Much Ado About the First Lady

Mrs. Obama: I Feel Alienated, and That’s Proof of America’s Racism

One’s personal grievances are not conclusive evidence of society-wide problems.

 . . . "I certainly do not dispute that the first lady may, indeed, have experienced feelings of alienation or discomfort in a Chicago museum. But we have abandoned the duty of distinguishing between feelings that are “real” and perceptions that are true. Mrs. Obama uses her private feelings as evidence of a certain public reality: Because she feels discriminated against, she is in fact being discriminated against. Cohen, for his part, accepts that unquestioningly.

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/418274/mrs-obama-i-feel-alienated-and-thats-proof-americas-racism-ian-tuttle

 No, Mrs. Obama, America’s Museums Aren’t Racially Discriminatory . . . "One can hear in this latest lecture her infamous 2008 campaign remark: that America is “downright mean.” What she is suggesting — and the Obama duo’s treatment of race relations over the past six years makes this clear — is not that free and independent-minded black Americans are refusing to take advantage of the nation’s 17,000 museums, but that curators and crowds have quietly signaled that black Americans are not welcome. 

"That is bunk. " . . .  Read more

 Victor Davis Hanson:  Does the First Lady Really Believe African Americans Have Been ‘Frustrated and Invisible’ for ‘Decades’?   

Angry Meal

. . . "But what does the aggrieved Mrs. Obama’s allegation of black Americans’ being “invisible” mean in the age of African-American ubiquity in high-visibility entertainment and sports, or in light of the careers of billionaires such as Michael Jordan, Jay-Z, Beyoncé, or Oprah Winfrey, or national black leaders such as Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Clarence Thomas, Ben Carson, Eric Holder, or Barack Obama? Does she mean “invisible” academics like Cornel West or Henry Louis Gates? Are actors such as Morgan Freeman or Denzel Washington “frustrated”? Do university admissions officers practice a sly sort of discrimination against college-age African Americans with impressive test scores and GPAs, as they do in the case of qualified Asian Americans?" . . .

I fear we are seeing now the tip of the Obama racialist iceberg, and in the remaining 18 months are going to witness far more polarization and alleged grievances against the supposedly culpable so-called majority culture.

Ferguson and Baltimore may well be harbingers of what awaits us all.
 . . . "One major part of his legacy will be the way his “divider and conqueror” political tactics have highlighted the many pathologies plaguing black urban culture in this country, and have brought about a massive deterioration in “race relations.' ”. . .