So, another, hate-filled, race-baiting radio host attacks the Obama family. Yesterday, Tammy Bruce, a fill-in for Laura Ingraham on her radio show, went almost apoplectic listening to the First Lady talk to a classroom full of young African-American students in a D.C. classroom. What was the First Lady describing to these students? She was describing how she – Michelle Obama – ignored the jibes, and teasing comments from other Black children growing up while she pursued A’s in school.
How did Tammy Bruce react?
This is how, according to the Huffington Post: “Discussing the first lady’s recent visit to a Washington, D.C., classroom, Bruce incredulously recalled Obama’s story about wanting to get A’s in school and called out her use of a ‘weird, fake accent.’
“‘That’s what he’s married to,’ Bruce said. ‘You know what we’ve got? We’ve got trash in the White House.’
“‘Trash is a thing that is colorblind, it can cross all eco-socionomic … categories,’ she clarified, apparently, not wanting to be judged as racist.
“‘You can work on Wall Street, or you can work at the Wal-Mart. Trash are people who use other people to get things, who patronize others, who consider you bitter and clingy…’
“‘Listen to Obama sound like — a white girl.’”
The “weird fake accent” was used in retelling her own experiences, and it wasn’t used as a “white girl” talking to her, but as other Black girls calling out to her, ridiculing her, trying to make her feel like an Uncle Tom because she wanted to get good grades.
“Trash”, Ms. Bruce, is someone like yourself, attacking the First Lady’s words, when you don’t have a blue clue what she was talking about, nor in the context she used them. “Trash” is someone who speaks out of ignorance and who willingly displays that ignorance when attempting to make fun of someone else so as to attempt to belittle them. You have given all of Ms. Ingraham’s listeners a perfect example of what “trash” is.
Thank you for that skillful demonstration. Now go back to your village, they’re missing you.
The Liberty Tree 