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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Good grief, just like Hillary!, she just won’t go away and shut-up.
She failed. Perhaps 'the best first ladyboy'? (The only ladyboy, so far?)
They basically made her into the black Jackie Kennedy.
The words of a low IQ narcissist.
I certainly had a bad 2nd grade teacher. She would give the class a work assignment, in class. I finished all things quickly, then went to find a book to read for the remainder of the time. She never said a word to me about it. At the end of the year, she failed me for not completing in-class assignments.
Is she coming out of the closet now with the huge tranny movement?
Everything he/she spouts is BS.
Yep- what about the disadvantaged young black girls she took under her wing? The ones she was going to often meet with when she was FLOTUS and then decided she didn’t have time to do that after all?
Were they seen?
“Michelle Obama says being “othered” as a child..”
Even other children knew she was a pain in the ass.
Forever an oppressed victim. The self-pity is hard to take from someone who lives such a cushy life.
And she was sooooo brilliant at 7 years old that she was able to see it. Total bunch of BS...the teacher is probably dead and can’t argue the lies.
Yes I will acknowledge she may have felt shunned or not good enough growing up.
What she doesn’t realize is that most of us had awful growing up experiences for many reasons.
She has never been alone in feeling “othered”. We are all “othered” for different things at different times. I won’t go near a school reunion for anything. I hated my high school years and have zero contact with any of the other 1000 graduates in my year.
Some of us turned into empathetic, loving humans. Michelle and her ilk turned into hateful, spiteful, howling creatures.
Get over yourself, Mickie.
They may have tried but no way in hell.
It’s “his heart”.
Yep, that really worked Mitch.
Huuuuuuuurrrrrrrllllllll!
Nuttiest thing is that Moochelle’s lame declaration was deemed worthy of publication. Our world is upside down.
Why because she really IS a Michael? The main reason people made fun of her was because her clothes looked like she shopped at Bed, Bath, and Beyond for them.
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