And the sad thing is that I don't think she even realizes it!

Thanks to Viva La Revolution for posting this was on so I could watch it:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discu...

During the Q&A which most included discussions of "institutionalized racism", she made several racist statements, which drew audible responses from the audience. Her "deer-in-the-headlights" look after the responses showed me that she didn't have a clue what she had just said. I'm about as White as you can get, and even I recognized the racism in her statements.

There was even one instance when her response was so outrageous, a hush of disbelief came over the crowd, and no one could say anything in response because they were obviously flabbergasted. But it appeared that Michelle took the lack of response as "having made her point."

She railed against the current "diversity" admissions policies, mentioning briefly "reverse discrimination" (what is wrong with trying to make college campuses a representative sample of the total population? If we can achieve that successfully, that would one indicator we are getting better at doing our job!). She claimed that "institutionalized racism" is much less than it was in the 50's and 60's. As a child of the 50's and 60's, my opinion is that it has gotten better although being white I am only speaking as an outside observer. But I remember how bad it was back then. But, we still have a long way to go. And, Michelle, why is it better than it once was? Because of the very policies to which you are opposed! I pray for the day we can dispose of these policies because they are no longer necessary. But that won't be for a long time, if ever.

As further evidence of her insensitivity and total obliviousness of what comes out of her mouth, when she was trying to demonstrate that she "didn't always agree with the current administration" the very first point she mentioned was that she thought the administration was spending too much on EDUCATION! In front of an auditorium of college students!

This was also contradictory to some of her earlier statements. Another reason she was opposed to diversity admissions programs was the fact that in many cases, minorities who were admitted under the program ended up dropping out because they were under-prepared and could not compete academically.

Michelle, why were these students under-prepared? Because the college preparation programs for minorities are UNDER-FUNDED! Thank you for making the Liberal point for us.

After the group response to her "education funding" statement, Michelle did make a statement that I agree with whole-heartedly:

"Wow! We really DO live in different realities!"

Yes, Michelle, YOU live in a different reality. One based on spin and, apparently, racism. Perhaps one day you would should consider accepting a reality based on facts.

I got the overall impression that most of her new book that she was hawking was a response to criticism over her previous book on immigration and her support of racial profiling and even racial detention camps. Her views and ideas were dismissed as racist, which she feels was just a "tactic". Michelle, perhaps you should accept that you ARE a racist, even though you are so racist that you don't even realize it in your "reality".

Finally, the book she is hawking is about Dem's being "out of control" and making racist statements that are supposedly not being reported while Repub racist comments are being over-reported. Of course, the Dem incidents that she referred to were well known to the group, despite the fact that she claimed they were "ignored".

Michelle, simply because Republican "unfortunate statements" are reported more than you would like (which is obviously "not at all") and similar Democratic statements are not reported as much as you would like (which would be "media saturation") does not mean that there is an actual discrepancy - except in YOUR "reality".

I know she lurks here at DU sometimes, and I hope she sees this post and does a little introspection. However, I'm sure that she will continue her past reactions and consider me an "idiot" rather than question her only carefully constructed and fragile reality.