"You keep carrying that anger, it'll eat you up inside, baby..."
Remember, Michelle Obama is the elite mother of elite daughters.*
I suspect the mothers and grammas of many angry black sons, and grandsons, would disagree with her recent advice to young people across the nation. (And "white" mothers of angry "white" sons too -- I'm just going to lump all the non-blacks in as "whites", for now...).
Listen to your mothers, angry young men, not to Michelle Obama.
You'll likely live longer. Really...
------------------------"So, don’t ever, ever let anyone tell you that you’re too angry, or that you 'should keep your mouth shut.'"
Says Michelle Obama — in "Graduates, 'Don’t ever, ever let anyone tell you that you’re too angry'" (WaPo).
* Truth be told? Michelle Obama, and her daughters, are riding a lot of the white privilege she inherited from marrying the biracial black man, Barack Obama, who was raised himself by a military-veteran white grandfather and a white banker grandmother, who sent him to elite schools where he was able to circumvent rules that would have likely locked up other young black men who did not share his "white privilege".
Why would Michelle Obama allow her daughters, and herself, to continue riding this white privilege that helped to put them in the White House, isolates them in multiple homes and mansions in America now, and has helped her curry a personal friendship with George W. Bush, they say?
Wouldn't it be more helpful for the black community she comes from and represents to disavow her elite white privileges, inherited from her husband's white family history that allowed her to access the highest levels of white political privilege in America?
Isn't she really part of the problem?
And are we not supposed to notice how her own anger allegedly fizzled out once she herself had access to those white power corridors that were filled with those who worshipped her husband despite his inactions? I'm not angry -- educated people rarely are, it's a different emotion we get filled with... -- but I'd like to push back on Michelle Obama's destructive advice in these times to angry youth.
She's killing kids, encouraging this burning anger that too often is uncontrolled at young ages and fires off at innocent others. Really.
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