And, speaking of “America being mean” and “anti-American” did you catch this? – http://www.newsweek.com/id/145263

That’s about as anti-American as you can get. Surely there was no residual effect from this practice AT ALL in America (those workers were just playing the race card!) Everyone should all be 100% proud of America at all times without qualifications…

If you were a person of courage, you would educate yourself on the American history that can only be learned outside of the Fox News soundbite universe.

There is no need to moderate your comment because it really wasn’t that deep and neither are you. Sorry to disappoint you.

Nichelle

I see my comment will be moderated. If your a person of courage, you’ll have no trouble allowing a somewhat different point of view. If your the intolerant type, only wishing to hear others in the choir, I’m sorry for you.

Deleting a second comment is necessary as well.

Hank

If this guy said these things, I would think he was referring to Michelles comment that she had never been proud of her country until her husband started gaining ground in his bid for the presidency. Let’s assume he’s a racist bigot wih sheets hidden under his bed.

Make all the excuses you want for her, but that statement was very revealing, considering she’s no child, and has been educated with the cream of society, a gift only a tiny minority receive. To go half her life and fail to find anything to be proud of? Where the hell was she? Unless Black Liberation theology told her to hate her country because everyone was out to get her and the opression was always at her door, stalking every moment of her life. Then, she had a moment of clarity. Possible?

As for strategy, Obama will fall of his own weight, having failed to keep his word, failed to keep his promises, failed to hide his very toxic friendships, failed to rise above his own narrow, ideological views and truly be the uniter who has risen above the old style politics. Instead, he engages in code language, double speak, obfuscation and sometimes, openly Marxist dialogue. Not too smart. It seems he’s arrogant enough to consider himself the winner already, so loose sloppy campaigning is no big deal.

Frankly, Michelles not as thinskinned as many of you here, I’m certain. She’s been called worse, or been treated worse, or thought worse of…and if she can’t handle the heat of a campaign, what’s she going to do when the daily grind of first lady stares her in the face everyday?

This is not 1950. It wears thin when endless victimology is perpetrated by those who are educated and know better.. who know that massive gains have been made, with no chance of returning to any hint of jim crow or segregation. Put down the NAACP propoganda, dust off the need to be offended at the slightest thing, real or imagined, and get on with training the next generation of Americans, not clinging to the distant past.

Or, stall the dramatic progress and absolutely ruin the lives of your children with a poor outlook on life and by instilling a helplessness that bleeds into every part of their lives, and from which they may never escape.

Hank

Andre,

The problem with giving this racist the benefit of the doubt is that he is NOT giving Michelle Obama or any other black person the benefit of the doubt! Attacking her publicly calling her a “nasty, bitter, openly racist ingrate” has NOTHING to do with any black person downplaying our success. This idiot is expressly negating our success by lumping Michelle Obama in with the people that you are talking about – that have NOTHING to do with this conversation. He is not playing fair – standard for racists who want to paint everyone they hate with a broad brush and ignore anything good.

I feel you. Trust me. But I’m also hip to the notion that some white folks will NEVER get it; least of all when what they consider complaints from our end (black folks) are juxtaposed to the successes we’ve had over the years. The reason I can give him the benefit of the doubt is because I’ve had similar thoughts about our people. Thoughts not necessarily related to Michelle Obama being an ingrate, but thoughts about how much we accencuate the negative (i.e. racism) while ignoring or downplaying the positive (success in spite of racism).

I was born and raised in Flint, Michigan. Yes, that Flint, MI. I went to the same sh**ty schools as the next person. My family (full of GM shoprats) was exposed to the same economic hardship as the next person. But when more and more people pushed and made sacrificial efforts to “make it”, that eliminated some of the steam that came from the cats who oppositely sat back and complained about not being ‘given’ anything. You and I know that Michelle would never go as far as to make those kind of complaints, contrary to what some of these right wing clowns have suggested. But we also know that any comments she makes that they consider “anti-American” (whatever the hell that means) will get intense scruity when her opportunistic credentials (even those she EARNED) get flashed for the world to see.

That’s what I think anyway…

Why give him the benefit of the doubt. You know, MAYBE, if I hadn’t of read too many stories about Michelle Obama, he’d get the benefit of the doubt. But, it’s always there – that subtext…

Who do these ungrateful Negroes think they are?

I know it, because I’ve lived it.

As if because of my education and other opportunities that I’ve had in life (due to the parents who took hell and SACRIFICED ), I’m supposed to be a ‘ Grateful Darkie’.

I mean, you live where you do, you went to school where you did, ‘ what could you possibly be ANGRY about rikyrah?’

Um, maybe because I can read above an 8th grade level and understand the White Supremacist Underpinnings of this country.

Maybe it’s THAT.

Been there, heard it most of my life.

So, that’s why he gets no benefit of the doubt.