Wow: michelle obama Plays A Brand New Race Card, Saying THIS Is For White People Only B. Christopher Agee May 6, 2015
She insisted that she knows how it feels to be unwelcome in such environments.
In a pandering speech this week, Michelle Obama addressed an unavoidable issue in today’s cultural climate: racism. Rather than use the forum to enumerate the myriad ways – an obvious example being her husband’s two terms as the nation’s chief executive – blacks have progressed in America, she chose to further stoke racial tension by declaring “museums and concert halls” unaccommodating to minorities.
“You see,” she told an audience at New York City’s Whitney Museum, “there are so many kids in this country who look at places like museums and concert halls and other cultural centers and think to themselves, ‘Well, that’s not a place for me, for somebody who looks like me, for somebody who comes from my neighborhood.’”
Without mentioning exactly how she came to the conclusion, Obama instead opted to appeal to the audience’s emotion by sharing a chapter from her own past.
“So I know that feeling of not belonging in a place like this,” she said. “And today, as first lady, I know that feeling limits the horizons of far too many of our young people.”
When local public radio station WNYC asked Twitter users whether museums can be “intimidating or unwelcoming to people of color,” one individual rephrased the question to make a salient distinction.
The user wrote: “Can Black/Latino/Native art museums be intimidating or unwelcoming to white people?
“You see,” she told an audience at New York City’s Whitney Museum, “there are so many kids in this country who look at places like museums and concert halls and other cultural centers and think to themselves, ‘Well, that’s not a place for me, for somebody who looks like me, for somebody who comes from my neighborhood.’”
Without mentioning exactly how she came to the conclusion, Obama instead opted to appeal to the audience’s emotion by sharing a chapter from her own past.
“So I know that feeling of not belonging in a place like this,” she said. “And today, as first lady, I know that feeling limits the horizons of far too many of our young people.”
When local public radio station WNYC asked Twitter users whether museums can be “intimidating or unwelcoming to people of color,” one individual rephrased the question to make a salient distinction.
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