Obamas on Race: We've Been Treated Like the Help

[NACBA]

President and Michelle Obama personally identify with everyday experiences of racial bias in America that have underpinned recent protests across the country, they told People magazine in an interview to be released Friday.

“Barack Obama was a black man that lived on the South Side of Chicago, who had his share of troubles catching cabs," Michelle Obama told the magazine.

On one occasion, she said, her husband “was wearing a tuxedo at a black-tie dinner, and somebody asked him to get coffee.”

President Obama said he's even been mistakenly treated as a valet.

https://gma.yahoo.com/obamas-race-weve-treated-help-120214087--abc-news-topstories.html

[Spikender]

To make matters worse, Obama is less helpful than a valet. He's the valet that drives your car into a streetlight.

[specsaregood]

You are now president of the USA; time to get over it pal.

[acptulsa]

You are now president of the USA; time to get over it pal.

Doubtful.

When the head of G.E., or Boeing, or Chase, or Goldman Sachs, or B.P. hollers 'Jump!' Obama is still saying, 'Yassuh massuh, how high?' Even though he has no more elections to save up for.

[Ronin Truth]

Does that help to explain the series of policy "fecal pies"?

[enhanced_deficit]

What "we" means when he uses it?
Going from collective to individual, he has been called hypocrite of the century, (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?418882-Epic-Video-Obama-called-quot-war-criminal-quot-amp-quot-hypocrite-of-the-century-quot-in-Irish-Parliament&p=5087845&viewfull=1#post5087845) a war criminal (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?464933-Browns-NFL-player-wears-quot-justice-for-Tamir-Crawford-quot-Cops-DEMAND-Apology&p=5731235&viewfull=1#post5731235) and dronegansta too.

As for "pity cry" statement above, he has been a willing "help" and political slave of Wall Street Bankers, money baggers, oppressive dictators, war profiteers and assortment of other nefarious puppet masters.


Travis Smiley on "Wall Street President"
"data is going to indicate that black people lost ground in every single leading economic category during the Obama years”

Pastor: Obama a puppet of bankers

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7plDxu-0rBA&feature=player_detailpage#t=171s)http://rlv.zcache.com/wall_street_puppet_poster-r8ab8d036b1394a9c8b10d2271c15b9fe_wi4_8byvr_324.jp g
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/.a/6a00d8341c630a53ef012875a01896970c-300wi




http://scrapetv.com/News/News%20Pages/Politics/images-2/barack-obama-bow-japan.jpg
http://i535.photobucket.com/albums/ee352/unclefuzzzy/obama-bow.jpg



(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7plDxu-0rBA&feature=player_detailpage#t=171s)

[Occam's Banana]

President and Michelle Obama personally identify with everyday experiences of racial bias in America that have underpinned recent protests across the country, they told People magazine in an interview to be released Friday.

“Barack Obama was a black man that lived on the South Side of Chicago, who had his share of troubles catching cabs," Michelle Obama told the magazine.

On one occasion, she said, her husband “was wearing a tuxedo at a black-tie dinner, and somebody asked him to get coffee.”

President Obama said he's even been mistakenly treated as a valet.

Waitaminnit. Did I miss something here? Are they actually comparing having "troubles catching cabs," being "asked ... to get coffee," and being "treated as a valet" with being choked or shot to death by a cop for no good reason?

Seriously? I mean, WTF?!

[Spikender]

Waitaminnit. Did I miss something here? Are they actually comparing having "troubles catching cabs," being "asked ... to get coffee," and being "treated as a valet" with being choked or shot to death by a cop for no good reason?

Seriously? I mean, WTF?!

There is nothing more demeaning than being asked to get coffee. A slug in the chest is nothing compared to the emotional pain Obama felt in his chest.

[NACBA]

Doubtful.

When the head of G.E., or Boeing, or Chase, or Goldman Sachs, or B.P. hollers 'Jump!' Obama is still saying, 'Yassuh massuh, how high?' Even though he has no more elections to save up for.

yup

[acptulsa]

Waitaminnit. Did I miss something here? Are they actually comparing having "troubles catching cabs," being "asked ... to get coffee," and being "treated as a valet" with being choked or shot to death by a cop for no good reason?

Seriously? I mean, WTF?!

Hey. Michael Brown and Eric Garner are feeling no pain.

He has seen to it tens of thousands of brown people have been put out of their misery all over the world. And not a one of those brown people ever has to worry about being asked to get a checked hat ever again.

[tod evans]

President and Michelle Obama personally identify with everyday experiences of racial bias in America that have underpinned recent protests across the country, they told People magazine in an interview to be released Friday.

“Barack Obama was a black man that lived on the South Side of Chicago, who had his share of troubles catching cabs," Michelle Obama told the magazine.

On one occasion, she said, her husband “was wearing a tuxedo at a black-tie dinner, and somebody asked him to get coffee.”

President Obama said he's even been mistakenly treated as a valet.


Blatant cries of racism from a sitting prez are just a tad transparent......

Fuck off Obama!

[Ronin Truth]

Don't put up with that crap, Barry. RESIGN! I hear Kenya is looking for a new president, just an FYI. Going home.

[RJB]

...who had his share of troubles catching cabs...
This just isn't Chicago. I lived in South Korea when I was a kid in the 1980s. A friend's dad was a Korean cab driver in downtown Seoul by the Army base. He said they preferred white Americans because they tipped, next came Koreans, then if it was really slow they'd pick up black Americans.

[specsaregood]

On one occasion, she said, her husband “was wearing a tuxedo at a black-tie dinner, and somebody asked him to get coffee.”
Blatant cries of racism from a sitting prez are just a tad transparent......


On this one occasion a fellow customer at the local porn store mistook me for a clerk, but you don't see me complaining about people assuming Im some kind of pervert.

[enhanced_deficit]

Michelle Obama: I Was Asked to Take Something Off a Shelf at Target (http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/michelle-obama-i-was-asked-take-something-shelf-target_821756.html)

Dec 17, 2014
The Obamas talked with People magazine about dealing with their "own racist experiences," as the magazine described.
Michelle Obama told one story that recently took place, even as she was first lady of the United States.
"I tell this story – I mean, even as the first lady – during that wonderfully publicized trip I took to Target, not highly disguised, the only person who came up to me in the store was a woman who asked me to help her take something off a shelf. Because she didn't see me as the first lady, she saw me as someone who could help her. Those kinds of things happen in life. So it isn't anything new," Michelle Obama, who is 5'11", said.

[tod evans]

, the only person who came up to me in the store was a woman who asked me to help her take something off a shelf. [/B]Because she didn't see me as the first lady, she saw me as someone who could help her. Those kinds of things happen in life. So it isn't anything new," Michelle Obama, who is 5'11", said.

What a self-centered cunt!

I've never once felt put out, let alone discriminated against when someone has asked for help...

Fuck you Michelle!

[AuH20]

They are lucky they aren't behind bars. This is laughable. Only self-important elitists would ever be so narcissistic.

[Occam's Banana]

I've never once felt put out, let alone discriminated against when someone has asked for help...

Well, yeah, but you're just one of the unwashed masses. Michelle Obama is the FLOTUS. She's special, dammit!
She can't be having grubby specimens from the hoi polloi taking liberties with her august personage like that!

[tod evans]

FLOTUS eh?

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

Eleanor Roosevelt

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/e/eleanor_roosevelt.html#FT0fQ2DH1irSOmKu.99

[thoughtomator]

I've been "treated like the help" before, but the difference is that I don't think I'm too good to help another person, so I go ahead and help them anyway if I can, whether even though it's not my job.

[specsaregood]

I've been "treated like the help" before, but the difference is that I don't think I'm too good to help another person, so I go ahead and help them anyway if I can, whether even though it's not my job.

This all leads me to wonder, did Obama or Michelle ever hold any menial jobs as teenagers or young adults?

[NewRightLibertarian]

I hope this piece of trash gets disrespected at every turn. Piss on him and his lousy family.

[Suzanimal]

Michelle Obama: I Was Asked to Take Something Off a Shelf at Target (http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/michelle-obama-i-was-asked-take-something-shelf-target_821756.html)

Dec 17, 2014
The Obamas talked with People magazine about dealing with their "own racist experiences," as the magazine described.
Michelle Obama told one story that recently took place, even as she was first lady of the United States.
"I tell this story – I mean, even as the first lady – during that wonderfully publicized trip I took to Target, not highly disguised, the only person who came up to me in the store was a woman who asked me to help her take something off a shelf. Because she didn't see me as the first lady, she saw me as someone who could help her. Those kinds of things happen in life. So it isn't anything new," Michelle Obama, who is 5'11", said.


Was she wearing a red shirt? Never wear a red shirt in Target, just sayin'.

Also, I ask tall people to hand me stuff off the top shelf all the time. I know they don't work there but I'm short, I can't help it.:o

[tod evans]

Was she wearing a red shirt? Never wear a red shirt in Target, just sayin'.

Also, I ask tall people to hand me stuff off the top shelf all the time. I know they don't work there but I'm short, I can't help it.:o

Have any of the folks you've asked for help acted put out by your request?

(Probably not)

[otherone]

There is nothing more demeaning than being asked to get coffee. A slug in the chest is nothing compared to the emotional pain Obama felt in his chest.

...which is why he spit in the guy's coffee in the kitchen before fetching it for him.

[Valli6]

On one occasion, she said, her husband “was wearing a tuxedo at a black-tie dinner, and somebody asked him to get coffee.”

Was it Bill Clinton? :D

Teddy (Kennedy) fumed that Clinton had said, A few years ago, this guy would have been getting us coffee.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0110/Teddys_anger.html

[Suzanimal]

Have any of the folks you've asked for help acted put out by your request?

(Probably not)

Nope. They were all very nice. I usually offer to grab them something off the bottom shelf.:)

[otherone]

Michelle Obama told one story that recently took place, even as she was first lady of the United States.
"I tell this story – I mean, even as the first lady – during that wonderfully publicized trip I took to Target, not highly disguised, the only person who came up to me in the store was a woman who asked me to help her take something off a shelf. Because she didn't see me as the first lady, she saw me as someone who could help her. Those kinds of things happen in life.

BULLSHIT.
The person who approached her was staged.
An actual subject who wandered so close to the Presence would have been summarily dispatched.

[Spikender]

Michelle Obama: I Was Asked to Take Something Off a Shelf at Target (http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/michelle-obama-i-was-asked-take-something-shelf-target_821756.html)

Dec 17, 2014
The Obamas talked with People magazine about dealing with their "own racist experiences," as the magazine described.
Michelle Obama told one story that recently took place, even as she was first lady of the United States.
"I tell this story – I mean, even as the first lady – during that wonderfully publicized trip I took to Target, not highly disguised, the only person who came up to me in the store was a woman who asked me to help her take something off a shelf. Because she didn't see me as the first lady, she saw me as someone who could help her. Those kinds of things happen in life. So it isn't anything new," Michelle Obama, who is 5'11", said.

This has to be a fucking joke.

The Obamas can't honestly be peddling these insulated, elitist examples of "being kept down by society" as equivalent to what blacks and other minorities go through.

[morfeeis]

While i am no fan of Obama (and by no fan i mean i hate the idea that we share the same air) the idea of ingroup bias is real and regardless of how some think the world is so fair and equal, it isn't nor will it ever be. when those in power are not a part of your group you will get the shaft. Get use to it, get over it and work around it.

This reminder was made very clear to me after spending a week in Jamaica.....

[Working Poor]

I feel kinda sorry for Obama he is probably doing what he has to do to keep the elite from killing him and his family.

[ExPatPaki]

Michelle Obama: I Was Asked to Take Something Off a Shelf at Target (http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/michelle-obama-i-was-asked-take-something-shelf-target_821756.html)

Dec 17, 2014
The Obamas talked with People magazine about dealing with their "own racist experiences," as the magazine described.
Michelle Obama told one story that recently took place, even as she was first lady of the United States.
"I tell this story – I mean, even as the first lady – during that wonderfully publicized trip I took to Target, not highly disguised, the only person who came up to me in the store was a woman who asked me to help her take something off a shelf. Because she didn't see me as the first lady, she saw me as someone who could help her. Those kinds of things happen in life. So it isn't anything new," Michelle Obama, who is 5'11", said.

ohhh, I feel so bad for her :rolleyes:

[jmdrake]

Michelle Obama: I Was Asked to Take Something Off a Shelf at Target (http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/michelle-obama-i-was-asked-take-something-shelf-target_821756.html)

Dec 17, 2014
The Obamas talked with People magazine about dealing with their "own racist experiences," as the magazine described.
Michelle Obama told one story that recently took place, even as she was first lady of the United States.
"I tell this story – I mean, even as the first lady – during that wonderfully publicized trip I took to Target, not highly disguised, the only person who came up to me in the store was a woman who asked me to help her take something off a shelf. Because she didn't see me as the first lady, she saw me as someone who could help her. Those kinds of things happen in life. So it isn't anything new," Michelle Obama, who is 5'11", said.

Yeah right. :rolleyes: Like this lady wouldn't notice the fact that Michelle didn't have on a Target uniform and all of the secret service guys around?

[jmdrake]

Reverend Wright: Obama has done nothing for black people.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7plDxu-0rBA&feature=player_detailpage#t=171s

[osan]

On one occasion, she said, her husband “was wearing a tuxedo at a black-tie dinner, and somebody asked him to get coffee.”

President Obama said he's even been mistakenly treated as a valet.

He should be on his knees thanking the heavens that he's gotten that much respect. God knows he doesn't merit 1% of it.

Oh, and I would be money I don't have that both of these assertions are outright lies; that no such things ever happened. I would not trust either of them to tell me what color is the sky.

[DFF]

on one occasion, she said, her husband “was wearing a tuxedo at a black-tie dinner, and somebody asked him to get coffee.”

I LOL'd at this.

[enhanced_deficit]

Was she wearing a red shirt? Never wear a red shirt in Target, just sayin'.

Also, I ask tall people to hand me stuff off the top shelf all the time. I know they don't work there but I'm short, I can't help it.:o

Good point lol

[CPUd]

Was she wearing a red shirt? Never wear a red shirt in Target, just sayin'.

Also, I ask tall people to hand me stuff off the top shelf all the time. I know they don't work there but I'm short, I can't help it.:o

Or a blue shirt and khakis in Best Buy:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgUIbPfhSuo

[AuH20]

I feel kinda sorry for Obama he is probably doing what he has to do to keep the elite from killing him and his family.

He's part of the elite. I don't think there is any arm twisting going on. He is Zbigniew's boy.

[Anti Federalist]

Ummm, I got news for you, Obamas:

You ARE the hired help.

Or, at least in what once was a free society, that is what you would be as "elected representatives".

[RonPaulIsGreat]

Blah, Blah,Blah. If I walk in black bad section of town I'm liable to get the shit kicked out of me for being white. I've also been asked to get stuff for short women off shelves, that's part of a man's job in this world, michelle should know that by now. I also drive around in an older vehicle, people assume I'm broke.

Who freaking fucking cares. Obama is the whiniest president ever, I almost wish another country would take us over at this point.

[HOLLYWOOD]

I've been "treated like the help" before, but the difference is that I don't think I'm too good to help another person, so I go ahead and help them anyway if I can, whether even though it's not my job.

This has to be a fucking joke.

The Obamas can't honestly be peddling these insulated, elitist examples of "being kept down by society" as equivalent to what blacks and other minorities go through.

Watch these 67 seconds worth of PURE GOLD


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1RuEZTf5LM

[KingNothing]

There is nothing more demeaning than being asked to get coffee. A slug in the chest is nothing compared to the emotional pain Obama felt in his chest.

Michelle Obama saying "A woman asked me to get something off a shelf for her. She didn't recognize me as the first lady! She thought I was someone who could help her!" is possibly the unintentionally C-word'iest thing I've ever heard a person say.

[Ronin Truth]

We've Been Treated Like the Help.
Count your blessings, it could have been much, much worse.

[osan]

Here's a little known tidbit about Obama's past:

http://cdn.meme.am/instances/500x/57280136.jpg

I guess it's the second failed acting career to put a man in the Oval Office.

[euphemia]

Give me a break. I *am* the help. The President never had a real job, that I can see. Michelle was given a job and paid three times what the position was worth bumping patients who had no insurance.

Nobody mistakes me for the President, that's for sure.

[acptulsa]

"A woman asked me to get something off a shelf for her. She didn't recognize me as the first lady! She thought I was someone who could help her!"

I guess no one ever told her that being first lady does not absolutely require that you be the laziest, most useless hunk of flesh on the face of the earth...

[PatriotOne]

Michelle Obama: I Was Asked to Take Something Off a Shelf at Target (http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/michelle-obama-i-was-asked-take-something-shelf-target_821756.html)

Dec 17, 2014
The Obamas talked with People magazine about dealing with their "own racist experiences," as the magazine described.
Michelle Obama told one story that recently took place, even as she was first lady of the United States.
"I tell this story – I mean, even as the first lady – during that wonderfully publicized trip I took to Target, not highly disguised, the only person who came up to me in the store was a woman who asked me to help her take something off a shelf. Because she didn't see me as the first lady, she saw me as someone who could help her. Those kinds of things happen in life. So it isn't anything new," Michelle Obama, who is 5'11", said.

Wow. Just wow. I had a shorter lady ask me to help her get something off the top shelf at Walmart just today. Did it with a smile. Guess I should have been offended and bitch slapped her instead.

Edit 1: Weird..why did the word Walmart hyperlink itself?

Edit 2: Now the hyperlink is gone after edit 1. WTF?

[Spikender]

Wow. Just wow. I had a shorter lady ask me to help her get something off the top shelf at Walmart just today. Did it with a smile. Guess I should have been offended and bitch slapped her instead.

Edit 1: Weird..why did the word Walmart hyperlink itself?

Edit 2: Now the hyperlink is gone after edit 1. WTF?

Walmart conspiracy to force low prices and land whales on RPF.

Stay on your toes.

[Anti Federalist]

Wow. Just wow. I had a shorter lady ask me to help her get something off the top shelf at Walmart just today. Did it with a smile. Guess I should have been offended and bitch slapped her instead.

Edit 1: Weird..why did the word Walmart hyperlink itself?

Edit 2: Now the hyperlink is gone after edit 1. WTF?

Walmart

Nope...nothing.

[MRK]

I was in Kohl's this summer, buying some socks. A couple asked me if I was an employee. I assume it was because I was a well-dressed 20-something male. In retrospect, I am now offended.

[Mani]

Wow. Just wow. I had a shorter lady ask me to help her get something off the top shelf at Walmart just today. Did it with a smile. Guess I should have been offended and bitch slapped her instead.

Edit 1: Weird..why did the word Walmart hyperlink itself?

Edit 2: Now the hyperlink is gone after edit 1. WTF?



Bitch is 5' 11'' the thought never crossed her mind that maybe they asked for her help because she friggin tall?





And for all the Obama complaining, I'm still waiting for him to say, "Tamir Rice could have been my son." Why the fuck isn't he using his favorite quote!?!?

[KingNothing]

I guess no one ever told her that being first lady does not absolutely require that you be the laziest, most useless hunk of flesh on the face of the earth...

The audacity of that mere citizen to speak to her, let alone ask her for something!

[KingNothing]

I was in Kohl's this summer, buying some socks. A couple asked me if I was an employee. I assume it was because I was a well-dressed 20-something male. In retrospect, I am now offended.

They didn't recognize you as the God-like human you consider yourself to be, and thought you were someone who could help them! Those insolent jerks!

[oyarde]

I treat my help exceptionally well . Unlike Biden or the Obamas though , they can actually do things , because they have worked for a living before .

[tod evans]

I treat my help exceptionally well . Unlike Biden or the Obamas though , they can actually do things , because they have worked for a living before .

I'd give ya' more than one rep if I could!

[enhanced_deficit]

Wow. Just wow. I had a shorter lady ask me to help her get something off the top shelf at Walmart just today. Did it with a smile. Guess I should have been offended and bitch slapped her instead.

Edit 1: Weird..why did the word Walmart hyperlink itself?

Edit 2: Now the hyperlink is gone after edit 1. WTF?

The word walmart gets hyperlinked in thread title too, weird.


In related, she likes pop heroes too.

Michelle Obama: Eleanor Roosevelt 'My Idol'
Breitbart News-3 hours ago
First Lady Michelle Obama admits that former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt was a great inspiration for her as she developed her “Let's Move!


Michelle Obama Praises American Sniper (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?467853-Michelle-Obama-Praises-American-Sniper&)

[jbauer]

Please, I've went into stores with a tie on and get asked all the time if I'm a manager. If you go into fleetfarm with an orange shirt on you'll get asked questions. I'd be willing to bet just about everyone has been mistaken for help at some point in their life. Get over it.



There is nothing more demeaning than being asked to get coffee. A slug in the chest is nothing compared to the emotional pain Obama felt in his chest.

[Cabal]

I've been mistaken for and treated as a store employee before on a couple of different occasions. I helped them anyway.

Should I feel racially oppressed now?

[tod evans]

I've been mistaken for and treated as a store employee before on a couple of different occasions. I helped them anyway.

Should I feel racially oppressed now?

Yes you should!

And it's the tax-payers burden to make you feel better about your neuroses....:rolleyes:

[Lucille]

http://25.media.tumblr.com/a6e8a433273509c591809c658be1b539/tumblr_mkv6mz569k1qgdqiuo1_500.png

Oh poor baby. He should try being a mundane and dealing with govt bureaucrats sometime.

[paleocon1]

BULLSHIT.
The person who approached her was staged.
An actual subject who wandered so close to the Presence would have been summarily dispatched.

Good and Correct Observaion

[Stratovarious]

Treated like the help....

No offence to the help......

[Lucille]

Treated like the help....

No offence to the help......

Zing!

[Sola_Fide]

You are now president of the USA; time to get over it pal.

Pffft, and forget the struggle? No way.

[Stratovarious]

Zing!

:-)

[euphemia]

Bitch is 5' 11'' the thought never crossed her mind that maybe they asked for her help because she friggin tall?

And doesn't she realize her husband works for us and not the other way around? Does she not realize who pays to keep them in the style to which they have become accustomed?

[enhanced_deficit]

BULLSHIT.
The person who approached her was staged.
An actual subject who wandered so close to the Presence would have been summarily dispatched.

This mother with her baby next to her got too close to Obama White House without permission and is no longer alive.

http://ww4.hdnux.com/photos/24/23/50/5323319/3/628x471.jpg

[osan]

BULLSHIT.
The person who approached her was staged.
An actual subject who wandered so close to the Presence would have been summarily dispatched.

Thread winner, hands down. Pony up, folks.

What scares me is that I did not see this right off, obvious as it is.

[enhanced_deficit]

Treated like the help....

No offence to the help......

That was cold.

[Stratovarious]

That was cold.

Thank you !

[Stratovarious]

By the way guys, I do not believe for one minute Obama or his Wife have ever been treated like the 'help' , I'm betting they
read it somewhere and jumped on it.

...and who among us has never been mistaken for someone else.....for instance the time I was mistaken :cough: for
Tom :cough: Selleck......:cough:


:-)

..