re: #50 palomino

There’s nothing even remotely provocative in Michelle’s words. All she has to do is talk about race, even in a relatively innocuous way, and the right freaks out, claiming this is evidence of her radicalism, hatred of whites, whatever. Reminds me of when she planted a vegetable garden and was immediately accused of being a Stalinist who wanted to ban all junk food.

Speaking at Tuskegee and not mentioning race would be like speaking at Liberty University and not talking about Jesus. This is only a story to the far right, who despite their claims that liberals are race obsessed, just cannot stop talking about nearly everything in racial terms (crime, immigration, terrorism, social safety net programs, etc).

Teabaggers and their hateful ilk know a simple fact: Obama couldn’t have won without heavy support from blacks and other minorities. Hence the continuing RW demonization of all “others”, since they’re the ones responsible for the big bad Kenyan in the WH. The attitude of far too many phony aggrieved whites is, “Whites didn’t elect him, they voted majority GOP. And fuck the people who did elect him because they’ve destroyed America.”

Jeb spoke to the great Jesus at said University. er pandered.

Difference is, we know he’s pandering. FLOTUS spoke truth.