First Lady Attacks Trump

Michelle Obama’s final commencement address as first lady highlighted the racial demagoguery and double standards that have been a hallmark of her husband’s presidency, as she attacked the GOP presumed nominee, Donald Trump.

“Here in America we don’t let our differences tear us apart. We don’t build walls to keep people out.”

“I have seen how leaders who rule by intimidation — leaders who demonize and dehumanize entire groups of people –- often do so because they have nothing else to offer,” Obama said in a thinly veiled attack on Trump during her Friday speech at City College of New York in Harlem.

“Here in America, we don’t let our differences tear us apart. We don’t build walls to keep people out,” she yelled to hundreds of graduating students.

This clarion call to #neverTrump followed a typically gross mischaracterization of Trump and his supporters. “Some folks out there … seem to view our diversity as a threat to be contained, rather than a resource to be tapped. They tell us to be afraid of those who are different, to be suspicious of those with whom we disagree.”

Of course, how wanting to stem the flow of unaccountable foreign aliens across the southern border actually has anything to do with containing “our diversity,” Mrs. Obama does not say — Democrats seem unable to differentiate between legal immigration and illegal aliens flooding across the border. Indeed, the only people Trump has ever come close to suggesting should be treated with suspicion are Muslim migrants fleeing the Middle East, which, given the current geopolitical situation, is entirely reasonable — just ask the Belgians.

Obama told the audience she chose City College as the location of her final commencement address as first lady because of its “diversity.”

“I want you all to know that there is a reason why that of all of the colleges and universities in this country, I chose this particular school in this particular city for this special moment,” she said. “I’m here because of all of you,” she continued before launching into a litany of praise for the school’s “glorious diversity,” calling it “a place where they didn’t have to hide their names or accents.”

After lauding City College’s lack of white people, she paused to remind the audience that her family “came to this country centuries ago in chains.” Of course, no racially charged Obama speech would be complete these days without a dig at GOP presidential candidate Trump.

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The shamelessness of Obama’s racial rabble rousing is highlighted by her second-to-last commencement address as first lady, delivered at the Santa Fe Indian School in Santa Fe, New Mexico. There, rather extol the virtues of “diversity” and the evils of tribalism, she praised those who want to protect their native culture from outside influences.

“This school was founded as part of a deliberate, systematic effort to extinguish your culture; to literally annihilate who you were and what you believed in,” she told the Native American student body. “The traditions that this school was designed to destroy are now expressed in every square foot of this building — in the art on your walls, in the statue in your MSC building, in the Popé Day song and dance performances in your plaza.”

It’s difficult to interpret Michelle’s mixed messages as anything other than racist given the context in which they were delivered. Diversity at City College is something to be praised if it means more non-white people speaking more languages other than English. Tribalism — at its heart a rejection of multiculturalism and diversity — at Santa Fe Indian School is something to be praised — if the tribes in question are non-white.