If Michelle Obama’s is Angry, She has Right to Be

Oh she’s just angry

I put down the book with higher regard for Michelle Obama and a better understanding of the family’s struggles as the first African-Americans to occupy the White House.

Predictably, right-wing talk show hosts immediately started using the book as an excuse to return to a poisonous theme: Michelle Obama is “an angry black woman.”

“I see Michelle Obama’s mad while saying she’s not,” Rush Limbaugh said.

Radio host and tea party activist David Webb, who is black, told The Hill that “Michelle Obama comes from a very angry, black nationalist background.”

He further suggested that the first lady, who rose from modest means with the benefit of America’s “enormous opportunities,” should mind her words, that in her role as first lady, “it’s un-American” for Michelle Obama to bring up racial issues at all. “The majority of Americans do not like that approach, this underhand way of doing things,” Webb said.

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