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Home Front: Politix
Michelle Obama: ‘People Don't Trust Politics' Because GOP Is ‘All Men, All White'
2017-10-04
[Breitbart] Tuesday at the Pennsylvania Conference for Women, former first lady Michelle Obama said when she attended the State of the Union address she would notice the Republican side was "all men, all white," and that was why she argued many people of color "don’t trust politics."

Speaking about diversity, Obama said, "We should be working actively to mix it up, so we’re getting a real broad range of perspectives on every issue. Shoot, I would see that in Congress."

She explained, "At the State of the Union address ... when you are in the room what you can see is this real dichotomy. It’s a feeling of color almost. On one side of the room is literally gray and white. Literally, that is the color palette on one side of the room. On the other side of the room, there are yellows and blues and whites and greens. Physically, there’s a difference in color, in the tone, because on one side all men, all white, on the other side some woman, some people of color."

She continued, "I look at that, and I go, no wonder. No wonder we struggle, no wonder people don’t trust politics. We’re not even noticing what these rooms look like."
Posted by:Besoeker

#20  Evil cant help itself and shows its colors...
Posted by: 49 Pan   2017-10-04 23:10  

#19  Racist, flat out.
Posted by: Thomose Spawn of the Antelope4762   2017-10-04 17:00  

#18  Why does the name Sen. Dianne Wilkerson pop into my mind?
Posted by: gorb   2017-10-04 16:15  

#17  The poor woman really has no political instincts whatsoever, as well as not being able to see the people in front of her face. If she is wise she'll stick to earlier post-presidency statements that she has no interest in becoming a politician in her own right -- she is not even a Hillary Clinton.
Posted by: trailing wife   2017-10-04 14:36  

#16  2020 P & VP.
Posted by: Skidmark   2017-10-04 13:58  

#15  If we'd have known it would come to this, we'd have picked our own cotton.
Posted by:    2017-10-04 12:33  

#14  Condoleeza makes Michele look more sad and more stupid just by being there
Posted by: 746   2017-10-04 11:40  

#13  Wow, the critical thinking that went into that comment shows clearly the depth of her intellect.
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2017-10-04 11:35  

#12  Well, then, here's a politician you can trust....

Posted by: Abu Uluque   2017-10-04 11:10  

#11  Ya know... that money they are paying you to speak came from an awful lot of white folks....

Just sayin'

You should give it back if you think white people are so awful. Wouldn't want you to have double standards, would we?
Posted by: DarthVader   2017-10-04 09:49  

#10  awwww the wookie has sads
Posted by: Rex Mundi   2017-10-04 09:37  

#9  Please run in 2020, you worthless rayyccciisss bitch
Posted by: Frank G   2017-10-04 08:47  

#8  Yep, a heck of a lot of white men, buried in veterans cemeteries across the nation. Might be a corollary there someplace.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2017-10-04 07:13  

#7  Michelle Obama is a racist and a sexist. Or, at least, a brainless parrot for racists and sexists.

Your assessments are charitable in the extreme.
Posted by: Besoeker   2017-10-04 06:49  

#6  Michelle Obama is a racist and a sexist.

Or, at least, a brainless parrot for racists and sexists.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2017-10-04 06:45  

#5  Michelle Obama is a racist and a sexist.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2017-10-04 06:37  

#4  Green? The tinge of rot on the skin of some of their senior members? Ruth Bader Ginsburg's decaying corpse?
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2017-10-04 06:17  

#3  Making Hillary look (by comparison) good.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2017-10-04 05:51  

#2  "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

Sorry, Marty. I was hoping for that too. But it looks like that ship done sailed.
Posted by: SteveS   2017-10-04 01:56  

#1  This nation finally puts a black man in the WH and this is how he thanks the other races...
Posted by: Hupeting Sforza8196   2017-10-04 01:31  

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