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Michelle Obama says the 'blood of Africa' runs through her veins
Yahoo! News ^ | 7/30/14 | Annika McGinnis - Reuters

Posted on 07/30/2014 3:50:53 PM PDT by NormsRevenge

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - First lady Michelle Obama embraced her family’s African roots in a speech on Wednesday, telling a group of young Africans that the “blood of Africa” runs through her veins as she urged changing traditional beliefs on the worth of educating women.

Her husband had shied away from discussing his African heritage in his own remarks to the 500 Africans finishing a six-week Washington leadership fellowship on Monday, referencing his Kenyan father only once and in the question-and-answer session. But Michelle Obama said as an African American woman, her discussion with the African youth was “deeply personal.”

“The roots of my family tree are in Africa,” the first lady told the cheering crowd. “My husband’s father was born and raised in Kenya. Members of our extended family still live there. I have had the pleasure of traveling to Africa many times over the years, including four trips as first lady, and I have brought my mother and my daughters along whenever I can.”

“The blood of Africa runs through my veins, and I care deeply,” Obama said, addressing her listeners as her “brothers” and “sisters.”

Three months before congressional elections that could determine the fate of much of President Obama’s platform, Michelle Obama’s popularity remains high while her husband’s has sunk.

The White House is making women’s empowerment a theme in a Washington African leaders summit next week. ..

She said men worldwide needed to “look into their hearts and souls and ask if they truly view women as their equals.”

“I am who I am today because of the people in my family, particularly the men in my family, who valued me and invested in me from the day I was born,” Obama said.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: africa; blood; michelleobama; veins
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To: RJS1950
If a rumor that Her Heinous is really white....not African...no telling where that would go.

Hmmmm....popcorn futures.....

61 posted on 07/30/2014 5:36:54 PM PDT by stboz
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To: gov_bean_ counter

both?


62 posted on 07/30/2014 5:39:09 PM PDT by cableguymn (It's time for a second political party.)
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To: Iron Munro

That is just pathetic.


63 posted on 07/30/2014 5:40:01 PM PDT by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: cableguymn

See your point.


64 posted on 07/30/2014 5:47:04 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
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To: NormsRevenge

I thought Moochelle was from “ Kashyyyk “

Home planet of the Wookies....


65 posted on 07/30/2014 5:56:06 PM PDT by Popman ("Resistance to Tyrants is Obedience to God" - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: NormsRevenge

Hey fat ass, it’s chicken wing sauce an you know it


66 posted on 07/30/2014 6:00:31 PM PDT by reefdiver (Be the Best you can be Whatever you Dream to be)
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To: NormsRevenge
“I am who I am today because of the people in my family, particularly the men in my family, who valued me and invested in me from the day I was born,” Obama said.

I find this comment very strange. Who are the particular men? I thought the only men in his family were his grandfather and stepfather. I guarantee the real father never valued or invested in him. Now I haven't been able to get through his books, maybe they say later in the books who all these men are who valued him, but it sure wasn't in the first part.

67 posted on 07/30/2014 6:06:00 PM PDT by Auntie Mame (Fear not tomorrow. God is already there.)
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To: NormsRevenge

What a disgusting bitch.

The blood of the United States passes through mine. If a person can’t grasp that reality, send them packing.

I’m so sick and tired of this race first last and always crowd.


68 posted on 07/30/2014 6:07:44 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Think how stupid the average person is, and then realize half of the populace is worse than that.)
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To: gov_bean_ counter

both


69 posted on 07/30/2014 6:08:59 PM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Hm ... didn’t I read recently that it was determined she has some white blood in her as well — probably from some slaveowners ‘way back in her family tree? If so, isn’t she conveniently forgetting that little detail?


70 posted on 07/30/2014 6:19:48 PM PDT by Fast Moving Angel (It is no more than a dream remembered, a Civilization gone with the wind.)
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To: NormsRevenge
Moochelle does like thin children



She does love fashionable jewelry

She does love having a huge staff to cater to her every whim

71 posted on 07/30/2014 6:24:45 PM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: gov_bean_ counter

I’m not so concerned about the African blood flowing through her veins but I am very concerned about the lack of oxygen flowing to her brain.


72 posted on 07/30/2014 6:48:36 PM PDT by rdcbn
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To: rdcbn

Nice shot.


73 posted on 07/30/2014 6:59:26 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
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To: NormsRevenge

“........the “blood of Africa” runs through her veins....” LOL

I am not impressed by her blood.....frankly, I am disgusted with everything about this sickening creature and the pretend africans that think and say such nonsense.

The blood of American Patriots runs through MY veins.


74 posted on 07/30/2014 7:11:10 PM PDT by Gator113 ( Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin and Mike Lee speak for me, most everyone else is just noise.)
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To: NormsRevenge

The blood of stupidity and racism runs through her tiny brain (the only tiny part of her).


75 posted on 07/30/2014 7:26:54 PM PDT by Henry Hnyellar
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To: NormsRevenge
.... as an 'African-American' woman, her discussion with the African youth was “deeply personal.”......

Well if it's that deep and that personal perhaps she's living in the wrong country.


76 posted on 07/30/2014 8:10:59 PM PDT by caww
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To: Iron Munro

Would she wrap her kids in our flag?


77 posted on 07/30/2014 8:14:16 PM PDT by caww
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To: NormsRevenge; GeronL

Her husband’s ‘ruts’ are much more current. Generations more current.


78 posted on 07/30/2014 8:25:14 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Elian Gonzalez sought asylum and was sent back to Cuba, send these kids back to THEIR parents.)
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To: bert

Yep, if her descendants had been a little swifter of foot, she might be somewhere in rural Africa today hauling water and firewood to survive.


79 posted on 07/30/2014 8:27:56 PM PDT by Texicanus (Texas, it's a whole 'nother country.)
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To: NormsRevenge

I’ve got human blood in mine. No better or worse than anyone else’s...at least that’s always what I thought before.


80 posted on 07/30/2014 8:29:39 PM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach, said one woman.)
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