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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA must read about Michelle Obama
America Didnt Deserve Michelle Obama
I forgot exactly where we were in Pittsburgh.
Maybe driving from the Target in East Liberty to the YMCA in the Mexican War Streets. Or, perhaps, at my wifes grandmothers house in the Hill District, eating smothered turkey burgers with smoked kale greens and washing them down with Pineapple Faygo. But I do remember who I was with: my wife and my 11-year-old niece, the oldest daughter of my wifes sister.
More importantly, I remember who we were talking about (Michelle Obama), and I remember it dawning on me that my nieces only point of reference for a first lady is Michelle Obama. As long as shes been intellectually mature enough to realize that there is a such a thing as a president and a first lady, theyve been black. She literally has no memory of a first family being anything else. For someone like mewho still thought as late as 2007 that the idea of a black president was too surreal to seriously considerthis is freaking insane.
Of course, when one attempts to predict what Michelle Obamas single greatest legacy will bethe thing we reflect on and remember first when thinking about and assessing her term as first ladytheres no shortage of viable and worthy contenders. For instance, one could cite that while her husband was the headliner, the rock star, it was Michelle whom Americablack America particularlycollectively fell in love with first.
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A must read about Michelle Obama (Original Post)
madokie
Jan 2017
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3catwoman3
(24,031 posts)1. A worthy read, indeed.
She is an exceptional woman.
dionysus
(26,467 posts)2. Shes up there with Eleanor for sure...
madokie
(51,076 posts)3. That whole Family are exceptional people
I simply Love the Obama's.
He tried to make nice but every time he extended his hand out in good faith he pulled back a stump, so to say. It is beyond the pale the way mostly white America treated this President and his awesome family
History will show him to be one of if not the very best modern day Presidents. Up there with the very best. I'm not so sure he wasn't the very best. He just had no bad traits about his person or personality. He wasn't racist, bigoted, misogynistic a fool or an idiot. Cool calm collected and smart as a whip. All the while with you and I best interest in mind.
brer cat
(24,592 posts)4. A very thoughful article.
She will undoubtedly be placed at the top among First Ladies.