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Barack Obama Shares That Both His Daughters Participated in BLM Protests This Summer
Bianca Betancourt ^ | 11/25/2020 | Harper's Bazaar

Posted on 11/27/2020 8:44:54 AM PST by simpson96

Barack Obama has been sharing more insight into life with his family while promoting his newest memoir, A Promised Land. In a new cover story for People, the former president revealed that his daughters, Malia and Sasha Obama, both participated in racial justice demonstrations earlier this year.

According to President Obama, they "felt the need to participate" in the nationwide protests that took place following the unjust murders of Black Americans including George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery, and wanted to be part of the resounding call for justice.

"I didn't have to give them a lot of advice because they had a very clear sense of what was right and what was wrong and [of] their own agency and the power of their voice and the need to participate," he said of his daughters. "Malia and Sasha found their own ways to get involved with the demonstrations and activism that you saw with young people this summer, without any prompting from Michelle and myself, on their own initiative."

He continued, "They didn't do it in a way where they were looking for limelight. They were very much in organizer mode," adding, "I could not have been prouder of them."

The former president also shared that though his girls, who are now both in college, have seemingly inherited a bit of his organizing spirit, he doesn't envision them branching out into politics in the near future but rather sees them being "active citizens."

"They're reflective of their generation in the sense they want to make a difference and they think about their careers in terms of: How do I have a positive impact? How do I make the world better?" he said. "What particular paths they take in doing that, I think are going to change and vary between

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: arrestobama; bidenvoters; blacklivesmatter; blm; burnlootmurder; domesticterrorism; malia; obmainterview; sasha
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1 posted on 11/27/2020 8:44:54 AM PST by simpson96
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To: simpson96

So, what did they burn down and loot for themselves?


2 posted on 11/27/2020 8:45:59 AM PST by lowbridge
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To: simpson96

Is it any surprise his daughters are just as racist as he is??


3 posted on 11/27/2020 8:47:12 AM PST by eyeamok
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4 posted on 11/27/2020 8:47:15 AM PST by Chode (Send bachelors and come heavily armed. )
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To: simpson96

More oppressed millionaires—cry me a river!


5 posted on 11/27/2020 8:47:26 AM PST by cgbg ( Remember 1876--we _can_ do this!--Biden--Office of the Prisoner-Elect)
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To: simpson96

I bet the Secret Service enjoyed that little field trip......proof-positive....radicals breed radicals.....traitors!!!!


6 posted on 11/27/2020 8:48:10 AM PST by Dawgreg
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To: simpson96

A Hallmark moment. **Sniff**


7 posted on 11/27/2020 8:48:29 AM PST by windsorknot
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They looted an Old Navy store for being too white. He’s so proud of them!


8 posted on 11/27/2020 8:48:53 AM PST by PGR88
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To: cgbg

How long until one of them moves to a “safe” district, and gets elected to Congress?


9 posted on 11/27/2020 8:49:25 AM PST by simpson96
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To: simpson96

Rite of passage in the Obama family.


10 posted on 11/27/2020 8:49:49 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: simpson96

Even the one with the mustache?


11 posted on 11/27/2020 8:50:15 AM PST by laweeks (Just wait till you have to have a biopsy from your prostate, now that is an experience you will neve)
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To: simpson96

So, he admits that both of his daughters are communist terrorists.


12 posted on 11/27/2020 8:50:59 AM PST by BuffaloJack (Neither safety nor security exists in nature. Everything is dangerous and has risk.)
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To: simpson96

He sure is one manipulative bastihd. The smooth kind are the worst of them.


13 posted on 11/27/2020 8:52:37 AM PST by tinyowl (A is A)
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To: simpson96

no they didn’t AND ...

I have seen and appreciated some of the most beautiful and exotic black women.

Understand that.

...but these girls... I just feel sorry for them for who their parents are.

Hope they land safely. In Jesus name. Amen.


14 posted on 11/27/2020 8:53:13 AM PST by Eddie01 (too exhausted to apply the sarc tag)
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To: simpson96

Disgruntled Halfricans, just like Kum-Allah!


15 posted on 11/27/2020 8:53:21 AM PST by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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To: simpson96

How many private bodyguards went with them?
Just curious.


16 posted on 11/27/2020 8:53:25 AM PST by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: laweeks

Speaking of the one with the mustache, during the lurid Hunter Biden episode (since stuffed down the memory hole), there were several photos alleged to show a cocaine-dusted credit card with Malia’s name on it. Was this ever explained or debunked?


17 posted on 11/27/2020 8:53:25 AM PST by Blurb2350
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To: simpson96

Did Kommie Harris front the bail money for these two darlings?


18 posted on 11/27/2020 8:53:46 AM PST by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: simpson96

The entire family is ghetto trash.


19 posted on 11/27/2020 8:53:53 AM PST by SpaceBar
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Did they attend bomb-making classes too?


20 posted on 11/27/2020 8:54:59 AM PST by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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