DIVISIVE”… Not even this website disagrees with that… But then again all that Obama’s know how to do is divide America on race… So this is not even news anymore…
Your comment history shows you as a full-blown card-carrying member of the KKK.
How anyone can be upset by adorable Michelle Obama is amazing. First Ladies promote non-controversial things like Lady Bird Johnson planting flowers along the highways, and Michelle Obama wants schools to offer healthy choices at lunch…wow, conservatives go nuts! To me, being upset with Michelle displays a latent bigotry.
I have noticed that when Obama mentions ‘excessive force by police against blacks’ conservatives claim “Obama is causing racial division”
Let me get this correct - excessive force against blacks does not cause racial division, but TALKING about that excessive force is? ha ha ha ha
That’s the idea.
Oppression is okay, calling it out isn’t.
Looking at the comments shown in the article, it is stunning how many bigots incapable of critical thinking there are.
In my opinion, it should be painfully obvious to anyone with even the slightest ability to think critically that this is about Obama being black. The Republicans(from the furthest outer fringe to those just right of center), the right wing media (FOX being the official PR/Media branch of the Republican Party), and various & assorted whack jobs who for some reason seem to have the public’s attention want to erase the Obama administration from the history books. They are terrified that white, affluent, christian, heterosexual male’s days of calling the shots in this country are coming to an end. So, they challenge Obama’s birthplace, his faith, his sexuality, his love of country, the validity of his marriage, etc. etc. ad nauseum. They started out sort of dancing around calling him being black a detriment, but they seem to have gotten bolder about it these days. Plus, they delegate the outright racial slurs to just about any non-office holding foaming at the mouth bigots who are able to get themselves on some kind of media. Then, they appear to agree by not challenging these loonies. It is sad, pitiful and a clear, present danger to this country. If the demographic for this agenda (the dimwitted, the bigoted, the paranoid and the senile) out votes those capable of thinking for themselves, we are doomed as a country. We will become a feudalistic state consisting of serfs who labor in poverty, sickness, hunger and ignorance ruled by a small group of “Lords of the Manor” who live in the lap of luxury. I hope I am wrong, and I hope the fair minded critical thinkers come out in droves to vote these people out of office. However, I am not holding my breath.
Conservatives believe that it’s okay for them to be racist. But when they’re called out on it, you’re the one being divisive.
I heard something this morning on the radio that gave me a different handle on political belief, including the racial divide. It was by an addiction specialist, who spoke about how addictions are yearnings for internal feelings. They can be caused by drugs or alcohol, by ice cream and by Internet games, even by wanting to be on the net all the time, but they can be simply a particularly state of yearning for certain feelings that we find agreeable. He opined that we are inclined to use reason in the service of emotional feelings, like the feelings of being secure. He spoke about how there is really no intellectual debate about global warming but so many people still believe it’s only a fiction. They do so, he said, for emotional, not rational reasons. They would rather subscribe to fictions that assauge their feelings than be discomfited by the difficulties that reason present. Many whites are frightened or made to feel inadequate by blacks, so they refuse to acknowledge policies and practices that demean blacks or are likely to make blacks are less than they are. It allows some white folks to control their own self-doubts or feelings of inadequacy.
During my life of 68 years, I have watched as both blacks and whites refuse to give up feelings that lead both communities to make generalizations about “the other race.” Blacks aren’t smart and are violent while whites can’t dance or jump very high. I thought the 60s would be the beginning of the end of the marginalization of blacks in society, but it is plain that racism is far more resistant to change than I had ever imagined. I, like others, still have a dream that someday, people will be judged by the content of their character and not by the color of their skin. I yearn for the day when we can call each other brothers and sisters searching for peace and justice, but I’m afraid my time is running out. May everyone’s lives today be blessed with beauty and tranquility.
I heard something this morning on the radio that gave me a different handle on political beliefs, including those about the racial divide. It was by an addiction specialist, who spoke about how addictions are yearnings for internal feelings. They can be caused by drugs or alcohol, by ice cream and by Internet games, even by wanting to be on the net all the time, but they can be simply a particularly state of yearning for certain feelings that we find agreeable. He opined that we are inclined to use reason in the service of emotional feelings, like the feelings of being secure. He spoke about how there is really no intellectual debate about global warming but so many people still believe it’s only a fiction. They do so, he said, for emotional, not rational reasons. They would rather subscribe to fictions that assauge their feelings than be discomfited by the difficulties that reason present. Many whites are frightened or made to feel inadequate by blacks, so they refuse to acknowledge policies and practices that demean blacks or are likely to make blacks are less than they are. It allows some white folks to control their own self-doubts or feelings of inadequacy.
During my life of 68 years, I have watched as both blacks and whites refuse to give up feelings that lead both communities to make generalizations about “the other race.” Blacks aren’t smart and are violent while whites can’t dance or jump very high. I thought the 60s would be the beginning of the end of the marginalization of blacks in society, but it is plain that racism is far more resistant to change than I had ever imagined. I, like others, still have a dream that someday, people will be judged by the content of their character and not by the color of their skin. I yearn for the day when we can call each other brothers and sisters searching for peace and justice, but I’m afraid my time is running out. May everyone’s lives today be blessed with beauty and tranquility.