Liberal commentator Bill Maher once described elite universities as the “mouth of the river from which nonsense flows.” I would argue the colorful description applies equally to perpetual victim Michelle Obama, who beclowned herself again during a recent interview with actress Tracee Ellis Ross at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
Obama is out with a new book, titled The Look, which is touted as “a stunning journey through Michelle Obama’s style evolution, in her own words for the first time.” Her sit-down with Ross is being promoted as a “live conversation on beauty, culture, and confidence” that is “rich with wisdom, laughter, and deep reflection.” Some viewers might reach a different conclusion.
In the clip below, a discussion about hair, her barely concealed resentment toward white people rears its ugly head again.
She said a lot of people want to know what braids mean. I don’t know about you, but that thought has never crossed my mind.
She spoke in an unmistakably condescending tone, and each remark seemed to generate more laughter and applause than the one before it. The audience loved her!
Look, y’all. … That’s [how] white folks are. What does it mean? What are you saying?We’re saying nothing except I just don’t want to have to do my hair everyday. I want to go swimming.And let me explain something to white people. Our hair comes out of our head naturally in a curly pattern, so when we’re straightening it to follow your beauty standards, we are trapped by the straightness.That’s why so many of us can’t swim … and we run away from the water. People won’t go to the gym … because we’re trying to keep our hair straight for y’all.Why do we need an act of law to tell white folks to get outta our hair? Don’t — Don’t tell me how to wear my hair. Don’t wonder about it. Don’t touch it. Just don’t.
I have never wondered about Michelle Obama’s hair. And my guess is that few, if any, “white folks” have either. Regarding “white folks” wanting to touch her hair, she really needn’t worry.
But I do have a question for her. Although in recent days, we often see Obama sporting braids, why did she spend decades trying to adhere to “white people’s beauty standards?”
Perhaps the biggest takeaway from the interview was Obama’s response to that age-old question: will she ever run for president?
To my tremendous relief, she said she would not. But it was her reason for not running that captured everyone’s attention. It was framed in rhetoric that amounted to a pointed slight against the United States.
“As we saw in the past election, sadly, we ain’t ready,” Obama told Ross. “That’s why I’m like, don’t even look at me about running, because you all are lying. You’re not ready for a woman. You are not.”
Ross asked Obama whether she felt her eight years in the White House had opened the door for a woman to become president.
“You know, we got a lot of growing up to do, and there’s still, sadly, a lot of men who do not feel like they can be led by a woman, and we saw it,” Obama replied.
Or maybe, Michelle, men simply believed that former Vice President Kamala Harris would have made a terrible president. And despite Harris flattering herself by calling the 2024 race one of the closest in history, it wasn’t; Hillary Clinton’s margin in 2016 was far narrower than hers.
Regardless of Obama’s actual reason for not wanting to run, she still had to cloak it in a disparaging remark about the U.S.
Responding to a TMZ post on X about the comment, conservative influencer Stephen L. Miller wrote: “Amazing. A 250 year-old democracy has still not reached Michelle Obama’s lofty personal standards. We continue to disappoint her.”
Obama has many good reasons for not seeking the presidency. She leads a charmed life. Why would she want to give that up for the grind of the campaign trail? Also, while liberal women admire her, conservative women hate her, and we have no idea how the rest of the electorate feels about her. Finally, unless one considers eight years as first lady to be adequate preparation for the highest office in the land, Obama is, quite plainly, not qualified to be president.
But, as always, she still managed to work in a jab at the United States.
The full interview can be viewed below.
Elizabeth writes commentary for Legal Insurrection and The Washington Examiner. She is an academy fellow at The Heritage Foundation. Please follow Elizabeth on X or LinkedIn.
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