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2017-10-04 Home Front: Politix
Michelle Obama: ‘People Don't Trust Politics' Because GOP Is ‘All Men, All White'
[Breitbart] Tuesday at the Pennsylvania Conference for Women, former first lady Michelle Obama said when she attended the State of the Union address she would notice the Republican side was "all men, all white," and that was why she argued many people of color "don’t trust politics."

Speaking about diversity, Obama said, "We should be working actively to mix it up, so we’re getting a real broad range of perspectives on every issue. Shoot, I would see that in Congress."

She explained, "At the State of the Union address ... when you are in the room what you can see is this real dichotomy. It’s a feeling of color almost. On one side of the room is literally gray and white. Literally, that is the color palette on one side of the room. On the other side of the room, there are yellows and blues and whites and greens. Physically, there’s a difference in color, in the tone, because on one side all men, all white, on the other side some woman, some people of color."

She continued, "I look at that, and I go, no wonder. No wonder we struggle, no wonder people don’t trust politics. We’re not even noticing what these rooms look like."
Posted by Besoeker 2017-10-04 01:20|| || Front Page|| [11140 views ]  Top

#1 This nation finally puts a black man in the WH and this is how he thanks the other races...
Posted by Hupeting Sforza8196 2017-10-04 01:31||   2017-10-04 01:31|| Front Page Top

#2 "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

Sorry, Marty. I was hoping for that too. But it looks like that ship done sailed.
Posted by SteveS 2017-10-04 01:56||   2017-10-04 01:56|| Front Page Top

#3 Making Hillary look (by comparison) good.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-10-04 05:51||   2017-10-04 05:51|| Front Page Top

#4 Green? The tinge of rot on the skin of some of their senior members? Ruth Bader Ginsburg's decaying corpse?
Posted by Rob Crawford 2017-10-04 06:17||   2017-10-04 06:17|| Front Page Top

#5 Michelle Obama is a racist and a sexist.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2017-10-04 06:37||   2017-10-04 06:37|| Front Page Top

#6 Michelle Obama is a racist and a sexist.

Or, at least, a brainless parrot for racists and sexists.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-10-04 06:45||   2017-10-04 06:45|| Front Page Top

#7 Michelle Obama is a racist and a sexist. Or, at least, a brainless parrot for racists and sexists.

Your assessments are charitable in the extreme.
Posted by Besoeker 2017-10-04 06:49||   2017-10-04 06:49|| Front Page Top

#8 Yep, a heck of a lot of white men, buried in veterans cemeteries across the nation. Might be a corollary there someplace.
Posted by Procopius2k 2017-10-04 07:13||   2017-10-04 07:13|| Front Page Top

#9 Please run in 2020, you worthless rayyccciisss bitch
Posted by Frank G 2017-10-04 08:47||   2017-10-04 08:47|| Front Page Top

#10 awwww the wookie has sads
Posted by Rex Mundi 2017-10-04 09:37||   2017-10-04 09:37|| Front Page Top

#11 Ya know... that money they are paying you to speak came from an awful lot of white folks....

Just sayin'

You should give it back if you think white people are so awful. Wouldn't want you to have double standards, would we?
Posted by DarthVader 2017-10-04 09:49||   2017-10-04 09:49|| Front Page Top

#12 Well, then, here's a politician you can trust....

Posted by Abu Uluque 2017-10-04 11:10||   2017-10-04 11:10|| Front Page Top

#13 Wow, the critical thinking that went into that comment shows clearly the depth of her intellect.
Posted by NoMoreBS 2017-10-04 11:35||   2017-10-04 11:35|| Front Page Top

#14 Condoleeza makes Michele look more sad and more stupid just by being there
Posted by 746 2017-10-04 11:40||   2017-10-04 11:40|| Front Page Top

#15 If we'd have known it would come to this, we'd have picked our own cotton.
Posted by  2017-10-04 12:33||   2017-10-04 12:33|| Front Page Top

#16 2020 P & VP.
Posted by Skidmark 2017-10-04 13:58||   2017-10-04 13:58|| Front Page Top

#17 The poor woman really has no political instincts whatsoever, as well as not being able to see the people in front of her face. If she is wise she'll stick to earlier post-presidency statements that she has no interest in becoming a politician in her own right -- she is not even a Hillary Clinton.
Posted by trailing wife 2017-10-04 14:36||   2017-10-04 14:36|| Front Page Top

#18 Why does the name Sen. Dianne Wilkerson pop into my mind?
Posted by gorb 2017-10-04 16:15||   2017-10-04 16:15|| Front Page Top

#19 Racist, flat out.
Posted by Thomose Spawn of the Antelope4762 2017-10-04 17:00||   2017-10-04 17:00|| Front Page Top

#20 Evil cant help itself and shows its colors...
Posted by 49 Pan 2017-10-04 23:10||   2017-10-04 23:10|| Front Page Top

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