The Whitney Museum in NYC has moved to a new location.
And Michelle Obama was invited to speak at the opening celebration.
In her speech, she used the opportunity to stoke the flames of racial divide.
It’s what the Obamas do best.
Via BizPac Review: FLOTUS plays race card: Museums are for white people
First lady Michelle Obama used a speech Monday that was supposed to be celebrating the opening of a new museum to instead dig deeper the racial divide that’s been growing ever wider during her husband’s presidency.
“Museums and concert halls,” she said, just don’t welcome non-white visitors – especially children – the way they welcome whites.
Speaking at the new Whitney museum in New York City’s meat packing district last week, Obama said she grew up thinking that museums were not places “for someone who looks like me.”
“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. So I know that feeling of not belonging in a place like this. And today, as first lady, I know how that feeling limits the horizons of far too many of our young people….
No, Michelle, it’s the far-Left agenda of your husband that “limits the horizons of far too many of our young people.”
I can’t imagine anyone thinking the way FLOTUS described here.
Mooch says minorities don’t feel museums were for them, at the Whitney Museum. Founded by and named for Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, who grew up in the Vanderbilt mansion on 5th ave. and summered at The Breakers in Newport RI. No one outside the 1% of the 1% of the 1%…feels comfortable going to such a museum, until after you’ve gone. Pick the extreme example possible, be the invited speaker, and then slam host for your lack of confidence. Jeesh.
Regarding The Breakers; “Twenty-one members of the Vanderbilt family have written to board members of a preservation group that owns The Breakers, saying its management is no longer fulfilling its commitment to the public trust and is exploiting the Gilded Age family mansion, sometimes referred to as America’s Downton Abbey….” http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/may/5/vanderbilts-upset-with-preservation-group-over-bre/#ixzz3ZNVFKIJY
GVW was quite the lady. An acclaimed sculptor who encouraged women in the arts, lost her brother on the Lusitania, paid for an Army hospital outside Paris during WWI, and was in the Gloria Vanderbilt custody battle. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude_Vanderbilt_Whitney
Vanderbilt mansion on 5th ave. was demolished and Bergdorf Goodman is located there today. http://www.timeshutter.com/image/vanderbilt-mansion-5th-avenue-and-58th-street
Michelle did pretty well in life, actually. I don’t she think was raised in the kind of hell that is what we saw in Baltimore. I think she is just another race baiting liberal phony.
This woman (?) is so full of the black liberation B.S. How the hell did we let someone like this and her other half into the halls of power? I could see behind all of the B.S. and hate of these people before they flounced into the W.H. Why couldn’t anyone else? 🙁
People trapped in a narcissistic mindset aren’t much interested in exhibits that aren’t about ME. Michelle’s thesis was about herself. Obama came out of college and wrote a book about himself. It’s nice work if you can get it. But not many of us can parlay me-ology into a career.
(FWIW, as a kid, I never cared much for the art stuff, but was intrigued by science and dinosaur museums.)
Jeremiah Wright in a dress.