Who wants some Two Minutes Hate?
Commenter Kit suggested a whole new category for Two Minutes Hate, which I just might be able to fill if Michelle Obama keeps talking. Via Gateway Pundit:
“We don’t like being pushed outside of our comfort zones. You know it right here on this campus. You know people sitting at different tables - you all living in different dorms. I was there. You’re not talking to each other, taking advantage that you’re in this diverse community. Because sometimes it’s easier to hold on to your own stereotypes and misconceptions. It makes you feel justified in your own ignorance… That’s America. So the challenge for us is are we ready for change?”
No, dear. That’s not “America”, it’s human nature. It’s universal. People of every nation that has ever existed have behaved that way because it’s the way people are. All people, not just Americans and not even mostly Americans.
Implying or even saying outright that Americans are particularly racist or racially ignorant as compared to others displays a butt-burning lack of knowledge about other cultures, you know.
And I don’t know what kind of time-space continuum Michelle Obama lives in, but in my world, there are only 24 hours in a day, which would preclude meeting every single student at your college. Maybe that’s the reason the kids she was talking to might not be pals with all the others?
No, we have to assume that every action taken by every person (especially Whitey) has something to do with wanting to avoid diversity, having stereotypical ideas of other races, and operating on misconceptions, all culminating in proof that we’re ignorant because that’s how Amerikkka is.
So are you ready for the challenge of change? I know I am. I’ll start today by introducing myself to every single person in my immediate area, especially the non-white ones, because it’s time to get out of my comfort zone of prejudice and ignorance. Forget the job and everything else I have to do each day, what’s really important here is that I take advantage of living in a diverse community.
They’re doing it. They’re fixing my broken American soul, one step at a time. Hopechange!
Bravo! And without any cursing… What’s going on here?
March 26th, 2008 at 11:32 amDidn’t you eat at Taco Bell the other day? You’re already exploring the ethnic diversity of your community!
But that may not be enough. Why not have Thai for lunch?
March 26th, 2008 at 11:35 amBy saying this: “Because sometimes it’s easier to hold on to your own stereotypes and misconceptions. It makes you feel justified in your own ignorance… That’s America. ”
Isn’t that just proof positive that Michelle is holding on to her own misconceptions and stereotype - and doesn’t she sound like she is justified in her own ignorance?
Lady, you don’t speak for me. I know many people outside my comfort zone - I have to because that is working in corporate america today. I deal with folks from India, that are here so that I can train them to take my job. I deal with people from singapore to help them fix their broken code and I deal with managers from all over the world.
So basically, you, Michelle are the freakin’ racist
March 26th, 2008 at 11:35 amRACHEL LUCAS actually read my comment, and then she mentioned me on her blog. I may just die of sheer happiness. (Yeah, I’m a dork, and I’m not apologizing for that.)
Michelle Obama is the absolute best thing that could happen to this country. She will prevent the Democrats from getting into office a helluva lot more than McCain will. America does not want Hillary back on Pennsylvania Ave, BUT it also does not want another “strong woman” (read: “awful bitch”) as First Lady. And Ms. Obama has proven herself to be just that: one awful, awful bitch.
March 26th, 2008 at 11:51 amYou are being too kind to Michelle Obama. Quit it. She is a blithering moron, yes with racist tendencies, and can probably single-handedly wreck Barry’s love-fest with the idiots. Give her the push, please.
March 26th, 2008 at 11:51 am“Give her the push, please.”
Push off El Capitan?
Soitainly!!
But only after I’ve had my turn with the SSC-B(tm) !
March 26th, 2008 at 12:02 pmI can so feature Ms. Obama in college. Me sitting there doing last minute skull sweat in the cafeteria, her coming up to discuss “racism.”
MO: Let’s talk about race.
Me: Sorry, I’m busy, I’ve got a test after lunch.
MO: You’re a racist.
Me: Actually, I’m trying to become a physicist.
Such hurdles she faced in life.
March 26th, 2008 at 12:04 pmWhy, I’ll bet some of her best friends are white.
Let’s see, black students have their own race based students associations, sometimes their own race based dorms, curriculum for race based “studies,” choose often to sit together excluding non-black students in cafeterias, and all this because the white man makes it so?
M Obama is a racialist separatist with elitist arrogance that will lead to dangerous social policies that widen the race issues in society. She is not a unifier. Self important jackboot.
March 26th, 2008 at 12:09 pmYou can’t cook an egg in two minutes, Rachel. A good hateful poaching requires four minutes. Five if you like ‘em hard.
March 26th, 2008 at 12:13 pmAmen, Rachel and ditto, Ethne!
I’m torn — as Kit and Two Dogs point out: the more Michelle says, the less appealing and more racist the Obamas seem. She may well “single-handedly wreck Barry’s love-fest with the idiots”, but what worries me are those who are too dumb or naive to realize how awful she is. They’re the ones — of all colors and ethnicity — shouting, “Right on!” (They were also the ones swooning over Obama’s speech explaining why he has a racist pastor.) What are those people making of this?
I was hopeful we were near the end of racism dividing America, but recent events make me fear I was mistaken.
March 26th, 2008 at 12:15 pmShut. Up. Shut up. Shut up, shut up, shut up!! For the love of God, shut up!!!! Auggghhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!
I thought that would make me feel better. It didn’t. Thank God our boys are risking it all so The Mouth has freedom to say any assinine elitist rascist idiodic thing that pops into her hateful little head. God I hate her so bad. Did I say hate? I’m sorry, I meant HATE. It’s a hate thing.
March 26th, 2008 at 12:22 pmPurely anecdotal, but something I’ve noticed the last few years: the level of interracial dating (couples I see at the movies, or just holding hands on the sidewalk, at the mall, etc.) has really soared. Especially among the “kids” (20-somethings and younger). I suppose it’s racist of me to even notice, but I think it shows just how wrong MObama is on this issue. Maybe she should give the talk at a senior center - “hey you old white people, sit next to an Asian or a black at bingo next week.” She can start with her husband’s grandmother, right?
March 26th, 2008 at 1:12 pmI’m still assimilating what it means to be one of the people struggling to pay the bills when they make 1/4 million a year. My logic filter got clogged with that one.
March 26th, 2008 at 1:12 pmI recall vividly sitting in a car in Bilbao Spain in 1992 while the race riots were raging in LA having a Spanish friend tell me how racist Spain was. He was the first–and still the only–friend or family member there to recognize that Americans don’t have the racist market cornered–not by a long shot.
I used to teach my history students a new refrain along the lines of “In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue.” I told them of the history of the Spanish Reconquista, and how “In 1492 Spain kicked out every Jew.” No. America isn’t the hotbed of racism that M.O. thinks it is.
Michelle Obama is as internationally naive as her aspiring husband.
March 26th, 2008 at 1:35 pmI can’t remember where I first saw this, but…
“A tolerant society is one that ignores differences and a multicultural one is one that highlights them.” –Rabbi Jonathon Sacks
March 26th, 2008 at 1:36 pmCosmo:
You should see what hurdles Formula 1 is having to jump through because of Spanish racists, who jeered racist taunts at British champion Lewis Hamilton. You should see what’s become of the suburbs of Manchester, UK because of South Asian gangs that have no interest in assimilation.
Our ‘betters’ make us look like kids on a playground.
March 26th, 2008 at 1:52 pmMichbama is such a dumb ass.
She confuses her college degrees with intelligence and savvy.
Whom does she think is her audience?
She can’t believe that she is not offending the very persons whose support she needs (us, for ex) by making us out to be latent racists who need her ever-so-wise counsel.
Or maybe she is so stupid that she thinks her harangues and arrogant posturing…
“We will lead you to the promised land of racial equality.”
Thanks, but who asked you?!
…will produce followers.
The only persons who fall for her thinly disguised friendly-authoritarian tripe are useful idiots.
If it weren’t for my fears of what will happen if the Blovating Obombasts come to power, I would be enjoying this spectacle of self-anointed preachers, prophets, and latter day messiahs yacking up pure sheep$hit.
The vain posturings….
The arrogance of presuming to carry the aegis of Martin Luther King, Jr….
It’s so nauseating I can hardly bear it—were it not for
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bUch5dveX0
Can you imagine how she would insinuate herself into education?
Speeches on getting along with jihadis.
Walking the streets in the projects, getting inhabitants to talk of how oppressed they feel.
She’ll need a new name.
Isaiah and Jeremiah are taken.
Michelliah, perhaps.
Christ. Hillary is starting to look good, in comparison.
[merely a thought experiment]
March 26th, 2008 at 1:54 pmAre you going to rename the blog The Ministry of Truth?
WAR IS PEACE
March 26th, 2008 at 2:08 pmFREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
My race-based story: I visited my daughter and her family in CA in the spring of last year, had the two kids in the car with me and the granddaughter CC (age five) said something that might have been embarrassing if she’d said it in public. When I told my daughter about it, she said that every time CC exclaims “Mama!” in public she braces herself. For example, spotting a family of little people walking down the street in San Francisco and saying “Mama! Look! Oompa Loompas!” Here’s the racial story, they were at a flea market in Flagstaff (where they lived till early last year) where black folk are rare, and CC said “Mama!” and here came a huge black man, could have been a linebacker for the Cardinals. B braced herself and CC said, “He’s beautiful!” The black guy beamed and said, “She’s a GOOD girl.”
March 26th, 2008 at 2:17 pmmaria says, “Shut. Up. Shut up. Shut up, shut up, shut up!! For the love of God, shut up!!!! Auggghhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!”
No, no, Maria, no, no…. keep Mrs. Obama talking. Give her five FIVE minutes a day at the dinner hour. Make sure she doorbells every voter in America.
Everybody in this great democracy should get an up close and personal chance to dialogue with this person before they vote.
March 26th, 2008 at 2:27 pmBill - if class and intelligence counts, that little 5 year old CC is more qualified to be First Lady then Michelle.
March 26th, 2008 at 2:29 pmWhat concerns me the most is who supports them. Arab Terrorists have said they want Hillary to win because she’s weak on anti-terror and strong on losing the war in Iraq.
Louis Farrakhan is pro Obama. So is Rev. Al Sharpton and Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. and George Soros. The list goes on and on.
DoubleTapper
March 26th, 2008 at 3:06 pmDoubleTapper@gmail.com
DoubleTapper, blogging on Guns Politics Defense from Israel
The people who have most to gain financially and politically from racism, sexism and any other “ism” that claims disparity between the races, classes or gender are also those who stand on a pedestal of “hope and change”. From my point of view, “celebrate diversity” and that line of thinking IS racism and coincidentally, the most prevalent form of racism that I see.
March 26th, 2008 at 3:24 pmYou know, I used to think the Obama campaign was being run brilliantly.
Did they fire the only adult or something? The guy is in free-fall and he’s off in St. Thomas sipping rum drinks while his wife is making the rounds on YouTube.
Someone in the campaign needs to be assigned to be Michelle Obama’s nanny. Their mission should be to keep her mouth shut at any cost when a recording device of any type is near.
March 26th, 2008 at 3:45 pmHow much longer til Michelle Obama says something like “kill whitey”?
March 26th, 2008 at 4:00 pmOoooh! So close, and yet so far.
The Obamessiah’s Divine Consort was that close to uttering a real, honest to baby Jesus, true statement. If she had only omitted two little words (”That’s America”) she might have actually said something halfway profound.
Because the reality of the situation is, we really DON’T like being pushed outside our comfort zones (who would?). We really DO segregate ourselves by sitting at different tables and living in different places. We really AREN’T taking advantage of our diverse communities to really talk about race. Sometimes it really IS easier to hold onto our own stereotypes and misconceptions. It really DOES make your own ignorance (and it really is ignorance) feel justified.
BUT…
It’s not just America’s problem. As Rachel quite rightly points out, it’s simply human nature to draw imaginary lines between “us” and “them”. If anything, America has made greater strides than any other nation in the history of the planet Earth to erase those lines.
We were the first country to truly have democracy. (Yes, I know that technically the Greeks and the Romans were first, but I’ve read a lot of literature on the workings of their governments and I think I could make the argument that they weren’t really democratic enough to have a real, true democracy. But I digress…)
We were the first country to base our economy on a true free-enterprise capitalist system. The system that, for all its flaws, guarantees the maximum amount of liberty and equality for the maximum amount of people.
Since the founding of this nation we have abolished slavery, defeated global Fascism TWICE (once in WWII and again in the Cold War), guaranteed equal rights to all races and both genders, AND we’ve become the all-around most powerful nation on Earth….WITHOUT letting it go to our heads and trying to conquer the world. And we did all of that in the span of around 200 years.
Can anyone else say that?
I didn’t think so.
March 26th, 2008 at 4:22 pmMichelle’s various speaking engagements remind me of a scene in Life of Brian:
MO: “You are all racist and stupid!”
CROWD OF WHITE DEMOCRATS: “YES! WE ARE ALL RACIST AND STUPID!”
LONE WHITE GUY: “Umm…I’m not.”
MO: “SHUT UP, YOU STUPID RACIST!”
March 26th, 2008 at 4:38 pmThe woman is seriously demented!! Everytime that she opens her mouth to rant (what a sheer joy she must be across the breakfast table) she sounds as though she has stopped taking some necessary medication, escaped from her keepers (er–nurses) and run into a meeting where no one dares shut her up and drag her off because to do so would, of course, be racist. She has single-handedly done more to shoot her husband in the foot than all of his opponents (with the possible exception of the good reverend). How did such a slatternly fishwife as she ever manage to find a husband? What sort of man in his right mind could hear that voice and decide, “Oh, yes! That’s what I want to listen to every day for the rest of my natural life.”? I suppose that we do owe her a bit of gratitude for showing us all what we’d get for first “lady” should the obamassiah ascend to the throne.
Other Bill - you need to put an identifier on your name; or I can just change my handle (unless you say something deeply profound for which I shall take immediate credit and acclaim.).
March 26th, 2008 at 5:07 pmYou know, we shouldn’t be attacking Michelle Obama. She’s just taking a page from John Kerry’s book “How I Won the 2004 Election” about how your wife’s comments can improve your standing in the polls and win you votes. We all know how great a public speaker, how uplifting and hopeful Teresa Heinz-Kerry was, and how much her words benefited John’s successful bid for the White House.
Ok, gotta post before I can’t hold in the snickers.
March 26th, 2008 at 5:16 pmGoogle “black student union”. They are everywhere.
March 26th, 2008 at 6:01 pmAnyone seen Michelle advocate for their elimination?
Dear Mrs. Obama,
If you need to lecture someone, please visit President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe. The man could use a few pointers. In America thousands of transplanted Africans enjoy incomes of a quarter million or more. I think that’s cool. In Zimbabwe only one person holds that kind of wealth. But he got lucky. Can you imagine the luck of a man who won the presidency and the national lottery all in the same year? What are the chances of that?
I’m sure that you and Mr. Mugabe will agree on the root causes of poverty and the obvious solution to the problem. You simply take from the evil, white, racist exploiters and give their share to the needy masses. Simple! Collectivism works everytime. There is no more egalitarian nation in the world today than Zimbabwe. National motto: Rat . . . it’s what’s for dinner.
All it really takes is an enlightened leader (like you, dear), an adequate police force to enforce the rules, and all is solved. Janet Reno understood. If a family refuses to repatriot a child back to Cuba, you send in a SWAT team in the middle of the night and take him at gunpoint. Problem solved. It might get a bit sticky if America refuses to disarm, but the Bolshevik, err, Democratic Party needs an absolute monopoly on the use of force if this is going to work.
Mrs. Obama, I so trust your judgement. I so totally understand you. You will someday rank right up there with Cleopatra, the Dowager Empress of China, and Evita Peron. I can hardly wait. As soon as I get my new soul in the mail, I’m going to put an altar to you in my spare bedroom. Do you prefer candles, incense, or both? I’m going to draw the line at human sacrifice because my neighbors don’t like the smell of carnage in the garbage. God, I so hate compromise with racist ass***s.
Sincerely,
~Paules
March 26th, 2008 at 7:30 pmI have taught at a local community college. Older students normally hang with older students. We have some blind students who hang together and a couple of deaf students who stay close. Athletes hang with athletes. Females are normally around other females (with the males sitting outside to pick one off once in a while). These associations do not necessarily follow race, but common experiences. There are mixed racial groups that fall within these others.
March 26th, 2008 at 7:33 pmMichelle Obama’s checklist for public speaking:
1. Open mouth wide.
2. Insert foot.
3. Clamp tightly.
4. Chew thoroughly.
Nuff said.
March 26th, 2008 at 8:28 pmI remember reading months ago that Michelle Obama felt isolated at her Ivy League college. After listening to her lately, I can sure see why no one would talk to her twice.
March 26th, 2008 at 8:36 pmmightysamarai … well said. One quibble … if you have not read Jonah Goldberg’s book on Liberal Fascism, you might want to do so … we may have defeated GLOBAL fascism twice … but it’s STILL infesting this country to a very high degree.
March 27th, 2008 at 7:04 amYou forgot the last three steps
March 27th, 2008 at 8:52 am5. Open gaping pie hole again
6. Switch feet
7. repeat steps 3 & 4
Michelle Obama, haranguing students at the University of South Carolina:
Um, yes. Because it’s physically impossible for all 27,000 USC students to eat at the same table, and live in the same dorm.
No, you weren’t. I was a student at USC from 1978 to 1986, and I never saw you there.
Okay, I’m being too literal. Mrs. Obama doesn’t mean she actually attended the University of South Carolina; she’s just telling the students that she went to a university just like theirs and had the same experiences they are having. But that’s a lie. Michelle Obama went to Princeton and Harvard. USC is a state university, and I enrolled there because my parents were not wealthy, and there was never a snowball’s chance in Hell that they could afford to send me to Princeton or Harvard.
I’m not complaining; I enjoyed my time at USC and got a good education. But it’s ridiculous for Mrs. Obama to try to say “I’m just like you!” to USC students.
March 27th, 2008 at 11:24 amEthne,
March 27th, 2008 at 2:17 pmOops, my bad!
Apparently, her Obamaness has never been an average American living in Japan.
March 28th, 2008 at 4:37 am