Tuesday, May 12, 2015

Because after all, everyone knows that closets full of haute couture (like the $12,000 Carolina Herrera gown), numerous multimillion dollar vacations, fawning celebrity friends, international fame and fortune, and political power are all examples of the "sting of daily slights" that are very "heavy burden[s] to carry."

◼ Michelle Obama Should Have Read the Founder of Tuskegee University Before She Spoke There - Jeannie DeAngelis/American Thinker

Michelle Obama’s 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 she’s endured as America’s 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.”

Instead of encouraging the graduates with talk of the great strides America has made in the area of race, Michelle used the Tuskegee podium as a soapbox to grumble and complain. At a graduation ceremony where the keynote speech is supposed to inspire students, Princeton graduate and Harvard Law School alumni Michelle Obama took a cue from her narcissistic husband and made it all about Michelle:
And over the years, folks have used plenty of interesting words to describe me. One said I exhibited ‘a little bit of uppity-ism.’ Another noted that I was one of my husband’s ‘cronies of color.’ Cable news once charmingly referred to me as ‘Obama’s Baby Mama.’
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