Michelle Obama says the 'blood of Africa' runs through her veins

Yahoo! News ^ | 7/30/14 | Annika McGinnis - Reuters

[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.

[MinuteGal]

Is Obama's "fundamental change" of America going to be

1) America is going to change into Latino America (the United States plus Central, South America and the Caribbean islands, all combined)

.....or

2) African-American America

3) Both

.....with the current native white American population being the minority in each of the three cases in the near future.

.....or

4) None of the above

How ya bettin'?....1, 2 or 3? Or 4?

Leni

[clearcarbon]

"Michelle Obama says the 'blood of Africa' runs through her veins"

If she misses her nightly transfusion does she look like corpsman?

[dalereed]

She should put a bone through her nose ang go to Africa and never return!

[Veto!]

LOL. My thoughts exactly.

[EinNYC]

Okay then. Meet the mishpacha (family)!

[Secret Agent Man]

does her blood have aids or ebola, or both? we know its swimming full of testosterone.

[jospehm20]

I think it is actually the blood of Kashyyyk that runs through her veins.

[exDemMom]

Indeed. I know someone who was born in the DRC (Congo) into some of the worst conditions possible, yet managed to get out of there and attend university, eventually earning a PhD.

If he could do that from a beginning of abject poverty, surely Americans born in slums—which provide far better living conditions than African villages—could do a lot better.

[exDemMom]

Actually I believe that scientists and anthropologists are backing away from that.

Not as far as I am aware. The latest thinking is that migrants came up from Africa and intermingled with the Neanderthals of Europe, so that anyone whose recent ancestors originated outside of Africa has about 5% Neanderthal genes. By recent, I mean within the last few thousand years.

However, the source of humanity (Homo sapiens) is still considered to be Africa.

[Caipirabob]

I figure...