I'm white and 60 years of age.
The first time I felt proud of our country, was when Rosa Parks claimed her bus seat and a place in history. I thought she was a little girl like me because no one called her Miss or Mrs. Michelle Obama was not yet born.
Martin Luther King made me proud as he claimed equality for my friends in our schools. He was murdered before Michelle's birth.
Michelle has not been an adult very long. Gifted and well accomplished, she has witnessed the issue of desegegation move slowly, especially in the north.
To have a man recognized as one created equal and worthy of this highest office is awe-inspiring, but to be his wife is a pride few whites have ever known, but a black? Wow!
It is a sorry affair that would malign her patriotism and motherhood. It just shows the desperate low blows of the petty, who will pick, like nits themselves.
Look at the faces of other first ladies as their men won. I'll bet they had never felt so proud.
A WOMAN ON A BUS. A MAN WITH A DREAM - MURDERED, KILLED IN HIS PRIME.
Change has already begun. Grab your flags!
~Littlenote`
Rhode Island