Michelle Obama: Podcasting Isn’t So Easy

Michelle, my belle, how’s that new podcast going? The one you’re doing with your brother, Craig Robinson. Not so great? I guess it’s not necessarily easy to build an audience, even when you’re one of the most famous black women on earth — although, Oprah’s doing great with hers. Maybe it has something to do with likability. Well, hang in there, girl.

But in the meantime, it might be wise for Michelle to go on somebody else’s very successful podcast, like "On Purpose with Jay Shetty,” which is one of the top-rated in the world. So she did, along with her brother, Craig. And what did they talk about? Take a wild guess: Trump, racism and the poor mistreated immigrants.

When asked about her fears and concerns . . . Well, here are a few excerpts:

“In this current climate, for me it’s, you know, what’s happening to immigrants.”

“You don’t look like somebody that belongs. I can determine just by looking at you that you’re a good person or you’re not a good person.”

“And knowing that there’s so much bias and so much racism and so much ignorance that fuels those kinds of choices, I worry for people of color all over this country.”

“And I don’t know that we will have the advocates to protect everybody. And that makes me, that frightens me. It keeps me up at night.”

It keeps her “up at night"? In which fabulous mansion is she padding around in the wee hours, unable to sleep because Trump is trying to bring back the rule of law to our country, particularly as it regards immigration? And this thing with “immigrants,” what does it have to do with her experience as a black American? How are they comparable in any way?

Is Michelle — a graduate of Princeton and Harvard Law School — incapable of making any kind of intellectual distinction about anything that involves “people of color"? Or does it all just boil down to one simplistic thing: that the “immigrants,” like black Americans, are “people of color,” and they’re both mistreated? You would think that someone with her academic track record would be highly proficient in the skill of nuanced, critical thinking, but instead it’s the intellectual laziness of critical theory and cultural Marxist identity politics.

And anyway, why on earth would she want the United States to be completely overrun by Latin Americans, just because they are “people of color"? How does that help black Americans?

Let’s conduct a simple thought experiment:

If poor and ignorant white Canadians were pouring over our northern border by the millions, accompanied by drugs and human trafficking, and were overwhelming social services, schools and hospitals in communities nationwide, and were taking jobs away from poor black Americans, and were committing a wide array of crimes including robbery, rape and murder, would Michelle’s attitude toward border enforcement perhaps be different? Would the border then, maybe, possibly need to be enforced? Would she lose less sleep at night over deportations if they weren’t “people of color"?

Continuing with the excerpts:

“I don’t know that we will have the advocates . . .”

Michelle, honey, are you serious? Are you unaware that there’s a teeming army of “advocates” who relentlessly, day and night, no matter what, ceaselessly harangue the country about its supposed incurable racism as if it were still 1947, even though there has never been less racism in the history of the country and of Western civilization? Are you unaware that for many decades every institution in the country has been advocating for “people of color,” trying to make up for past wrongs, trying to bring them into every profession and every facet of American life, whether qualified or not, putting them on a pedestal and praising them to the heavens?

Do you happen to remember a fellow named George Floyd? The country literally lost its collective mind over what happened to that guy, all because he was black. The left whipped up millions of “advocates” virtually overnight and sent them out to every corner of every state — including Alaska, for crying out loud — to conduct “mostly peaceful” protests. Every institution was compelled to make some kind of statement about St. George and institutional racism, promising to do more, even though everything that reasonably can be done has been done. White people in power nationwide took a knee in public, all because George Floyd was black.

Do you remember any of that, Michelle? You have “advocates” coming out of the woodwork who can be ginned up at a moment’s notice over any perceived injustice.

And by the way, Michelle, did you ever hear about that thing called the “civil rights movement” back in the 1960s, a time so long ago that most living Americans weren’t even born yet? Well, it was wildly successful, you should know. It broke the back of segregation in the country and paved the way for your husband to eventually become a two-term president. Stuff like that couldn’t happen in the America that seems to exist in your mind.

All of which begs the question: Is there any power on earth that can dispel the delusion in the minds of some very prominent and successful black Americans that the country is still institutionally racist, and especially so under Donald Trump? As with all delusions in otherwise rational people, there is an element of willingness. In other words, for some psychological reason, they want and/or need to believe it, despite all reality to the contrary.

Let’s face it, Michelle. You simply have a psychological need to feel interminably mistreated. I’m no psychologist, but as a human being I’m an expert on the subject of human nature. We all are. And we all know people who love to play the victim. When society indulges and encourages such self-delusional behavior, we get more of it, even from people who have been wildly successful beyond the dreams of most.

Even though you, Michelle, and your husband achieved the dizzying pinnacles of success, you seem to have no gratitude. Instead, you’re just chock-full of resentment. What a lousy attitude for someone fortunate enough to have occupied the White House for eight years, and for that matter, to simply have been born and raised in America rather than in ____ (fill in the blank with your African country of choice).

Speaking of which, could it possibly be that Michelle’s worry and inability to sleep at night is actually rooted in her concern that . . .

Well, in her concern that her own husband might have an impending rendezvous with destiny . . .

And might get a knock on the door in the middle of the night . . .

By ICE agents . . .

Tasked with sending him . . .

Back to his country of origin . . .

Kenya?

Just kidding! Not a birther!

But seriously, Michelle, could you just lighten up a little bit and try to enjoy your stupendous and, yes, privileged, life? It’s all compliments of the United States of America and its people, whom, despite their flaws, you would have to admit are pretty doggone wonderful and less racist than most human beings who have ever lived. And who knows, losing the attitude might do wonders for your podcast ratings.