Michelle Obama talks about her
experience with racism as first lady
Today Show,
by
Scott Stump
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
8/27/2020 3:57:31 PM
Michelle Obama has recalled her "exhausting" experience with racism using the example of a simple trip to get ice cream with her daughters during her time in the White House. (Snip) "There was a line, and once again, when I'm just a Black woman, I notice that white people don't even see me. They're not even looking at me. So I'm standing there with two little Black girls, another Black female adult, they're in soccer uniforms, and a white woman cuts right in front of us to order. Like she didn't even see us." Obama said the girl at the
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Ribicon 8/27/2020 4:01:23 PM (No. 522966)
Rich, coming from someone who was admitted to Princeton and Harvard specifically because of the color of her skin. Did they ask how long she's been a woman, or what it feels like to have daughters secretly on loan from a couple of biologically male and female fellow travelers? Those would be the greater burdens.
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Are my pancakes ready yet, sir?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Ming 8/27/2020 4:03:56 PM (No. 522973)
Yeah that Ivy League education you were given for free and that $300,000 no-show job you had were really racisty given to you be us racisty Americans.
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She and Megan Markle should get together and have a huge Pity Party. Anybody have a barf bag handy?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Nimby 8/27/2020 4:05:19 PM (No. 522976)
Gosh! She was shameless in living on the tax dollars of hard working Americans for her jiving with Hollywood and partying. What a classless tool.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Trump'sCousin 8/27/2020 4:05:25 PM (No. 522977)
If Mitch is breathing then Mitch is lying.
Mitch is lying.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Newtsche 8/27/2020 4:07:08 PM (No. 522980)
Yeah, cutting in line, that what Whitey do.
Maybe they just had to avert their eyes, Mooch.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Italiano 8/27/2020 4:08:55 PM (No. 522982)
Please. Just shut up.
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I rate this Mooch story as total BS. It is right up there with Biden's Corn Pop story and Biden's getting arrested with Nelson Mandela. Mooch would never go any where without a security detail in tow. Believe me...everyone knows when the Mooch is in the area.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
ncva 8/27/2020 4:09:51 PM (No. 522984)
Oh come on Michelle! I'm white as can be and throughout my life there have been numerous times when someone cut in front of me. Sometimes the person was rude. Sometimes, they just didn't realize someone was waiting before them - I'll admit I've done that myself and immediately apologized. As for people patting your dog and not looking at you, maybe they were nervous b/c they realized it was the first lady or maybe they were only interested in the dog.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Periwinkel 8/27/2020 4:10:50 PM (No. 522987)
Oh, for goodness sake! She is getting even more annoying than Hillary...and it takes a lot of chutzpah to equal Felonia Von Pantsuit!
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I'm calling BS on that story. First I doubt that her secret service detail were out of sight.
And the people were surely elbowing each other and whispering, "look who that is".
Maybe it was one of those pushy tourists from Japan that we have all encountered in D.C.
I am told it is culturally acceptable to shove your way ahead in line there.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Nashman 8/27/2020 4:12:21 PM (No. 522989)
What a complete and total crock of...
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
bighambone 8/27/2020 4:16:01 PM (No. 522994)
I would say that Michelle Obama is either seriously paranoid, or is just talking political bull crap which which was designed to further stoke racial hatred throughout the Black “communities” across the country.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
subal 8/27/2020 4:19:06 PM (No. 522997)
Aunt Jemima:
Please reheat my cereal, it is not hot enough to my liking!
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
earlybird 8/27/2020 4:20:56 PM (No. 522998)
“Don’t you know who I AM?” How could they not have recognized her? How could they have “overlooked” her? She lies with impunity. And how petty her language makes her sound.
No one cozied up to white celebrities more than Mooch. Haughty, miserable, totally awful
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
jinx 8/27/2020 4:21:18 PM (No. 522999)
Just her way of getting attention again. She is famous for being Barry's wife, nothing more. She is rich because white people in America voted to put him in the WH. She is wealthy beyond imagination yet is still complaining. I am sick of the Obama's.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Kutchk 8/27/2020 4:28:43 PM (No. 523010)
mmmmmm …. yeahhhh … sorry I've got to call shennanigans on that story. Good day m'am.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
lgplgp 8/27/2020 4:30:18 PM (No. 523011)
She goes to an ice-cream store in disguise so no one will recognize her, people in line see past her disguise but play along pretending not to recognize her, and one person further helps her with her "disguise" allegedly cutting in line in front of her.
What an entitled wealthy beyond her dreams ,chip on her shoulder, Oprahette!
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
learner 8/27/2020 4:35:49 PM (No. 523013)
I bet it is racist when the battery on her iphone runs down, Or when it rains on a day she decided to leave her compound, or when her coffee gets cold or her ice melts in her iced tea. When you view everything as racist, nothing is racist. I remember an article that stated being nice to people of color was racist..Racism is the perfect Catch 22 for liberals.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 8/27/2020 4:36:00 PM (No. 523014)
Proud, proud, proud BLACK woman - - who spends an excessive amount of time, energy, and money to have her hair styled like a white woman.
Why am I dubious?
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
SweetSweetback 8/27/2020 4:36:26 PM (No. 523017)
Horseface, HORSESHIT!
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
volksford 8/27/2020 4:38:11 PM (No. 523018)
How in hell does a FLOTUS travel incognito? BS...and by the way do you think you are the only person to experience rude people in a line ?
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 8/27/2020 4:39:41 PM (No. 523019)
Give me an effen break, Moochie. How long did it take you to make this up?
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
whyyeseyec 8/27/2020 4:41:00 PM (No. 523022)
Next Michelle will be telling us how she dodged sniper fire in Kosovo - oh wait, that was Hillary....
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
SinCitySnark 8/27/2020 4:42:34 PM (No. 523023)
Someone stepped in front of her at the Hagen Daz!?!?!?!? It's the hate crime of the century! We must demand an investigation. I am ashamed to live in a country where a wealthy privileged woman of color can be cut in front of at the local ice cream shop with out so much as an apology.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Condor44 8/27/2020 4:42:45 PM (No. 523024)
LIAR!!!!!
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Kate318 8/27/2020 4:48:07 PM (No. 523029)
Aw, Mooch...they weren’t racist. They just couldn’t see you behind that big, fat chip on your shoulder.
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I would bw shocked and outraged by this story....except I do not believe a word that comes out of Moochie's cake hole
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
KayJayMac 8/27/2020 4:50:25 PM (No. 523035)
That line-cutter was Nancy Pelosi in desperate need of a cone.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
dbdiva 8/27/2020 4:52:42 PM (No. 523039)
Sorry, I'm not buying what she's selling but I'm pretty sure that if it did happen the person who cut in line was a democrat.
But if it was a busy time for the shop sometimes it's hard to tell where a line begins and ends.
I'm not excusing this imaginary woman who should have apologized if this was a real incident. But then if she was a Dem it would not have occurred to her.
I don't know if I would recognize MO; she's actually just average looking (I'm being kind) and she did say she wanted to "be normal". The only way I might recognize her without SS protection would be due to her enormous size.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
lakerman1 8/27/2020 4:55:01 PM (No. 523042)
three of the most recognizable black females in the world, and no one recognized them?
give us a break, Michelle!
And she told the Secret Service detail to hold back, and they did? give us a break, Michelle!
(Michelle once told a story of an act of racism against her, when a short white woman asked Michelle, at the grocery store, to reach to the top shelf for the short lady, to grab a can of something.)
Just go away, Michelle. Just go away. You are a classless woman.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
Shmowry1 8/27/2020 5:00:35 PM (No. 523045)
That's not racism. That's rudeness. Maybe she doesn't know this, but rudeness afflicts all of us...no matter the skin color. How racist of her to think that just because that rude person was white, that she was being rude because Michelle was black. There is literally no reason to think that it had anything to do with race. Maybe because she does not go to places like an ordinary person anymore she has forgotten how rude people can be. Try going to Costco!
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
JustCause 8/27/2020 5:04:34 PM (No. 523047)
When you're a Racist all you see is color. Anything that happens to you or around you that can be construed as bad; is seen as color. A Racist projects racism.
FTA: I notice that white people don't even see me.
How unaware can she be? 'white people' 'don't even see me'... so white people don't see her. They can't be racist if they don't acknowledge her color, THEN, cut in line in front of her.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 8/27/2020 5:11:02 PM (No. 523050)
First of all, that white woman was Hillary, who is probably the only white woman the two Secret service details would be allowed to get within fifty feet of the First Lady.
Secondly, she has never waited in line her whole life.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
Lazyman 8/27/2020 5:13:21 PM (No. 523051)
It's all a false narrative and none is worth the attention of normal people.
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
sanspeur 8/27/2020 5:14:48 PM (No. 523052)
what’s with uber lib feemales and time ce cream? As if that’s the most stereotypical place where these soo relatable gals go ? Not a bar , club or whatever . ice cream ? , pelousy showed us her stash ,
remember when mitch went to tarjay ? She was dressed in her fav ripped , dirty shorts , just like deplaning AF1 ?
you know she will be bff with those two brit ex RF , whinge & ginge . jonesing for votes .
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
Sandbar 8/27/2020 5:14:59 PM (No. 523053)
The Dems have to hammer the racism theme hard. Trump will not capture a majority of the black vote but he's gaining a larger percentage of it. That's not only a killer for the Dems in national races but trickles down in the statewide (Senate) races.
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
RuckusTom 8/27/2020 5:17:11 PM (No. 523054)
Let's back up and review her thesis at, what was it?, Princeton or Harvard, where she claimed to be a victim of racism every second of her life ... and she got a degree for it. Then, let's talk about someone who's got a massive chip on her shoulder.
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
MMC 8/27/2020 5:18:14 PM (No. 523055)
Your African American ‘husband’ is elected to the highest office in the United States- and you want to whine about being treated poorly?
No class
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Reply 41 - Posted by:
ronbet 8/27/2020 5:24:45 PM (No. 523057)
Michelle told this story years ago, maybe six or eight years ago, Why is it being related again and why now??
Michelle Obama loves her some racism. She wrote her college thesis about it. It's all she talks about. Sher and Barack were raised in privilege and they hate America. I'll bet race is pretty much all they have in common. They must bore each other to death. They sure bore me every time they say anything!
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Reply 42 - Posted by:
msjena 8/27/2020 5:26:14 PM (No. 523059)
Michelle: Don't you know who I am? I've got news for her. People are rude to and uninterested in white people they don't know, too.
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Reply 43 - Posted by:
TXknitter 8/27/2020 5:27:36 PM (No. 523062)
Biggest lies ever. This woman, her daughters and her entourage of Secret Service went somewhere in D.C. which is Love all Democrats Land and were treated poorly? Nobody believes it. She was worshipped around there!!
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Reply 44 - Posted by:
Faithfully 8/27/2020 5:28:41 PM (No. 523063)
Her first motion as FLoUS was to take a bunch of her girlfriends on a visit to Europe.
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Reply 45 - Posted by:
Ditto1958 8/27/2020 5:29:13 PM (No. 523064)
What utter and complete BS. She needs to go somewhere and be quiet as every other former First Lady and former president have done until the Clintons and Obamas.
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Reply 46 - Posted by:
SavageRider 8/27/2020 5:38:11 PM (No. 523075)
Your time is up, Michelle. Go play with Duchess Markle.
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Reply 47 - Posted by:
qr4j 8/27/2020 5:46:22 PM (No. 523088)
Cry me a river, Michelle. The rudeness in the ice cream shop had nothing to do with your color. The people who pushed in front of you were just rude. And the woman behind the counter was just trying to serve people. She probably really didn't care who they were.
And about walking your dogs and not being noticed . . . they pay attention to the dogs because the dogs are beautiful -- and expensive, as I recall. You don't know why they aren't paying attention to you. Maybe you're just boring as watching paint dry, Michelle. I don't find you at all appealing.
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Reply 48 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 8/27/2020 5:52:39 PM (No. 523097)
Oh. Shut. Up. Mike!
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Reply 49 - Posted by:
anniebc 8/27/2020 5:59:47 PM (No. 523106)
So, black people and other nonwhites bow at your feet when they see you and never not notice you or cut in front of you? Am I right, dude arms Mike?
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Reply 50 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 8/27/2020 6:02:08 PM (No. 523111)
The First Lady off slavery and the biggest slave owner in the country. Anyone ever say she has a man’s body? Big frame big musclie arms and legs. Just sayin
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Reply 51 - Posted by:
skacmar 8/27/2020 6:02:11 PM (No. 523112)
Nobody could see you, Michelle, because the crowd of Secret Service agents was keeping everyone else away. They weren't ignoring you because you were black. They were ignoring you because they were annoyed because they probably had to wait in line even longer because you were there with your entourage causing traffic jams, parking problems, and making everyone have to wait until you were served first. If only the rest of us had your problems.....
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Reply 52 - Posted by:
OK state mom 8/27/2020 6:04:54 PM (No. 523118)
Shortly after Obama became President a news release was made about how Michelle "escaped" to Target. She made a comment that she was met with racism while shopping when an elderly white lady asked her, at...what...5 foot 10?...to get something off a top shelf. She claimed an elderly white lady would not have asked an equally tall white woman of the same age to help her.
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Oh barf! Just, Oh barf! If I never see her and her husband again, it will be too soon.
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Reply 54 - Posted by:
Osprey21 8/27/2020 6:13:20 PM (No. 523129)
Michelle, please.
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Reply 55 - Posted by:
Scribelus 8/27/2020 6:20:25 PM (No. 523133)
Notorious race hustler emerges from under flat, moist rock.
Or was that Al Sharpton with lifts?
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Reply 56 - Posted by:
Moritz55 8/27/2020 6:21:35 PM (No. 523134)
So incredibly petty! As if similar things didn’t happen to anyone else all the time!
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Reply 57 - Posted by:
dmzrn 8/27/2020 6:33:55 PM (No. 523146)
I've had that happen to me and I'm whiter 'n' white.
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Reply 58 - Posted by:
coldoc 8/27/2020 6:35:04 PM (No. 523148)
The self guilt for being an unaccomplished freeloader all of her life is really eating at her (him)
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Reply 59 - Posted by:
red1066 8/27/2020 6:42:41 PM (No. 523158)
There in lies the problem with too many blacks. Everything that doesn't go their way or if they don't get their way then racism is to blame. I see it everyday where I work. The actions that are just normal workplace expectations such as turning up on time, and doing the job are viewed as unrealistic with the tone of racism blended in. The older black employees aren't like that at all, and they get fed up with the younger employees complaining all the time.
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Reply 60 - Posted by:
ho72 8/27/2020 6:43:40 PM (No. 523159)
Ah, *finally* a topic I care even less about than the NFL/NBA/BLM grievance of the day.
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Reply 61 - Posted by:
padiva 8/27/2020 6:48:37 PM (No. 523169)
'when I'm just a Black woman' Can that be fact checked?
In the late 80's, I slighted the wife of Gov-candidate Jim Florio (NJ) at an event. It felt good.
Many people, who are no longer married, know the feeling of not being seen. Give it a break!
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Reply 62 - Posted by:
udanja99 8/27/2020 6:49:44 PM (No. 523171)
BS. She would have been surrounded by Secret Service and I’m sure that they wouldn’t let anyone close to her much less let someone cut in line.
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Reply 63 - Posted by:
watashiyo 8/27/2020 6:50:14 PM (No. 523172)
Racism starts from #12 and those who clicked "like". Go to Japan and there are lines at every corner, but you'll never see them cut in line. Maybe you're talking about another group of people who looks like them but you wouldn't know because they all look alike?
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I try not to stare at anyone. I try to accept them as they are and where they are.
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Reply 65 - Posted by:
natpock1 8/27/2020 7:10:32 PM (No. 523193)
If this is the worst racism you experienced the USA is in pretty good shape after all!
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Reply 66 - Posted by:
WV.Hillbilly 8/27/2020 7:11:21 PM (No. 523194)
To paraphrase Raylan Givens,
"'If you run into a racist in the morning, you ran into a racist. 'If you run into racists all day, YOU'RE the racist."
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Reply 67 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 8/27/2020 7:15:35 PM (No. 523196)
Mooch walks around with one huge chip on her shoulder, looking for racism from every white person she sees. If there's a racist in any room she's in, dollars to doughnuts, it is her.
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Reply 68 - Posted by:
David Key 8/27/2020 7:25:49 PM (No. 523204)
Rudeness is not racism, the women, assuming the event actually occurred, was rude, would probably have been rude to a white woman just as much. Assuming rudeness and bad behavior is racism is just being hyper sensitive. Of course we are seeing a lot of that on the left in the last few decades.
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Reply 69 - Posted by:
ginadee 8/27/2020 7:32:19 PM (No. 523206)
First of all Michelle, you're not any kind of lady. Get that straight and the rest is easy
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Reply 70 - Posted by:
radrelic 8/27/2020 7:41:46 PM (No. 523215)
Being of her race is least worst thing about her.
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Reply 71 - Posted by:
mythman 8/27/2020 7:48:49 PM (No. 523223)
A free ride at Princeton and then Harvard Law School. Yeah, sounds like racism to me.
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Reply 72 - Posted by:
hershey 8/27/2020 8:42:46 PM (No. 523260)
Yea, sure, the Secret Service let someone close enough to cut in front of her...lying beeetch...
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Reply 73 - Posted by:
Mizz Fixxit 8/27/2020 8:44:10 PM (No. 523263)
Not buying that the Secret Service stood back so Mooch and the two little black girls could be “normal.” They did not step back and let her and the two little black girls enter a crowded ice cream shop. She is a liar. A big fat, bitter, hateful, racist liar.
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Reply 74 - Posted by:
monster 8/27/2020 8:53:36 PM (No. 523268)
Her ice cream story is a fairy tale. She asked Secret Service to stand back to normalize the event and then another customer was allowed to rush in and by her? That's even if you believe the children are hers/his.
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Reply 75 - Posted by:
ronniethek 8/27/2020 9:36:38 PM (No. 523277)
I am so sick of him.
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Yes I’m sure it’s exhausting having your giant ass kissed all the time, ungrateful wretch.
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Reply 77 - Posted by:
Jethro bo 8/27/2020 9:48:00 PM (No. 523282)
Fake news and an out and out lie. What white woman would the Secret Service allow into the store with the First Family in it? So the First Lady and her two kids were just leisurely strolling where? How many Ice Cream shops are across the street from the White Hut? This angry privileged never earned a thing woman lies more than her husband.
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Reply 78 - Posted by:
rytwng 8/27/2020 10:19:18 PM (No. 523292)
Mike be a man (again) and shut up.
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Reply 79 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 8/27/2020 11:10:14 PM (No. 523306)
That woman who took cuts would have done it even if you had been white Moochie. You don't have a special lock on somebody being rude to you. But maybe you need to learn to just let it slide like other people do.
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Reply 80 - Posted by:
alaskaal 8/28/2020 12:06:50 AM (No. 523323)
Sorry Mike, not listening...
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I am so conflicted. Which lie was the biggest ? The Target story or the ice cream story ?
MOOooochelle is like my neighbor who wants to be rich. She would have sent the maid to get ice cream. How dare you think she would get in a line ?
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Reply 82 - Posted by:
SALady 8/28/2020 12:18:09 AM (No. 523331)
So she is saying that, while Ovomit was president, she took her daughters to an ice cream shop without any Secret Service protection and waited in line with the peasants????
What a pile of BS!!!!!! If she ever went to an ice cream shop while First Heifer, she had the Secret Service clear out that peasants first -- probably for a 2 block radius. They were not worthy to be in her presence!!!
Like all racist lie-berals, she has to lie and make up BS stories because she has no actual stories involving racism where she wasn't the racist involved!!!!
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Reply 83 - Posted by:
PChristopher 8/28/2020 12:34:02 AM (No. 523337)
Someone who took 100 million dollar vacations at public expense has NO standing to lecture anyone about their experience with racism.
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Michelle doesn't understand that there are pushy blacks too. That's her version of racism.
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Reply 85 - Posted by:
Trigger2 8/28/2020 1:06:50 AM (No. 523353)
The wookie must think the drive-by propaganda media fawning over her for 8 years is racist.
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Reply 86 - Posted by:
LeftCoast 8/28/2020 2:13:07 AM (No. 523366)
Since you disapprove of line cutting, I assume you also disapprove of illegal immigration?
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Reply 87 - Posted by:
ARKfamily 8/28/2020 5:52:25 AM (No. 523406)
Michelle Obama confirmed to me that the definition of racism changed. Racism would be that she was not served ice cream because of her skin color. People standing in line for ice cream are thinking about one thing - ice cream.
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Reply 88 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 8/28/2020 7:44:09 AM (No. 523476)
America is such a non-racist country that her enemies must make up stories even to talk about it.
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Reply 89 - Posted by:
StormCnter 8/28/2020 9:22:09 AM (No. 523580)
Have we ever heard Barack or Michelle Obama express appreciation of being given the honor of serving as President and First Lady of the United States of America? Just a word or two would be nice. But all we hear from either is pettiness and whining for perceived wrongs. What an undeserving couple they turned out to be.
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What she paints as racism are every-day minor hassles everyone experiences. But the underlying complaint is that people either don't recognize her or are not gushing over her being in their midst.