Posted on 12/17/2014 6:40:04 AM PST by COUNTrecount
The Obamas talked with People magazine about dealing with their "own racist experiences," as the magazine described.
Michelle Obama told one story that recently took place, even as she was first lady of the United States.
"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," Michelle Obama, who is 5'11", said.
She also said that her husband, Barack Obama, was asked to get coffee when he was wearing a tux. "He was wearing a tuxedo at a black-tie dinner, and somebody asked him to get coffee," she told People.
The president told his own experiences. "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," Obama told the magazine.
And ....... as much money as these grifters have bilked from U.S. taxpayers, that b@t$h should be cleaning my house.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3236564/posts?
I’m not a sales assistant (Whiny rich black girl)
Salon.com ^ | Dec 10, 2014 | Stacey Patton
Do you have kale chips?
Which aisle are the Goji berries in?
Anyone who thinks race relations in America have gotten better in the past 6 years hasn’t been paying attention.
Bingo! Their little racial pot stirring was nothing but a crock of lies. Reading the comments on yahoo this morning, I didn't find a single comment that had anything nice to say about them. Not one. Very telling. The sheeple are waking up.
Mr. President, who is this bastard son of yours? What is his name? Has Joe Biden ever quoted this imaginary person in any of his own anecdotes?
Once you engage the strategy of lying about everything, it really becomes pointless to say anything at all.
Hardly. Not with her Secret Service protecting her from anyone approaching and they'd have to push through all the cameras following her.
It was just the Store Manager asking her to take the product off her butt-shelf, did not want her to leave the store without paying for said product.
Get the instrumentation engineer in here stat! The BS meter melted and now hot molten b*llshit has flooded the compartment!
Set watertight condition Zebra, and activate the weatherdeck washdown system!
Man, I wish they’d warn us before she opens her mouth like that. I miss the days before she learned to speak and all that came out was that wookie bleat.
Not all progress is good.
I don’t think the woman thought she was an employee. I think the woman couldn’t reach a high shelf, saw a Wookie nearby, and asked the Wookie to get it for her... I’d have done the same.
I’m also around Michelle Obama’s height. I’m white as the driven snow, blonde, and I don’t dress like a big-box employee—either I’m in office/church type clothes, or riding boots and breeches, or jeans-and-sweats-fixing-the-house clothes. So no one mistakes me for an employee. Nevertheless, people often ask me for help reaching for things. It isn’t an insult and it’s not about race. It’s about being TALL.
These people are obsessed with finding a racial angle to everything, not only so that they can perpetuate their pleasurable, sinful resentments, but also so that they can game the system.
Short people got no reason
Short people got no reason
Short people got no reason
To live
They got little hands
Little eyes
They walk around
Tellin’ great big lies
They got little noses
And tiny little teeth
They wear platform shoes
On their nasty little feet
Well, I don’t want no short people
Don’t want no short people
Don’t want no short people
`Round here
She had to keep the story charming before their re-election. Now, after their second coronation, she’s been traumatized by St. Skittles, Michael the Gentle Giant and Choke Hold Garner.
Did it ever occur to her that she was asked because she is tall? Happens to me all the time - in fact, I volunteer when I see somebody struggling.
And I’m white.
http://www.people.com/article/barack-obama-michelle-obama-ferguson-racism-racial-profiling-interview
Things have gotten better, both Obamas agreed, but there’s still more progress to be made.
“The small irritations or indignities that we experience are nothing compared to what a previous generation experienced,” President Obama said. “It’s one thing for me to be mistaken for a waiter at a gala. It’s another thing for my son to be mistaken for a robber and to be handcuffed, or worse, if he happens to be walking down the street and is dressed the way teenagers dress.”
“Because she didn’t see me as the first lady, she saw me as someone who could help her. “
“I demand recognition!”
Awww, poor oppressed thing!
Obama, was asked to get coffee when he was wearing a tux.
Bill Clinton chuckles OH Rodchester........
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