Last week, Michelle Obama made headlines when she exhorted graduating high schoolers in a commencement address to monitor their families for politically incorrect thoughts and behaviors.To one journalist, this was more than an off-hand comment made by the first lady. In the opinion of Cheryl Chumley, reporter for The Washington Times, Michelle Obama’s remark reflects a growing trend in America to target and attack individuals for committing “thought crime.”“Michelle Obama’s push for kids around the nation to monitor their family members for perceived racist comments is just another way the government seeks to inject itself into an area it doesn’t really belong — the American home,” says Chumley. In Chumley’s opinion, Americans growing a backbone and holding firm to their beliefs would be enough to resist this apparent infringement on individual rights.
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