There are a whole bunch of rumors swirling around lately that Hillary and/or the RNC and/or unknown conservative blogger(s) have an audio tape of Michelle Obama ranting against “Whitey”. I don’t believe it, because if such a thing existed, you’d be able to hear the collective orgasm of the entire neocon community around the world. There’s no way that would be a secret for more than 5 minutes, and even that would be pushing it.
Not to mention this rumor is like a game of Telephone and keeps changing and getting more incredible with each iteration. The people rumored to have been joining her have run the gamut from plausible (Jeremiah Wright) to doubtful (Louis Farrakhan) to hallucinatorily impossible (Malcom X).
Michelle Obama probably does have anger towards this country and its government, which is primarily composed of rich old white men, and has been since its inception. I know it’s hard for people coming from a lifetime of white privilege to understand, but that doesn’t make educated, intelligent black people ”black racists”. It makes them people who look at the reality of black infant mortality and rates of black incarceration in this country, and sometimes get emotional. But “whitey”? Please.
Booman Tribune has a plausible theory, in which everyone is getting all het up over a tape in which Michelle Obama is criticizing Bush by saying “Why’d he put us in Iraq for no reason?”, etc., and it’s being misrepresented as “Whitey”. Which makes sense, because saying “Whitey put us in Iraq for no reason” doesn’t even make grammatical sense. Michelle Obama went to Princeton University and Harvard Law School. She’s not the fucking Hulk. “Whitey let New Orleans drown! MICHELLE SMASH!”
In kind-of-but-not-really-related news, artist Ron English has made a “fusion portrait” combining Barack Obama and Abraham Lincoln:
Hee!
