Posted on 09/19/2020 6:49:42 AM PDT by rktman
Michelle Obama says as Black Americans, she and former President Obama "never could've gotten away with some of the stuff that's going on now" in the White House because their "community wouldn't have accepted that."
The former first lady opened up about race in an episode of her eponymous Spotify podcast released this week.
Speaking with her mother, Marian Robinson, and her brother, Craig Robinson, in a show focused on parenting, Obama recalled the time as a child when her older sibling got stopped by the police.
"You were riding down the street and you got stopped by the police, and they accused you of stealing your own bike," Obama remembered. "And they would not believe you, to the point where you were like, 'Take me to my home.'"
Craig Robinson, now an executive director of the National Association of Basketball Coaches, said the incident when he was 10 or 11 years old was "terrifying" and left him "heartbroken," especially because he was "always taught that the police are your friends ... and they'll believe the truth."
"What a lot of folks who are not in our position don't understand is that this is such a way of life when it comes to interacting with the rest of the world," Obama said. "It doesn't matter who you are and what kind of values you have, nobody thinks about the fact that we all come from good families that are trying to teach values."
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Never heard of little Barry having a bike as a kid in Hawaii.
The hard row she had to hoe as a child in the cotton fields down south. Or something.
Probably sold it to have money for weed for him and the choom gang.
LOL!!! She never shuts up about it. It must suck to be so obsessed!
Can she/he name the brand of bike?
And Big Mike got that affirmative action acceptance to that racist Princeton University... And don’t go asking to see her senior thesis... That would be racist!
Anybody who investigated Obama would have been called a racist.
Big Mike probably has jock itch and it makes him irritable.
“never could’ve gotten away with some of the stuff that’s going on now”
Obamacare billions to Iran arming Isis...........................
Chewy is upset
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