Posted on 12/17/2014 8:35:08 AM PST by 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."
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I’d sooner believe that pigs could fly out of my butt than either of those two’s stories.
That little ‘spontaneous’ trip to Target was a media put up.
Anyone who believes that whole store wasn’t recce’d beforehand and carefully ‘staged’ ought to see me about a bridge I have to sell.
Skeeter and Moochie aren't out of that place yet and when they are out the place will have to be fumigated and thoroughly scrubbed down.
Silver and other artifacts that have been taken must be replaced. Whatever happened to that bust of Churchill?
What, Sly, are you talking about?
BO never had a beard.
Oh, I meant cabs.
And that's exactly why the bathers sport a clean shaven face. Ask Skeeter Obama. He knows. He always knows everything.
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