Michelle Obama: I Faced Certain Questions Because Of 'Fears And Misperceptions' Around My Race

[steve2470]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/09/michelle-obama-tuskegee-commencement_n_7249232.html

Michelle Obama said on Saturday that she faced a unique set of questions when she was on the brink of becoming the nation's first African-American first lady during her husband's presidential campaign.

While Obama said that she was subject to questions that could be expected of the spouses of many candidates, she added that she believed she faced certain questions because of the "fears and misperceptions" of others.

"As potentially the first African-American first lady, I was also the focus of another set of questions and speculations, conversations sometimes rooted in the fears and misperceptions of others. Was I too loud, or too angry, or too emasculating?" she said during her commencement address at the historically black Tuskegee University in Tuskegee, Alabama. "Or was I too soft, too much of a mom, not enough of a career woman?"

Obama also referred to incidents in which she was accused of displaying "uppity-ism," and called one of Obama's "cronies of color" and "Obama's baby mama." She said that it "knocked me back a bit" when a cartoon of her appeared on the cover of the New Yorker with an afro and a machine gun.

[Wellstone ruled]

1. Don't you just love our American Hate Groups!

They display such respect,not. You just can not cure the Stupid.

[steve2470]

2. She earned her Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from Harvard Law School in 1988

It's sad that such a great woman as First Lady Michele Obama has been treated so poorly.

[Wellstone ruled]

7. Was It not Faux News who

did the first negative piece on Michele? Just another type of American Bulling. And again you can not cure Stupid.

[steve2470]

11. I don't know nt

[luvspeas]

3. Best first lady ever...

She's so real and honest. I've got your back every time First Lady Obama.

[steve2470]

6. she is wonderful! nt

[nruthie]

4. She is a classy lady.

[steve2470]

5. she is indeed nt

[yallerdawg]

8. A magnificent book-end in Alabama by the Obamas!

We had President Obama's brilliant inspirational speech in Selma at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge.

Then, Michelle Obama speaking truth at the commencement at Tuskegee University.

The Obamas know there are Democrats, constituents who push for social and economic justice down here in the reddest of red states, and they have not abandoned us.

This has been a very good year for us so far!

[sheshe2]

9. She has more class than all the haters combined.

"My husband and I know how frustrating that experience can be," she said. "We’ve both felt the sting of those daily slights throughout our entire lives -- the folks who crossed the street in fear of their safety; the clerks who kept a close eye on us in all those department stores; the people at formal events who assumed we were the 'help' -- and those who have questioned our intelligence, our honesty, even our love of this country."

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Thanks for your Op, Steve

[steve2470]

10. yes she does, and you're very welcome my friend! nt

[Major Hogwash]

12. Plus, not to mention the fact that she is drop dead gorgeous!!

And she has a voice that could lure the crews of ships to wreck them upon the rocks of an island if she were on that island!!
She is outstanding as a person, wonderful as a woman, great as a mother, and totally fabulous as the First Lady.