Posted on 04/08/2023 9:43:40 AM PDT by simpson96
Michelle Obama says being “othered” as a child helped propel her aim to be “the best first lady.”
“We cannot pretend that kids don’t see when they’re being devalued, because anytime it happened to me as early as kindergarten, I knew it,” Obama told David Letterman in a preview clip from Audible’s “Michelle Obama: The Light Podcast,” obtained exclusively by ITK.
The full podcast episode is poised to be released on Tuesday.
“I knew in second grade that the second grade teacher thought we were all dumb and not worth it because she didn’t organize the class. She wasn’t giving us homework,” Obama said, adding that the educator “didn’t think the kids she was teaching were worthy.”
(snip)
“The world has made me practice liking myself. And that is a tool for young people: You cannot wait for somebody to see you. Because first of all, there are people who don’t even know you exist. They don’t even know your pain. They don’t know your struggle,” she said.
“This just isn’t race,” Obama told Letterman, “This is if you’re poor, if you live outside in a rural county, if you are not in the best school system, if you are a woman. There are many ways to be othered in this world. And for some of us, when it happens, it breaks us.”
Instead, Obama said it fueled her work in the White House and the launch of her “Let’s Move!” anti-childhood obesity and “Joining Forces” military families initiatives.
“For me, I just happen to be that smart aleck kid that was like, ‘Oh, I’ll show you. I will show you. You doubt me, I’ll work harder,’” she exclaimed.
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Fail.
Epic fail.
nope
not gonna happen
nope nope
dont even think about it
stop sticking your toe in the water
She was not poor! What a phony.
Aw, bless her heart.
The phoniness continues.
I won’t argue with her premise of believing in yourself and not looking for outside validation. I spent way too much of my life living like that. The blind squirrel syndrome.
They “other” people all the time.
At some point about 3-6 months after Obama took power, the image consultants of DC and the controlled US media got together to completely revamped Michelle’s image.
Gone was the angry, frumpy, and distant homosexual’s beard, and in came the stylish, chic, active and engaged mother and Presidential wife.
It was a very heavy paint PR job, but a lot of the old surface still was visible.
I can’t imagine watching this and the other programs of this nature Letterman has done in the last while without feeling the need to either tune away or risk throwing up after about two minutes max.
Moochelle had a bad teacher who wasn’t organized. Who hasn’t had a bad teacher?
Poor Big Mike… such a hard life he’s had. 🙀🙀
Killjoy.
I suppose any comments about the title of her book are out of bounds too.
They basically made her into the black Jackie Kennedy.
Hard to do when there’s not much to like about.
She never seems happy.
I imagine she wakes us everyday looking for something to be agrieved about.
She is still whining and moaning and doing here ‘po me’ routine.
I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that she had to walk 10 miles uphill through the rain to get to school and had to walk 20 miles uphill through the snow to get home. Po Tang.
Any time I see an article about Michelle talking about something, it’s always her *whining* about how bad she’s had it and how evil Americans are, blah, blah, blah…
Give it a rest, Chewbacca.
Hurl
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