re: #82 Dreader1962

I don’t understand the immediate hostility with this article. I haven’t even read it because of time management; it’s not something I would normally pursue. They do this all the time - I’m sure that we could come up with numerous human interest articles about Laura Bush’s background during the previous 8 years.

Also, I don’t understand the hostility because regardless of what you might think of the first family’s politics, it is an American story of progress. My previous post about my family was to parallel the gains from the time that we became Americans from impoverished immigrants. There is no doubt that both white and black Americans have invested their blood, sweat and tears into this country and a recognition of this fact is long overdue.

People who dislike the Obamas (as opposed to their politics or their projects) want to see them as very privileged people. This puts a bit of a different light on that.

Also, some people seem to think that any mention of slavery, racial discrimination, or hard times suffered by black people, is a personal attack on them. I’m not sure why. Deeply repressed white guilt? ///