The Radicalism of Michelle Obama
August 23, 2013 By Tom Blumer
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An early March 2008 New Yorker magazine article, The Other Obama: Michelle Obama and the politics of candor, exposed the self-adopted strident tone of Mrs. Obamas stump speeches:
Obama begins with a broad assessment of life in America in 2008, and life is not good: were a divided country, were a country that is just downright mean, we are guided by fear, were a nation of cynics, sloths, and complacents. We have become a nation of struggling folks who are barely making it every day, she said, as heads bobbed in the pews. Folks are just jammed up, and its gotten worse over my lifetime. And, doggone it, Im young. Forty-four!
The life that Im talking about that most people are living has gotten progressively worse since I was a little girl. . . . So if you want to pretend like there was some point over the last couple of decades when your lives were easy, I want to meet you!
Collins importantly noted that Mrs. Obama composed the speech herself, delivering it without notes and, it would appear, without a teleprompter.
Theres very little chance that Mrs. Obamas pride lasted. One does not suddenly get past such a repeated display of open contempt for America and the everyday people who live in it and permanently find pride simply because your husband is on a political hot streak.
Michelle Obamas long-term and still-existing shortage of pride originates in a deep-seated belief that America remains, in the words of leading black socialist Cornel West, a racist patriarchal nation where white supremacy continues to define everyday life.
In 1984, while an undergraduate student at Princeton, then-Michelle Robinson promoted and attended a Black Solidarity event for guest lecturer Manning Marable, who at the time was, according to West, probably the best known black Marxist in the country.
Her 1985 thesis buys into the harmful belief of 1960s black radicals Stokely Carmichael and Charles Hamilton that Before a group can enter the open society, it must close ranks. The problem is that once groupthink dominates, philosophical separation from the rest of society almost never goes away.
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Though she has largely restrained herself since her husband assumed the presidency, theres little evidence to support the notion that Michelle Obamas core beliefs have changed. Unless we see otherwise, the default assumption should be: Once a far leftist, always a far leftist.
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