Michelle Obama Cries Racism: People Don’t Like Me Because I’m Black

Former president Barack Obama had a fallback argument for whenever someone — anyone —took issue with one of his policies: They must be racist.

He deployed the canard often, and usually subtly, playing the race card while not playing the race card. Like this time in December 2016, when he said: “I think there is a reason why attitudes about my presidency among whites in northern states are very different from whites in southern states.”