Why Are White Folks Hating On Michelle Obama?

"It would be nice if science was objective, but the ugly truth is that
scientists have contributed to racism, sexism, anti-Semitism, and every
other possible prejudice throughout history."

Right on! In an article framed tacitly by misogyny as well as by racism, please note that Watson won that Nobel Prize after breaking into the laboratory of Jewish scientist Rosalind Franklin and stealing her x-ray diffraction photographs, which provided the very first evidence that DNA is helical.

She was ousted from her position and dissuaded from continuing work with DNA a month before Watson and Crick's groundbreaking paper was published. The Nobel Committee waited until four years after her death to grant the prize to Watson and Crick.

Michelle Obama is not popular simply because she comes off as superior and humorless, much like Hillary Clinton when she first came to public light. You are being dense to not see that it is the same problem that many men in politics have had as well. Look at Dukakis, his lack of humor and demeanor turned off America as much as his policies, same for John Kerry. Americans like jovial people in office, not severe cranks. Michelle Obama needs to lighten up. (it would help if she acted as if she actually liked this country). To make this an issue of sex or race is demeaning to you and people that are rubbed the wrong way by abrasive Michelle.

Thanks for weighing in, Jeffrey, but I don't think I'm solely responsible for making this issue about gender and race.  As I say in the piece, I think that prominent members of the media (Hutchens, the Fox News person who used the words "baby mama") beat me to it.  Fair enough if you think Michelle is a "severe crank" and that she doesn't act like she likes this country.  You are definitely entitled to like or dislike her for reasons other than her race or background. 

I did sound severe - I am sorry. You are right, I dislike Michelle Obama and like Condi Rice but I disagree with both politically. Condi is not as friendly as she could be, but she smiles and is gracious in interviews, something Michelle could learn from. That said, women do still have a tough time with certain voters. In my home state the best candidate for Gov. could not win her party's nomination. It was more due to her lack of machine support than being a woman, but the issue was still there because of vocal anti-women Democrats (her party).

I just think from the title that you are playing up a race issue when it is more an issue of attitudes and personalities. I also do not think it is only this country. More Brits are politically aligned with Cherie Blair but few like the woman because she exudes the same personality as Michelle Obama, a stridently unhappy activist.

Good luck on the book launch. 

Thanks! And just FYI--I didn't write the title. The Jewcy editors did.

We dislike Michelle Obama because she hates America, and is pretty transparent about it. She sees eye to eye with Rev Wright, and as an American, I feel it is pretty frightening to have someone with those viewpoints as First "Lady". Baraq might feel the same way, but keeps it under wraps. Michelle shimmers with anger, much more so than African-Americans who experienced real racism and Jim Crow. I dont like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Hugo Chavez because they hate the US. I would wager to bet that Michelle's views on the US are not terribly different from Ahmadinejad and Chavez

Two thoughts.

Generally, you have to wonder about an article that purports to talk about how "white people think" about Michelle Obama, inside a Web site that purports to talk about Jews.  If the latter is worth talking about, then surely the former cannot be a unified group with any single opinion.

Specifically, it is kind of interesting to see conflated what "white people think" about African-Americans, and what college admissions boards decide about African-Americans.   The assumption is that college admissions boards are an example of white people.  True?

Right now the Republicans are terrified that Obama may win in November...they are busy spinning just about everything to get dirt on Obama. Elitist, Not black enough, not patriotic, ill-equipped, wore the wrong shoes, the list is endless. So they find an easy target, his wife. Michelle Obama is a proud, educated and black woman and her critics are threatened by that. However he could be married to Oprah and they'd still be hating on her. "Barack's Baby Mama" ? Shame on you Fox! Has any pundit dare to call Cindy McCain - John McCain's Meal Ticket or Homewrecker or drug addict for that matter ... wikipedia her, the facts are there plus you'll be wondering who real is the elitist is.  Cindy McCain is definitely not shopping at White House/BlackMarket, that's for sure.

I went to a high-school that was around 85% black and am comfortable around American blacks and never disliked someone because of the colour of their skin.

When my child went to kindergarten in a public school, with many black children I tried to say "hi" to their parents.  Many black parents would not even make eye contact, forget about saying "hi" back.

Many uneducated black Americans do not like white folk and that makes the white folk uncomfortable.

I worked with an African man from Ghana and he was as you described, polite, articulate, hard-working and educated.  Black Africans don't have the same hang-ups about whites as African-Americans do.

"In the February 2007 issue of the American Journal of Education,
researchers at Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania published
findings from surveys given to 1,051 black freshmen at 28 selective
colleges. They found that 27 percent of African-American students were first or
second generation immigrants, which is more than double the national
average for all blacks ages 18-19."

And were they also beneficiaries of affirmative action? If so, isn't that kind of insane to give immigrants a leg-up over those citizens already here? 

"Polite, articulate, hard-working and educated" -- describes all of the native African-Americans I know. Anna, I think the lack of eye contact from the African-American parents may have been more of a class issue than race issue. Then again, there could have been something in your approach or some other issue that turned them off. Perhaps the problem was not with them.

Obama is the messiah-and if you dont accept that, we will kick your ass. He will put Israel in its place with a tough love policy administered by James Baqr, Robert Malley, Zbig Brzinsky, and force Israel to accept UN resolution 194, allowing for the return of Palestinian refugees to Palestine and Jewish refugees back to E Europe. You ziopigs are quavering like pork based gelatin

No, I don't believe 'we' dislike Michelle because of some racial slur, or color preference.  I believe 'we' dislike her because she was silly enough to marry a man who changes his views as it suits him.  We dislike Michelle because she supported a man who was part of a religious group which dislike America.  We dislike Michelle because she never took a stand to persuade her partner to not toy with Muslim propoganda.  We dislike Michelle (who's skin color we never noticed) because she never supported the campaign for Hillary Clinton's nomination for president when she saw Barak's wavering policies, heard his indesicive comments and realised his selfish motives for power.

Interesting article on an important topic. Michelle Obama is intelligent, well-educated, lively and self-confident. What a refreshing change from some of our past First Ladies, who glided through their roles in drug or alcohol hazes, or picked safe little charities for photo ops. I believe Michelle will be more in the tradition of Eleanor Roosevelt, Rosalyn Carter and Hilary Clinton. Of course people go after her - she is not only an assertive woman, but an assertive African-American womena, many white conservative's worst nightmare. Michelle Obama will be a terriic role model for young people of all races, and the sight of the Obama children playing in their (not so) White House is something to work for and anticipate with pride.

Maybe it's that she's a $300k/year lawyer who had every privilege that an American upbringing can afford a person and still managed to say that she had never been proud of her country and that America is "just downright mean"... really, remarks like that are hardly calculated to win over the affections of the masses here, are they?

Frankly, most people in this country don't care about what color Michelle Obama is, nor about her antecedents.  She had her chance to make an impression, and she insulted people.  She came across as an elitist who doesn't share people's values, and that has absolutely nothing to do with her color.  In the end, it's only a race issue because people like you decide that any time a black person is involved, the only quality on which white people are capable of judging that person is skin color.  I think it's projection.

I think many people who don't like MO either have a problem with assertive women or they believe the rumors & lies spread by right wing "talk" radio and Faux News. Most haters don't even know that the "proud of her country" tape was edited to make her seem unpatriotic.

Michelle Obama repeated the proud line a few times before it went viral. You can believe what you want, she is abrasive and far too many people are not wanting an abrasive first lady. She is a very negative person and one that has a problem with other people's success and wealth (but not her own).

You say that Africans are better educated than American blacks so
that makes white Americans find them more sociable. Then you say that
this is surely the reason that Africans are over-represented among
black college students. An assumption you take as a certainty.

Then
you claim that white people are prejudiced against Michelle Obama for
race and gender reasons. No other possible reasons for any negative
feelings toward her and no mention of any positive feelings toward her.
And there must be people who like her enough to make her, finally,
proud of her country.

Then you leap to claim that the world of science is currently
infected with racism using the remark of one older scientist as your
proof.

 Great article. Thanks

Fortunately for African immigrants, they have not spent a generation
hearing white liberals tell them how "disadvantaged" and dependent on
entitlements they are.  In the same tradition of Jewish immigrants of
the last century, African immigrants see the US is a pretty good place
where hard work and courtesy is likely to pay off.

Perhaps you
should rethink your ideology, and consider the possibility that these
immigrants are winning their places in universities through their own
merit, which in the real world involves being likable and courteous as
well as competent.

And the answer is obvious, Jews are virulently racist (yea yea, but not you)

as evinced by the media coverage of this race...it is a disgusting spectacle, and for me the day that this insane media consolidation ends cant come soon enough...

I love the latest narrative, "why isnt Obama doing better?" as though he is loosing, or ought to already have won or some such insanity...

Zionists cause anti-semitism....in fact, they created it.

Racism is racism...fat boy Jeffery Weaver is a prime example. Probably got shot down by a black hooker of something....

Count me as a strong supporter of both Obamas  - i will be voting for Barak and i think Michelle will make a great first lady.  Nothing will help heal america's damaged reputation around the world like having these two in the white house.

That being said, I think it is unfair to slur James Watson.  Watson is one of the word's premier experts on genetics, and his views on racial differences in IQ have been endorsed by the vast majority of scientists who have studied the issue.  You may be aware of the fact that most scientists are politically on the left and many of the scientists that published articles agreeing with Watson have publicly said that it is painful and emotionally difficult for them to publish these facts, but the scientific evidence is overwhelming.

 A survey of all of these scientific journal articles was actually written.  The writers of the survey are on the political right, but if you want to fact check you can go read the original journal articles.

 IQ is not the measure of human worth, or of human nobility.  But IQ does differ by race and the cause of that difference is genetic.  If you have more interest, must google the following introduction to the article

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A 60-page review of the scientific evidence, some based on state-of-the-art magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of brain size, has concluded that race differences in average IQ are largely genetic. The lead article in the June 2005 issue of Psychology, Public Policy and Law, a journal of the American Psychological Association, examined 10 categories of research evidence from around the world to contrast "a hereditarian model (50% genetic-50% cultural) and a culture-only model (0% genetic-100% cultural)."

The paper, "Thirty Years of Research on Race Differences in Cognitive Ability," by J. Philippe Rushton of the University of Western Ontario and Arthur R. Jensen of the University of California at Berkeley, appeared with a positive commentary by Linda Gottfredson of the University of Delaware, three critical ones (by Robert Sternberg of Yale University, Richard Nisbett of the University of Michigan, and Lisa Suzuki & Joshua Aronson of New York University), and the authors' reply.

"Neither the existence nor the size of race differences in IQ are a matter of dispute, only their cause," write the authors. The Black-White difference has been found consistently from the time of the massive World War I Army testing of 90 years ago to a massive study of over 6 million corporate, military, and higher-education test-takers in 2001.

Oprah Winfrey has made the most spectacular argument for why Barack Obama should become the next president of the United States.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsvfhW857PA

She is going to be the right hand of your future president....so get use to it ...if you prefer people who are laughing and smiling and telling you bold face lies or jokes all day go to a comedy club or see if you can get Bush back in office .....Michelle Obama doesnt have to please you with a song and dance....sounds like shes a little to black for your coffee....okay maybe it would be considered nice to ask if that offends you.....maybe

NIGGER OBAMA AND NIGRESS ARE BLACK NATIONALISTS STUPID FUCKIN KIKES. YOUR WOMEN ARE UNWIPED ASS UGLY. THE MALES ARE WEAK LITTLE PUSSYS WHO FANTASIZE OF NAZIS FUCKIN THEIR KOSHER ASS. KIKES ARE AN INBREED ABOMINATION OF MORONIC GENETIC LIARS JEALOUS OF WHITES 88

Umm... ok. Whatever. But we can help get presidents elected and all you can do is get your Klan leader elected. And all we need to do is watch a Jerry Springer episode to see which ethnic group's engaged in the majority of incestuous cousin-fuckings in America.

Now turn off the caps lock, go back to your trailer and sign up for the Klan's literacy program stat.