Published: 06/05/2016 - Farah reminds first lady of her 'privilege from birth,' life of a 'queen'
First lady Michelle Obama gives a speech at City College
This was the administration that was going to bring
America together – the one headed by America’s first black president.
Instead, it has been the administration that has
polarized America more than any since the Civil War.
And it has not just been Barack Obama responsible.
His wife has been even more vitriolic in her vicious,
unwarranted attacks on her country.
Remember, it was Michelle O. who told us during the
campaign in 2008: “For the first time in my adult lifetime, I’m really proud of
my country … not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people
are hungry for change. I have been desperate to see our country moving in that
direction and just not feeling so alone in my frustration and disappointment.”
First time?
Amazing.
She’s been a piece of work ever since.
She topped that last weekend during a commencement
address at City College in New York when she launched what was perceived by
many in the media as an attack on Donald Trump and America’s intolerance of
“diversity.”
She’s said: “It’s the story that I witness every single
day when I wake up in a house that was built by slaves. And I watch my
daughters, two beautiful black young women, head off to school, waving goodbye
to their father, the president of the United States, the son of a man from
Kenya, who came here to America for the same reasons as many of you, to get an
education and improve his prospects in life.”
Thanks for reminding us, Michelle.
We all needed to be reminded of America’s history with
slavery one more time.
That’s just what we needed.
Was she correct?
Yes, slaves from Virginia and Maryland, two solidly
Democratic states at the time (Maryland remains so), I might add, were used to
complete the building of the White House, when paid laborers were in short
supply.
America was short on labor in 1792. There was an effort
to import European laborers to complete the project, but that effort fell
short. So slaves were used.
I might note there was no Republican Party at the time.
Abraham Lincoln was the first Republican president some
68 years later. He ran on an anti-slavery platform and won. It was Republicans
who freed the slaves.
For another 100 years, however, it was the Democratic
Party – Barack and Michelle Obama’s party – that fought integration and
civil-rights legislation. The Republican Party championed it.
The Ku Klux Klan was the armed militia of the Democratic
Party – lynching almost as many white Republicans as they did innocent blacks
after the War Between the States, in which more Americans died than any other
war in which Americans (white and black) have fought.
Do we really need another slavery lecture from Michelle
Obama – a woman raised in privilege from birth and who has lived like a queen
for the last eight years at the expense of white and black Americans?
Isn’t it time for her to stop playing the victim card?
Isn’t it time to explain why she is so bitter toward her
country?
Isn’t it time for her to grow up and be thankful for the
sacrifice working Americans have made on her behalf?
Isn’t it time for to say “thank you” – just once to her
country?
Isn’t it time for her to stop acting like an oppressed
minority?
Isn’t it time for her to get off her high horse and say
something nice about America?
How does a woman who grew up in privilege from the day
she was born have the nerve to condescend to the rest of America the way she
does?
How many tens of millions have we spent on her royal
vacations over the last eight years?
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