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A friend of mine sent me this link Michelle Obama’s America–and mine

With the comment “I need to add no comment to this editorial…”

Now, knowing my friend to be an arch conservative, in the vein of Newt Gingrich and the Contract on America of 1994 notoriety, I’m assuming that he agrees with what Michelle Malkin has written about how she and Michelle Obama see this nation from entirely different perspectives.

I took the time to respond by email to his spam send. Then I decided to share it with you. So, this is word for word what I wrote back to my friend from the other side of the aisle. He’s not a bad man, and I don’t resent his view of those that I hold in high esteem. Still, I always find the time to respond in respectful opposition to these mass sends that he sees fit to grace my in-box as he prepares them for broadcast. I feel it’s the least I can do for a decent guy who just seems to need a little clarity of vision.

Michelle Malkin isn’t anyone that I would ever quote. Not if I ever wanted to be taken seriously by anyone other than the steadily dwindling number of fringe inhabitants that line up daily in droves barely large enough to keep her in a steady job to drink that poison she offers, as her brittle insanity continues to alienate her from those in her profession who take the written word seriously.

That opening line - Like Michelle Obama, I am a “woman of color.” – immediately killed off the credibility of her entire diatribe. She obviously has never actually been among the “common folk” of this nation to see the stark difference between what it means to be a woman of black color, and a woman of yellow color in the streets of our cities. In Cincinnati, where I live, we don’t see a lot of Chinese women paraded across our TV screens at 11:03 PM, as they cry over the deaths of their murdered children, while in the background the squalor of their tragic lives provides the first 5 to 10 seconds of personal backdrop that follows every other Chinese woman in this city around as she works to advance herself in her local community.

There is no “Chinese Community” for her to break free of to become just another equal and liberated member of the larger community of Cincinnatians in this corner of SW Ohio. As a Chinese “woman of color” she isn’t tagged from birth as a member of any “community” and will never be tagged as such, unless she actively promotes herself as a member of a Chinese “community” to advance her own personal or professional agenda. As in the case of Michelle Malkin in this foolish article she’s written.

There are “China Towns” in the large cities of the US, but they exist as a conscious and actively ongoing decision by the members of those communities and are leveraged positively by those communities to the benefit of all who live within them. The American “Black Community” is imposed on all who share the appearance of the members of those collections of neighborhoods where economic disadvantage has caused the families involved to gather in clusters due to the cheap rents or prevalence of Section 8 housing arrangements established between the landlords and the state government. Drugs, violence and economic despair are the cultural offerings that these neighborhoods feature, and as far as I know, no one is buying from the larger community around them.

Well, that’s not entirely true.

The mainstream media is always stopping by “Brown Town” for a taste of what’s in Column A as opposed to what’s in Column B, and then grabbing a bit of take-out for the “shocking” lead-in each news night, with details at 11. Meanwhile, the larger community sits back, covers its collective mouth in horror, and thanks Jesus that this kind of malignancy is restricted to that lost section of the city.

In fact, the only time any of them “see” it, is when a black “woman of color” finds her way into their lives, bringing with her - by psychologically imposed proxy - all that disturbing truth about how out-of-control “her community” has become after “all we’ve done to help them.” It doesn’t matter if the woman in question actually grew up two blocks from the white folks making that visceral judgment about her. She wears that stain of violence, despair, and lack of personal accountability stretched across the muscle and bone that enables her to be from anywhere at all. She “represents” whether she can truly represent or not. Whether she can even relate or not to what she’s perceived to represent as a member of an American community that we’ve long ago decided to be devoid of promise or capacity.

Michelle Malkin is a moron. Michelle Obama knows exactly what she means when she refers to the change in the government of this nation that she’s been waiting for. Even if Michelle Malkin can’t, won’t, or is being paid not to, understand what Michelle Obama is referring to. Frankly, of the “can’t, won’t, or is being paid not to” options, I’m leaning in favor of option number 3, and so would anyone who hasn’t got an ideological dog in this particular fight.

I understand your instinctive need to “defend” your country, but you seem to need to defend the worst aspect of your country and oppose the efforts to make your country become better than it has been. That’s where you and I move forward in divergent directions. I love my country - our country - and I want her to become what she can become, in the same way that I want my own daughter to become the greatest version of the woman that she can be. Even if it means that she embraces truths that I feel somewhat uncomfortable with - such as her politically conservative notions that border on staunch libertarianism. I trust in her own capacity to evolve into her best self, and I’ll applaud it no matter how it manifests itself. The same goes for my country. The only criteria that I have for either, is that they embrace the one standard offered as description of a life properly lived - to “do unto others as you would have them do unto you”. Beyond that, my opinions are irrelevant.

Malkin crows about the glorious fall of the Iron Curtain, as if that historic event occurred here in the United States. Well, the truth is that it didn’t happen here, and it didn’t change our society one bit. That change belongs to the people of the former Soviet Union. They made that change, and deserve the credit for making that change. Claiming credit for that change as the success of any US politician or political party is a disgusting lie that needs to be exposed every time it reaches from its dank lair to cripple the perspective of yet another geo-political neophyte in search of perspective in a confusing world.

It’s been a very dark 7 years, and the kind of change we need is larger than the fall of a brick wall between two halves of a city that sits 6,500 miles away from our eastern shoreline. We’re only one shot away from full scale civil war, and someone needs to stop this bullshit and get to fixing the damage that’s been done to our collective community before we no longer have a collective community to fix. The Michelle Malkins of our nation make a living on digging the trenches that separate us, just so that they can claim the resulting fragments as market share for their tenuous careers.

I’m tired of her and the rest of those like her. On the Right and on the Left. I’m focusing on the middle and trying to bring as many as I can to it. It’s where we have a chance to survive as a nation. In fact, it holds the last chance we have to survive as a nation.