Former First Lady Michelle Obama criticized former President Donald Trump’s racist comments about “black jobs” in her speech at the Democratic Party Convention on Tuesday evening.
“I want to know,” Obama said, “who is going to tell (Trump) that the job he is currently pursuing might be one of those black jobs?”
In her speech, Obama spoke about her mother and the future of the country and criticized Trump, saying he had “done everything in his power to make people afraid of us.” His views were small-minded, narrow-minded and unpresidential.
“Because of his limited, narrow worldview, he felt threatened by two hard-working, successful people who happened to be black,” she said.
During the June debate between Trump and President Joe Biden, Trump was scathing about Biden’s immigration policies, calling them a “great black murder” because he allowed “millions” of people to enter the United States across the border.
“They’re now taking jobs away from black people, and it could be 18, 19, even 20 million people,” Trump said.
“They are taking jobs away from blacks and Hispanics. You haven’t seen it yet, but you are about to see something that will be the worst in our history,” he added.
Obama continued her speech endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris for president, stressing that Harris had shown her “loyalty” to America by not “spewing anger and bitterness, but by living a life of service to others, always opening the doors of opportunity for others.”
Obama then seemed to upstage Trump and other rich people by saying that people like her and Harris would “never benefit from” generational wealth.
Obama concluded her remarks with a nod to her popular 2016 slogan: “When they go low, we rise high.”
“We have the power to pass on the love, sweat and sacrifice of our mothers and fathers and all those who came here before us,” she said. “Let us work as if our lives depended on it.”
“And let us continue to take our country forward and higher, higher and higher than we have ever gone before.”
