Posted on 08/11/2025 3:06:11 PM PDT by simpson96
Black vacationers on Martha’s Vineyard often describe visiting the island in August as a kind of family reunion. If your family happens to include Michelle Obama, that is.
“This is a special place for us, because, as you all know, this is where we come to enjoy being us,” Ms. Obama said Saturday afternoon at the Martha’s Vineyard African American Film Festival, where she joined her older brother, Craig Robinson, for a live recording of their podcast, “IMO,” which she likened to a kitchen table.
The brother-sister duo were speaking with the actress Natasha Rothwell, whom they repeatedly referred to as “cousin,” inside the Martha’s Vineyard Performing Arts Center in Oak Bluffs, Mass., where many of the film festival’s events were held.
Together, they discussed mental health, dating, relationships and the importance of telling stories that reflect the Black experience.
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Earlier on Saturday, across town, at the Island Inn, the Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson discussed her 2024 memoir, “Lovely One,” with Ms. Wilkes Smith.
Justice Jackson’s memoir charts her family’s journey from enslavement in the South to her grandparents’ move to Florida; her own childhood there; early stints in journalism and theater; her marriage to her college boyfriend, Patrick Jackson; and her law career, which led her to the Supreme Court.
Justice Jackson told the audience —with a chuckle— that she was grateful that she held roles as a law clerk, public defender and judge because, “Where I am now, I’m pretty much stuck. So I’m glad I got it all done.”
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Obama:
“Well yeah but once I took a dump.. This Big”
“Now why would those two be spending time on that white people’s island?”
Because they’re phonies. Only “down with the struggle” when it suits them.
Jackson and Paul Ryan are related by marriage: Jackson’s husband has a twin brother, who is married to Ryan’s wife’s sister. Small world
Small world indeed. Jackson’s husband is related to all those Boston Cabots and Lowells. Oliver Wendell Holmes’s mother was one of those Jacksons.
Now why would they hold an AA film festival in just about the whitest enclave in the country?!
Curious as to why such an accomplished man marry KBJ….
Government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families
what was the word for this? 🤔
You beat me to it.
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