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First Lady: 'Sting' of Racism 'Didn't Hold Me Back'
ABC News ^ | May 9, 2015 | Erin Dooley

Posted on 05/10/2015 11:43:13 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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During a passionate address at historically black Tuskegee University Saturday, Michelle Obama said she refused to let the "sting" of racial bias define her.

"Over the years, folks have used plenty of interesting words to describe me. One said I exhibited a little bit of 'uppityism,'" the first lady said. "Cable news charmingly referred to me as 'Obama's baby mamma.'

"All of the chatter, the name-calling, the doubting, all of it was just noise," she said. "It did not define me, it didn't change who I was, and most importantly, it couldn't hold me back."

Conjuring up the incidents in Ferguson and Baltimore, Obama told graduates, "Here's the thing, the road ahead is not going to be easy. It never is, especially for folks like you and me.

"There will be times, when you feel like folks look right past you or they see just a fraction of who you really are," she said.

The first lady recalled watching passersby cross the street when they saw her, as though afraid for their safety, and department store clerks who kept extra close watch on her and her husband....

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Conspiracy; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: blacks; itsadude; manshell; michelleobama; mugly; obama; racism
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

That reminds me. I still need to watch Finding Bigfoot and get it off my DVR.


21 posted on 05/10/2015 12:08:24 PM PDT by BigCinBigD (...Was that okay?)
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To: Talisker

Nah,

“Uppityism” I can see. I mean after all there are rumors that even before she became the first lady whenever she traveled she HAD to have the penthouse in the hotel and there HAD to be caviore and other foods waiting for her, all while preaching about healthier school lunches while she munched down on every calorie-loaded desert she could get her hands on.

As for being called “Barrack’s baby-mama” I’m fairly certain she’s been called this but NOT by any conservative news outlets. I’m fairly certain I’ve heard this term at BSNBC.

But the whole “clench” their purse when they saw me stuff, now that’s BS. Moochelle doesn’t realize that the most likely cause is that they didn’t want to deal with her since she’s a b***h.

But hey, this thread was about Michelle Obama and we can’t have a discussion about her without first linking the official Michelle Obama introduction song that Rush Limbaugh came up with after the Jimmy Fallon band tried to play Lyin A* B* when Bachmann was on his show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlItMpGYQTo


22 posted on 05/10/2015 12:09:09 PM PDT by parksstp (Cruz it or lose it. Ahead with Ted. 2016)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

23 posted on 05/10/2015 12:10:30 PM PDT by Brandonmark (There is still hope for our country! 11.04.2014 - DAY OF RENEWAL)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Why did you straighten your hair wookie?

Everything is about race with this couple.

Render me sack cloth and ashes. Woe is me


24 posted on 05/10/2015 12:11:51 PM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: CGASMIA68

I am certain this nasty hateful woman has also convinced her daughters that they too are victims of the American society and culture. This while they have been flown around the world and to exotic vacations on the taxpayers dimes, and attended the elitist Sidwell Friends school. I don’t know how this family could ever be more disgusting.


25 posted on 05/10/2015 12:12:15 PM PDT by doosee (Captain, we are approaching a new level of Hell.)
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To: Maceman

Sadly, nobody ever told her that chip was weighing her down. Yup, connections got her the “race co-ordinator” job where she used to show up everyday and when the lyin’ king ascended to his U.S. Senate position, why her work was just so great they doubled(?) her pay. She musta done a wonderful job because I don’t think that position exists now. Now she has servants (slaves?) at her beck and call. What a country huh?


26 posted on 05/10/2015 12:19:35 PM PDT by rktman (Served in the Navy to protect the rights of those that want to take some of mine away. Odd, eh?)
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To: dinodino
No anchor said those words.

Back on June 11 of 2008, there was a banner that flashed onscreen during a Megyn Kelly interview with Michelle Malkin where they were discussing Michelle Obama; it said, “Outraged Liberals: Stop Picking on Obama’s Baby Mama!” but there was no explicit reference to M.O. in that banner.
27 posted on 05/10/2015 12:19:46 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: rktman

yeah, I’d say she has profited beautifully from her racism. Can’t she just be First Lady of the United States? Does she have to live her whole life with a black chip on her shoulder? Besides it’s all a scam to make money and take advantage of other people.


28 posted on 05/10/2015 12:22:13 PM PDT by Williams
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To: Williams

Black privilege much?


29 posted on 05/10/2015 12:22:51 PM PDT by rktman (Served in the Navy to protect the rights of those that want to take some of mine away. Odd, eh?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I want to throw up reading this privileged lying using woman, going on about the horrible outrage of supposedly being able to read people’s minds on the street that they were afraid of her.

talk about living a childishly paranoid life!


30 posted on 05/10/2015 12:24:27 PM PDT by Williams
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To: rktman

she never let any of that bother her, but she centers entire speeches around the only things she can think of when anyone ever even remotely offended her. And three quarters of it is in her own mind.if you think I’m afraid of you when I see you on the street, too damn bad you privileged Princeton phony!


31 posted on 05/10/2015 12:26:39 PM PDT by Williams
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Was this part of the speech before or after she paid homage to the “Tuskegee Airmen”, who actually did something to enhance this country and weren’t free loaders and grifters.

(I mention Tuskegee Airmen because so close to VE day and the question drips in sarcasm) did the ‘king’ show up at WWII Memorial? I don’t really give a hoot one way or the other cause he will get ‘blasted’ if he does and if he doesn’t.....


32 posted on 05/10/2015 12:28:53 PM PDT by xrmusn ((6/98)'Sarcasm falls out of my mouth as easily as stupid falls out of a libs')
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Love that the sting was racism that got her and Barack Ocommie into the White House.

Or did I miss something about the fact a lot of people voted for B.O. in 2008 due to skin color?


33 posted on 05/10/2015 12:29:44 PM PDT by AmericanCheeseFood
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To: parksstp

People undoubtedly criticized her her whole life, for obvious personality reasons. But referring to her as “uppity”? Please. That trigger word was dragged out of the old South for race-baiting purposes by her speech writers.


34 posted on 05/10/2015 12:37:02 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: Organic Panic

WTF?

35 posted on 05/10/2015 12:37:47 PM PDT by Leo Carpathian (FReeeeepeesssssed)
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To: molson209
Moochelle’s been flappin’ those lips of hers quite frequently as of late. She needs to get a hobby...does she have a girlfriend, like obozo has a boyfriend to pass some quality time with? Then they can all go out on Date Nights together, since it's no secret that all of them prefer it that way.
36 posted on 05/10/2015 12:38:49 PM PDT by itssme
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What a pantload.


37 posted on 05/10/2015 12:39:20 PM PDT by headstamp 2
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Can't blame folks for being scared of Mooch.

Drag queen wookies scare me too!

38 posted on 05/10/2015 12:43:54 PM PDT by rawcatslyentist (Genesis 1:29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed,)
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To: Maceman

I wonder how many in the audience at Tuskegee University were rolling their eyes and wishing they didn’t have to listen to her perpetual whining as their commencement address.


39 posted on 05/10/2015 12:48:15 PM PDT by Cecily
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To: Maceman

Yep, she’s no Mia Love.


40 posted on 05/10/2015 12:49:47 PM PDT by kanawa
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