Michelle Obama Would Like Students to Monitor Family Members for Racial Insensitivity

From The Blaze.com (May 19):

First lady Michelle Obama is encouraging students to monitor their older relatives, friends and co-workers for any racially insensitive comments they might make, and to challenge those comments whenever they’re made.

The first lady spoke on Friday to graduating high school students in Topeka, Kansas, and in remarks released over the weekend, Obama said students need to police family and friends because federal laws can only go so far in stopping racism.

“[O]ur laws may no longer separate us based on our skin color, but nothing in the Constitution says we have to eat together in the lunchroom, or live together in the same neighborhoods,” she said. “There’s no court case against believing in stereotypes or thinking that certain kinds of hateful jokes or comments are funny.”

To address these limitations in the law, Obama asked students to take steps to “drag my generation and your grandparents’ generation along with you” in the fight against racism.

“Maybe that starts simply in your own family, when grandpa tells that off-colored joke at Thanksgiving, or you’ve got an aunt [that] talks about ‘those people,’” she said. “Well, you can politely inform them that they’re talking about your friends. [read more]

Michelle Obama adds, “And if you want to monitor your family comments about small government, low taxes, less regulation, and gun-rights. You can do that too. Welcome to the Collective. And have a nice day.” (Okay, I’m joking. She never said that. But probably thought it anyway.)

Obama and their progressive fellows just want fight against conservatism and Constitutionalism. But we’ll leave the Islamist alone.