‘I was an angry black woman’: Michelle Obama jokes in New Orleans speech

NY Post ^ | July 6, 2019 | Laura Italiano

[COUNTrecount]

Michelle Obama joked Saturday night about the public relations hits she took during the 2008 campaign, telling an audience in New Orleans of her path to the White House, “I don’t remember how many punches we took to get there.”

“For a minute there, I was an angry black woman who was emasculating her husband,” Obama said, laughing during an interview with “CBS This Morning” co-host Gayle King at the Essence Festival.

“As I got more popular, that’s when people of all sides — Democrats and Republicans — tried to take me out by the knees,” she said.

“And the best way to do it was to focus on the one thing people were afraid of — the strength of a black woman.”

[Responsibility2nd]

WAS???

Still is.

[SkyPilot]

“Was”?

[rktman]

Ain’t no joke. Essence? Coconut oil essence? Still is an ABW. But a rich one. Yeah, ‘Murica sux huh!? Where else could a UPOS like these clowns attain what they have?

[gundog]

What’s the joke? That she was a woman?

[TheZMan]

The first time you were ever proud of your country, you and your hubby proceeded to shit on it for 8 years.

You get no sympathy from me, in fact I’m disappointed you’re both still around ... causing more trouble.

[bk1000]

“And the best way to do it was to focus on the one thing people were afraid of — the strength of a black woman.”

No one is afraid of you, Mike.

[Aevery_Freeman]

<>"I was an angry black woman who was emasculating her husband"<>

An Obama telling the truth!? Thought I would never see the day.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Michael reminiscing what he was before the transition, before he "became Michelle"..Oh wait, he's still "becoming", he's not quite there yet....

[Eric in the Ozarks]

The boob belt strikes again.

[BradyLS]

She and Barack had it sooo haaard. Can’t touch ‘em.

Though she might ask the ghosts of Abe and Mary Lincoln about their time as the President and First Lady.

[CrazyIvan]

Immasculating BHO? That’s like immasculating Johnny Weir.

[Joe Boucher]

The Mooch is a chick with a dick.

[trisham]

Angry, yes.

[newfreep]

Leftwing totalitarian communists & racists are always angry.

ALWAYS.

See my tagline...

[butlerweave]

says the angry Wookiee

[Dana1960]

Is there any other kind?

Every black gal I’ve ever known, friend or otherwise, has had a GIANT chip on their shoulder.

[dsrtsage]

Nobody is afraid of an angry black woman. What we are afraid of is large groups of people with your ideology colluding to use the resources of the nation to transform the country into a smoldering dystopian wasteland

[HangnJudge]

At least Barbara Bush was civilized after her husband’s “retirement”

[BitWielder1]

Angry Black Woman, living a life of opulence, 24 staff to cater to her, lavish vacations on taxpayer expense, was "sacrificing" to live in the most famous mansion in the world, and did absolutely nothing that would benefit regular Poor Black Women.