Zev Porat

Sunday, September 23, 2012

Michelle Obama pulls race card at Black Caucus - "struggle, segregated, march"

The White House released the transcript from Michelle Obama's speech yesterday at the Congressional Black Caucus Gala. The first lady used the occasion to pull the race card and lead the crowd in a rousing anti-whitey frenzy claiming the re-election of Home Boy Barack is this generation's civil-rights march.

And make no mistake about it, this is the march of our time -- marching door to door, registering people to vote.  Marching everyone you know to the polls every single election.  See, this is the sit-in of our day -- sitting in a phone bank, sitting in your living room, calling everyone you know -- (applause) -- your friends, your neighbors, that nephew you haven’t seen in a while, that classmate you haven’t spoken to in years -- making sure they all know how to register, where to vote -- every year, in every election.
The speech is riddled with key words like "struggle", "segregated", and "march"; clearly designed to stoke the embers of anti-racist sentiment from decades ago.

The real question here is, will the American black voters actually fall for this shameful act of manipulation? Will Michelle Obama's careless use of past racist ideas to stoke an anger which should have died years ago cause race riots if Barack loses? And is that what they're counting on?

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