Posted on 02/24/2016 5:53:14 AM PST by simpson96
Virginia McLaurin may be 106 years old, but that didnât stop her from breaking into a jig of excitement as she finally met with U.S. President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle Sunday.
McLaurin was so excited to finally have the chance to travel to the White House that she threw her arms into the air and began to dance as she shook the president's hand.
"I tell you, I am so happy," the diminutive but bubbly centenarian told the Obamas as they posed for photos.
"A black president. A black wife. And I'm here to celebrate black history. That's what I'm here for."
McLaurin's visit was co-ordinated as part of Black History Month celebrations after months and months of campaigning.
McLaurin had written a petition to the president on the WhiteHouse.gov website back in 2014. She said she had never met a president before and didn't think she would ever live to see a "coloured president."
"I am so happy and I would love to meet you and your family if I could," she wrote, adding: "I know you are a busy man."
She suggested that to spare him the trouble of coming to her home, "I could come to your house to make things easier."
That petition led to a community Facebook page that appears to have been set up by neighbours and friends, and a YouTube channel in which McLaurin repeats her request to meet with Obama.
That meeting finally happened on Sunday and judging by the video released by the White House, it seems the Obamas were just as impressed with McLaurin as she was with them.
"Oh my goodness, I want to be like you when I grow up," Michelle Obama told McLaurin as they met.
"You can!" the senior responded with a laugh, before taking both their hands to dance.
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Well, O turd did say he was looking for a SC nominee with a person with life experiences.
Same w/ my great aunt. I once asked her if she ever had seen a president in person. She replied, “I saw *him* twice.” Of course she meant FDR, the only president who existed, to her thinking.
Interestingly, those two times are when FDR drove through Fort Oglethorpe, GA in his open limo during a WWII inspection tour of the base, and then when his funeral train passed through Chattanooga on its way to D.C. from Warm Springs, GA. (My great uncle was the night freight manager at the depot.)
Just goes to show that wisdom doesn’t necessarily follow age.
That said, good for this woman to be not only alive at 106, but mobile enough to dance.
I am happy for her.
It’s nice to see such joy
Shovel ready.
The poor woman doesn’t even realize that she is a product of those that have stayed on the plantation.
She learned nothing from history.
Sad isn’t it
This is first nice act of kindness I’ve seen from those two.
Remember when they had Beyonce sing “at last” at his inauguration. Etta James was devastated.
A woman of 106 gets a complete pass from me. Anyone who manages to live that long has learned much from history, some good and perhaps some not so good.
Ah, the heartbreak of Alzheimer’s.
She is either unaware that Obama is pro-abortion, or she is pro-abortion.
Either way, she’s a woman indifferent to black genocide.
So your assumptions beat my assumptions. You win!
but we can probably assume that it wasn't easy
Actually, I'm assuming nothing but I am reading and interpreting her words and what she chooses to focus on.
I'm sorry but I don't subscribe to the Systematic Oppression narrative, especially when I hear tales of loving, intact black families existing for decades that were destroyed and replaced by white do-gooders who knew better.
So yeah, she's 106 and goes to the White House and see some of her own kind living in it
Except he isn't her own kind. As a lifelong American raised on US soil she has more in common with alabaster-skinned Sven Svensson of Duluth, Minn. than she does with a mixed-race individual of Kenyan descent raised in Indonesia and the Pacific Rim who attended Muslim schools.
Therefore, any claim that she and Obama are culturally linked is based purely on skin color. QED.
Just allow her the moment without intimating she's a racist.
Racist? No. Shortsighted and missing the point of setting foot in the White House with all its history, artwork, appointments, etc.? Absolutely.
Sorry Ms. McLauren, maybe you were better off just taking a pill instead of all that other medical care you probably received.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rin4h4cRs6Y
Not only that, but she didn’t even realize that Obama probably doesn’t want her to live.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rin4h4cRs6Y
I wonder if Virginia would have loved her black President if he had gotten those death panels put in place that he wanted so badly.
I believe a good rule of thumb is to allow 106 year olds to do whatever the hell they want.
She and barack probably have something else in common... The lack of valid birth certificates although her birth certificate was most likely just not issued?
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