Posted on 05/10/2015 4:47:34 AM PDT by Zakeet
Michelle Obama gave an impassioned and personal commencement speech Saturday on the trials she's faced as the first African-American first lady of the United States, saying she was held to a different standard than other candidates' wives during the 2008 campaign because of her race.
Speaking at Tuskegee University in Alabama, Obama told the audience that when her husband was running for office in 2008, she faced questions which she said were not typical for other candidates' wives.
"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," she told the class of 2015. "Was I too loud or too emasculating? Or was I too soft? Too much of a mom and not enough of a career woman?"
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"Back in those days, I had a lot of sleepless nights worrying what people thought of me," she recalled. Obama added that she let the criticism get to the point where she would wonder if she was hurting her husband's chances of becoming President, while also fearing what her daughters would think.
The first lady said eventually the only thing she could do to prevent others from defining her was to "ignore all of the noise."
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She is one of the whiniest rich b*tches I ever seen..
Yuck. She needs to practice sitting like a female.
Of course she was held to a different standard... it was called NO standard. Any criticisms of her were (and remain) racist.
If it were true that the electorate was prejudiced, then why did Obama get elected when only 12% of the population of the electorate was black? Their argument is bogus. They are playing the race card big time. White people voted for Obama big time or he wouldn’t have won.
She is trying to gain something by crying race. People forgot race during the election. People have been forgetting race until she and he remind them that there is an issue, over and over again. Let’s go back and run the election again with what she is saying. Let’s see who is winning then.
Yes we expected she would dress and act like someone from the hood ............and she did!
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