Michelle Obama Involved in Racism: "I Was Asked to Take Something off the Shelf"

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HomerJS

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Judging by the amount of responses people were just waiting for their example of

"see its those black people who are the real racists."

1. Get in line you have 9999 more to go before getting close.

2. By itself someone asking you to get something off the shelf is not racist. Depending on context could have been rude.

3. Asked a question probably couldn't think of anything quickly so she gave this as an answer. She was wrong.
 

Riparian

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Judging by the amount of responses people were just waiting for their example of

"see its those black people who are the real racists."

1. Get in line you have 9999 more to go before getting close.

2. By itself someone asking you to get something off the shelf is not racist. Depending on context could have been rude.

3. Asked a question probably couldn't think of anything quickly so she gave this as an answer. She was wrong.

Watch the Letterman interview linked a few posts above. Michelle Obama's story goes that she initially thought her cover was blown when the lady said, "Excuse me, I just have to ask you something." The lady then continued to ask if Michelle could get some detergent for her. Michelle then stated in the interview that this was because the lady was short and couldn't reach. After Michelle got the detergent, the lady said, "well you didn't have to make it look so easy." Michelle then stated in the interview that, "it made her feel so good."

Yes, context matters, but this was clearly a case of racism pandering. She's decided to throw the other lady under the bus to provide a spurious accounting of racism, which is absurd and takes away from legitimate instances of racism. It's particularly egregious considering her position as the First Lady.
 

Zaap

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The thing I find hilarious is that when black people who haveblahblahblah...
Yeah, nothing what-so-ever to do with her being the first lady, or her husband the president who should set a better fucking example than to try and stir up racial animosity based on absolute horseshit.

But see, libs believe they deserve they automatically qualify for some sort of affirmative action excusing asinine behavior/comments because...??

Equality?

Help me out, I'm trying to think why it's so hard for leftists to *EVER* hold people of color up to any standard other than those same old low expectations...
 

Hayabusa Rider

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I must have missed the racism in that article. My bad.

The article was about racism that the Obamas say they had dealt with. From what I see they had exactly the same things happen to them that I've had done to me. Sometimes people ask me to reach something for them. I've been mistaken for an employee in a store, pretty much what the Obamas describe. I attribute it to someone who was in need or made an honest mistake. The Obamas conclude it's about race because they are black. All Michelle Obama said is she was asked for help, no mention of any attitude whatsoever, and uses that in context of racism. Nothing in her narrative suggests that was the case at all.
 

werepossum

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The thing I find hilarious is that when black people who have faced centuries of racial prejudice possibly overreact a bit, white folk who have never suffered at all from racism fall apart at the seams. You can almost hear them scream, how dare those racially inferior people try to reverse racism on me. I never owned no plantation, bro. I have lily white hands.
But I DO have lily white hands. Well, kinda freckled pinkish actually. But freckled pinkish is the new lily white.

http://www.bing.com/search?q=michelle+obama+height&pc=MOZI&form=MOZSBR

I'm going to say this: I know a lot of larger women that are black,but they are built nothing like Michelle Obama.The only thing I've ever seen that remotely resembles Michelle Obama is a tranny.
Ain't no tranny ever had those hips.

Judging by the amount of responses people were just waiting for their example of

"see its those black people who are the real racists."

1. Get in line you have 9999 more to go before getting close.

2. By itself someone asking you to get something off the shelf is not racist. Depending on context could have been rude.

3. Asked a question probably couldn't think of anything quickly so she gave this as an answer. She was wrong.
Pretty much. But if a black public figure is asked for her personal experiences with racism she'd better come up with something, otherwise she'll be branded as not authentic.
 

CZroe

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I don't know about you guys but I refuse to subjugate my own race so I will never accept service or seek help from them. I will go right by ten others who share my race so that I can subjugate someone of another race because that is what is expected of me by others of my race. I feel that other races are shaming and denigrating my own when they seek our service/help in an attempt to stick it to the man, so I will fight this injustice by sticking it to them. I don't care if it takes exponentially more effort. More power to us!
I was going to add - I often wear a red polo... and it seems that it's a damn coincidence I choose to do so on days I'm going to Target

It never fails, I get the same thing (identified as a Target employee). Never once do I think anything of it regarding race for fucks sake.

But red shirt or not - I have asked random people to help me out. Employee's are often no where to be found, and oh look, there is someone of significant height right next to me I can ask if I get the social balls to ask them.

Manlet.
 
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compuwiz1

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Sure miss the days when first ladies had some class. This one, even though she looks like a bull moose, could at least display some of what a proper first lady should be. Her attempt to race bait = fail.
 

Moonbeam

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Yeah, nothing what-so-ever to do with her being the first lady, or her husband the president who should set a better fucking example than to try and stir up racial animosity based on absolute horseshit.

But see, libs believe they deserve they automatically qualify for some sort of affirmative action excusing asinine behavior/comments because...??

Equality?

Help me out, I'm trying to think why it's so hard for leftists to *EVER* hold people of color up to any standard other than those same old low expectations...

I'm not a racist, Zaap. I don't know what color any of the people who post here is with a few exceptions and you aren't one of them. My job, which I hired myself dictatorially to perform and pay myself nothing by way of compensation, is to hold up a mirror to people's behavior so they can become wonderfully enlightened like me, and don't have to wonder about wasting their lives worrying about such huge issues as what Michelle Obama may or may not have said to somebody in a Target store. And I'm going to help you out with this regardless of your color. It saddens me to hear you could imagine I'd not help any person who was this brain dead and black, realizing as I'm sure you must, that the only color that comes through in type on my screen is based on the options I've selected in the operating system. Love you Zaap. I don't know your color but you are most colorful in my opinion.

PS: I completely understand the point you are making. Bad behavior is bad behavior. But what I see when I look at American society is not massive damage to white people because of trigger happy black racists turning everything into a racial issue, but centuries of damage to the black communities and ghettos cause by racism. I would like to see a bit of balance in social conditions before I worry too much about the excesses coming from the black side.
 

Moonbeam

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Sure miss the days when first ladies had some class. This one, even though she looks like a bull moose, could at least display some of what a proper first lady should be. Her attempt to race bait = fail.

Yeah, me too. I used to jump out of bed in the morning and run down the middle of the street throwing flower pedals everywhere in a state of ecstasy thinking about Martha Washington.
 

UberNeuman

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Sure miss the days when first ladies had some class. This one, even though she looks like a bull moose, could at least display some of what a proper first lady should be. Her attempt to race bait = fail.

Do you have any sense of irony?

\stay classy....
 

Attic

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I don't get the Michelle isn't good looking stuff.

I'd say the Pres has one of the best looking first ladies since Jackie. Jackie was gorgeous, so is Michelle IMO.

Hillary is frightfully ugly, ugh. Barbara, ehhh just not very feminine looking. Laura, ok decent in her youth and old age.
 

MagnusTheBrewer

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Where were the Secret Service agents when she was asked to help get something down from the shelf? It's not like she was there by herself.
 

cubby1223

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Hmmm, having difficulty catching cabs in Chicago? Hell, I have difficulty too! And just the other day at a convenience store the only person to talk to me was someone who asked me to open the door for him (true story, actually!). All he saw in me was someone to serve his needs! So I said to him sitting in his wheelchair acting all handicapped & such, "Screw You, Racist!" (okay that last part wasn't true, I politely opened and held the door for him to wheel himself into the store)
 
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Pipeline 1010

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PS: I completely understand the point you are making. Bad behavior is bad behavior. But what I see when I look at American society is not massive damage to white people because of trigger happy black racists turning everything into a racial issue, but centuries of damage to the black communities and ghettos cause by racism. I would like to see a bit of balance in social conditions before I worry too much about the excesses coming from the black side.

I can kind-of agree with your message here in that a massive injustice has been flowing in mostly one racial direction, and it has been for centuries. It still is today, as evidenced by the proportion of black people in jail for drugs as compared to white people in jail for drugs (amongst many other measures).

However, it's always fair to call out race-baiting (aka racism) when observed. We should worry about racism regardless of social conditions. The overall balance of racism should never be required in order to dislike racism from one particular side. We need to reach a place where racism is always wrong, no matter which side it is coming from, no matter which side has had it vastly worse, and no matter how racist it is on the scale. "Bad behavior is bad behavior" should never be followed by "But".

Race-baiting only furthers racist agendas on both sides and seeks to stereotype individual human beings into groups that are unrelated beyond perceived ethnic/racial identity. This only serves the purpose of those who desire the further Balkanization of our society. Dismissing or belittling a negative reaction to race-baiting only serves to further that agenda.
 

Kushina

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How narrow minded does it get? This, my friends, is why racism is at the extreme levels in America. People are actively SEEKING it. They don't want to resolve problems, they want to find problems that don't exist.

Partially true, my neighbor screams racism at everything she can.
 

Kushina

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I don't get the Michelle isn't good looking stuff.

I'd say the Pres has one of the best looking first ladies since Jackie. Jackie was gorgeous, so is Michelle IMO.

Hillary is frightfully ugly, ugh. Barbara, ehhh just not very feminine looking. Laura, ok decent in her youth and old age.

Merh most first lady's look like grade A bitches.
 

Moonbeam

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I can kind-of agree with your message here in that a massive injustice has been flowing in mostly one racial direction, and it has been for centuries. It still is today, as evidenced by the proportion of black people in jail for drugs as compared to white people in jail for drugs (amongst many other measures).

However, it's always fair to call out race-baiting (aka racism) when observed. We should worry about racism regardless of social conditions. The overall balance of racism should never be required in order to dislike racism from one particular side. We need to reach a place where racism is always wrong, no matter which side it is coming from, no matter which side has had it vastly worse, and no matter how racist it is on the scale. "Bad behavior is bad behavior" should never be followed by "But".

Race-baiting only furthers racist agendas on both sides and seeks to stereotype individual human beings into groups that are unrelated beyond perceived ethnic/racial identity. This only serves the purpose of those who desire the further Balkanization of our society. Dismissing or belittling a negative reaction to race-baiting only serves to further that agenda.

I have no problem with this as an ideal. I note that you begin with agreeing that the injustice mostly has gone one way, and then introduce your own kind of but, when you say "however...." My opinion is that when you demand balance so far into the game, when one side has takes so much damage, you aren't asking for balance at all. You are asking for immunity from the consequences of the racism of the past while we still owe a great debt and millions have not healed. You don't kick people in the balls and then declare time out.
 

Matt1970

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If something as simple as that looks like racism to her, no wonder she thinks the world is running rampant with racism.
 

Smoblikat

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Who the fuck allows these idiots to share our oxygen supply?

Her and her dumbass husband are the laughing stock of the world.
 

boomerang

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Her and her dumbass husband are the laughing stock of the world.
Her dumbass husband has completely changed this nation and the way it interacts with the rest of the world. He's not the laughing stock of the world the nation is the laughing stock. His fundamental transformation of the United States of America has been completed right under our noses and to top it off, he told us right up front he was going to do it.

Our nation is afraid to show a fictional movie right now. We're beaten. We've lost.

He's no dumbass. To think of him that way just makes him more dangerous. Turn that anger towards how to stop him if he can even be stopped at this point.
 

Exophase

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I have no problem with this as an ideal. I note that you begin with agreeing that the injustice mostly has gone one way, and then introduce your own kind of but, when you say "however...." My opinion is that when you demand balance so far into the game, when one side has takes so much damage, you aren't asking for balance at all. You are asking for immunity from the consequences of the racism of the past while we still owe a great debt and millions have not healed. You don't kick people in the balls and then declare time out.

Stop treating white people (or whoever you consider as qualifying as that label) as some unified group that deserves collective punishment. Racism is never going to go anywhere with attitudes like this.

This isn't about demanding balance, it's about having standards of fair conduct and respectful attitudes that aren't circumstantial.
 
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