*Uh oh, here we go.
Writer, political commentator and co-founder of the Huffington Post, Arianna Huffington, offered some very interesting, some may say offensive, advice to first lady Michelle Obama during an episode of her “Both Sides Now with Huffington and Matalin” radio program.
She told Mrs. Obama, who was born and raised in the ‘hood in Chicago, to be more like Eleanor Roosevelt and visit “South Central (L.A.)”
Before you get your drawls in a bunch, she may have a point.
Huffington advised her that she should be less focused on the political, snooty things like fundraisers and lavish trips and more action oriented by demonstrating her compassion for people’s suffering.
Huffington stated:
I’d love [Michelle] to be more [like] Eleanor Roosevelt right now, because the country needs an Eleanor Roosevelt who’s going to go around and at the same time that she’s doing fundraisers in Beverly Hills and Bel Air … she should go to South Central [Los Angeles], I mean, if I were Michelle Obama right now, I would not go anywhere for a fundraiser without going and seeing the places where there is pain, where there is struggle, where there is homelessness, where there is unemployment, because we need to bring that conversation to the center of the debate and there’s nothing like a first lady or … a candidate to take us there.
Matalin, although a little softer with the critical points, agreed, but praised Obama’s efforts with military families.
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Our First Lady does show compassion for people who are struggling and military families also perhaps she will go to more areas where there is some much struggle she give her a chance. She has a lot of roles to fulfil.
What Arianna has to understand, is that Michelle’s schedule is tightly controlled by Obama and his handlers. And given how Obama feels about his wife’s people, I wouldn’t expect them to allow her to be in a situation where the topic of poverty and the black man’s struggle against the system would likely be raised. I mean, how would you expect Michelle to respond when asked about the high unemployment or high incarceration rates of blacks? Would you expect her to respond with some BS like a rising tide lifts all boat? Being one of us, and therefore down with the struggle, she would most likely speak the truth, and agree with the CBS that there needs to be targeted assistance for blacks. Or that the criminal justice system is racist and needs to be reformed. Now they wouldn’t want to have her saying anything like that, since Obama has been adamant amount not doing anything which could be interpreted in any way to be beneficial to blacks. So rather than muzzle her the way they did during the campaign, they let her do “safe” things like the fund raising in Beverly Hills and Bel Air, places far removed from struggling black people and their issues.
Going to S. Central is not a bad idea, but why won’t Arianna go back to her homeland of Greece with all the pain and suffering now occurring there. Or perhaps she could provide support to women who are hurting over unwittingly (or so they say) marrying gay men…like she experienced.