A must read about Michelle Obama

[madokie]

America Didn’t 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 wife’s grandmother’s 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 wife’s sister.

More importantly, I remember who we were talking about (Michelle Obama), and I remember it dawning on me that my niece’s only point of reference for a first lady is Michelle Obama. As long as she’s been intellectually mature enough to realize that there is a such a thing as a president and a first lady, they’ve been black. She literally has no memory of a first family being anything else. For someone like me—who still thought as late as 2007 that the idea of a black president was too surreal to seriously consider—this is freaking insane.

Of course, when one attempts to predict what Michelle Obama’s single greatest legacy will be—the thing we reflect on and remember first when thinking about and assessing her term as first lady—there’s 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 America—black America particularly—collectively fell in love with first.

http://www.theroot.com/america-didn-t-deserve-michelle-obama-1791186713

[3catwoman3]

1. A worthy read, indeed.

She is an exceptional woman.

[dionysus]

2. Shes up there with Eleanor for sure...

[madokie]

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]

4. A very thoughful article.

She will undoubtedly be placed at the top among First Ladies.