It Feels Like Hope Is Finally Making A Comeback | The Big Slice

 Those are the words that everyone seems to forget when they quote Michelle Obama. “…for the first time in my adult life I am proud of my country because it feels like hope is finally making a comeback.” They love to quote the first part about being proud for the first time with her country, and then scream about how horrible a phrase that should be for any American to utter much less the First Lady of the United States.

[,,,]  There are those who will scream Support Our Troops,,,There are those who will scream We Are A Christian Nation,,,There are those who will scream about The Constitution,,,

[,,,]  My point is that Michelle Obama grew up in a country that was in the throes of demanding rights for blacks, rights for women and rights for the poor. She also grew up during a time when both Vietnam and the Cold War were in full swing. We were, as an American powerhouse, sending our men and women to die in a war that had nothing to do with us, spending millions on a race to the moon and teaching our kids that huddling under a wooden desk, would somehow save them from a nuclear explosion.

[,,,]  Meanwhile, through all of this, Michelle is still an educated, black woman in America. We have seen from the Palin fiasco that Educated is not a word many Americans see as being a positive thing, calling it elitism. Somehow not being stupid became elite. Go figure.

She is Black, which we have seen with the election of Barack Obama, racism is still rampant in this country. No White President would have ever been called a ‘secret Muslim’, a Kenyan or been accused of not being born in this country. Know how I know? Because EVERY President before him was a white man, and those questions never came up, not once.

And lastly, she is a Woman. Which these last four years have shown us from the state-to-state attempts to vote in things like required vaginal invasions, to referring to rape as a choice, to voting against a Violence Against Women Act, to trying to make abortion illegal time and time again – all while voting against Equal Pay for Women and then pretending they respect you, when it’s time to win your votes. Luckily, a majority of women in America are ‘elitists’ and smart enough to see past this fakery.

So when Michelle Obama says, “…for the first time in my adult life I am proud of my country because it feels like hope is finally making a comeback.” I say, right along side her, no shit!

[,,,]  I refuse to denounce that woman for those words she spoke, because at the end of the day, she was not lying. And the problem with this country is we like to applaud people who say what we want to hear, even when we know they are lying – instead of supporting those of us who are just smart enough, just tough enough and truly love this country enough – to admit we still have a long way to go. Honesty is far more Patriotic than a bumper sticker, a flag pin on your lapel or saying some words over and over again with your hand on your heart.

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