As if you needed another reason why some people refer to the Sunshine State as "Flori-duh": Now a couple of hot shot Republican school board members in the Miami-Dade area are stomping their feet about First Lady Michelle Obama making an appearance at a campaign event to be held at Barbara Goleman Senior High in Miami Lakes. They're urging the event to be cancelled and are even questioning its legality.
Too bad the idea that the event is out of line legally is a complete conservative fairy tale (or nightmare, however you wish to see it). And the only obvious conclusion why they've dreamed this temper tantrum up is clear: They -- like a gazillion other backasswards politicians on the right -- are complete racists.
Since that conclusion could easily come off as a knee-jerk reaction, let's try to give the guy the benefit of the doubt for a moment ...
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Board member Carlos Curbelo wrote in a letter to the board's attorney:
Allowing the First Lady of the United States to use one of our schools explicitly to benefit the president's reelection campaign is inappropriate and sends the wrong message to our students, employees, and to taxpayers -- even if the president’s campaign is willing to pay for all costs resulting from the event.
But then, lookee here ... The Daily Kos breaks Curbelo's concerns down for us. To sum it up ...
- The district's policy is to allow all groups, including political ones, to lease facilities. Obama's campaign is paying $2,351 to rent the school for the event.
- Mitt Romney's campaign is also renting out a public high school in Colorado to do the same thing.
- In the past, (white) Democrats like Bill Clinton and politicians' spouses like Laura Bush have participated in similar campaign events at Florida public schools.
So there you have it. There's absolutely no legit reason for them to be throwing this hissy fit.
Sadly, this incident is further proof that there are some on the right who are attempting to block the Obamas at every turn, for one reason alone. They hate them unconditionally. They can blame their disdain on Obama being a "socialist" or "Communist" or whatever other ridiculous, extreme label they want to slap on our POTUS and his wife. But ultimately, the real word they can't stand -- and the real reason they're giving Michelle a hard time in Miami -- is "black."
Do you believe this campaign event should be held at a public school? Do you think it sounds like the FLOTUS is being discriminated against?
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I so agree with the very first poster period
give the racist garbage a break. YOU ARE THE ONES THAT ARE RACIST AS YOU ARE THE ONES CONSTANTLY YELLING RACE. shut up
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This is a ridiculous article and the author sounds like an idiot because of it. Stop playing the race card. Did you ever stop to think that it's someone who just despises him and his wife and doesn't want their child exposed to either of them? Yes, it's all about race. Just like it is when people I know can't get special things because they aren't foreigners nor do they have special groups watching out for them like the NAACP. People want to scream racism, but yet THEY are the ones continuing any racism on. You don't want racism? Stop having special treatment because of race. If Miss USA pageants or something like it were segregated, there'd be mobs after them, but yet there's segrated pageants and channels and any number of other things for other races. Where's the sense in that? It can't be both ways.
The first 16,000,000,000,000 reasons for my dislike of OWEbama are GREEN!
I didn't like Bill or Hillary, and they are white, Arkansas hillbillies with educations. I don't like the Obamas either, and it's certainly not because of their color. It's because they're idiots. anybody can be an idiot. "idiot" doesn't limit itself to color. Lighten up people.
It's not racist. I am starting to notice that the Obamas are starting the race issue again.
Its so funny that you point out that all the white candidates BEFORE Obama were allowed to hold meetings. Um, well, considering every president before Obama was white, SURE its racist! ROFL This has to be one of the most ridiculous opinion pieces I've ever read. Just another example of how if you disagree with this administrations politics you are considered racist. It can't possibly be because you simply don't agree. *eyeroll*
You're an idiot. You can not like someone and use any possible excuse to try to thwart their agenda without it having anything to do with race. It's ignorant people that whine and play the race card that hamper race relations.