I think it was Frank Schaeffer?, who said: "Half truth, presented as whole truth is something akin to false hood by that very fact."

Do you remember the scene in PATTON where he is "being nice to a bunch of old ladies" and says "since it is the obvious destiny of the British and American peoples to rule the world, the better we get to know one another, the better we shall do it," and the headline is "Russia to have no place in Post War World."?

This excoriating of Mrs. Labamaba is half truth, taken as whole truth, because the most important context of the quote is left out!--the very definition of "out of context" --which we beech freely about when it happens to us!

It's the name of the "Gotcha" game in this Spin-doctored Sound Bite World. And there's more than a few dishes that one bite can give you a wrong impression of what the whole thing tastes like. Such reactions as we are seeing to Mrs.B only reinforce that evil!

Mrs.B explains what she means 2 (or so) sentences on in the clip: people coming together! Unity not Change, was the image, The Principle she was working–that was the source of The Pride, a Particular kind of pride that she had not, from her perspective, experienced in quite the same way before. Think on that from her perspective!

We all would want to be taken for what we really meant or meant to say as opposed to what we actually said and what people heard. Which, by the way, may have nothing in common either with what we thought, said or meant! Don’t believe me? Preach a sermon and ask a dozen congregation members what they heard.

"Do as you would be done by." (The C..S. Lewis version of Jesus' teaching.) Consider this Time Line for Mrs. B, and remember this is The Big Mick talkn, the guy who coined the term "commiequeer." My bona fides are well established.

She is born the year after Camelot was Murdered 1964--What images, memories, family history does she grow up with in that Southside Chicago one bedroom, sleeping in the curtain divided living room with her brother? Where, by the way, her mother still lives with Iron Bars on the windows to foil break-ins. Was there a picture of JFK on the wall? Bobby? M.L. King? How old was she for "I have a dream",The Assassinations? How many Heroes of the Dream did she see gunned down in her young Black Life--in her formative years? What are those models those experiences of "people coming together" of National Unity?

How old is she for the Nam Protests? How old is she, is she afraid, during Chicago and the Convention? What proud American moment is SHE experiencing? She is 10 when Watergate forces Nixon to Resign--a Proud American moment? A picture of National unity?

Her middle-school and high school formative years are the Time of Feminism and Ecology–unifying forces in America?

She is 14 when Jerry Falwell, one of the most polarizing figures in America Politics before the Clintons, founds Moral Majority-note the name, note the assumptions--does Junior High Michelle view this unifying?
The Presidents she experiences are Nixon, Ford, Carter. "America Held Hostage", proud moment? Presidents of Unity?

"But she said ‘adult life’" you protest, as if adults don't view their world through the lenses of their childhood.

She becomes an adult either at 18 in 82 or 21 in 85. It is the Reagan Years--a time of Unity for a Young Liberal Black Collegian? In the 80's .the War on Drugs jails 1 out of every 5 black men in her dating pool. In 83 RR proposes Star Wars-now successfully deployed and most of the World Thanks God, then it was one of the most Controversial and divisive ideas in the world! After which she gets Bush 41--and the GULF WAR--anti-war protests harking back to the 60's of her childhood. Then Clinton (so much for the first black prez) now the most polarizing figures in American Politics, if you don't rate the NEXT one, Bush 43, as the highest.

Except for a heartbreakingly fleeting period of National Unity immediately after 911--best summarized, by that Fire Fighting Fellow Mick: "Ben Laden kiss my Irish Asz" --we soon reverted to tragedy and tears rather than "War to the Knife" unified in our Rage for Revenge! We get "where's my check" fraud at Ground Zero, the Jersey Cows, and "got to retouch the Flag Photo to be all-minority inclusive." Where's the Unity?

Hell, even I get into LaBamaba's electric remix of Camelot au Lait. I can forgive Mrs.B for feeling and trying to say, that what she is experiencing is what she thinks it must have been like in the JFK and "I have a Dream...All God's Children, Black and White Together "years of her childhood imagination when she WAS proud!

I get it, ya'll should too and, with a Conservative sense of Fair Play in the Market Place of Ideas, Back Off!

It doesn’t matter that she is wrong that she should have been Proud, had much to be Proud of! What matters is she is experiencing The LaBamaba Phenomenon as something she had only read about in her childhood.

That he is a kind of Black JFK is not in any meaningful dispute, is it?

The Big Mick