- Wed Dec 17, 2014 8:37 am
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The Obamas: How We Deal with Our Own Racist Experiences. The Obamas open up about raising their daughters, the impact of stereotypes, and what's on the POTUS dance party playlist.Michelle cries racism because someone had the "audacity" to ask her for help reaching something off a shelf. Racists calling others racist...how rich and how progressive liberal of them. Disgusting race baiting at it's finest and from the WH of all places. Revolution is needed badly in this nation!
The protective bubble that comes with the presidency – the armored limo, the Secret Service detail, the White House – shields Barack and Michelle Obama from a lot of unpleasantness. But their encounters with racial prejudice aren't as far in the past as one might expect. And they obviously still sting.
"I think people forget that we've lived in the White House for six years," the first lady told PEOPLE, laughing wryly, along with her husband, at the assumption that the first family has been largely insulated from coming face-to-face with racism.
"I tell this story – I mean, even as the first lady – during that wonderfully publicized trip I took to Target, not highly disguised, the only person who came up to me in the store was a white woman who asked me to help her take something off a shelf. "
In a 30-minute conversation, the president and Mrs. Obama candidly added their stories to the national discussion of race and racial profiling that was sparked by the deaths of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and Eric Garner in Staten Island, New York.
"There's no black male my age, who's a professional, who hasn't come out of a restaurant and is waiting for their car and somebody didn't hand them their car keys," said the president, adding that, yes, it had happened to him.
Mrs. Obama recalled another incident: "He was wearing a tuxedo at a black-tie dinner, and somebody asked him to get coffee." "The small irritations or indignities that we experience are nothing compared to what a previous generation experienced," President Obama said. Things have gotten better, both Obamas agreed, but as these examples demonstrate, there's still more progress to be made.
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