Speaking at historically black Tuskegee University commencement exercises last Saturday, first lady Michelle Obama told a crowd of bright-eyed graduates : “The road ahead is not going to be easy. It never is, especially for folks like you and me.”
Let’s pause for a moment to remember that the speaker went to Chicago’s prestigious Whitney Young magnet school, then to Princeton, then to Harvard, then on to a rather mysterious six-figure job at the University of Chicago, which I’m sure was totally unrelated to her husband’s political work.
Next, she was off to the White House, proceeding to globe-hop to places like Cambodia, where, in March, she booked 85 hotel guest rooms at a cost of $242,500 for 33 minutes of public speaking. This was a drop in the bucket, of course, compared to the estimated $44 million in taxpayer-funded vacations she and her husband have racked up over the years.
“There will be times,” the first lady continued, “when you feel folks look right past you, or they see just a fraction of who you really are. … My husband and I [have] both felt the sting of those daily slights throughout our entire lives — the folks who crossed the street in fear of their safety; the clerks who kept a close eye on us in all those department stores; the people at formal events who assumed we were the ‘help’ — and all those who questioned our intelligence, our honesty, even our love of this country.”
It reveals a lot about the mind of Michelle Obama, who apparently assumes that the only reason you could possibly criticize her or the president is that you are a racist.
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