I heard no boos during Michelle's speech.

So we're all still friends? Didn't hear any boos during her speech.

Me either. Best speech ever; wish she was running.

She is Queen.

I missed Michelle's speech, but I heard Warren's on the radio, and I kept hearing what I will call "ghost boos" - an auditory illusion that I just discovered, in which the listener, primed to expect boos from the audience, hears them when they are not there.

So what if people boo'ed Michelle Obama? She hasnt exactly been Eleanor Roosevelt in empathizing with abused communities in America. Like Obama, shes great at speeches, but the substance and action is left in the air. Granted, there isnt much a first lady can do, but maybe should could have pressed her husband to speak out on police killings of black men BEFORE the the camels back broke and people started down the vigilante path.

Maybe instead of pushing a health program to forces health food on school kids (good) while lessening the amount of actual food poor kids get per day (bad)...maybe if she convinced her husband to stand up to the democratic elite and recognize that those brownz in the middle east and africa are human beings, not drone fodder, maybe that would be something.

But if maybes were babies we would all be crying. So let them boo who they want.

Add: I know Obama has spoken out, but his speeches begin and end with "We need to respect the rule of law [hint: even if it allows black men women and children to be butchered for fun by racist cops who suffer no consequences]. Remember, it took Obama 4 days to issue a mourning speech for Robin Williams (legendary actor who very much deserved it), but 6 months and a near riot to half butt a speech to black people after Trayvon Martin was killed.

@1: It comes through in a painting of Michelle's speech.

They were yelling "Booo-rack, Booooo-rack!"

@7

Not sure which country you're living in, but here in the United States of America, there are still laws on the books under which police officers are charged and tried when they attack citizens without cause.

Those laws are imperfectly enforced, and they are certainly in need of amendment in many parts of the country. But pretending those laws don't exist at all (or that other laws exist which allow police officers to murder without consequence) does absolutely nothing at all, other than making you look like a complete asshole.

What a strange knee jerk reaction to make up booing in your head so that you could white knight for "queen" Michelle Obama.

I don't think she needs your patronizing "protection."

Meanwhile, my theory that people who call themselves "queens/kings" or declare celebrities "queens/kings" are dumbasses is still batting 100%.

@10 Do you even read what you write? Are you drunk?

@6, 7: you don't appreciate the limits of presidential power.

what is "half butt a speech"?

I didn't really hear anything during Michelle's speech, but it was dismaying to hear what sounded like a bunch of white men booing the black speakers on the stage like Cory Booker and the woman whose husband died who was scammed by Trump University. And why was Warren heckled when Sanders wasn't?

I think these are things that will backfire for the Sanders activists (the majority of whom are white) and will potentially galvanize support for Clinton. I found it troubling.

@14 Sounds like those evil white males again. Put those ears to work solving crimes as you can obviously tell the gender and race of hundreds of people booing in a stadium of thousands through a television. You even deduced the motives. I'd guess you also might Miss Cleo the psychic but she just died.

@15, This has been reported on by multiple journalists who were in the room (Politico's Glenn Thrush and WNYC's Andrea Bernstein, e.g.), as well as by Cory Booker, who stated on WNYC's The Brian Lehrer Show that several black leaders in the room had made these comments to him. Anyone who watched the footage heard that the loudest voices in the room were male and that the loudest boo's in the room were directed at women and black speakers.

#7

Was that a response to me or someone else? "Laws imperfectly enforced" The law in washington requires malice for even the lightest of guilty verdicts. Thats not even considering the hundreds of thousands of cases of non-camera physical assaults on POC by law enforcement.

Trick question: What percentage of "Obstruction" charges are dropped in Seattle alone? 25? 50%? 75? 91% dingdingdingdingding. Unenforced my ass.

@13 Sure bro. I mean, the presidents hands were tied from as little as issuing a speech in condolences to those dead unarmed black kids. I mean, it wasnt to do the same for law enforcement last month, or after *pick one* celebrity who died in the last 7 years.

Oh he did come out and speak...after a riot had already happened. And then it was a "You blackies go sit down, stop being angry, and let the system *which has, does, and always will let whites off for killing blacks, going back to reconstruction* play itself out...*respect the rule law dummies!*

Da fuck outta here with that bullshit.