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Michelle Obama Recalls Racist Double Standard If Daughters Were "Messy" While She Was First Lady: "It Wouldn't Have Been Laughed Off"
Essence ^
| 3/7/2023
| Malaika Jabali
Posted on 03/10/2023 2:12:02 PM PST by simpson96
“How much of yourself had to be quieted while you were in the White House?” Hoda Kotb asked Michelle Obama on a book tour stop in Philadelphia. “So much of it,” the former first lady answers.
“It was no accident that our children had to show up right in the world. They carried a burden of making sure they weren’t messy,” Mrs. Obama shares in an exclusive audio clip shared with ESSENCE of her new Audible podcast, which launched Tuesday.
“It wouldn’t have been laughed off,” she continues. “It wouldn’t have been [dismissed as] just ‘oh it’s youthful’ whatever. It would have been some bigger statement about the soul of Black folks…That weight is exhausting.”
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TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: 1bovineexcrement; boohoo
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posted on
03/10/2023 2:12:02 PM PST
by
simpson96
To: simpson96
Big Mike talking stupid and looking big. As usual.
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posted on
03/10/2023 2:13:46 PM PST
by
Reddy
(BO stinks)
To: simpson96
Aww you poor little racist boy...
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posted on
03/10/2023 2:13:54 PM PST
by
eyeamok
(founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
To: simpson96
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posted on
03/10/2023 2:14:07 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
To: simpson96
Michelle Obama is a terrible person.
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posted on
03/10/2023 2:14:59 PM PST
by
usafa92
(Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America!)
To: simpson96
What an intelligent chimp.
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posted on
03/10/2023 2:15:30 PM PST
by
NativeSon
( *> <*)
To: simpson96
This woman is one of the biggest racist -itches in the country.
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posted on
03/10/2023 2:17:03 PM PST
by
falcon99
( )
To: simpson96
I seem to remember the two “daughters” always looked pretty rough, just like big Mike.
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posted on
03/10/2023 2:17:07 PM PST
by
Newtoidaho
(All I ask of living is to have no chains on me.)
To: simpson96
Don’t worry. If they were messy, NY Times and WaPo would have never reported it
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posted on
03/10/2023 2:17:11 PM PST
by
PGR88
To: Reddy
She worried about the anxieties in her own head. In reality her kids would have been reported on were just as other presidents’ kids were and will be reported on, messy or not. They’re kids. We do not expect children to be figurines and always perfectly presentable, even presidents’ children. They are from the people, at least in theory, not aristocrats.
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posted on
03/10/2023 2:18:04 PM PST
by
arthurus
(covfefe l=l)
To: simpson96
Oh yes, Michelle, the media were so hard on you all...
To: simpson96
Well, there’s only one way to compensate for this. Make Michelle POTUS! /s
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posted on
03/10/2023 2:19:24 PM PST
by
CatOwner
(Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
To: simpson96
“It was no accident that our children had to show up right in the world. They carried a burden of making sure they weren’t messy,” Mrs. Obama shares in an exclusive audio clip shared with ESSENCE of her new Audible podcast, which launched Tuesday.
BS. All Michelle has to do is look at press coverage on the daughters of her cuddle-buddy, GW Bush, to see that this is not a racial thing. Every teenage and adult child of a POTUS is subjected to scrutiny, unless their name is Hunter.
To: simpson96
As predicted by Booker T Washington,black victimhood can be profitable.
To: simpson96
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posted on
03/10/2023 2:20:49 PM PST
by
freedumb2003
(Difference between a cow and the US Capitol 1/6 "riot:" you can only milk a cow 3 times a day)
To: simpson96
The vapidness of the supposedly “smart” Dorkbama family is truly amazing. Thankfully, the blacks I know are actually quite brilliant, and all have degrees in subjects that the Dorkbamas would have failed miserably. (Unless woke math really takes hold.) Given that, should the Wookie run, the Wookie will probably win. Because.
To: simpson96
Hmmm... I didn’t realize how big that birthing persons hands were until you posted that photo.
To: simpson96
Big Mike is ALWAYS PLAYING THE VICTIM…. ALWAYS!
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posted on
03/10/2023 2:21:39 PM PST
by
House Atreides
(I’m now ULTRA-MAGA. -PRO-MAX)
To: simpson96
The weight of the entire KKK loving, Nazi marching, institutionalized racism perpetuating world on her poor little shoulders. It is SOOO hard to be black.
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posted on
03/10/2023 2:23:16 PM PST
by
ETCM
(“There is no security, no safety, in the appeasement of evil.” — Ronald Reagan)
To: simpson96
Sooooo..... you REALLY are GHETTO and just FAKED it to be seen as NOT MESSY NAD LAZY? hmmmmmmm
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posted on
03/10/2023 2:24:41 PM PST
by
Ann Archy
(Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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