Thursday, May 7, 2015

Michelle Obama goes to the Museum

You see, there are so many kids in this country who look at places like museums and concert halls and other cultural centers and they think to themselves, well, that’s not a place for me, for someone who looks like me, for someone who comes from my neighborhood. In fact, I guarantee you that right now, there are kids living less than a mile from here who would never in a million years dream that they would be welcome in this museum. And growing up on the South Side of Chicago, I was one of those kids myself.”

 

22 comments:

Synova said...

She should have spent this time promoting museums as "something black people do" for those kids instead of messing with their school lunches and telling people what to eat.

edutcher said...

I'm sure Mama Moochelle didn't want her little girl being exposed to all those examples of white patriarchy.

PS A lot of white kids thought musea weren't their kind of place, but we won't go into that.

Tank said...

About ten years ago we went to an exhibit at the Newark Museum, in Newark, in the midst of many, many black residents. After a while I noticed that all of the staff were black and all of the visitors were white. ALL. Since then, I have noticed a similar breakdown in many (not all) other museums.

Just sayin.

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

She is such a downer.

I'm Full of Soup said...

Jeez, race race race is that all the Dems have?

Will the Obama girls and the Clinton granddaughter still be using this old playbook in 25-30 years when they are running for office?

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

OK. What is the answer, Michelle? You and your party are in power. All are welcome at museums and libraries. What's the deal? What are YOU doing wrong? It has been 6.5 years, why hasn't this problem been solved? Instead of bitching, why don't you do something?

We don't want to focus on money wasted in urban areas and on poorly run government run schools. We better not discuss the fact that one of the first things your husband did after 2008 - to pay back the horrid and corrupt teacher's union - is to shut down a popular voucher program that helped poorer black students in DC escape failing government schools for better opportunities elsewhere. All for political pay back. It’s no secret the teacher’s union uses millions in dues to pay for democrat political pimping. Where’s the success?

Funny how pocket stuffing and political pay backs are more important that actual people. No wonder your husband now promotes and supports the biggest pay-to-play grifter of all, Hillary.

Dad Bones said...

ISIS has a way of making people feel not welcome at museums.

Chip Ahoy said...

Such a racist troll.

Pre internet libraries were considered the suppositories of collected wisdom. I meant to say repositories just now but that other word came out of me instead.

Since the racist troll is trolling for racism let's giver her some. Care to hear what I noticed about school tours in museums? Denver Art Museum is half a block away. The main library one block away. The capitol two blocks away, so I see quite a lot of yellow school busses depositing little kids all eager to be out of the classroom, with their chums and doing something different and interesting, and so very full of energy and life.

The differences in dress and in behavior between white children in school groups and Latin children and children of apparent negroid persuasion are stark.

As observable behavior between races in family groups differs starkly but that is another discussion, this is responding to the never happy FLOUS racist troll.

At the art museum, for exhibitions that would have a draw for children, generally, the predominantly white groups of any age come prepared for the lesson. The trip is incorporated with a school lesson. Observable behavior is staid and steady and somewhat serious for children and they respect the exhibits. To my tremendous surprise that is what I see, even though I was one.

The Latin kids come dressed to play and do so. They run all over the place with no direction or guidance. It's all a romp and one wonders, bless their little hearts, always such fun to observe, what if any little bits they might learn by pure chance through osmosis by being there.

I don't know anything about the little black kids. Honestly, I don't see much of them. The ones I do see appear bewildered. And not necessarily children, I wonder by the adult blacks that I've hosted, that I dragged to the museum myself and stayed with them through the tour, or the attempt to drag to the museum and failed, what it is that they're learning or have learned wrongly. Would you like an example? I have three without thinking.

No. They're too personal and all three break my heart. Let's just say I observe a resistance to learning. And an even bigger resistance to learning things that are real. That is, a preference to put together the learned thing wrongly. For example, take this troll right here to a museum and all she can see is race. Trip wasted. If not actually damaging.

There.

You started it.

Oh. Another racial observation. AThe little Jewish kids are the most prepared and most avidly engrossed and submerged in the subject at hand, the most engaging and eager to discuss it, of all the numerous white races, even the Japanese, Chinese, and Koreans.

Chip Ahoy said...

And you'll notice since you insist on noticing such things, that whitest of white kids are getting taller over time and the darkest becoming more athletic and more intellectually detached. And one concludes by observing over time that black families, what remains of that particular tainted institution, simply does not value education. At. All. And there is nothing teachers can do about that.

How's that for racism?

I wanted to show you something and now I cannot find it. It's not worth finding anyway. My original image search was for something unrelated, the image caught my eye because it stuck out wrongly among image results and it was about Egyptian history. I clicked on the image.

It took me to a member's flickr photostream.

They were all images of Egyptian symbols willfully wrongly misinterpreted to say and to mean something else entirely. As I clicked through the images became worse and worse. There is a "was" symbol, a staff with the hook the head of jackal and the bottom forks to two prongs inward bent. The image showed a magnetic field as if the staff were a globe. Similar energy lines drawn around pyramids and pyramid structures used to channel energy, connections made between astrology and zodiac signs with Egyptian history. Non-Egyptian symbols incorporated with authentic ones, the images got wackier and wackier as they go, and I'm thinking oh my goodness this one is a real crackpot, there will be no repairing the damage, and it gets worse, it shows the member in Egyptian costume then even worse with more members, all black, in similar costumes, and it gets worse, they're serious. The whole group of some dozen people all dressed in similar costumes as if a play but it is not a play. They mean it. They imagine what they're doing is real. The photos show the group dressed as they imagine ancient Egyptian dressed, it's all about the dressing and the status of the dressing, performing rituals involving flasks and makeshift Egyptian symbols, a bejeweled ankh, and bedazzled djed, a crudely handcrafted sistrum. When I saw the shelves myself said to myself, "See? That could have happened to you." It's not even decorative. Except to announce, "yes, I am obsessed." And even with the assistance of obsession, without the value of education, you and your whole group are doomed to get it wrong and actually live it out wrongly.

Your forehead goes to your palm. Oh Jeeze.

Now, sometimes I get carried away. I try to check this. One such check is these little Egyptian statuettes. Once your friends latch onto the idea you like this sort of thing, any sort of thing, say elephants for example, it makes an easy go-to gift idea for you and you end up with scores of elephant-related crap that you would not have picked out for yourself. "Behold my glorious collection of all the crap people gave me for forty years acknowledging an obsession long passes." I told all my fiends to knock it off. No Egyptian statuary. Although I treasure every gift received so far, you all are insufficiently competent to pick anything out and I don't want any more. But thank you and bless your saintly hearts.

One of the photographs is shelves and shelves and shelves LOADED, crammed together, no room left on the shelf, with such nonsense, everything that is available and I've see all of it, all amounting to nothing except an obsession with a subject that leads you to get EVERYTHING wrong because the whole GROUP does not value real education. They value something else. The dress, the pretend, the ritual, something, the fun, but it sure is NOT getting at understanding of real actual history. Racist. I know. But there it is, in observable behavior, in experiences lived, and for posterity in flickr albums.

chickelit said...

At one level it sounds like FLOTUS is encouraging tomorrow's kids to grow up and burn down those museums--to remake history in their own image(s).

That's the overriding message I hear.

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

Well she's at the Whitey Museum.

oh - that's Whitney.
never mind...

chickelit said...

Imagine the cultural threat of museum looting. It's pretty daunting. A lot of shaking down could happen to prevent it. I'm not suggesting that anyone do that, but that's the sinister undertone.

I also imagine that Frank Bruni et al. would like to see the Vatican ransacked to appease his seething outrage du jour regarding catholicism. The thing is, none of them are suggesting constructive alternatives--it's as if things must first be razed to be raised. Or, as Hillary once put it -- It takes a pillage.

Question for VDF: didn't the Romans go through this phase?

chickelit said...

Perhaps FLOTUS would be happy if each and every museum exhibit had a placard or display explaining how and why black people were exclude from this or that historical event.

Would that unfurrow the brow?

ndspinelli said...

She's preparing for a presidential run.

chickelit said...

As in "my first lady beats your first lady"?

Trooper York said...

Maybe if the Trayvons and Freddie realize that they can steal the stuff in the museum and sell it for some serious green they will be happy to go there and treat it like their neighborhood CVS or liquor store.

Aridog said...

ndspinelli said...

She's preparing for a presidential run.

Oh, gee...thanks for that nightmare!

Trouble is, I think you may be right, just not for 2016.

JAL said...

So her parents were crappy parents also?

JAL said...

Kids (elementary school) don't take themselves to museums (especially the Whitney).

And even if they went at age 11, by themselves CPS would pick them up on the way for being out without their parents.

And the parents would be charged with "unsubstantiated child neglect."

These people need to so get over themselves.

Come 2016. Please deliver us.

ampersand said...

Black folks attend the Art Institute.

Amartel said...

It's all in her head but someone else must be blamed. Always.
There was a guy at TOP who would show up at odd moments and comment about the racial inequality at National Parks. Who's keeping black folks out of Yosemite, Yellowstone, etc.? Nobody specifically, or expressly. Apparently, "society" just doesn't want em there and telepathically sends out that message. Also, bears are well known racists and just wander around these places doing whatever they want. Hint, hint, clue. Unsolved Mysteries of the Universe: Solved! For some people racism is always the answer to any mysterious human behavior, no matter how unlikely. And by racism I mean Other Peoples' racism. Of course.

AllenS said...

Black people don't go camping.