Posted on 05/09/2015 4:42:55 PM PDT by jazusamo
Michelle Obama gave a candid view Saturday of the challenges and emotional toll of being the country’s first black first lady.
Obama, speaking to graduates at Tuskegee University in Alabama, described insensitive media questions and derogatory remarks from political pundits that she said have kept her up at night.
“You might remember the on-stage celebratory fist bump between me and my husband after a primary win that was referred to as a ‘terrorist fist jab,’ ” she said.
“And over the years, folks have used plenty of interesting words to describe me. One said I exhibited ‘a little bit of uppity-ism.’ Another noted that I was one of my husband’s ‘cronies of color.’ Cable news once charmingly referred to me as ‘Obama’s Baby Mama.’ ”
Obama said she was subjected to a different set of expectations on the campaign trail in 2008 compared with other candidates’ wives.
“ ‘What kind of First Lady would I be? What kinds of issues would I take on?’ … The truth is, those same questions would have been posed to any candidate’s spouse,” she said.
“But, as potentially the first African-American First Lady, I was also the focus of another set of questions and speculations; conversations sometimes rooted in the fears and misperceptions of others. Was I too loud, or too angry, or too emasculating? Or was I too soft, too much of a mom, not enough of a career woman?”
In the end, she said, she realized all the negativity was just “noise.”
Obama encouraged the graduates of Tuskegee, a historically black university, to overcome adversity and discrimination by staying “true to the most real, most sincere, most authentic parts of yourselves.”
People “will make assumptions about who they think you are based on their limited notion of the world,” she said. “My husband and I know how frustrating that experience can be. We’ve both felt the sting of those daily slights throughout our entire lives. … And all of that is going to be a heavy burden to carry.”
“But,” she said, “those feelings are not an excuse to just throw up our hands and give up. They are not an excuse to lose hope. To succumb to feelings of despair and anger only means that in the end, we lose.”
Obama, speaking to graduates at Tuskegee University in Alabama, described insensitive media questions and derogatory remarks from political pundits that she said have kept her up at night.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
She is a wing nut with a false victim chip on her shoulder, a product of the affirmative action movement which has lowered every socio-economic standard in order to obtain a sense of “historic justice”....a disaster. A rebel without a cause, a petulant spoiled brat who has had everything handed to her on a leftist Alinsky silver spoon, now waxing fascist.
The remarkable thing about Obama is her singular mediocrity, and her remarkable hatred for a white America that elected her husband.
America is underwhelmed and horrified at the destruction Barrack Hussein Obama has brought domestically and internationally. They both will disappear into the dust bin of history, a history of shame. America will never make that mistake again. Tuskegee will rue the day they have lauded such an idiot as Obama, rather than Dr. Ben Carson or Col. Alan West both true Americans.
I just wanted to add that we can expect in the future to hear Mooshell whining about Post Traumatic First Lady Syndrome? Nightmares, wetting the bed, flashbacks, and anxiety attacks.
How will she ever survive? ( sarc.)
Mooshell is a born victim.
Very well said!
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