The more Michelle Obama talks, the more petulant, entitled, and straight-up racist she appears. A few years ago, back around the time her husband was president of the United States, it became fashionable to say that black people couldn’t be racist, because, you see, when they expressed hatred or contempt for white people, they were lashing out against their alleged oppression, while white people who expressed similar disdain in the other direction were exercising that oppression.
The distinction was spurious from the first time it was enunciated, but it has always been especially ludicrous in connection with Michelle Obama, one of the most privileged and cosseted human beings on the entire planet. Nevertheless, Michelle knows that leftism is the politics of grievance and resentment, and so she does all she can to keep the bile alive.
In a Monday interview, she made it clear that race considerations guided her haute couture choices: “If I hear of someone whose fashion that I like and I know that they're a person of color, I try to make it a point. But the clothes have to be available. You know, I think we can all do some work to think about that balance in our wardrobes, you know? What does our closet look like, and who's in it? Who are we supporting in it? You know? And I think if you have the money to buy Chanel, then you have the money to buy everybody.”
Michelle Obama is routinely applauded when she says things like this, although you can easily imagine the outcry that would ensue if any patriotic woman of similar stature said that she tried to make it a point to buy clothes from white designers. Michelle, however, is simply walking along the trail that her much-lauded husband blazed. Throughout his disastrous eight years in the White House, Barack Hussein Obama did more to stoke racial tensions than any other modern president.
His actions have been imitated. In the nine years he has been out of office, the American left continues to sow racial division and hatred, apparently from the conviction that racial strife means electoral victory for the Democrats. This is the playbook they learned from Obama. As Rating America’s Presidents details, when Obama took office in January 2009, the Justice Department was pursuing a case against the New Black Panther Party for voter intimidation in Philadelphia. Obama’s attorney general, Eric Holder, abruptly dropped the case in May 2009 and refused to cooperate with further investigations, giving the strong impression that the Black Panthers were getting away with voter intimidation because of their race.
Obama also exacerbated racial tensions in his response to several widely publicized incidents. On July 16, 2009, black intellectual Henry Louis Gates found himself locked out of his Massachusetts home and began trying to force his way in. An officer arrived to investigate a possible break-in; Gates began berating him and was arrested for disorderly conduct. Obama claimed that the police “acted stupidly” and noted the “long history in this country of African-Americans and Latinos being stopped by police disproportionately,” although there was no indication of racial bias in this case. He invited Gates and the police officer to the White House for a “beer summit,” which the media hailed as a manifestation of his determination to heal racial divisions, when in fact it was just the opposite: he was taking a case of misunderstanding and disorderly conduct and portraying it as a racial incident requiring presidential reconciliation.
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A young Hispanic, George Zimmerman, on Feb. 26, 2012, shot dead a young black man, Trayvon Martin, in what was widely reported as a racial hate crime. NBC edited a recording of Zimmerman’s call to the police to give the false impression that Zimmerman was suspicious of Martin solely because he was black. Instead of trying to calm the situation, Obama stoked the idea that Zimmerman acted out of racial hatred and said, “If I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon.” Yet Zimmerman was acquitted of murder, and the Justice Department declined to prosecute him for a hate crime.
Many hailed Obama’s first election in 2008 as an indication that America had finally left behind the racial divisions that had so marred its past, and was now giving the world an example of a truly post-racial society. Yet instead of working to heal remaining racial divisions, Obama exacerbated them, giving credence to the fanciful notion that a phantasmagorical “systemic racism” still plagued America. Despite his career of success and privilege, he continued to claim that black Americans suffered from institutional barriers to their success and well-being in this country. And now Michelle Obama is busy aiding him in this ignoble work.
