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One of the biggest obstacles to the Left’s never-ending quest to portray America as a nation beset by “systemic racism” has been the presidency of Barack Hussein Obama. What other country has elected a member of a minority that once faced daily discrimination to the highest office in the land? But former First Lady Michelle Obama has come up with an imaginative new way to perpetuate the Leftist myth: she’s claiming that she didn’t wear her hair in braids while she was living in the White House because the American people, those stupid, hate-filled racists who twice gave their votes to her husband, just weren’t “ready” for the spectacle of her natural hair. Apparently, Mrs. Obama is laboring under the impression that the American people thought she was Swedish.
The Washington Post reported Thursday that as First Lady, Michelle Obama “considered wearing her hair in braids,” but “then she thought of the American people.” Back in 2009, it was impossible to avoid media gushing about the First Black President, who was the recipient of breathless adulation and even the Nobel Peace Prize before he actually did anything at all. But apparently, Michelle Obama thought that the American people had somehow failed to notice that the First Couple was black, and she opted not to upset the poor yahoos by appearing to be what she actually was.
The American people, Mrs. Obama said, “were ‘just getting adjusted’ to having a Black president in the Oval Office and a Black family in the White House, so she decided to keep her hair straight.” This was not her actual preference; it was a concession to the limitations of the benighted Americans over whom Barack was ruling: “It would have been easier to keep her hair in braids, Obama said, but ‘nope, they’re not ready for it,’ she added, recalling her thinking at the time.”
It’s a pity that no one who was present at the Warner Theatre in Washington on Tuesday when Michelle Obama made these remarks asked her exactly why she thought Americans were not ready for the prospect of the First Lady in braids, or what she thought would happen if she had worn them. Would KKK members have burned a cross on the White House lawn? Would blond-haired racists have descended upon the White House with pitchforks? Would Bull Connor have set his dogs on the Secret Service agents guarding the Executive Mansion?
Whatever the reason, Meesh “sacrificed” — sacrificed! Oh, how much these people have given up for us! — “doing her hair as she would have liked so her husband’s administration could focus on achieving its goals instead of sinking political capital into putting out a hairstyle-induced firestorm.
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Phil Copson says
“What other country has elected a member of a minority that once faced daily discrimination to the highest office in the land?”
Umm – The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland – of which Benjamin Disraeli was twice Prime Minister ? (in1868 and 1874 to 1880)
BruceRobert says
Beautiful… And so very true.
Wellington says
But, to be complete here, by the time Disraeli became Prime Minister he had already become a Christian. The arguably proper analogy to Michelle Obama would be her switching parties from Democrat to Republican. But this didn’t happen, now did it?
alexreid says
Well said, Sir! to that you can add Scots PMs & Lloyd George a Welshman! Recently Rishi Sunak an Indian. right now senior post in the UK Cabinet weren’t born in the UK & are of colour! Sheer, utter hypocrisy trying to stir up sh*t where there ain’t none! Besides braids were a European invention. Alexander the Great had his hair in 2 braids. you can still see this design on his coinage.
Mark Spahn says
In what sense are braids “natural hair”?
Neither our Neanderthal nor our Devonian foremothers wore their hair in braids.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wj0qx56cwOw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s19s3MH6sTQ
eximius says
No one cares about your hair Michele. We care about how racist you are though.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
And how she made our kids miserable w/ absolutely horrific school lunches
kq6kq6kq6 says
And anti-patriotic. And anti-American.
Alkflaeda says
There are lots of precedents for the use of braids by people who were not from an African background. https://hairstylecamp.com/viking-braids-for-women/ Additionally, many of the artistic depictions of Tolkien characters show Elves with braided hair.
Paul Kagan says
Surly she has straight hair which is in my opinion culturable appropriation. All the Africans I know have curly
hair.
Scotsman48 says
That Born Again Christian who changed his name from Barry to Barack Hussein is Bi Racial, as Ive always noticed that when a child is born to one Negro parent and the parent of another Race the child is automatically referred to as black, this is insulting to the non Negro parent and so if people think the Race of the person is important then I suggest they get the Race correct.
Barack Obama is Bi Racial and his husband can wear his hair however he wants as it will make no difference as to how ugly he actually is, especially when he opens his mouth.