Michelle Obama: I Faced Certain Questions Because Of 'Fears And Misperceptions' Around My Race
The Huffington Post | By Sam Levine
Posted:
05/09/2015 6:00 pm EDT
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?"
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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?"
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- Thomas Williams · Top Commenter
These are stupid angry people we have running the American people White House. Implying that with every mistake in judgement of a few, all policeman hate black men. Tell me do you think that Barack and Michelle need the fear in the people living in black neiborhoods to coverup the cruel failed politics of the Democratic party's race policy....If you don't, I do. - -------------
- Kim Moore · Top Commenter
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- Thomas Williams · Top Commenter Kim Moore: The Democrats politics has failed this country population and they will not admit it, so the Democrats are trapped in lying about what we the American people see, and hear now. All because of the Democrats party's Washington DC establishment Government policy's. And Barack Obama and Michelle are fools without a clue lying to you and me about everything.
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Ronald Bruce Robinson · Follow · Top Commenter · 127 followers
What a pity that rightwing whites can't get over their modern-day white$upremacy, embrace this great First Family, and experience the blessings for doing so. It would be so much more satisfying to their souls than the h a t e they continuously spew.- ----------
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Sherry Lamb Collins · Top Commenter
Being the first black anything is very hard and I think both Michelle and her husband have handled this very difficult task with grace and professionalism. I have seen the most hateful imagery of Mrs. Obama and I also remember when Limbaugh called her Baby Mamma. Congratulations to the Obamas for kicking down the door that said "No minorities need apply for president". Now because of them all races have a chance.- ---------
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William Bruce Knight · Top Commenter · Macon State College
There have been other Black presidents...John Hanson, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Warren Harding, Calvin Coolidge,Dwight E. Eisenhower all of whom had one black parent and one white, just as President Obama.
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