You see folks, racism works both ways and the FLOTUS has a mother who is a prime example. And Marion Anderson, is a very smart woman, who reared two successful kids.
Long before Michelle Obama became First Lady, her mother had misgivings about her marrying a young man named Barack Obama — because he was biracial.
In a Chicago TV interview that aired during Obama’s 2004 U.S. Senate campaign — and newly resurrected by Michelle Obama biographer Peter Slevin in a book due out next month — Marion Robinson confessed to being “a little bit” wary about her future son-in-law being the product of a white mom and black dad.
But it could’ve been worse, according to Robinson.
“That didn’t concern me as much as had he been completely white,” Robinson laughed in the appearance on WTTW’s “Chicago Tonight,” which was scarcely noticed at the time.
more: EXCLUSIVE Michelle Obama mom had biracial marriage worries - NY Daily News
Totally gives moochelles mom a pass on being a racist. Duddy thinks you have to be white to be racist. He is a typical pansy ass libturd.
Whoa whoa WHOA folks.
--- On what basis are we concluding "racism" here?
Can we just quit knee-jerk calling "racism" every time we see a different shade on somebody? Can we just stop perpetuating this crapola? Can we do dat?
There are sociocultural dynamics in such relationships, and there's nothing to suggest Marion Robinson was operating on anything but that -- from the link:
>> “I guess that I worry about races mixing because of the difficulty — not for, so much for prejudice or anything,” Robinson continued. “It’s just very hard.”-- not unlike the parent who worries that their child came out as gay, for the difficulties they will face -- from sociocultural pressures. On the outside.
Slevin’s forthcoming biography, “Michelle Obama: A Life,” doesn’t suggest those concerns spurred Robinson to oppose the union. <<
Racism, on the other hand, requires a value judgment by the racist --- that "Race X is superior to Race Y". There's no indication of that here either.
This is a gadfly headline written to SELL PAPERS. We can see that as soon as we get to the word "EXCLUSIVE!!". When will we get it through our heads that muckraking gossip papers are using their readers as pawns? If we don't quite enabling this shit we will never emerge from their muck. They profit from it.
Thank you.
Damn.
Thanks for your civil response, Pogo, my bud who loves good music.
I love civility too m'dear QuaQua. I just worry about us losing it in rhetorical dissonnance.
Not "us" us but Us as a country.
Love ya 'Qua
I love you, too sweetheart. I have for a long time. I respect and admire you. We don't always have to agree on all things, as you once pointed out to me, in your usual astute brilliance.
If we did it would make me think of two words:
Bore
ING.