Just posted this on GetEqual's FB page (re: Michelle Obama heckler)

[onpatrol98]

92. I get the gist of it...but, I always got the gist of it.

I was just startled by the use of a Frederick Douglass quote, a man African American children and the black community use as an example of boldness, strength and potential for progress as an example of why Michelle Obama, a benefactor of that particular struggle should have sat down for heckling, when the man you casually quoted did not.

So, yeah...I get the gist. There is no way Michelle Obama deserved her microphone while Sturtz had something to say. Her purpose at the moment was to allow herself to be used to satisfy the needs of someone else. It's a common thread throughout American history. African Americans are a disposable people.

Need stuff built, go get some black people in another land. Need free sex, prevent marriages, sell spouses and sleep with slaves and the help. Need to get a message across, shout over the black woman. Need to prove she had a duty to give the microphone up, provide a quote from a beloved black civil rights leader whose focus was rights for blacks, and use it as a rhetorical weapon against their concern.

And, no. I'm not accusing you of being a racist. I don't believe you are. I just wanted to give you an idea of how what you said, registered to me. We have a communication disconnect.