I don't know this woman's story, but we can probably assume that it wasn't easy. She most likely grew up with people judging her simply because of the color of her skin. So yeah, she's 106 and goes to the White House and see some of her own kind living in it. Just allow her the moment without intimating she's a racist.
So your assumptions beat my assumptions. You win!
but we can probably assume that it wasn't easy
Actually, I'm assuming nothing but I am reading and interpreting her words and what she chooses to focus on.
I'm sorry but I don't subscribe to the Systematic Oppression narrative, especially when I hear tales of loving, intact black families existing for decades that were destroyed and replaced by white do-gooders who knew better.
So yeah, she's 106 and goes to the White House and see some of her own kind living in it
Except he isn't her own kind. As a lifelong American raised on US soil she has more in common with alabaster-skinned Sven Svensson of Duluth, Minn. than she does with a mixed-race individual of Kenyan descent raised in Indonesia and the Pacific Rim who attended Muslim schools.
Therefore, any claim that she and Obama are culturally linked is based purely on skin color. QED.
Just allow her the moment without intimating she's a racist.
Racist? No. Shortsighted and missing the point of setting foot in the White House with all its history, artwork, appointments, etc.? Absolutely.