Yes I know, I mispoke {or mis-typed} In my second sentence to my previous post I said Michelle Obama's speech was called "Tired Of Being Tired".

The actual title that the media-if not Michelle Obama herself-gave that speech is "Tired Of Being Afraid".

The "Tired Of Being Tired" is a clip from the 1964 Fannie Lou Hamer comment that was made in response to the question why she and other Black people from Mississippi formed the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and went to the Democratic Convention to challenge the seating of the all-White Mississippi delegation.

If Michelle Obama knows this Fannie Lou Hamer quote-and I would be surprised if she didn't-her decision to use the folk process and change the word "tired" to "afraid" was masterful. Under the Republicans' rule Americans-and not just Black Americans-have been taught to be afraid. It's time that we stopped being scared of whichever Boogieman that the powers that be tell us to fear. Actually, it's past time.