What Michelle Can Teach Us

Michelle willbe a great first lady. She is an excellent role model for girls of all races. I wish her only the best and know she will bring long needed changes to our country as will her husband. I believe this truly and not because of her race, but because of who she is.

In order for the world to see African-American women differently, the African-American community must first change the way they portray women to the world. Look at the rap music videos, listen to the lyrics to the songs, they are all degrading to women. I am a foreign black woman, and coming to America has been a culture shock. It disgusts me to see and hear how the Hip Hop Artist portrays black women. I am appalled when I see Afro-American women defending Hip Hop, describing it as a form of Art. Since when insulting a woman by calling her a whore art? Indeed Michelle Obama is a role model for young black girls, but we shouldn???t look to her as the Messianic solution to the many problems that exist in the black community. I am proud of the Obamas and they have opened the door for many blacks to run for office; however they are not the ultimate solution. The community must admit its mistakes, learn from the past and take the initiative to change things around. The choice to change is ultimately in our court and we shouldn???t seat around and wait hoping that someone will come and magically turn things around.

Proverbs 30:18
There are three things which are too wonderful for me, yet, four which I don't Know :
The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a snake upon a rock, the way of a ship in the sea and the way of a man with a maid.
PROVERBS 30: 20
SUCH IS THE WAY OF AN WICKED WOMAN; SHE ATE AND WIPE HER MOUTH AND YET SAID,
I HAVE DONE NO WICKEDNESS.

Are you sure you know them ? ? ?

We should all try to respect/embrace/value each others unique culturals and ethnicities.
The simple fact is that when we as AMERICANS fail to respect/embrace/value other AMERICANS we end up being nothing more than ignorant to the outside world or other countries.
I applaud Michelle Obama on serving as someone who other young African Americans can mirror their dreams!!

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This election is not voting on race, it is SUPPOESED to be about what is best for our nation. Where are the morals that this country was founded on???? It is NOT ok to kill innocent babies that had no choice to be conceived. This nation needs to get back to God and this "race" thing needs to stop. I would never cast a vote based on skin color, it would be for the right person to be in charge of our wonderful nation!!!! And by the way isn't it wonderful to be in the land of the free so we CAN voice our OPINIONS and not be put to death! It is not a country to be ashamed of....if so, maybe you need to consider moving to another country and seeing just how good you had it in America. Sue J. Maryland

I was ashamed of my country when I read about:
- the treatment of Chinese immigrants in the 19th century
- internment of Japanese citizens during WWII
- the Tuskegee experiment (injecting black men with syphilis, then denying treatment while "observing")
- allowing German WWII POWs to ride in "whites only" railcars, while forcing black soldiers into "negro" cars
- the 3/5 compromise
- NINA (No Irish Need Apply) signs in the late 1800s
- The trail of tears

The list could go on..... but I've been really proud of stuff like
- winning WWII
- making slavery the moral issue of the civil war
- apologizing to the Japanese-Americans who were interned
- seeing Irish-Americans embraced into our political & social landscape
- Brown v. Board of Education
- the 1950s & 60s civil rights movement and the culture change that resulted

My mother is an African American women who raised me (a black son). She never made it a point to tell me that I was black, I guess because that was done by so many others (on both sides of the track). I think that we should leave Mrs. Obama alone and let her figure out how she wants to be first lady. To me, it is apparent that she knows who she is and that she needs no help from others defining who she is. As an African American and mostly as a plain old citizen, she and Barack make me proud to be an American.

My mother is an African American women who raised me (a black son). She never made it a point to tell me that I was black, I guess because that was done by so many others (on both sides of the track). I think that we should leave Mrs. Obama alone and let her figure out how she wants to be first lady. To me, it is apparent that she knows who she is and that she needs no help from others defining who she is. As an African American and mostly as a human being, she and Barack make me proud to be an American.

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Just because the first lady potentially might be black doesn't mean it's now going to be all about black women, or even blacks period. It's about EVERYONE, our WHOLE country, no one singled out, and that's the way it has been. There has also been plenty of programs out there for black youth, so it's pretty stupid to say that she might finally bring some to the community. Maybe you are just a lot racist and little patriotic.

The united states is on its knees anyhow, after eight years of the Bush administration. Michelle Obama might be the very thing to blow a wind of change through the musty corridors of the white house. She can teach us a lot. I think that it will be amazing to see her and Barak in the white house, because for the first time in years there will be a commitment to the ordinary people. People who dont want to be rearing their children as cannon fodder for a war that no one believes in any more. Hasnt it been said over and over that you guys want out of Iraq? Certainly the rest of the world are sick to death of the sabre rattling of the Bush administration and they want peace.
As far as it goes, the only black american women we seem to see on the television are the ones on Jerry Springer, howling abuse at no good men. It could be a brilliant thing to show the world that the stereotype is not all there is.
Vote Obama...its the only thing to do...if I could vote for him in Ireland I would...since he is part offaly man, and has links to my home town.

MICHELLE IS JUST AND ANGRY BLACK WOMAN WHO HAS NEVER BEEN PROUD OF HER COUNTRY.
DON'T FORGET THAT WHEN TOGETHER THEY DESTROY THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!

Fellow Dems, today is the last day. Come November 5th we will be celebrating Obama's victory. So there is no need for you to be replying to all these anti-Obama fools. You know that saying about arguing with a fool and not knowing who the fool is - well this is such a moment. So go out and vote if you have not done so already and get ready to celebrate a new dawn and a new era.

YES WE DID!!!

OBAMA/BIDEN 2008

Yes, I' m sure osama and michelle would love to live in Africa!

Thank you for that beautiful and honest dissertation! As a Black professional woman who has been constantly had to fight the stereotype of being some kind of angry man hating neck rolling "sistagirl" in the business world as well as socially, I really appreciate your honest discussion. Good work!!!