Despite four or five multi-million dollar vacations or junkets per year ... at the taxpayer expense, Michelle Obama apparently has suffered greatly as our first lady. She recently spoke at the graduation ceremony at Tuskegee University and bemoaned the travails she has had to tolerate as the first black woman in the White House ... and before ... see: Christian Science Monitor Video. She earlier had been mistaken for "help" at a party ... she has had many sleepless nights as first lady ... she has been called President Obama's "Baby Mama" ... she has been depicted on a magazine cover as a terrorist ... but she then told the rapt audience, "to succumb to feelings of despair and anger means that in the end, we lose."
The above video of this address has gone viral with both good and bad results. The quote above was a good message ... but, what is it with many black people who still play the victims of oppression? This was the bad part that went out to these graduates and to blacks across the nation. There are, of course, many blacks who don't play the victim game ... Condoleezza Rice, Dr. Ben Carson, Thomas Sowell, and many others ... but when our pouty first lady dons sackcloth and ashes to a group of college graduates, it does nothing but perpetuate such destructive self pity and demands for special treatment.
This "we vs. them" meme is why we have rioting in Baltimore and cops around the country being targeted. Michelle Obama, you really ought to know better.
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