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International Women's Day: What will be Michelle Obama's legacy?
BBC News ^
| March 8, 2016
Posted on 03/08/2016 2:14:41 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
The White House's first black first lady will depart next year. Two commentators consider Michelle Obama's legacy as she prepares to leave office.
Peter Slevin, author of Michelle Obama: A Life
We are not likely to see another American first lady do the hula hoop on the White House lawn, practice kickboxing on an official video, dance in public to Uptown Funk or feed kale chips to comedians dressed in drag on late-night television.
Alicia Garza, co-founder, Black Lives Matter
Many have observed that Michelle Obama exemplified "black girl magic". She is a Harvard-trained lawyer with the middle name LaVaughn, has excellent fashion sense, and is an activist in her own right. Her legacy for black women is that we can unapologetically be black, even in the White House.
The moment is ripe for her to join the growing chorus to improve the lives of black women and girls: those who are holding together the tatters of our democracy and our economy, those who are working low wage jobs with little to no protections, those who are being funneled from a broken economy into an ever expanding prison system.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Biggest feet ever to trod the White Hut
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posted on
03/08/2016 2:15:22 PM PST
by
harwood
(You don't wanna go there.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
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posted on
03/08/2016 2:16:05 PM PST
by
Byron_the_Aussie
(Michelle Obama, The Early Years: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBYGxBlFOSU)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Her legacy will be the excessive use of taxpayer funds.
To: Oldeconomybuyer
It's a combined legacy of evil..
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posted on
03/08/2016 2:17:51 PM PST
by
PROCON
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Your posted picture captures her legacy perfectly.
To: Oldeconomybuyer
To: harwood
Having her taste in fashion be that of twelve-year-old girls.
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posted on
03/08/2016 2:19:33 PM PST
by
angry elephant
(Endangered species in Seattle)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Worst dressed First Lady, especially the sleeveless outfits.
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posted on
03/08/2016 2:19:47 PM PST
by
caseinpoint
(Don't get thickly involved in thin things.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
School lunches that even make the rest of the garbage sick.
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posted on
03/08/2016 2:20:16 PM PST
by
Hillarys Gate Cult
(Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
has excellent fashion sense
LMAO!!
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posted on
03/08/2016 2:20:42 PM PST
by
stylecouncilor
("The future ain't what it used to be." Yogi Berra)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
"She is a Harvard-trained lawyer ..."If you read her papers from school she is barely literate. Is that acceptable from Harvard? It explains a lot.
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03/08/2016 2:21:34 PM PST
by
Mr. K
(Trump/Cruz 2016)
To: stylecouncilor
I’m waiting for someone to post the pic of her slithering off Air Force One in her flip flops.
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posted on
03/08/2016 2:21:53 PM PST
by
Skooz
(Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Starving school children?
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posted on
03/08/2016 2:22:38 PM PST
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SaveFerris
(Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
At one time, I had four pics of how the action unfolded
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posted on
03/08/2016 2:25:12 PM PST
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SaveFerris
(Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
A photo of her eating french fries. then a photo of all the food in schools they toss out because of her eat healthy meme.
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03/08/2016 2:27:44 PM PST
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ColdOne
(I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11 HillaryForPrison2016)
To: harwood
Hairy armpits and a double wide..
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posted on
03/08/2016 2:28:37 PM PST
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sheik yerbouty
( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
She will be remembered by the next generation for starving American school children who didn’t get enough food to eat because that cow decided they were too fat.
To: Oldeconomybuyer
“International Women’s Day: What will be Michelle Obama’s legacy?”
Wider pants suits.
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posted on
03/08/2016 2:31:02 PM PST
by
Ancesthntr
("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
From Sanford and Son’s Aunt Ester, ‘You ol’ fish eyed fool!’
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posted on
03/08/2016 2:32:28 PM PST
by
griswold3
(Just another unlicensed nonconformist in am dangerous Liberal world.)
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