Posted on 03/20/2020 8:12:07 AM PDT by simpson96
Former First Lady Michelle Obama has made girls’ education around the world a major focus of her post-White House life.
On Tuesday, she appeared with three YouTube stars in a special on just that, in Creators for Change on Girls’ Education.(snip)
In an exclusive preview, above, Koshy asks Obama, 56, about finding her own strength to be a “first” in her life so far — as the first black first lady and beyond.
“Well it goes back to an education. I came into my role as first lady, I just wasn’t Michelle Obama. My education put me in positions to have jobs where I was able to start my own organizations and manage staffs,” Obama says in the clip. “I was a corporate lawyer, I was an associate dean at an academic medical institution, I started a nonprofit organization, I was the vice president at a hospital. So all those skills, because of my education, lo and behold prepared me for this role of being the first, right, because you sort of get used to being the first. Oftentimes when you’re the first you’ve been the first at many tables.”
“But being at the table doesn’t mean acting like a man, and sometimes I think we get that wrong — we think, Okay we have to shed all of our womanhood to sit at this table,” Obama continues. “But the truth is, what we need is the balance of who we are. What we provide is the balance that isn’t there and that’s a good thing. Yeah, there are differences. They’re not better or worse, they’re not negative or positive. They’re different. And we don’t have to be anything other than our natural selves to add huge value to the table, but we have to believe in that.”
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Especially when wagyu beef is on the table!
Uhh... I already have one. And a sizable one I would say.
:)
She jumped that table like a hurdler.
What strength did it take the lowland ape to be a self absorbed, conceited, narcissistic attention whore? The cow was born that way!
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