Posted on 03/16/2023 7:11:06 PM PDT by simpson96
Former first lady Michelle Obama said her family felt an enhanced sense of responsibility during their time in the White House as the first Black first family in American history.
“It was no accident that the administration was scandal-free. 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, because it wouldn’t have been laughed off. It wouldn’t have been just, ‘Oh, it’s youthful, whatever.’ It would have been some bigger statement about the soul of Black folks,” Obama said in her recently launched “The Light Podcast.”
“So we didn’t underestimate that. But that, that weight is exhausting when you’re carrying that,” she added.
Obama’s comments come as part of her promotion for her third book, “The Light We Carry,” which reflects on how she’s dealt with relationships, self-doubt and anxiety during uncertain times.
The former first lady’s comments echo a common teaching in African American households that one must be twice as good as their White counterparts due to enhanced scrutiny, and underscore her unique experience as the first Black first lady of the US.
Obama said she had to quiet herself “because the mission during those eight years was bigger than just my voice. You know, we were the first.”(snip)
“One small misstep isn’t just a misstep for you, but it’s a misstep for your family, for your community, for your race, for all of humanity because we don’t often get a second chance,” she said.(snip)
“The bar that we had to live under where a tan suit was a scandal, where a fist bump was deemed to be terroristic. Oh, don’t get me started,” she said in the second podcast episode, which featured a conversation with director Tyler Perry.
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How dims launder money.
Lois Lerner...IRs
Recall that was the "church" she was attending when she and junior started going out.
She brought him there.
How she can lie like that with a straight face! Amazing!
IRS scandal.
Installing the Muslim brotherhood in Egypt, using the IRS to shut down political opponents, allowing Russia to take the Crimea, stopping the Keystone pipeline so his friend Warren Buffet could continue to make mobey off the railroads that take oil from Canada to the US border. Those are some that I can think of.
The biggest scandal of all: BIG MIKE himself....LOL
That’s interesting. I feel a responsibility to be ‘scandal free’ all the time. I think most other conservatives do the same, as well.
She looks like she’s wearing a prison jumpsuit
I wish
only time I’ve ever had to interact directly with the IRS.
Scandal free???? Oh please. Solyndra, Fast and Furious, Benghazi, and his church buddies..oh wait that wasn’t reported.
Stupid Beer Summit, Trayvon could have been his kid...oh wait Michelle can’t have kids. Any pictures of her pregers?
That admin was FAR FROM scandal free.
Move over, Hillary, there’s a new heir to the Champion Liar throne coming...
“scandal-free”
Yeah, right. That’s a good one.
She should be more vocal about the Biden Administration and they’re corruptness. But no, she’s all in. This is just make up on a pig, it’s still a pig. Show us the courage of your convictions to battle the scourge of corrupt government. Can you rise to the occasion? No, it doesn’t appear so.
“Scandal free.”
😂🤣😂🤣
Who writes this crap for her? Lately, every time she
speaks “scandal free” is used when speaking of The Won’s
administration. AH HA! attempting to rewrite history.
FAILING to do so.
Wookies have a difficult time on Earth.
Wrecking the nation when you are president actually is the scandal.
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