Posted on 12/17/2014 8:30:46 PM PST by Nachum
This discussion was necessary after the grand jury decisions on Michael Brown and Eric Garner that had nothing to do with racism. People reported:
The protective bubble that comes with the presidency – the armored limo, the Secret Service detail, the White House – shields Barack and Michelle Obama from a lot of unpleasantness. But their encounters with racial prejudice aren’t as far in the past as one might expect. And they obviously still sting.
“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
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The Moose needs to go eat the slop served up in the school cafeterias for all of those kids who never voted for her.
Their phoniness is breathtaking.
Obamas wouldnt know the truth if it turned into a drumstick and dove down his throat.
It is doubtful we will jump to that conclusion ourselves.
More like being victims of preferential treatment that caused them to be spoiled brats thinking they are entitled..
Didnt Ted Kennedy say if Obama wasn’t running for President, that he would be a waiter at the event where he said that?
Trying to be “down” seeing now how much attention those two cases got.
“See? See? Whitey hates me too!!” Unbelievable.
The Moose ain’t helping NOBODY. Take it to the Banksters.
Is black on black crime racism?
Would a black cab driver not picking up a black child be racism?
Or just age discrimination?
“No one knew that was me. Because a woman actually walked up to me, right? I was in the detergent aisle, and she said — I kid you not — she said, ‘Excuse me, I just have to ask you something.’ And I thought, ‘Oh, cover’s blown.’ She said, ‘Can you reach on that shelf and hand me the detergent?’ I kid you not. And the only thing she said — I reached up, because she was short, and I reached up, pulled it down. She said, ‘Well, you didn’t have to make it look so easy.’ That was my interaction. I felt so good.”
I dont believe EITHER story.
The Man’s keeping them down... those poor kids!
One of them should write Valerie Jar Jar Binks.
Obamas say they’re no strangers to racism (Barf or Laugh Alert)
The Hill ^ | December 17, 2014 | Justin Sink
Posted on 12/17/2014, 7:44:51 AM by KeyLargo
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If you don't agree...
You're a racist.
Well moochelle, the biggest problem is that some Americans thought that your husband was a man and they mistook you for a lady when in reality he is a punk and you... are not a lady.
I wanted to be nice so this post didn’t get deleted...
Pit Bulls are claiming discrimination using the same logic!!!
We are not mean, they make us this way!!!
Not all pit bulls are bad... a few of us give all of us a bad name!!!!
humor intended.....
Before that, Barack Obama was a black man that lived on the South Side of Chicago, who had his share of troubles catching cabs
Bar-Ack failed to tell you, all the cab already had fares.
small detail.
I surrender and announce my victim status:
I’m a victim of the Obamas.
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