The Practical Radical

Who needs a Scarlet Letter when you have CNN

Michelle Obama was holding one of her “chat with the children” events when someones world was turned upside down. One of the children she was chatting with states “My mom said, I think that she says that, Barack Obama is going to take away everybody that doesn’t have papers,” the young girl then goes on to say “… my mom doesn’t have any.”

The road to hell is paved with good intentions, and Ms. Obama clearly has laid the way to that by allowing this young girl and her family to branded with a proverbial Scarlet Letter illegal immigrants on international TV. Who can say with the tone of the debate going on regarding immigration what might happen next to them.

We all have to take personal responsibility for our actions in this global age – the challenge is who should we blame. Is it Michelle’s fault for using kids to move her message? Is it CNN’s for airing the video? The child for saying something stupid? The parents for illegally immigrating?

For me, maybe it’s not what the leader of the free world has done in the past, but here’s hoping that Michelle and Barrack take responsibility for their actions, and take care of the mess they have put that little girl in.