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Michelle Obama once teased for talking ‘like a white girl’
Chicago Sun-Times ^ | 3/20/09 | Lynn Sweet

Posted on 03/20/2009 7:08:33 AM PDT by anniegetyourgun

WASHINGTON -- For her own Women's History Month assignment, first lady Michelle Obama visited Anacostia High School, on the poor side of town, where on Thursday she surprised a group of students. One of her goals is to demystify the White House and make it more accessible to the people who live here.

Mrs. Obama told the youngsters she felt isolated from an institution in her own community when she was growing up and that she suspected they may view the White House and the Capitol the way she saw the University of Chicago as a young girl -- a place for other people. She shared her story of how she was taunted for talking "like a white girl."

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To: anniegetyourgun

Interesting that it took until almost the very last line for the reporter to explain Meshelle meant this as a compliment...


21 posted on 03/20/2009 7:17:48 AM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (Serkit 3/19/09 "Slow Joe needs to stay out of the deep end of the Think Tank")
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Yes, she gave up a lucrative legal career (avg $120k) to go into “public service” (where she “earned” > $300k).

Her salary just happened to geometrically increase as her husband’s political career took off.


22 posted on 03/20/2009 7:17:54 AM PDT by MrB (irreconcilable: One of two or more conflicting ideas or beliefs that cannot be brought into harmony.)
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To: anniegetyourgun
I don't believe it.


23 posted on 03/20/2009 7:18:23 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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To: anniegetyourgun

And she never talked that way again!


24 posted on 03/20/2009 7:18:45 AM PDT by MortMan (Power without responsibility-the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages. - Rudyard Kipling)
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To: anniegetyourgun
She shared her story of how she was taunted for talking "like a white girl."

Wouldn't this be an indictment of her black peers?
25 posted on 03/20/2009 7:19:25 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic (FOBO)
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To: anniegetyourgun
*heavy sigh*

These people want to turn our country into the United States of [insert 'urban' community name here. ex: Watts or Harlem]

26 posted on 03/20/2009 7:19:36 AM PDT by jla
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To: anniegetyourgun

So speaking in a grammatically and phonetically correct manner is to speak like a white person? What am I missing here?


27 posted on 03/20/2009 7:19:52 AM PDT by NoKoolAidforMe (1-20-09--The Beginning of an Error..............1-20-13--Change we can look forward to)
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To: anniegetyourgun
Michelle Obama once teased for talking ‘like a white girl'

The horror! /s

Could this family be any more divisive and idiotic? I'm so ashamed to have these buffoons in the People's House. So ashamed.
28 posted on 03/20/2009 7:20:16 AM PDT by JenB987
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So, Michelle, at least at one point
in time you sounded intelligent while
you were flapping your gums and someone
called you on it?


29 posted on 03/20/2009 7:21:43 AM PDT by Cyber Ninja (His legacy is a stain OnTheDress)
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To: anniegetyourgun
She shared her story of how she was taunted for talking "like a white girl."

Just how does a "white girl" talk Michelle?

Not everyone sounds the same!

30 posted on 03/20/2009 7:22:39 AM PDT by tapatio
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To: Ann Archy

Oh,no,you didn’t!


31 posted on 03/20/2009 7:22:43 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: Blue Turtle

I’m not any more fond of the Obamas than you are, but I don’t get the problem with this remark. Seems to me she was trying to say that people gave her a hard time, but that didn’t stop her from being a good student and succeeding in life, even if that meant being accused of “acting white.” Seems like a good example for kids who might be in danger of succumbing to ghetto culture.


32 posted on 03/20/2009 7:22:56 AM PDT by FelixFelicis (When can we *change* back? [Get yer bumper sticker at www.cafepress.com/deepright!])
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To: anniegetyourgun; SumProVita; HardStarboard; BradyLS; Ernest_at_the_Beach; dervish; Twotone; ...

The List, ping


33 posted on 03/20/2009 7:23:13 AM PDT by Nachum (the complete list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: anniegetyourgun

She cured that.


34 posted on 03/20/2009 7:23:29 AM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: NoKoolAidforMe

You’re not missing a thing.

That is exactly what is meant by the phrase.


35 posted on 03/20/2009 7:23:35 AM PDT by MrB (irreconcilable: One of two or more conflicting ideas or beliefs that cannot be brought into harmony.)
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To: anniegetyourgun
Mrs. Obama told the students it's cool to be smart.

Not that she would know anything about that.
36 posted on 03/20/2009 7:23:38 AM PDT by JenB987
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

God forbid she spoke like an Alaskan!


37 posted on 03/20/2009 7:24:19 AM PDT by SoKatt ("Change" is not a strategy!)
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To: anniegetyourgun

This doesn’t sound like a “little white girl,” IMO.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGjR81pFJI4


38 posted on 03/20/2009 7:24:37 AM PDT by maggief
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To: Blue Turtle
Let it go Michelle, take your big girl pill!

Good grief, these two are still stuck in adolescence.

39 posted on 03/20/2009 7:25:29 AM PDT by roses of sharon (Pray Hussein fails!)
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To: anniegetyourgun
teased for talking ‘like a white girl’

...eyeah, let's discuss this Michelle, why are blacks the only race that I know of that ridicules anyone of their own race for working hard and getting ahead? Calling them all SORTS of names. Why did certain prominent blacks, ones that you look up to, wonder if your husband "was black enough"?

40 posted on 03/20/2009 7:26:47 AM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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