re: Hey Michelle, I've been asked to do the same thing. Many times

I'm a 5'11" white man, and I have ladies ask me all the time to help them get something off the top shelf at stores. Does that make them sexist? Or am I a hightist?

I'm confused.

What's missing in this daily installment of this board's Faux Outrage Du Jour is the context, and that's usually the case. If the Interviewer prefaces a question with the statement that they've been criticized by some in the black community for not standing up against racism and for being out of touch with the black community and your answer is examples of I've been there done that, it's not like they were getting up on stage and whining. In fact what's not being cut and pasted presents a different light on the interview (I know shocking):

Things have gotten better, both Obamas agreed, but there's still more progress to be made.

"The small irritations or indignities that we experience are nothing compared to what a previous generation experienced," President Obama said. "It's one thing for me to be mistaken for a waiter at a gala. It's another thing for my son to be mistaken for a robber and to be handcuffed, or worse, if he happens to be walking down the street and is dressed the way teenagers dress."

Vegas... being ASKED for HELP getting something off a shelf can hardly be looked at in the lens of race. Come on you dense neophyte.

Even the quote you decided to add... "the way teenagers dress" Wtf is he saying? How can it be racist if all teenagers dress that way?

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That seems to be the point she was making.

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Poorly.

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"The small irritations or indignities that we experience are nothing compared to what a previous generation experienced," President Obama said. "It's one thing for me to be mistaken for a waiter at a gala. It's another thing for my son to be mistaken for a robber and to be handcuffed, or worse, if he happens to be walking down the street and is dressed the way teenagers dress."

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His analogy is inconsistent. First he compares his generation to the older generation, i.e.

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"The small irritations or indignities that we experience are nothing compared to what a previous generation experienced".

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But the supporting example he gives has no correlation with the analogy he presented in that first sentence, i.e.

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"It's one thing for me to be mistaken for a waiter at a gala. It's another thing for my son to be mistaken for a robber and to be handcuffed, or worse, if he happens to be walking down the street and is dressed the way teenagers dress."

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So he went from comparing his generation with the one prior to comparing his generation with Trayvon Martin's. He did a little switcheroo there. See it?

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See it?

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Trust me, he didn't.

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Just for the record, perpetual victims may garner the sympathy of the weak-minded, but they will NEVER earn the respect of successful people. This would trouble any person of character. A narcissist, or a professional victim, -not so much. The constant whining and special pleading about how she is "disrespected" somehow is not some kind of moral capital being earned, but rather a shallow moral vanity being displayed. She does it, because she knows her audience expects it and will reward her for it, reinforcing her victimhood status. It's essentially pandering to the lowest expectations of her audience. This is what Race Grievance Politics looks like from the First Lady, and it's a really, really sad cultural statement.

Says the perpetual victim.

Its a rare day when you're not complaining how someone did you wrong. The press, the liberals, the clerk at Albertsons. It's all a conspiracy.

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Michelle Obama, who is 5'11", said.

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Is she really 5-11? That means in heels she is about 6-2. She doesn't look that tall.