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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Only to the 40% of the country that are dumb enough to buy the narrative. The ones who can't see that Barack Obama was groomed from early days and never accomplished anything on his own. The rest of us recognize Michelle for what she is, a lazy, entitled grifter of average intelligence who happened to be a useful sidekick to a manchurian candidate.
But none dare say it publicly.
Michelle 0bama thinks everything that has ever happened to her is due to racism. If you attribute everythign to racism, you’re a racist. Period. Full stop.
Michelle 0bama thinks everything that has ever happened to her is due to racism. If you attribute everything to racism, you’re a racist. Period. Full stop.
LOL!!! She WAS the best BITCHIE First Lady ever!! her SCOWL lit up the room!
I bet she was pretty ugly as a child, and that’s what made her so angry. She sure wasn’t good looking when they married either.
I think she was probably average looking as a child. She would come across better if she did not scowl and scrunch up her face as a sign-board of her bitterness. But Michelle seems to truly believe her anger is justified, as if admitting there was anything to be happy about while whites still existed would let down her community.
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