Posted on 12/17/2014 9:16:53 AM PST by Olog-hai
President and Michelle Obama personally identify with everyday experiences of racial bias in America that have underpinned recent protests across the country, they told People magazine in an interview to be released Friday.
Barack Obama was a black man that lived on the South Side of Chicago, who had his share of troubles catching cabs, Michelle Obama told the magazine.
On one occasion, she said, her husband was wearing a tuxedo at a black-tie dinner, and somebody asked him to get coffee.
President Obama said hes even been mistakenly treated as a valet.
Theres no black male my age, whos a professional, who hasnt come out of a restaurant and is waiting for their car and somebody didnt hand them their car keys, he said, according to excerpts of the interview released today.
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I’m just blown away how this is such a small and ordinary part of life this is, yet he can some how make it bigger.
All the time I’ll approach someone or someone approaches me at stores with “hi, you work here?”
“Nope, sorry”
(both smile and move along, without ever thinking a second time about this meaningless event.
Horrible!
I wouldn’t hire either one of them, no talent and no experience at anything.
Just exactly which half of Obama has been sugjected to racism?
His white half-— or his black half???
I’m confused.
Or being half & half—does that give him permission to complain both directions???
A TWOFER??
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