The Obamas: How We Deal with Our Own Racist Experiences

People Magazine ^ | 12/17/2014 | Sandra Sobieraj Westfall

[HomerBohn]

The Obamas open up about raising their daughters, the impact of stereotypes, and what's on the POTUS dance party playlist. Subscribe now for instant access to the exclusive PEOPLE interview!

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"I think people forget that we've lived in the White House for six years," the first lady told PEOPLE, laughing wryly, along with her husband, at the assumption that the first family has been largely insulated from coming face-to-face with racism.

"Before that, Barack Obama was a black man that lived on the South Side of Chicago, who had his share of troubles catching cabs," Mrs. Obama said in the Dec. 10 interview appearing in the new issue of PEOPLE.

"I tell this story – I mean, even as the first lady – during that wonderfully publicized trip I took to Target, not highly disguised, the only person who came up to me in the store was a woman who asked me to help her take something off a shelf. Because she didn't see me as the first lady, she saw me as someone who could help her. Those kinds of things happen in life. So it isn't anything new."

In a 30-minute conversation, the president and Mrs. Obama candidly added their stories to the national discussion of race and racial profiling that was sparked by the deaths of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and Eric Garner in Staten Island, New York.

"There's no black male my age, who's a professional, who hasn't come out of a restaurant and is waiting for their car and somebody didn't hand them their car keys," said the president, adding that, yes, it had happened to him.

Mrs. Obama recalled another incident: "He was wearing a tuxedo at a black-tie dinner, and somebody asked him to get coffee."

[HomerBohn]

Two more long, agonizing years full of imperial events until America is rid of the worst mistake ever!

Skeeter doesn't have to worry about being mistaken for the president of the United States.

[Secret Agent Man]

I’d rather hear about how other have dealt with the obamas’ racist behavior towards them.

[txnativegop]

Barf Alert?

[knittnmom]

I would not ask him to bring me coffee. He is under-qualified for the task.

[Volunteer]

"I think people forget that we've lived in the White House for six years,"

There is not enough bourbon in the State of Kentucky to make me forget that these people have been in the White House for 6 long years.

[manc]

So racist that they have never had a proper job and been given no turn up jobs or passes into ivy league schools.

[spodefly]

The “most powerful man in the world” is a perpetual victim in addition to being an inveterate liar ...

[KevinB]

Baraq was mistaken as a valet. Moochelle was asked to take something off a shelf at Walmart. Finally, they have been asked to do jobs for which they are qualified.

[jtal]

very true, he might spit in the coffee a la Jesse Jackson.

[Tucker39]

Doesn’t your heart just break for them....a couple of the most dedicated, committed, incorrigible liars in the known world?!

[SMARTY]

Hey “O” and MO...why not just STFU and continue cashing those checks you get, courtesy of the US taxpayers... Just like you’ve been doing all your worthless lives?

THEN we can resume this conversation, after you realize that you ARE and always have been greedy, unappreciative, worthless parasites who have never actually WORKED/EARNED what you are ‘given’ and live in the lap of luxury because OTHERS (who actually DO work) support you, and always WILL!

[rktman]

LOL! Is there a bourbon drought looming? Believe us when we say we won’t forget you’ve been there for a long time. If we thought the debris the clintoons left in place when the vacated, we ain’t seen nothin’ yet. People appointed to levels of “authority” will be in place for a long time after the valet has departed.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Runnup for the Clintoon fib award.

[Tucker39]

....or Scotch in Scotland, or Moonshine in Dixie, for THAT matter! (Hiccup!)

[chris37]

I don’t think she is qualified to assist shoppers at Walmart.

She has a real bad attitude.

[ColdOne]

"I think people forget that we've lived in the White House for six years," If only we can forget!

[Old Yeller]

Are they referring to getting into the elite universities based strictly on Affirmative Action.

Are they referring to Moochies job at the hospital where she received $300,000/yr for doing nothing?

Are they referring to Mama Robinson livin high in the WH and traveling the world on the country's dime?

Are they referring to Sharia and Malaria going to school at the finest private school in D.C. at no cost to them.

Are they referring to Sharia and Malaria taking vacations on their own any damn time they want to on the country's dime?

Yeah, they've suffered so much.

[Billthedrill]

Oh, well. At least 0bama was never mistaken for a man.

[rktman]

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[Incorrigible]

Madeleine Albright Mistaken For Cleaning Lady

Culture/Society Breaking News News Keywords: ALBRIGHT KOSOVO
Source: Wirebreak
Posted on 02/09/2000 08:10:47 PST by M. Peach
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright was mistaken for a maid during last year’s peace negotiations for Kosovo in Rambouillet, France. According to a report in the “New York Daily News,” the Secretary of State at first wasn’t recognized by the Albanian delegation when she walked into their room.

“One member of the delegation, who didn’t realize who she was, and probably thinking she was some cleaning lady because it was after midnight, simply said to her, ‘Give us five minutes and please go away,’” recalled Albanian diplomat Dugagjin Gorani in War on Europe, a British TV program. Instead, Albright exploded in rage, swearing at the group, according to the reports.

“Mrs. Albright started using explicit language which the translators never could translate into Albanian,” says Veton Surroi, another member of the delegation.