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Donald Trump Jr. Launches Attack Against Michelle Obama For Buying Home in Martha’s Vineyard
Michelle Obama spoke out against “white flight” in a recent interview, saying she experienced it as a kid and that it remains a problem…and it seems to have triggered Donald Trump Jr.
“As families like ours — upstanding families like ours who were doing everything we were supposed to do and better — as we moved in, white folks moved out because they were afraid of what our families represented,” the former first lady said Tuesday at the Obama Foundation Summit in Chicago.
“I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us … This family, with all the values that you read about, you were running from us. And you’re still running because we’re no different than the immigrant families that are moving in,” she continued. “The families that are coming from other places to try to do better. But, because we can so easily wash over who we really were — because of the color of our skin, because of the texture of our hair — that’s what divides countries, artificial things.”
Obama, 55, said she felt a “sense of injustice” and understood from a young age that white people were fleeing her neighborhood.
She talked about the issue of white flight in her bestselling book Becoming. Obama noted that she grew up in the South Side of Chicago while her husband came to the South Side by choice.
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After the speech, Don Jr. took to Twitter to slam Obama for buying a house in Martha’s Vineyard:
Was this message brought to us live from Martha’s Vinyard? I hear it’s lovely there. https://t.co/IfoFdikYqE
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) October 30, 2019
As you could imagine, it didn’t go very well for Junior:
So now your dissing an American born 1st lady? You silver spooned, do nothing meathead. Let me ask you a question, have you ever accomplished anything in your love me daddy miserable life?
— John Melendez (@stutteringjohnm) October 30, 2019
The right are upset the Obamas are buying an estate in Martha's Vineyard.
Barack was raised by a single mother. Michelle was raised by a working-class family in Chicago.
Trump inherited his father's money (and lost most of it).
The Obamas are the American dream.
— Nick Jack o'Lantern Pappas (@Pappiness) October 30, 2019
Junior wants us to think these two had blue collar upbringings. These two have never done a second of physical labor in their life 😂 pic.twitter.com/KBX00jawIi
— Ray Ray Johnson (@Donald_Jailtime) October 30, 2019
The jealousy people have of the Obamas is astounding. Is it because of their high intelligence, advanced educations, good looks, beautiful productive children, that innate coolness, stable family values, popularity, success or their new house on Martha’s Vineyard? pic.twitter.com/OikTOEqUgX
— sL (@Shawn33Larson33) October 30, 2019
Jr WTF? What's he on about? Is Jr being as racist as it looks 2 me? He's assuredly visited Martha's Vineyard- as have I; you don't have to be white or wealthy to do so. Fact: some white communities are increasingly hostile to minorities, far more so since the KKK's man 45 got in pic.twitter.com/MnyyivXr5U
— Sue Kelly (@SueKelly10) October 30, 2019
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