Michelle, ma belle, cont.

No date on this video of our favorite political wife speaking, but since the speech was given at the University of South Carolina, presumably it was before the South Carolina primary:

… 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?”
—Michelle Obama

Barack and Michelle use different words and have different styles, but there is no space between them. Their essential message is the same.

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Ben W. writes:

Deconstructing Michelle:

Michelle Obama: “… sometimes it’s easier to hold on to your own stereotypes and misconceptions.”

Yes, it is easier for people like Jeremiah Wright and Barack Obama to hang onto their stereotypes since neither of these were actually oppressed and can claim an authentic identity and existence of being wronged.

Michelle Obama: “It makes you feel justified in your own ignorance…”

The Wrights and Obamas feel justified in their ignorance of America through their retention of such stereotypes. Their “will to power.”

Michelle Obama: “That’s America.”

No, that’s the Wright\Obama connection for self-justification in the absence of true talent.

Michelle Obama: “So the challenge for us is are we ready for change?”

Is she ready for change—to change herself and her steroetypes? To work to gain real talent rather than racial hucksterism?

Posted by Lawrence Auster at March 27, 2008 04:25 PM | Send