Michelle Obama Watch

This is shaping up to be one long & nasty political season. I’m still trying to wrap my head around this one.

This is just another case of Black people shooting ourselves in the foot again. In what context did this Dr Steele, think this was a good statement to make. It always kills me when the smartest person in the room says the dumbest thing. It reminds me of a line from I Robot with Will Smith, where he told this scientist that she was “the dumbest smart person I know”. This guy seems to fit that description.

@ Gina – shoot me a quick email and so we can iron out the details.

@lamh – we are our own worst enemies. I don’t see any other group of people speak so negatively about themselves as we can sometime do. It’s mind-boggling.

admin,

yeah you’re right, I did assume, and you know what they say happens when you ASS-U-ME…

I always seem to forget that 7% who plan to vote for McCain over the 93% who plan to vote for Obama. I always figue the 93% outweighs the 7%

Some of us should just shut the hell up and be quiet. The problem is you’ve got a lot of black men who love to be in the spotlight. So, they’re ego and racially charged comments are like GOP gold. Telling these male negroes to sit down, be quiet, and don’t make a sound is an impossibility.

That’s a comment you keep to yourself. You don’t make statements like that to reporters. Some of us are dumber than rocks. (No offense to rocks)

Theo,

I don’t think he is intentionally trying to help the Republicans and I hat the term “”Uncle Tom.” What I DO think is that he, like many in his generation DO NOT CARE. They are going to say their peace anyway.

I did not grow up under Jim Crow so I give them some slack. If I had grown up under JIm Crow, I might be saying the same thing. I just think that if you are going to wade into the subject matter, it required a more artful way to articulate his point. If you are going to be intentionally provocative, then I think you have to bring something else along with it. You got to go deeper once you start throwing “Slave blood!” out there.

Please send Dr. Charles Steele and email: president@sclcnational.org.

I just did and gave him a piece of my mind. I told him to please keep his racial analysis to himself. Black folks (some of us) will continue to act out until they’re told not too. We need to stop ignoring these folks and let them know they need to retire some of their comments.

Yes, he is OLD and is a product of his generation. But that doesn’t give him the right to exercise stupidity and his ego. He needs to keep his divine wisdom to himself. And if he MUST speak it should NOT be to a reporter.

I’m sorry but I am not against the conspiracy, Uncle Tom theories. You do have civil rights leaders who have sold their souls to the GOP for some money. Mike Huckabee’s campaign manager BRAGGED how he was able to suppress the black vote by working with black preachers AND civil rights leaders! Corruption is real. I’m all for giving people the benefit of the doubt – sometimes.

I think I understand what he was getting at. It’s the flipside of the Shelby Steele argument — that Obama will get by because of his euro-ethnic mother, and certainly _not_ because of his Kenyan father. It’s an inartful way of saying that to the extent you aren’t aligned with euro-ethnic norms, you’ll be attacked. I don’t think it’s an illegitimate position to take, but I do agree that if you’re going to be talking to the media, you should feel a responsibility to be specially conscientious with your speech, Charles and Shelby both.

It does not matter whether one has the blood of a slave or the blood of one who lived in the era of the British colonization of Kenya because they both shaped the legacy of oppressing Africans. There is no difference in either one. They both enslaved the people on both continents and the British benefited financially from both acts of inhumanity in the colonies of America and in Africa . Perhaps these individuals who made these statements need to read some world history and some of the people who don‘t know the history of colonization need to educate themselves about this horrendous act.

I do not agree with yvonne c,there is a huge difference between slavery and colonization..colonization was to exploit the ressources ,not only africans were colonized ,asians too ,ausa was a british colony..africans still have their identity and dignity,slavery was the exploitation of human being ,they were breede like animals ,there ’s nothing worse than slavery!!

the fact that this is even a legitimate debate is beyond me. how does someone’s past have any bearing on who they are as a person now? It’s a well-researched, factually-accurate and humanized story that has been blown out of proportion and taken as fodder (by both sides) to fuel the race-relations debate. Yes, this country has a racially-charged past but dwelling on it or attempting to place blame is not going to solve today’s racial conflicts.

The backlash from the original NYT story is encapsulated in this great video, along with an interview with the reporter who talks about how the WH was kept constantly in the loop so Michelle always had the opportunity to quash the story but didn’t. Kudos to the First Lady!

http://www.newsy.com/videos/michelle_obama_s_slave_roots