First lady Michelle Obama on Tuesday urged a group of young girls to “stay away from the haters.”
“There’s always going to be haters out there. Don’t focus on that,” she said. “Put the negative things aside, because that’s always going to be there.”
– First Lady Michelle Obama, 2012
For some reason I have a difficult time reconciling this advice about “staying away from haters” when the very person who says it sits in the church pew of this “hater” for twenty, yes twenty, years.
The only way it is possible to reconcile the statement from Michelle Obama is to accept the fact she is, in actuality, saying it’s perfectly acceptable for black haters to spew vitriolic hate speech, and simultaneously unacceptable for White Haters to do the same. Not exactly exemplifying post-racial, or inclusive ideology.