Barack Obama’s Wife Is Proud Of America For The First Time In Her Life
Which sort of makes you wonder what she thought of our country before her husband decided to run for President.
“For the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country,” she told a Milwaukee crowd today, “because it feels like hope is making a comeback.”
Sounds suspiciously like oblique identity politics to me. She’s proud because the Democrats are (likely) going to nominate a black man. But why does electing someone of a certain skin color matter?
I thought it was the content of a person’s character, and not the color of their skin, that mattered. Someone smart said that once.
Update: It’s worth noting that the quote from Michelle Obama at the source I linked above has been changed to include the word “really,” so that the quote now reads: “For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country…”
I don’t think that changes the meaning at all, but it’s important to be accurate.
