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In reply to the discussion: “She came right down in my face,” Sturtz said. “I was taken aback.” [View all]freshwest
(53,661 posts)I just watched video of this. Mrs. Obama's voice and face was not angry as she walked to Sturtz and her stance wasn't aggressive.
But before Sturtz began yelling, as she was talking, I could hear the strain and emotion in her voice over the topic.
This talk was also about gun violence and the hopeless of inner city youth that go into gangs as they see no way out. They are handicapped by years of poverty and being demeaned in our country.
Children have been killed near the Obama home in Chicago. She was emphathic, to impress people how serious it is and what a disaster it is for all of us.
She and her daughters attended the funeral of the young lady who had just been honored a week before at the White House, gunned down in a senseless act of gang violence. The girl was not in the gang or with gang members, but she was killed and all of her hopes gone.
Hadiya Pendleton was a 15-year-old honors student and a majorette who took part in events at President Obama's second inauguration.
Michelle sounded emotional as she talked about saving the lives of the children and tired. Too tired to deal with a woman who came to an event hosted at the home of a lesbian couple who wanted to raise awareness of the plight of children and funds for the DNC. So I question this action, too. And she's not PBO, who is in charge of politics.
Obama is working at this time with Eric Holder (a staunch advocate for civil rights for gays, minorities, voting rights and changed laws on charging drug cases that disproportionately affect people of color) on codifying into law what Sturtz asked for, the long term solution to discrimination.
Some will pick sides according to their own filter. I have gone to too many meetings as as citizens go to tell our representatives what we need and get reports back of progress. At times our open meetings are disrupted by Libertarians or LaRouchies who despise Democrats and what we are working for, but of course they don't tell us before they come in to raise hell. The time of everyone gets wasted and then people figure it's not a good use of their personal time and energy if they are allowed to derail us there.
So I tend to filter my opinion of these events from experience. Nice talking to you here.