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The Right Wing's Unbelievable Hatred Of Michelle Obama

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SanFranciscoZionist11/15/2011 6:21:07 pm PST

re: #1 Sergey Romanov

> And this hatred of Michelle….it doesn’t make any damn sense

It does. Racism.

More specifically, I think that the sight of a black woman as lady of the White House is triggering some deep, old-fashioned craziness. People like this have had to get used to seeing wealthy black women, black women in positions of power, black women as symbols of beauty, but Michelle is worse than that. She’s a black woman acting out a high-status social role given to her by her husband’s prominence, and she’s in the White House, not as a servant, not even as a staffer, but as First Lady.

It’s like that scene novels set in the post-war South used to have, where some well-dressed black or poor white couple show up somewhere, newly rich, and demand equal treatment. It’s always played for laughs—their comical fancy clothes, and hick accents—but there’s fury underneath it.

This is even worse. They have fancy degrees. He’s the President. She’s the First Lady. And there is NOTHING they can do about it. The Klan will not be riding to their rescue.