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.
According to Twitchy, Obama’s remarks went largely unnoticed outside of the event, until a local radio host reported on “Museums as White Spaces.”
Museums as ‘white spaces’ – piece by @arunNYC that explores how museums can be intimidating http://t.co/NUkSub3xqV cc @TaraBooks
— Rathna Ramanathan (@ratwoman) May 4, 2015
Can Black/Latino/Native art museums be intimidating or unwelcoming to white people? @WNYC #mymuseum #racism in #radio #newspaper #media
— Teklal Neguib (@teklalneguib) May 4, 2015
The first lady likely won’t be answering that question any time soon. The tone of her speech was eerily similar to her husband’s remarks during the launch of My Brother’s Keeper Alliance in New York City on Monday.
In the wake of racial tension and turmoil that has prompted riots throughout the country, President Obama unleashed some of his most overt commentary on race yet, as documented by Twitchy.
Pres Obama cites boys/young men of color “treated differently” by law enforcement when it comes to stops and arrests. pic.twitter.com/USFKfQAtgp
— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) May 4, 2015
Pres Obama says too many potential role models for boys of color are “languishing in prison over minor non-violent drug offenses.”
— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) May 4, 2015
Pres says “in too many places in this country,” black and Latino boys & men “experience being treated differently by law enforcement.”
— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) May 4, 2015
Citing stats for police stops, arrests, charges and incarcerations, Pres Obama says “the law is not always applied evenly in this country.”
— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) May 4, 2015
Obama: “that sense of unfairness, the powerlessness… helped fuel protests in places like Baltimore, Ferguson, right here in NY.”
— Ali Weinberg (@AliABCNews) May 4, 2015
Obama says he wanted WH to offer “sustained” message that Trayvon Martin’s life “mattered”
— Charlie Spiering (@charliespiering) May 4, 2015
Obama’s remarks came the same day as New York City mourned the death of NYPD Officer Brian Moore, 25, who died after being shot in the head by an armed thug on a Queens’ street last week.
There was no reported mention of Moore’s sacrifice or if it “mattered.”
H/T: Twitchy.com
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