Michelle Obama

When President Obama told a black audience years ago that black men needed to be better fathers the response from Rev. Jesse Jackson was to criticize him for talking down to black people and whisper that he deserved to be castrated.Now the president has done it again.Speaking at graduation ceremonies at Morehouse College in Atlanta last weekend the President said it is time to stop using racism and discrimination – though they still exist – to excuse bad personal decisions that block success.And the critics are back at President Obama again.Left-wing black intellectuals are calling him a "scold" and asking if he is making a bad habit of speaking to the black community's flaws. In other words, he is blaming the victim and not speaking to systemic issues from ghettoes to bad schools that continue to disadvantage poor black people.Black people deserve more than "targeted scorn," from the president, wrote Ta-Nehisi Coates for the Atlantic. Coates chided the president for telling a black ma...

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